There's another new Doctor Who Magazine special currently on the shelves, released at the end of last month, and it's another one for which I was asked to write a couple of pieces. This one is called Daleks: The Ultimate Guide, and the title explains it all, really - a focus on all things Dalek-y, from pieces on all the Doctor Who stories in which they appear to features on various aspects of their history, both in the real world and within the fiction of the programme.
The two features I was asked to contribute were a profile piece on the four actors who have played Davros, the creator of the Daleks, and also a piece looking at the Daleks' impact down the years in terms of the show's ratings. Did Doctor Who get higher ratings when the Daleks appeared? If not, why not? If so, why and what was the background?
For the answers to those questions, you'll have to buy the special of course! Available now via the Panini website, or Amazon, or in WH Smith, etc. Once again they were very enjoyable pieces to write, particularly the ratings one which I had an interesting time looking into the details of and putting together. I was also particularly pleased with it as I was able to find a nice fit in it for a thought I idly threw away in a tweet last year but with which I'd been rather taken. So I was quite chuffed when I realised it worked well as part of something more substantial here.
