History Magazine / DoctorWhoMagazine

** In "Endgame", there is a reference to "Old Mrs. Parkhouse", which is a shout-out to Steve Parkhouse, the earlier writer on the strip who created the setting and characters revisited in the story. The Toymaker's main human minion is named "Marwood", which is the AllThereInTheScript name of "I", the character played by Eighth Doctor actor Creator/PaulMcGann in ''Film/WithnailAndI''. The Toymaker refers to having beated "[[Literature/CasinoRoyale Le Chiffre]]" at baccarat.

** In "Endgame", there is a reference to "Old Mrs. Parkhouse", which is a shout-out to Steve Parkhouse, the earlier writer on the strip who created the setting and characters revisited in the story. The Toymaker's main human villain is named "Marwood", which is the AllThereInTheScript name of "I", the character played by Eighth Doctor actor Creator/PaulMcGann in ''Film/WithnailAndI''. The Toymaker refers to having beated "[[Literature/CasinoRoyale Le Chiffre]]" at baccarat.

** From 2013 through 2017, it developed into a Q&A column, with Moff answering fan queries (usually about production stuff but sometimes providing WordOfGod answers to questions about the episodes).

* The Christmas Quiz (compiled by the Watcher until his dismissal), an annual NintendoHard quiz featuring anagrams, general knowledge and cryptic clues; since the show's return in 2005, most of the questions will often relate to that year's series.

** Long-running Eighth Doctor companion Izzy S was based, according to WordOfGod, initially on the singer Louise Wener[[note]]From the BritPop band Sleeper[[/note]] and later on the actress Luisa Bradshaw-White.

** In the MilestoneCelebration #500, "The Stockbridge Showdown" sees the return of Max Edison, Dogbolter, assorted monsters at Dogbolter's birthday party, Sharon, Chiyoku ("Child of Time"), Clutha ("Hunters of the Burning Stone"), Majenta, Destrii, St Justinian's Church ("Tides of Time"), a reference to Gus Goodman ("4-Dimensional Vistas"), Frobisher, and Izzy.

It's also spawned a few spinoffs, including a short-lived poster magazine spotlighting the series' monsters; ''Doctor Who Classic Comics'', which mainly reprinted pre-DWM Doctor Who comics; and ''Doctor Who Insider'', for North American fans. The current sister title is ''Magazine/DoctorWhoAdventures'', which originally launched in 2006, and was acquired by Panini in 2015; it's aimed at the show's kid fanbase, with a mix of in-character written activities, games, posters, short stories, episode recaps, and comics -- a format ''very'' similar to that of the earliest years of DWM.

** Rather infamously they misspelled Creator/PeterDavison's name as "Peter Davidson" on the cover when they announced his taking on the role. They acknowledged this in DWM 389, the issue dedicated to [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash "Time Crash"]], where they finally wrote "Peter Davison is the Doctor!" [[AC:And so is David Tennant!]] on the cover correctly and pointed out they'd spelled his name right this time. They later admitted in DWM 400 that this is the one mistake they'll [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]].

* AbortedArc: When the TV series returned in 2005, the strip had to shift over to using the Ninth Doctor and Rose, meaning that companion Destrii's story was left unfinished. She was last seen in the strip walking off with the Eighth Doctor to new adventures.
** What Destrii's original story would have been hasn't been revealed; when offered the Eighth-Ninth regeneration, the creative team initally wanted to have Destrii continue with the new Doctor, but the restrictions they had meant they couldn't go through with it. They had a loophole, which meant they could have just featured the regeneration, but they felt that a proper regeneration meant they needed to show the consequences, so they reluctantly turned it down.
*** This decision of course later allowed Steven Moffat to add the War Doctor in the narrative gap.
*** TheBusCameBack: We finally find out what happened to Destrii, as well as many other strip-original companions, in [[MilestoneCelebration Issue 500]]'s "The Stockbridge Showdown".

