The Basics - Issue 180, 27 November 1991. The front cover has artwork of the Second Doctor and the Yeti by Alister Pearson, which is included as a free poster inside. From this issue, the page count is increased permanently to 52 pages, and the price increases to £2.25.

Indicia - Caught in a time storm, Ace's bed decided that it was a thoroughly bad day to be a piece of inanimate furniture bought from an MFI catalogue...

Tombwatch - See News And Views below.

News And Views - The BBC's Head of Drama Series, Peter Cregeen, has stated that there will be no new production of the show in 1992. Plans to release The Chase, Resurrection of the Daleks, Attack of the Cybermen and Earthshock on video have been stalled due to clearance problems, while BBC Video seem to be not releasing any further six-parters due to public complaints of their cost. Three stories from the Troughton era are scheduled for release under the BBC Radio Collection label, including Tomb of the Cybermen with linking narration by Jon Pertwee.

Notables - From this issue, the Archives/Fact File by Andrew Pixley relaunch as an eight page pull out feature in the centre of the issue, beginning with Power of the Daleks. A complete run of the 1960s The Daleks comic strip from TV Century 21 begins this issue.

New Fiction - A new six part comic strip, Evening's Empire, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace begins this issue.

Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews Timewyrm : Apocalypse ("a fast paced, exciting adventure story") and The Gallifrey Chronicles ("a lavishly illustrated, well designed and highly expensive book").

Boxpops - Top of the pop charts in November 91 were The Fly by U2, Dizzy by Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff and Black Or White by Michael Jackson.

Skaro Says - Andrew Curnow recalls getting this issue, and it was the last one he got for a few months (he bought the missing back issues later to see what happened in the comic strip...). He notes that it was an interesting step, and a long-term commitment, for them to start doing the Archives in such depth, and with an incredible level of detail, even if they did make for some dry reading at times. Once Matthew Tate realised that the Archives were pull-out, he kept them in a ring binder, so was very annoyed when they changed the design a few years later! This was the first issue that Paul Monk had reserved at the newsagent, and he was impressed with it. Si Hart describes this issue as a huge step forward. Apart from some dodgy design in Gallifrey Guardian, he felt this was a great leap forward in making the magazine far more grown up and heavier in content. He found the level of detail in the Archives really impressive, and liked the poster. Sidesk agrees that it is a nice cover and that the GG revamp looks poor. He feels that it was a good choice of Archive to start things off with, and found Evening's Empire hard to follow, so was glad to see it finally published in full a couple of years later.

Critique - This is one of the stand-out issues in the history of the magazine for me, starting with the cover/poster which is superbly drawn, and finally after some five years finished the series of Pearson "Doctor and Enemies" posters. Being a big fan of the Archives, I was pleased with the revamp, though I never imagined at the time that Mr Pixley would do the whole run of stories, plus various spin-offs over the next dozen years. I was delighted to see a full re-run in colour of The Daleks strip - previously, I'd seen various stories in Dalek Annuals and DWW/M itself, some of those in black and white, so it was great to see it as originally published (and even better when it moved to Classic Comics a year or so later and was able to expand in length). Just a couple of quibbles - one is that I agree that the re-design of GG doesn't really work, and the other more minor one is that with the advent of a regular 52 page issue we would be denied having future bigger "special issues" such as the recent TARDIS Special, but that really is a minor thing. As Si said, it's much heavier in content and more fan-orientated and detailed than ever, and that's what matters most! I'd say that this marks the start of another golden era for the magazine...