DWM 253

The 253rd issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 5 June 1997 and removed from British newsstands on 2 July 1997.
== Contents ==
=== Articles ===
* 1966 and all that - Lost or incomplete for nearly 30 years, The War Machines, the first Doctor Who serial to have an explicitly contemporary edge, has been restored, re-mastered and is finally released on video this month. Richard Molesworth, a member of the team who pieced the story back together, tells how the Machines came to be dismantled in the first place.
:Includes inset articles:
::* Ghosts in the Machines - The original director of The War Machines re-views his work of 31 years ago
::* Noises off - Sound engineer Mark Ayres on hiss, clicks, pops and drop-off...
* "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!" - Compiled by The Monitor
* Robots: Part 4 Holmes and Vardans - DWM sleuth Stephen Cartwright dons deerstalker and cape to search out Doctor Who's many strange and eccentric relatives and finds bodies in the library...
* 1997 Readers' Survey - The Results!
=== Comic content ===
* The Dalek Chronicles - Return of the Elders - Part 5 of 6
* Fire and Brimstone - Part Three
=== The DWM Archive ===
By Andrew Pixley
* TV: The Pirate Planet
=== The Telesnap Archive ===
Compiled by Matthew Pereira
* TV: The Macra Terror - Episode 3
=== Interviews / Profiles ===
* 1666 and all that - Director Peter Moffatt was a mainstay of early eighties Doctor Who. In the first part of a wide-ranging two-part interview he talks to Peter Griffiths about his work on State of Decay, The Visitation and Mawdryn Undead.
=== Shelf Life ===
none this issue
=== Regular features ===
* Gallifrey Guardian
* Timelines (Letters)
* The life & times of Jackie Jenkins
== Credits ==
:Editor: Gary Gillatt
:Assistant Editor: Alan Barnes
:Designer: Michael Yeowell, Gary Gillatt
== Additional details ==
to be added
Category:DWM issues
Category:1997 DWM issues