• Ooh Lalla! - The noblest Romana of them all, Lalla Ward, gives us the warts-and-all story of her time in DOCTOR WHO in the first part of a revealing new interview.
• Channel Hopping ­ Join us as we meet the Doctor's greatest enemies. No, not the Daleks or the Cybermen, but THE A-TEAM, LOST IN SPACE and CORONATION STREET!
• Andrew Pixley gets tied up in more statistics as Scheduled for Success continues. Living in a Box - It's the most advanced machine ever created, so why does the Doctor's TARDIS never take its occupants where they want to go?
• In the first part of a new feature, Gareth Roberts peers through the police box doors, and attempts to construct the ultimate user's manual...
• Destrii Rides Again! ­ A couple of pesky varmints are causing bother for the Doctor in the third part of comic strip, Bad Blood. Don't you just hate it when friends drop by unannounced?
• Plus ­ It's the End of It's the End, The Time Team declare DEATH TO THE DALEKS, and there are reviews of ZAGREUS and SCREAM OF THE SHALKA.

"I'm not being disingenuous now when I say that I've heard nothing," says McGann. "And I'm unlikely to hear anything, except that they'll probably ask me to go back and do the regeneration, which I'd be happy to do. But if I was them, I wouldn't pick me.

"I think if somebody wants it more - and again, this is purely, purely rumour, so this could be nonsense, but not only have I heard that David Warner is up for it, but he really wants to do it. And if that's the case then they should give it to him, because you can't beat that. You can't beat passion.

"While I'd be into it... I've got to be really careful what I say here... I might not have the same passion that Warner would, to be brutally honest, simply by dint of the fact that I've done it before. If I was to get offered it, then I would have to be absolutely certain, and I would have to seek guarantees, that I could do the things I wanted to do in 1996, approach it the way we thought we might before. It would be unfinished business."

The TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 1911 inside an old priory owned by Egyptologist Marcus Scarman. Scarman has been possessed by Sutekh, last survivor of the god-like Osirans, who is held prisoner inside a pyramid in Egypt by a signal transmitted from one on Mars.

Sutekh desires his freedom and instructs Scarman to construct servicer robots - which look like Egyptian mummies - to build a missile with which to destroy the Martian pyramid.

This time without the baggage of BLACK ORCHID, Peter Davison's THE VISITATION is released today.

eyeofhorus.org.uk has always believed that this four-parter is a 'sleeping' Classic, in DOCTOR WHO terms. A bona fide example of 'science-fantasy', expertly written and executed from the DOCTOR WHO's 'second heyday' (viewing figures were regularly above 10 million).

This DVD features all the usual extras:

00:05:31:12 | FILM TRIMS
00:26:12:18 | DIRECTING WHO - PETER MOFFATT
00:12:50:02 | WRITING A FINAL VISITATION
00:05:11:15 | PICTURE GALLERY
00:01:27:17 | CONTINUITY ANNOUNCEMENT EPS 1-4 (REPEAT UK TRANS)
00:16:17:24 | SCORING THE VISITATION

The commentary is provided by Davison, Sutton, Fielding and Waterhouse, with director Peter Moffatt.

Episode 2 of DOCTOR WHO - THE DALEKS' MASTERPLAN has been found, minutes away from destruction.

The twelve-part space romp stars William Hartnell, Peter Purves (Steven) and Adrienne Hill (Katerina), along with Nicholas Courtney as Space Special Security agent Bret Vyon.

The episode was returned by Francis Watson, until recently Head of Engineering at Yorkshire Television in Leeds. As a young engineer working for the BBC in the early seventies, Watson had been given the task of clearing out a room full of junk at the Corporation's Television Film Studios in Ealing. Among the rubbish were two 16mm cans marked Doctor Who, which Watson saved from destruction so that he could watch them on the projector at his local film club.

Until this week, only parts five and ten were known to exist, having themselves been discovered in a junk pile in the mid-eighties. Watson says that he has always felt slightly embarrassed about "borrowing" the films, but he can be assured that, thirty years on, both the BBC and fans of the series will want to give him a pat on the back, for his minor indiscretion undoubtedly ensured the episode's survival.

DAY OF ARMAGEDDON is a great find, as this second episode contains scenes with several characters for which very little visual reference material still exists - in fact only a single, blurry photograph of the alien leader Celation is known to have survived in a private photograph collection. The second of Watson's film cans contained a poor-quality episode of THE EXPEDITION, an episode of the very first Dalek adventure, of which the BBC already has a master copy.

The return of DAY OF ARMAGEDDON takes the total of missing episodes down to 108.

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• Meet Hex - DWM reveals the new Big Finish audio companion.
• Death Comes to Town - Tegan is possessed while the Doctor gets distressed by a medieval mess. All is revealed by Mark Wyman and Alan Barnes as they uncover The Fact of Fiction of THE VISITATION.
• The Show Must Go On - Production Manager Gary Downie exposes the behind-the-scenes tussles of the Sylvester McCoy era, and talks about how he's coped since the death of his partner, producer John Nathan-Turner, in the concluding part of DWM's frank and revealing interview.
• Curtain Up - Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats please. In the first of a two-part Archive Extra, Andrew Pixley settles down with his programme and a choc-ice to enjoy the stage plays Curse of the Daleks and Seven Keys to Doomsday.
• Old Friends - The Doctor's visit to the Old West takes a few unexpected turns in the second part of new comic strip, Bad Blood.
• Plus, The Time Team take on the Dinosaurs and the Watcher has a bit of trouble with his hearing. Meanwhile, THE VISITATION, THE LEGEND and MASTER are reviewed, and Nev Fountain takes us behind-the-scenes of his recent DOCTOR WHO/DEAD RINGERS/THE WEAKEST LINK sketch for CHILDREN IN NEED.