The Basics - Issue 149, June 1989. The front cover has artwork of The Ice Warriors by John Ridgway, the subject of a two part Archive beginning inside.

News And Views - For Season 26, story 7M (fluctuating between The Wolves or The Curse of Fenric) will include Nicholas Parsons as Mr Wainwright. 7N has been retitled as Battlefield, set in Cornwall in the near future. 7P has the working title of Survival and is set in Perivale, along with 7Q, provisionally titled The Bestiary. The first two episodes of the first Dalek story are part of three new BBC Video UK releases, along with The Time Warrior and The Ark In Space, all currently scheduled for a June release at £9.99. No release dates have yet been set for the rest of The Daleks aka The Dead Planet. Cancellation rumours for the series are described as "nonsense" by DWM, with the show being considered for independent production for 1990.

Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews Attack of the Cybermen - "a good, solid and enjoyable read. 3.5/5" The first night of The Ultimate Adventure is reviewed - "Don't miss it, it's a good time."

Boxpops - Top of the pop charts in June 89 were the continuing Ferry Cross The Mersey, Sealed With A Kiss by Jason Donovan and Back To Life by Soul II Soul.

Critique - Quite a nice artwork cover here, although John Ridgway doesn't quite get the Second Doctor right for me. It was nice to have a transcript of the BBC1 trailer for The Ice Warriors inside. I'm sure I groaned when I heard about Nicholas Parsons guest-starring in a story to be directed by the man who had directed two of my least favourite stories ever, though luckily things would not turn out as I had feared! I don't know what happened with their news reporting regarding the release of the first Dalek story on video - it's unbelievable that they would have thought that only two episodes would be released initially! And then they give us a story entitled Cancellation Rumours "Nonsense". Not a good month for Gallifrey Guardian then!
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