Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition

Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is an occasional publication of Panini Comics. Since January 2002, each issue has offered a detailed view of some aspect of Doctor Who.
Though each issue is in fact numbered, most people refer to particular issues by their topic, rather than the number. In choosing to emphasise the content of the individual issue over its place in a larger series, it is occasionally forgotten that Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is the actual title, rather than a descriptive phrase.
== Overview ==
Unlike the seasonal Marvel special issues of Doctor Who Magazine, Panini's Special Edition is a standalone magazine in its own right. Importantly, it is no way a subscriber bonus, as was the original intent of the Marvel seasonals.
There is also little commonality of format between Special Edition and either DWM or Marvel's seasonal issues. Each issue of Special Edition has invariably offered a retrospective view of the programme. Whether reprinting the comic exploits of the Ninth Doctor or exploring the production of the First Doctor, all issues of Special Edition deal with a topic that is firmly in the past. This can be easily contrasted with the general practice of the Marvel seasonals. Though there were a few that offered nothing but reprints of past comic strips, the vast majority presented new fiction interspersed amongst non-fiction articles. In other words, most of the seasonals looked very much like regular issues of DWM.
== Types ==
Since January 2002, Special Editions have taken five main forms:
* Early issues explored a single Doctor's "era" in great detail. These included essays by writers — among them such prominent names as Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts and Robert Shearman — giving personal critiques of individual stories from that Doctor's era, and also analysis of non-television appearances by that Doctor. This "series" was completed with the release of the issue covering the Seventh Doctor in February 2005.
* Since the new series began, each year one or more issues of this magazine have been produced as a "companion" to a recently-finished series, looking back on the production of each episode, in much the same manner as the earlier archives features for the "classic" series. Similar specials have also covered the production of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, but not, to date, Torchwood, as production of that series (or, at least the first three seasons) was covered by Torchwood Magazine.
* At roughly the same time, the magazine's editors began a campaign to tell the programme's history chronologically. They thus began the In Their Own Words series. This series collected excerpts from interviews with Doctor Who cast and crew and presented them in chronological order.
* Once, the series allowed a reprint venue for the comic exploits of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors.
* Some issues have collected Telesnaps from missing episodes from the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras.
== Issues ==
Fifth Doctor DW Magazine.jpg|Special Edition 1Fifth Doctor
DWMSE2.jpg|Special Edition 2Third Doctor
DWMSE3.jpg|Special Edition 3Sixth Doctor
DWMSE4.jpg|Special Edition 4Second Doctor
DWMSE5.jpg|Special Edition 5Eighth Doctor
DWMSE6.jpg|Special Edition 640th Anniversary
DWMSE7.jpg|Special Edition 7First Doctor
43 DWM SE8 4tha.jpg|Special Edition 8Fourth Doctor(Volume One)
44 DWM SE9 4thb.jpg|Special Edition 9Fourth Doctor(Volume Two)
45 DWM SE10 7th.jpg|Special Edition 10Seventh Doctor
46 DWM SE11 Season 1 Companion.jpg|Special Edition 11Series One Companion
47 DWM SE12 In Their Own Words Vol 1 1963 to 1969.jpg|Special Edition 12In their Own Words1963-69
48 DWM SE13 Collected Comics.jpg|Special Edition 13The Ninth Doctor Collected Comics