* DoubleSidedBook: One side of the 1994 Summer Special was "The Genesis of Doctor Who", with a cover picture from the VHS release of "An Unearthly Child"; a transcript of Creator/WilliamHartnell's ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs'' interview; an interview with Virginia Wetherall (Dyoni in "The Daleks"); articles about the show's origins and the original title sequence; a fact file on "An Unearthly Child" (or "100,000 BC", as ''DWM'' insisted on calling it at the time); and a comic strip featuring First, Vicki and Steven. The other side was "The Destiny of Doctor Who", with a cover picture from the VHS release of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]"; interviews with Creator/SylvesterMcCoy and Creator/LisaBowerman (not yet Franchise/BerniceSummerfield, but Karra in "Survival"); articles about eighties visual effects and the [=McCoy=] title sequence; a fact file on "Survival"; and a comic strip featuring Seventh and Benny that was a direct sequel to the First Doctor one.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: "The Clockwise War" gives the Moffat-era Time Lord General the name Kenossium, as a ShoutOut to their first actor, Ken Bones, combining TheDanza and ThisIsMyNameOnForeign ("ossium" is Latin for "bones").

** When Scott Gray decided to feature the General from "Hell Bent" as a major supporting character in "The Clockwise War", he thought that she needed an actual name and asked Creator/StevenMoffat himself for one. Moffat suggested "Kenossian", which is a Latin pun on the name of the actor who played the General's previous incarnation, Ken Bones.

* {{Transplant}}: ComicBook/DeathsHead appears in the time vortex after falling sideways through time from ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' UK comic during a failed attempt to catch some Decepticon bounties. In turn, the Seventh Doctor shrinks Death's Head down from Cybertronian size to human size and gives him a trip in the TARDIS to his permanent home, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

** In "Change of Mind", the villainous MadScientist Professor Hardin is both physically based on, and named after, Jerry Hardin, best known as Deep Throat in ''Series/TheXFiles''.
** Long-running Eighth Doctor companion Izzy S was based, according to WordOfGod, initially on the singer Louise Wener and later on the actress Luisa Bradshaw-White.

** Leighton Woodrow, an [=MI6=] recurring character from that era of the comics, was closely based on Leo [=McKern=], specifically as he appeared when playing Number Two in ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}''.
** Frobisher's humanoid form in his Eighth Doctor reappearance is based on James Gandolfini.

** The Western-set story "The Parliament of Fear" uses a whole crew of western actors cast according to their stereotypical type casting in the genre. Vicious outlaw Seth Shelton is Creator/BruceDern, Native American tracker Joey Two Trees is Lou Diamond Phillips, and comedy "old timer" Zeke is Denver Pyle. Additionally, real African-American western lawman Bass Reeves is Creator/IdrisElba.

* ContinuitySnarl: The whole "death of Ace" situation as described above under AlternateContinuity.

Originally published under the UK branch of Creator/MarvelComics, it is now published by Panini Comics, who absorbed Marvel UK in TheNineties.

** In "Exodus/Revelation/Genesis", all the mad scientists are named after characters played in sci-fi or horror films by Creator/BorisKarloff. The Doctor lampshades this by pointing out that one of them, Dr. Poelzig, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting looks like him]]. Their security man Krogh is named after, and looks like, the policeman in ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'', played by Creator/LionelAtwill.

* The Production Notes column, where Creator/RussellTDavies often dropped vague hints about future episodes (i.e. three words from the script). Creator/StevenMoffat took over in 2010, and after a short hiatus in 2017, he was succeeded by Creator/ChrisChibnall in 2018.
** Both Moffat and Chibnall had contributed to the column before taking over. There have also been contributions by Phil Collinson, Gareth Roberts and others.

* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: "TV Action!", where Eighth and Izzy travel to our reality and team up with actor Creator/TomBaker (the Fourth Doctor).

* HumansAreBastards: "Children of the Revolution". Humans are rescued by [[spoiler:good Daleks, descendants of the humanised Daleks Alpha, Beta and Omega]]. Humans destroy [[spoiler:Daleks.]] As soon as you see the situation, you realise exactly how it's going to go wrong. You'll be right.

** In "Exodus/ Revelation/ Genesis", all the mad scientists are named after characters played in SF or horror films by Creator/BorisKarloff. The Doctor lampshades this by pointing out that one of them, Dr. Poelzig, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting looks like him]]. Their security man Krogh is named after, and looks like, the policeman in ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'', played by Creator/LionelAtwill.