The Basics - Issue 197, 17 March 1993. The front cover has a photo of Return to Devil's End, which is featured and reviewed inside, and is the subject of a free large poster included inside.

Indicia - "It bain't fair, it be not," wailed old Granny Tyler. "Them soldiers be bringing in them dogs who've been diggin' up my garden. An' you should see the worms 'n' slugs they been findin'!"

News And Views - Further to last issue's report, Jon Pertwee has confirmed that he is to resume the role of the Third Doctor in five thirty-minute brand new episodes for radio broadcast and subsequent CD release. Fury From The Deep is the next Missing Stories BBC Audio Collection release in April.

Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews the Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks Myth Makers video ("one not to be missed"), Enlightenment ("an excellent example of Eighties Who at its best") and The Pit ("nice words, shame about the tale they tell."). After Image reviews Genesis of the Daleks ("one of the true Doctor Who 'greats'"). Return to Devil's End is reviewed separately - "wholly interesting and likeable".

New Fiction - A new six part comic strip Emperor of the Daleks begins, with the Sixth Doctor and Peri starring in the first part only, and the Seventh Doctor and Bernice in the rest of the story. The Prelude features The Pit and the Brief Encounter "A Time & A Place" sees the Seventh Doctor meeting Susan's daughter, Barbara.

Boxpops - Parts Three and Four of Caves of Androzani are repeated on BBC2 on Friday 5 and 12 March at 7.15pm. Parts One and Two of Revelation of the Daleks (in a four part version) are repeated on BBC2 on Friday 19 and 26 March at 7.15pm.

Top of the pop charts in March 93 were the continuing No Limit and Oh Carolina by Shaggy.

Critique - Now here's something you'll be unlikely to see again on the front cover of DWM any time soon - four old men (no disrespect intended)! Back in those "wilderness years", this issue is proof positive that the show hadn't died - although I must admit to never having seen Return to Devil's End (nor indeed the Myth Makers video reviewed here), it's still interesting to recall the prominence given to it. I did read the New Adventures for the first three years or so of publication, but recall The Pit as being nothing special.

I did very much like the epic new comic strip beginning here, which cleverly fitted in between Revelation and Remembrance, and it was a sign of things to come by featuring a past Doctor (and companion) and it's certainly fun to see the Doctor ferrying Davros into the TARDIS to escape the Daleks! And there's further Dalek goodness inside with a review of the recently repeated Genesis, an interview connected with the Dalek films, and a look at the computer game Dalek Attack. The Brief Encounter is a very good one - it's not the first time the Seventh Doctor's world collides with that of the First...