49 DWM SE14 Season 2 Companion.jpg|Special Edition 14Series Two Companion
50 DWM SE15 In Their Own Words Vol 2 1970 to 1976.jpg|Special Edition 15In their Own Words1970-76
51 DWM SE16 In Their Own Words Vol 3 1977 to 1981.jpg|Special Edition 16In their Own Words1977-81
52 DWM SE17 Season 3 Companion.jpg|Special Edition 17Series Three Companion
53 DWM SE18 In Their Own Words Vol 4 1982 to 1986.jpg|Special Edition 18In their Own Words1982-86
54 DWM SE19 The Tenth Doctor Collected Comics.jpg|Special Edition 19The Tenth Doctor Collected Comics
55 DWM SE20 Series Four Companion.jpg|Special Edition 20Series Four Companion
56 DWM SE21 In Their Own Words Vol 5 1987 to 1996.jpg.jpg|Special Edition 21In their Own Words1987-96
57 DWM SE22 200 Golden Moments.jpg|Special Edition 22200 Golden Moments
58 DWM SE23 Sarah Jane Smith.jpg|Special Edition 23Sarah Jane Smith
59 DWM SE In Your Own Worlds 6.jpg|Special Edition 24In Their Own Words1997-2009
60 DWM SE25 The Specials Companion.jpg|Special Edition 25The Specials Companion
DWMSE26.jpg|Special Edition 26Series Five Companion:Volume One
DWMSE27.jpg|Special Edition 27Series Five Companion:Volume Two
DWMSE28.jpg|Special Edition 28Sarah Jane Companion:Volume Two
DWMSE29.jpg|Special Edition 29 The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:Volume Three
DWMSE 30.jpg|Special Edition 30 The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:Volume Four
DWMSE 31.jpg|Special Edition 31 The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:Volume Five
DWM SE 32.jpg|Special Edition 32Sarah Jane Companion:Volume Three
DWM SE 33 The Eleventh Doctor Companion 6.jpg|Special Edition 33 The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:Volume Six
DWM SE 34 The Missing Episodes The First Doctor.jpg|Special Edition 34 The Missing Episodes The First Doctor
DWM SE 35 Missing Episodes The Second Doctor Volume One.jpg|Special Edition 35 The Missing Episodes The Second Doctor:Volume One
DWM SE 36 Missing Episodes The Second Doctor Volume Two .jpg|Special Edition 36 The Missing Episodes The Second Doctor:Volume Two
DWM SE 35 The Official Guide to the 2013 Series .jpg|Special Edition 37The Official Guide to the 2013 Series
DWM SE 38 Year of the Doctor.jpg|Special Edition 38The Year of the DoctorThe Official Guide to Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary
DWMSE 39 2015 Yearbook.jpg|Special Edition 39The 2015 Yearbook
DWMSE 40.jpg|Special Edition 40The Art of Doctor Who
DWMSE 41.jpg|Special Edition 41The Music of Doctor Who
DWMSE 42 2016 Yearbook.jpg|Special Edition 42The 2016 Yearbook
DWMSE43.jpg|Special Edition 43Special Effects
DWMSE 44.jpg|Special Edition 44On Location
DWMSE 45 2017 Yearbook.jpg|Special Edition 45The 2017 Yearbook
DWMSE 46 Toys.jpg|Special Edition 46Toys & Games
DWMSE 47 Referencing.jpg|Special Edition 47Referencing the Doctor
DWMSE 48.jpg|Special Edition 48The 2018 Yearbook
DWMSE 49.jpg|Special Edition 49In the Studio
DWMSE 50.jpg|Special Edition 50The World of Doctor Who
DWMSE 51.jpg|Special Edition 51The 2019 Yearbook
DWMSE 52.jpg|Special Edition 52Costume Design
DWMSE 53.jpg|Special Edition 53Target Books
DWMSE 54.jpg|Special Edition 54The 2020 Yearbook
DWMSE 55.jpg|Special Edition 55Production Design
DWMSE 56.jpg|Special Edition 56The 2021 Yearbook
DWMSE 57.jpg|Special Edition 57Writing Doctor Who
DWMSE 58.jpg|Special Edition 58Directing Doctor Who
DWMSE 59.jpg|Special Edition 59The 2022 Yearbook
DWMSE 60.jpg|Special Edition 60Action Figures: The Essential Guide 1963-1996
DWMSE 61.jpg|Special Edition 61Guest Stars
DWMSE 62.jpg|Special Edition 62The 2023 Yearbook
DWMSE 63.jpg|Special Edition 63Showrunners
DWMSE 64.jpg|Special Edition 64Action Figures: The Essential Guide 2005-2023
DWMSE 65.jpg|Special Edition 65The 2024 Yearbook
== External links ==
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