The Basics - Issue 194, 23 December 1992. The front cover has a photo of Davros from Resurrection of the Daleks, which is the subject of this issue's Archive. There is the first in a new set of three free postcards included inside.

Indicia - "I suppose," chortled the Doctor, "you could say that the Monk makes a habit of interfering!" And Vicki laughed even louder as Steven hit him with a cow's space helmet!

News And Views - A shibaden video cassette has been returned to BBC Video, labelled as containing Episodes 3 and 4 of The Tenth Planet. However, the ancient tape has been sticking and it appears that the tape was blank after all. Eleven extra minutes of footage will be added into next January's release of Silver Nemesis, along with the American making of documentary, out-takes from the story and the show's 25th Anniversary promotional footage. UK Gold have received many complaints about advert breaks and their onscreen logo.

New Fiction - The Brief Encounter "Tautology" features Professor Marius and is set before The Invisible Enemy.

Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews The Daemons script book ("does it no favours whatsoever"), The Aztecs ("the very best of the black and white stories so far available") and Mawdryn Undead ("deserves a special place in the DW Hall of Fame").

Boxpops - Parts Three to Five of The Daemons are repeated on Friday 4th to 18th December at 7.15pm on BBC2. ITV companies Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am broadcast for the last time on 31st December.

Top of the pop charts in December 92 was I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston.

Skaro Says - This was the first issue that Si Hunt had obtained for a long time, as he thought it had ceased to exist! He has bought every single issue since. Si Hart feels that the script book of The Daemons may not have done it any favours, but it did have a gorgeous cover by Alister Pearson that Si had signed by both Nicholas Courtney and Pearson. His family didn't have UK Gold, but his sister's boyfriend did and taped The Sensorites and The Romans for him. He heard about the Tenth Planet 4 hoax while queuing to see the recolourised Terror of the Autons at the NFT. Andrew Curnow remembers hearing about Tenth Planet 4 from a stop press item in Celestial Toyroom - it was very disappointing when it turned out to be false. Simon Rayner however declares that we don't need it back, as we have telesnaps, photos, the soundtrack, clips and the BBC Video recon - and he finds it dull and dreary anyway!

Critique - I have a feeling I probably heard about the Tenth Planet 4 hoax from DWB, which was always ahead of DWM with news items, but I agree with Simon Rayner to a certain extent - of all the 100+ missing episodes, I can think of many more that I'd rather see returned, given the choice of course! I can't comment on The Daemons script book, as it is one of just two of the ten released that I never got (Power of the Daleks being the other). As for UK Gold, I didn't get that until 1995.

As for this issue itself, the standout features for me are the regular What The Papers Said - now onto the late Tom Baker era - the feature on historical stories (which would have been more of an unknown quantity to me then compared to now) and the annual year-end look back at the year's merchandise - the kind of thing that's handy now to look at quickly from a historical perspective.