The Basics - Issue 191, 30 September 1992. The front cover has a photo of a Foamasi from The Leisure Hive, which is the subject of this issue's Archive. There is a free poster inside of the Alister Pearson artwork used for the BBC Video release of Tomb of the Cybermen. The price rises by 25p to £2.50, with four previously black and white pages turned into colour.

Indicia - "And I thought Hardin and I were losing face!" gasped Stimson as he opened Klout's wardrobe!

News And Views - BBC Video are planning to release eight normal stories and eight special tapes in 1993, with a possibility of linked versions of the incomplete The Reign of Terror and The Tenth Planet. A release called The Documentaries is also planned, combining Whose Doctor Who? and Resistance Is Useless, along with The Davison Years, The Colin Baker Years and The McCoy Years. Nathan Cooke writes in regarding the prospect of a new series having 50 minute episodes...

Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews The Tom Baker Years ("value for money, fun and diverse") and Earthshock ("the most overrated, overpadded and two-dimensional story of the Eighties").

New Fiction - In the Brief Encounter "Reunion", the Doctor meets Peri 20 years on. The complete Seventh Doctor and Ace comic strip Memorial sees the return of artist John Ridgway.

Boxpops - The UK's first national commercial radio station, Classic FM, begins broadcasting on September 7th. Top of the pop charts in September 92 were the continuing Rhythm Is A Dancer and Ebeneezer Goode by The Shamen.

Skaro Says - Andrew Curnow describes Memorial as a lovely little comic strip and one of his favourites. Si Hart also always loved Memorial, which featured some of John Ridgway's finest work. The issue overall is a big favourite of his, probably due to its wonderful focus on his beloved Season 18! James Lindsay had just started college when he bought this issue, and he remembers loving the Leisure Hive Archive and wanting to see that story again. His poster is still intact, while Si still has his, having hung it on his wall for many years previously. Having missed Issue 190, Jason Thompson made sure he got this one! He was delighted by the Archive feature, which prompted him to borrow the novelisation from the library within the week. Having read Earthshock, he was delighted to find it was coming out on video, and got it for his 13th birthday. Although the DWM review wasn't inspiring, he loved it!

Critique - I can't praise this issue as much as Si does, because The Leisure Hive is one of my least favourite Tom Baker stories - however, there is still plenty for me to enjoy in this issue - notably What The Papers Said which moves into the beginning of the Tom Baker era and thus starts to cover my earliest memories of the show and it is interesting to see that the new Doctor wasn't universally popular early on (shades of 2006 perhaps?). Fiction-wise, I agree with the above praise for Memorial which is a very touching and lovely little strip - one of the best complete strips ever, I'd go so far to say. For once, the idea of the Seventh Doctor as a manipulator who knows what's going on is nailed perfectly for me. I also liked the idea of Peri getting her own back somewhat on the Doctor in the Brief Encounter. Overall then, no problems with the extra 25p for this issue!