Eyepiece

Doctor Who Zine
Title:	The Eyepiece
Publisher:	Bob The Fish Magazines
Editor:	Matthew Harris
Author:	Multiple
Cover Artist:
Illustrator:	Various
Topic:
Type:
Date(s):	2004-2005-?
Medium:	PDF
Fandom(s):	Doctor Who
Language:	English
External Links:	wayback link, PDFs still available
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About

4 known issues, possibly a 5th

Contents

Issue 1

cover issue 1

Contains 14 pages

• Event One Our lovely editor welcomes you in and offers you some cake and tea. Please remember to wipe your feet

• And You Will Obey Me In the wake of the actor’s untimely death, a retrospective on Anthony Ainley’s time with Doctor Who

• Doctor In Distress The new series is on its way! Hoorah! To celebrate, a reminder of the show’s original, ignominious death. Stop smiling, damn you.

• Birth Of A Notion One boy’s journey from callow youth to Who-fan, via little paperback books with a picture of a target on the sides

• Come On, Ace, We’ve Got Work To Do!The Eyepiece visibly panics over how to end the magazine

Issue 2

Contains 18 pages

cover issue 2

• Event One In which our gracious editor sobs gently at having to write this all out again
• The Day Today As his new book The Sleep Of Reason is released, Morgan Jeffrey ruthlessly interrogates author Martin Day while we try to cram as many “day” puns as we can into the intro
• It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And, strangely enough, we feel fine. The Eyepiece investigates exactly how Jim Mortimore manages that
• Resurrection Of The Daleks They’re back, they conquer and destroy...and they’re very easy to ruin. The Eyepiece presumes to tell the new series creators how to do their jobs properly
• Eye View The new review section kicks off with Morgan Jeffrey on The Harvest (spoilers included)
• Close The Pod Bay Doors, HAL The final page laments Technology as we know it

Issue 3

Contains 27 pages and was published around Christmas

cover issue 3

• Event One In which our gracious editor wishes a very merry Christmas to all of you, etc. *The Final Cut Nothing At The End Of The Lane returns with a look at the various glimmers of hope that cropped up before the 30th Anniversary — including the emergence of the New Doctor Who!
• Mysterious Cities Of Gold NEW! The first Eyepiece comic strip, Divine Intervention, begins!
• It’s Christmas Time, There’s No Need To Be Afraid The Feast Of Steven. The one and only Doctor Who Christmas Special. Apparently, it's really, really bad. But is it just misunderstood?
• Good Food A staggeringly pointless guide to Christmas Puddings, included here in the spirit of festive frivolity
• Amateur Dramatics Morgan Jeffrey's investigation into fan productions
• Grave Matter A brief short story by Howard Roberts sees the first Doctor in pensive mood.
• Eye View Morgan Jeffrey enters The Next Life! Spoilers included!
• A Very Doctor Who Christmas The last page attempts to design the perfect Whoish Christmas

Issue 4

Published March 26, 2005 and contains 29 pages.

cover issue 4

• Event One In which our gracious editor gets all unnecessary

• Type Thirty Yes, he’s back! The first new Doctor Who in years! Yes, we’re talking about Dimensions In Time and the 30th anniversary in Nothing At The End Of TheLane

• Deus Ex Machina - It’s a God’s life for the Doctor in part two of our comic Divine Intervention!

• Return Of The Space Cowboy. It’s our gargantuan preview of the new series! Including stories of that day in 2003, thoughts about the 2004 overture, and a game plan for TX day!

• Forever Delayed How 1993 rekindled a certain youngster’s interest in Doctor Who in the much-delayed second instalment of Genesis Of A Who Fan!

• Eye View. Morgan Jeffrey really does enter the Next Life this time (sorry about that). Spoilers included

• Back In The Old Routine The last page offers comfort to the not-we...and the soon-to-be-we.