The Basics - Issue 186, 13 May 1992. The front cover is artwork by Pete Wallbank of Enlightenment, which is the subject of this issue's Archive. The final set (for now) of free postcards is included inside. Gary Russell takes over from John Freeman as Editor.

Indicia - "Sand. Nothing but sand," muttered Turlough as he looked about his home planet. "I should have kept that blasted crystal!"

News And Views - Evil of the Daleks and Power of the Daleks are to be novelised for Target by John Peel. A full 625 line version of Death to the Daleks has been found and returned to the BBC (the first episode had previously been taken from an American 525 line conversion). The letters page is renamed Timelines from this issue, and includes a letter from future Deputy Editor Tom Spilsbury.

Notables - A new regular series, What The Papers Said, debuts with a look at press coverage in the Hartnell era.

New Fiction - The Brief Encounters "Cathedral Heart" by Paul Cornell features Ace and characters from Timewyrm : Revelation.

Reviews - After Image reviews The Sea Devils ("vintage Pertwee with a twist; absolutely cracking stuff"). Off The Shelf reviews The Pescatons and Greatest Show In The Galaxy soundtrack CDs, The Pertwee Years video ("a terrible waste of an opportunity") and Cat's Cradle : Warhead ("a superb book; dangerous, intelligent and exhilarating").

Boxpops - Top of the pop charts in May 92 were the continuing Deeply Dippy and Please Don't Go by KWS.

Skaro Says - Sidesk believes that this Brief Encounter can be seen as a taster of the forthcoming Preludes. His abiding memory of this issue is the cleavage pictures of Janet Fielding, and feels that the cliffhanger in the comic strip is a classic.

Critique - Amazingly, yet another artwork cover makes it six out of the last seven issues (not including the Winter Special which also had a drawn cover)! Whilst it's fairly good, it's not one of the better ones out of that run though. The start of the Gary Russell as Editor era sees the magazine in a consistently good state, with a settled line up of reviews, comic strip, 8 page pull out Archive feature and interviews that tend to tie in with either the Archive or a recently released video. What The Papers Said was an excellent new ongoing series of articles - a fairly simple but interesting premise, and it's quite interesting now to see a more restrained style of journalism compared to the 21st century tabloids! It's also good to see J. Jeremy Bentham return with a fairly brief overview of The Hartnell Years. The highlight of this issue has to be a major feature on the Resistance Is Useless documentary, with such detail as the identity of every clip used, plus those that were planned but never used, i.e. Edits One and Two. A strong start for the new Editor then...