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Radio Times is a weekly magazine that publishes radio and television programme listings. Once owned in-house by the BBC through BBC Magazines, its owners since 2011 are Immediate Media Company London Limited.

It also sporadically published original Doctor Who fiction, beginning in 1964 with the Christmas short story Barbara in Wonderland (which, contrary to expectations, did not star Barbara Wright, but did however feature the First Doctor and two Daleks). Other notable Radio Times DWU-related works included the first crossover between Doctor Who and another series (in the form of the 1965 comic strip Pugwash Ahoy!), the special Dalek short story We are the Daleks! in 1973, and the 20th anniversary short story Birth of a Renegade (1983). In the 1990s it even published a reasonably long-running serialised Eighth Doctor comic strip.

For a breakdown of Radio Times extensive coverage of the series (including covers, articles, features and offers):

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

1960s[[edit] | [edit source]]

1970s[[edit] | [edit source]]

1980s[[edit] | [edit source]]

1990s[[edit] | [edit source]]

2000s[[edit] | [edit source]]

2010s[[edit] | [edit source]]

19 December-1 January 2010 1/2
3-9 April 2010
fold out cover
17-23 April 2010 1/3
17-23 April 2010 3/3
17-23 April 2010 2/3
19-25 June 2010
11 December 2010
16 April 2011
21 May 2011
4 June 2011
9th July 2011
27 August 2011
1 October 2011
3 December 2011
1 September 2012
8 December 2012
30th March 2013
18 May 2013
23 November 2013 1/12
23 November 2013 2/12
23 November 2013 3/12
23 November 2013 4/12
23 November 2013 5/12
23 November 2013 6/12
23 November 2013 7/12
23 November 2013 8/12
23 November 2013 9/12
23 November 2013 10/12
23 November 2013 11/12
23 November 2013 12/12
07 December 2013
12 April 2014
17 May 2014
23 August 2014
1 November 2014
13 December 2014
19 September 2015
17 October 2015
5 December 2015
26 November 2016
15 April 2017
24 June 2017
9 December 2017
21 July 2018
6 October 2018
20 October 2018
8 December 2018
7 December 2019

2020s[[edit] | [edit source]]

29 February 2020
5 December 2020
30 October 2021

Special publications[[edit] | [edit source]]

Return of the Time Lord
(with 25-31 May 1996)
Radio Times Doctor Who 1996 Calendar

A digitally cleaned up reproduction (complete with cover price) of the 10th Anniversary Special was released in the 40th Anniversary year exclusively from Radio Times.

Postcards[[edit] | [edit source]]

A series of fourteen Radio Times Doctor Who Covers (up to and including Doctor Who The Movie was given away with an Eighth Doctor poster promotion)

Radio Times posters[[edit] | [edit source]]

1996[[edit] | [edit source]]

A3 size photograph of the Eighth Doctor, (Paul McGann) inside the TARDIS, standing in front of the door.

2005[[edit] | [edit source]]

Daleks at Westminster

A1(84 x 59.4cm) size, double sided poster featuring the Daleks crossing Westminster Bridge (a recreation of the iconic 1964 image of when the Daleks invaded Earth)on one side and,

on the reverse;

Daleks (2005)

Shown are three chunkier 2005-style Daleks

2006[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cybermen at St Paul's Cathedral

Photograph: Matt Holyoak / Ian McKinnell

Image Manipulation: Ian McKinnell

Art Director: Paul Smith

Picture Editor: Patricia Taylor

Radio Times has produced an exclusive double-sided poster recreating the terrifying moment when the Cybermen marched by St Paul's cathedral. (Nowadays, the area is at one end of the Millennium Bridge), on one side and a black Dalek on the reverse. The poster measures 59x84cm and required two tokens and postage of £2.95 (UK)

On the reverse;

Black Dalek

Photograph: Matt Holyoak

Art Director: Paul Smith

Picture Editor: Patricia Taylor

Picture shows a black Dalek

2007[[edit] | [edit source]]

2007 Heroes and Villains

Heroes

Photograph: Mike Hogan

Image Manipulation: Ian McKinnell

Design and Art Direction: Paul Smith

This long narrow poster shows is the Tenth Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack Harkness standing to the left in a TARDIS interior panoramic shot.

On the reverse;

Monsters

Photo: Mark Harrison

Design and Art: Paul Smith

This long narrow poster shows Weeping Angels, a Dalek, Dalek Sec Hybrid (centre) Scarecrows and Juddoon.

2008[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Next Doctor

Photograph: Matt Holyoak

Image Manipulation: Ian McKinnell

Art Directon: Paul Smith

A Christmas poster offer to readers offered both Walace and Gromit and Doctor Who The Next Doctor double-sided posters

One side a graveyard shot of Mercy Hartigan (centre) with both 'Doctors' on either side and the Cybermen in the background.

On the reverse;

Cybermen 2008

Photograph: Matt Holyoak

Image Manipulation: Ian McKinnell

Art Directon: Paul Smith

This poster shows three Cybermen from The Next Doctor including the new Cyber Leader.

2009[[edit] | [edit source]]

Davros

On the reverse;

Supreme Dalek

2009/10[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tenth Doctor

Exclusive Photograph: David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor

Photograph: Matt Holyoak

Image Manipulation: Stuart Manning

Art Directon: Paul Smith

On the reverse;

The Doctor and Companions

Exclusive Photograph: David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor with companions Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman)

Photograph: Mike Hogan

Image Manipulation: Ian McKinnell

Art Directon: Paul Smith

2010[[edit] | [edit source]]

2010 3D Posters

TARDIS 2010 3D Poster

Exclusive Photograph: The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond inside the TARDIS

Daleks 2010 3D Poster

Exclusive Photograph: Featuring the new Daleks on Westminster Bridge with spitfires in the skies.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

No television series have had more Radio Times covers than Doctor Who.
Each of Jon Pertwee's seasons as the Third Doctor were heralded by a Radio Times cover.
Tom Baker never had a Radio Times cover during his era, although he did later appear on a retrospective cover.
Radio Times offered to feature the Cybermen in a front cover and accompanying article to mark the start of Earthshock, but producer John Nathan-Turner turned this down as he was keen to preserve the surprise of their reappearance.
Vortex magazine #128 featured a pretend render of a Radio Times article celebrating "Five years of Doctor Who". This was done by Big Finish Productions to promote the release of Daughter of the Gods, which was envisioned as a "five-year anniversary special", the Radio Times image adding to the feeling of authenticity.

Radio Times Covers Party[[edit] | [edit source]]

Radio Times holds its own annual Radio Times Covers Party, a prestigious event where cover stars are awarded framed covers, since the 2005 relaunch the Doctor Who team have been the recipients of more covers than any other series on TV.

Andrew Skilleter collected a framed cover of his twentieth Anniversary piece for The Five Doctors in 1983, one of the illustrators to do so.

Radio Times
Covers Party 2007

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who at the Radio Times website

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