The Basics - Issue 176, 7 August 1991. The front cover has a photo from Pyramids of Mars, and the centre spread poster is from Tomb of the Cybermen.

Indicia - Flyfishing and Cybernetics instruction by J.R. Hartley.

Tombwatch - Note the subject of the centre spread poster! Also, one of the GG news items is entitled "Missing Episodes 'Club:: The Plot Thickens".

News And Views - The DW exhibition at London's MOMI opened on July 5th - it is probably the largest display of series memorabilia ever under one roof, and will run for at least three months, and then may go on tour if successful. Inside sources at Shepperton Studios have assured DWM that Doctor Who is the series going into production there in 1992, for transmission in 1993. For the second issue running, a letter writer suggests a Seven Faces of the Doctor repeat series on the BBC...

New Fiction - The Brief Encounters "Mistaken Identity" by Gary Russell features Lytton.

Notables - The results of the 1991 DWM Poll are revealed, with selected winners as follows :-

Favourite Video - Five Doctors, Talons, Curse of Fenric

Most Wanted Video - Genesis of the Daleks, Daemons, Earthshock

Favourite Novel - Remembrance, Curse of Fenric, Ghost Light

Favourite Merchandise - Videos, DWM, Books

Favourite DWM - 167 (Merchandise Special), 169, 168

Favourite Features - Gallifrey Guardian, Interviews, MDB

Favourite Comic Strip - Mark of Mandragora, Fellow Travellers, Train-Flight

Favourite Doctor - Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Patrick Troughton

Comments from Simon Hart of Berks are published, regarding his voting for Issue 167 as his favourite issue.

There is an update to the TARDIS Journies of Issue 174, including errata, and a guide to the entire Target range of books, updated from the 1986 Summer Special.

Boxpops - Staying top of the pop charts throughout August 91 was Bryan Adams.

Skaro Says - Andrew Curnow states that it's odd to think that the Tomb poster was published at a time when none of us thought we'd see any of the story! This is a treasured issue for Si Hart, containing as it does his only printing in DWM to date, which naturally delighted him. Sidesk remarks that this is not a bad issue, particularly liking the article on Tobias Vaughn and some great images, but a poor cliffhanger, in the comic strip.

Critique - This is a good issue if you like lists (and I tend to!), dominated as it is by the Poll Results (congratulations to Si Hart for his publication here!), an updated Target Checklist, which is notable for including some unused cover artwork and goofs (such as The Three Doctors being broadcast in 1872!). There is a handy update to the TARDIS Special of two issues earlier with some entries that had been mistakenly left out. With some further red-hot Cyber action in the comic strip, a further Cyberman link with the Case Studies on Tobias Vaughn, and the Brief Encounters acting as a prelude to Attack of the Cybermen, not to mention the Tomb poster, this is obviously a good issue if you like the Cybermen too (and I tend to)! Oh, and I rather like the cover for being a largely unseen image from Pyramids, bearing in mind that twice now in the magazine's history they've gone with the iconic Doctor/sarcophagus pairing.