The Basics - Issue 187, 10 June 1992. The front cover has a photo of the Master from The Deadly Assassin, which is the subject of this issue's Archive. The first of another three sets of postcards is given away free inside.

Indicia - "Me? President of the High Council? I don't think so," said Borusa giving Spandrell a stoney look. "Mind you..."

News And Views - The Shada video, being released in July, will include the full six scripts in the double pack release. A new video drama from Reeltime Pictures will be released next year called Downtime, featuring the Brigadier and The Great Intelligence.

New Fiction - The Brief Encounter "A Romantic Evening" features Doris and Alastair Lethbridge Stewart.

Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews the videos of The Tomb of the Cybermen ("the very best 'recovery' that the BBC have been lucky enough to get"), The Claws of Axos ("awful; not Pertwee DW at its best") and The Twin Dilemma ("one of the Eighties biggest and most disappointing mistakes in DW").

Boxpops - Top of the pop charts in June 92 were the continuing KWS and the Abba-Esque EP by Erasure.

Skaro Says - Sidesk felt that the conclusion to the comic strip was quite good, as was The Twin Dilemma, but not The Claws of Axos. He also thought it was quite interesting to see The Deadly Assassin becoming one of the first Archives, while other classics like The Brain of Morbius were left to near the end of the run. Si Hart remembers the cover and the postcards, and liked the interview with the then rarely heard from Anneke Wills. He enjoyed the Deadly Assassin articles on the sets and costumes, and feels that The Grief isn't bad, though the artwork seems too bright for such a dark comic strip. Andrew Curnow also remembers the cover, but nothing else - not even the Brief Encounter.

Critique - With the cover and Archive devoted to it, it's inevitable that The Deadly Assassin takes centre stage for this issue, with the two behind the scenes articles complete with plenty of rare photographs being a notable highlight - along with the chance to see the unused artwork for the front cover of the Target novelisation (which looks better than the one we got in my opinion). What The Papers Said covers the Troughton era, complete with several cuttings from contemporary newspaper articles. Before researching these last three issues, I had no recollection at all of The Grief, but having now re-read this comic strip it does stand out as one of the better Seventh Doctor entries - quite a gritty, dark story and an outright nasty, powerful alien race, albeit one with more than a nod to the Aliens of the movie franchise.