DWM 247

The 247th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 19 December 1996 and had a cover date of 15 January 1997.
== Contents ==
=== Articles ===
* The mourning after...: A Gallifrey Guardian Special Feature - Part Two Come on Grace, we've got work to do... Gary Gillatt concludes our thought-provoking and exhaustive look at the current status of Doctor Who, and considers the hurdles the series must overcome before it can return to our screens...
:* Includes interview with Philip Segal
* The Celestial Toymaker's Game of the Year! A frantic race through 1996 for 2 to 4 players, age 5 and up!
* Readers' Survey
* 20 distressingly common misconceptions about Doctor Who... - By Steve Lyons and Chris Howarth
=== Comic content ===
* Endgame - Part Four
=== Archives ===
By Andrew Pixley
* TV: The Horns of Nimon
=== Interviews / Profiles ===
* Out of the TARDIS! - Sylvester McCoy played the Seventh Doctor for the series' last three years on BBC television in the 1980s, and briefly reprised the role in the 1996 TV Movie/ DWM visited the Doctor's longest-serving incarnation to present him with perhaps the greatest challenge - the TARDIS tin...
* Send in the Clowns! - The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs: Chapter Eleven - Season Twenty-Five
=== Shelf Life ===
Reviews by Dave Owen
* VIDEO: TV: The Leisure Hive
* PROSE: Burning Heart
* REF: The Nth Doctor
* MERCHANDISE: The Official 1997 Calendar Doctor Who Heroes & Villains
=== Regular features ===
* Gallifrey Guardian
* Timelines (Letters)
* Crazy Caption!
* Fluid Links - Kid's stuff? by Matthew Jones
== Credits ==
:Santa: Gary Gillatt
:Santa's little helper: Alan Barnes
:Christmas cracker: Paul Vyse
== Additional details ==
to be added
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