Issue 186 of Doctor Who Magazine is out today and it marks the first issue under new editor Gary Russell, taking the reigns from John Freeman.

Content:

What the papers said: Marcus Hearn begins a series of articles examining the way in which the British press have reviewed and considered Doctor Who over the past twenty-nine years. This issue, the Hartnell era…

The Hartnell Years: Jeremy Bentham, author of Doctor Who: The Early Years, takes us on a trip back to the Totters Lane junkyard through to the snowy wastes of the Antarctic.

After File: The Sea Devils - By Nicholas Briggs

Resistance is Useless: Jamie Woolley talks to director Archie Lauchlan

Archive: Enlightenment - Andrew Pixley delves into the details of how Enlightenment was created and the problems heaped upon it by a BBC strike.

Directing Who: Fiona Cumming

Acting the Part: Tony Caunter talks to Gary Russell

Comics and Fiction

The Grief - Part Two
The Dalek Chronicles - Issue 8
Brief Encounter: Cathedral Heart by Paul Cornell

Doctor Who Magazine #186 is available from all good newsagents now.