Doctor Who Magazine #559

Highlights of the new issue include:

• An exclusive preview of the New Year’s Day Special, featuring contributions from Jodie Whittaker, John Barrowman, Chris Noth, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Chris Chibnall, director Lee Haven Jones and costume designer Ray Holman.
• The latest from showrunner Chris Chibnall in his Production Notes.
• A behind-the-scenes look at the trailer for the Season 8 Blu-ray box set, with writer and director Pete McTighe, Katy Manning and Stewart Bevan.
• Christmas with the Doctor – a fresh look at stories that were broadcast during the festive period between 1963 and 1989.
• What did missing 1965 episode The Feast of Steven actually look like? DWM’s CGI recreation offers some clues.
• The strange story of the 1964 record I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek.
• Interviews with the team behind the immersive theatre experience Time Fracture.
• The final instalment of a two-part article exploring David Whitaker’s influence on the Daleks.
• The Fact of Fiction analyses the 2014 Festive Special Last Christmas.
• Apocrypha rediscovers the bizarre 1965 comic strip A Christmas Story.
• The DWM Christmas Quiz!
• The first part of The White Dragon, a new comic-strip adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor.
• Previews and reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, The Blogs of Doom and more.
• PLUS a giant, double-sided poster!