The 47th issue of Doctor Who Magazine had a cover date of December 1980.
Contents
Articles
- Seventeenth Anniversary
Comic content
- Doctor Who: Dreamers of Death (Part One)
- Star Death: A Tale of the Time Lords
Fiction
- None
Archives
- Archive Feature: TV: The Three Doctors (synopsis only by Richard Marson)
- Archive Feature: TV: The Seeds of Death (synopsis only by Richard Marson)
Interviews / Profiles
- Star ProFile: Nicholas Courtney (Actor / Writer)
Previews
Reviews
- None
A4 pin-ups
- B&W Romana II on a Brighton beach from TV: The Leisure Hive
Additional features
- Gallifrey Guardian
- Who Cares! (Letters Page)
- Fantastic Facts
- UNIT Hotline Club page
- Know Your Enemy: The Guardian
Credits
- Editor: Paul Neary
- Features Editor: Alan McKenzie
- Art Assistant: Rahid Khan
- Consultant: Jeremy Bentham
- Production: Nigel Balloch
Additional details
- Eight extra pages are regularly added from this issue.
- This issue includes an eight-page pullout, marking out key dates in the Doctor's seventeen-year history, including October 11th 1979 (Marvel Comics launches Doctor Who Weekly) and August 13th (Doctor Who Weekly becomes a monthly publication as from issue 44).
- Know Your Enemy is unnumbered this issue.
- This is first time Patrick Troughton appears on the cover of the magazine.
- The year is not included on the front cover, which had a cover price of 30p (UK).
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