April 02, 2026
Get your exclusive preview of this follow-up adventure to ‘Destination: Daleks’ from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine…
In 2025, Peter Davison and Janet Fielding stepped back into the TARDIS for Destination: Daleks, a special minisode to announce the release of The Collection: Season 21 on Blu-ray. Returning to the London docklands where they first said goodbye over 40 years ago in Resurrection of the Daleks, the Fifth Doctor and Tegan are pulled into a new mystery concerning their friend Turlough – but the minisode’s cliffhanger leaves them caught in the middle of yet another Dalek plot!
Thankfully, writer Pete McTighe has continued the story of Destination: Daleks in the form of a special comic, included with this month’s issue of Doctor Who Magazine! The Doctor and Tegan face the Daleks and reunite with Turlough in this special 16-page mini-mag, of which you can find a special preview of the first two pages below…
Plus, in honour of the BBC iPlayer debut of two missing episodes from The Daleks’ Master Plan on Friday 3rd April, DWM have shared some of memories from Adrienne Hill, who plays the First Doctor’s ill-fated companion Katarina in the serial…
Doctor Who Magazine issue 628 is on sale from Thursday 2nd April. You can order it here.
Read the full continuation of Destination: Daleks with issue 628 of Doctor Who Magazine.
The late ADRIENNE HILL’s memories of appearing as Katarina in episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan – including the two recently recovered episodes.
Speaking to DWM in 1986, Adrienne Hill told DWM: “I must admit, I feel a bit of a fraud, having only been in five episodes.” Back then, all that was thought to survive from Hill’s Doctor Who tenure as Trojan handmaiden Katarina was a handful of promo photos, some off-air audio recordings, and a 58-second clip from Master Plan 4, The Traitors, showing the moments just before Katarina’s untimely exit. Nothing else was known to exist. Not even telesnaps (photos taken off screen during broadcast).
Hill – who died in October 1997, aged 60 – remembered being “over the moon” to be in Doctor Who. “I thought it was a super show, and it was something that we all watched avidly. I phoned people up and said, ‘Guess what I’ve got a part in!’ I was delighted.”
But she added: “Now, of course, it’s all been wiped, except for just one tiny second. It’s a tragedy.” So, it’s genuinely mind-blowing that, 40 years later, in the space year 2026, the vast majority of Hill’s Doctor Who screen-time is back in the archives. Katarina lives!
Read more in issue 628 of Doctor Who Magazine.
In the magazine:
- TWO MISSING EPISODES OF THE DALEKS’ MASTER PLAN FOUND!
- Read our preview of First Doctor episodes The Nightmare Begins and Devil’s Planet – not seen in over 60 years and streaming on iPlayer from 3 April.
- The making of Big Finish audio range RUTANS VS SONTARANS from start to finish. This issue, producer DAVID RICHARDSON discusses how early ideas came together and scripts were commissioned.
- In advance of the 4K release of the 1996 TV movie, we track down MALCOLM DANE who played Grace Holloway’s boyfriend Brian.
- Actor KAREN CLEGG shares her memories of playing Sarn in the Seventh Doctor’s debut Time and the Rani.
- PHIL ROBINSON discusses the Sea Devils he has sculpted for the Collection Blu-rays – including on the recent Season 21 box set – plus his work for toy manufacturer Dapol and on episodes of Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who.
- We speak to AL DEWAR, the man behind Character Options long-running range of action figures.
- Beyond his appearance in 2023 Special The Giggle, discover STOOKY BILL’s connections to the world of Doctor Who!
- A look at the work of Star Cutouts and their impressive range of life-size standees of Doctors, companions and monsters.
- Celebrate Easter with a look back at Doctor Who themed Easter Eggs!
- Nothing in the world can stop us now! We head to Atlantis to unearth facts about early Second Doctor escapade The Underwater Menace.
- Back to 1977… Have you had your Weetabix? We look at their fondly remembered Doctor Who promotion…
- The Fifteenth Doctor and Mel battle the Daleks in the comic strip…
Regular features:
- GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: the latest news including DAVID TENNANT’s return as the Tenth Doctor on audio.
- Reviews – featuring a review of the Collection: Season 21 Blu-ray boxset.
- Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
- Prizes to be won!
Doctor Who Magazine issue 628 is on sale from Thursday 2nd April. You can order it here.
