Welcome Back

Hello everyone and welcome back to ‘What if Doctor Who Wasn’t Axed?’. It’s sure been a while, as the last update to the series was on 12 June 2022 and now it’s precisely 232 days later. In the real world we’ve had one new episode of Doctor Who since, the predictably controversial ‘The Power of the Doctor’, which ended with David Tenannt being revealed as the Fourteenth Doctor. I can’t promise you anything quite as crazy as that… except maybe the real actual Prince Charles encouraging Daleks?? Don’t worry, it’ll all be explained later in the issue.

So, when it comes to this magazine, 232 days ago it was called ‘The WIDWWA Newsletter’ and merely gave news about WIDWWA, essentially previewing the main content, which was on the WIDWWA Wordpress. Well, no more! This magazine is now THE place to be for WIDWWA. Everything WIDWWA that is being released is now being released in this magazine. So this issue features the overviews of the first four episodes of Doctor Who: Adventures Series 4 and that’s because this issue focuses on July and July 2022. I’ve made the decision to keep us permanently behind by several months to increase the quality of WIDWWA so that I can more accurately determine what will and won’t happen.

“Where’s that WIDWWA book you were promising?” I hear you ask! Well, don’t worry, most of it had been written, but upon further inspection into copyright laws, the only way I could’ve been able to publish it as a book, would be to have cut nearly all plot description out and make it primarily a non-fiction (but still actually fiction) book. This would’ve meant you could’ve found out all about the production history of Doctor Who, but not the stories. So, the book’s gone, but everything that would’ve been in the book is now in this magazine and we’ll be covering a year each issue. So, this issue is “Rewind to 1989” and the next issue is “Rewind to 1990”. Got that?

The vast majority of this issue is dedicated to June & July 2022, but the back end of it, takes us entirely into a Rewind to 1989 section, which goes into the precise details over how Doctor Who was saved. During this feature, I bring up a particular point that I’ve never seen anyone really talk about publicly when it comes to Doctor Who’s cancellation, so I wonder if this feature will start a conversation around that.

Finally, I just want to give everyone a big welcome and I hope you really enjoy this issue and stick around in the coming months for future issues. We have a lot of exciting stuff coming up including WIDWWA’s very own Centenary Special, The Restoration, and Mike Flanagan’s take on Doctor Who: The New Renegade But for now, enjoy this look into June & July 2022.