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About TSV and the Club

Time Space Visualiser - The Journal of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club - is New Zealand's oldest and most popular Doctor Who fanzine, and has been around for over twenty years.

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About the Fanzine

Regular Features of TSV include:

  • News features - Latest information on the television series, books, videos, DVDs, merchandise and events, both locally and worldwide.
  • Comic Strips, Fiction and Artwork - Material submitted by some of the most talented fans in New Zealand and from around the world!
  • Interviews - Past interviews have included Andrew Cartmel, Tom Baker, Mark Strickson, Paul Cornell, Lance Parkin, Gary Gillatt, Gary Russell, Colin Baker, Andrew Pixley, Nicholas Briggs, Janet Fielding, the Doctor Who Restoration Team, and many others.
  • The Erato cartoons - The continuing adventures of such misfits as Nord, Ky Mutt, and Altos and Yartek.
  • Reviews - Of all the latest merchandise, including books, DVDs, audios, etc.

TSV's interviews, articles and reviews have been reprinted or quoted in publications including The Doctor Who Handbooks, Doctor Who - The Eighties, The Discontinuity Guide, License Denied, The TV Companion, In-Vision and Doctor Who Magazine.

Subscribe to TSV and become part of a large network of people of all ages who share an appreciation of the traveller in time and space known as the Doctor.

For more information about the most recent issue check out TSV 75

About the Club

Although produced in Auckland, New Zealand, TSV is sold via subscription around the world. Its sizeable international regular readership includes many names well known to readers of the Doctor Who books or Doctor Who Magazine. Indeed, a Doctor Who author and a regular staff writer on Doctor Who Magazine both started out writing for TSV before getting their "big break".

Once upon a time Doctor Who fanzines were commonplace in fandom, but now - more than 15 years since the original series ceased production in 1989 - they are few and far between. TSV is even more unusual in that unlike most other fanzines, it did not diversify into subjects other than Doctor Who during the time the programme was away, and now at the dawn of a new era of adventures in the TARDIS, TSV continues to bring high-quality in-depth review and analysis.

TSV is published twice a year. Each issue is A5, black and white, and 100 pages in length. Issues contain articles, letters, reviews, artwork and comic strips, news and fiction. Contributors include some of the best talent from New Zealand - and international - Doctor Who fandom.

TSV's International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is 1175-1924. Copies of each issue are deposited in the National Library of New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.

TSV was founded by Paul Scoones and Paul Sinkovich in 1987. Paul continued to edit the fanzine until TSV 70 in 2005 (with the exception of 14 issues edited in Christchurch, published between 1988 and 1990).

The current editor of TSV is Adam McGechan.

The New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club (NZDWFC) is the name given to TSV's readership. The geographic dispersion of the readers means that club activities are few and far between, and when such events do take place they usually operate on a strictly regional basis in groups called 'chapters'. At chapter meetings (usually announced on the general message board of www.doctorwho.org.nz), club members get together to discuss Doctor Who and watch videos.

For a more detailed history of the fanzine and club, please see the history.

Current Issue
TSV 75
What They Say:

"It's definitely my favourite `fanzine', enthusiastic, perceptive and original."
- Gary Gillatt, Doctor Who Magazine editor

"I know more people in the NZDWFC than I do in the DWAS ... probably because of their brilliant fanzine."
- Paul Cornell, Licence Denied

"A superbly high quality fanzine ... informative, well-structured and above all ... fun!"
- Andrew Pixley, Doctor Who Magazine writer

"TSV's love of Doctor Who in all its media puts too many of its UK brethren to shame."
- Doctor Who Magazine fanzine review

"TSV is ... the single best print fanzine published today."
- Shaun Lyon, Outpost Gallifrey

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