Below, all of the issues of Radio Times that have featured a Doctor Who cover.

1964	1964	1965	1966
1967	1968	1970	1971
1972	1972	1973	1983
1993	1996	1996	1999
2003	2003	2003	2003
2005	2005	2005	2005
2006	2006	2006	2006
2006	2006	2007	2007
2007	2007	2007	2007
2007	2008	2008	2008

2008

2008

2008

Doctor Who issues have always been the most collectable issues of Radio Times. It was only three months after the programme began that it gained its first cover, featuring William Hartnell starring in Marco Polo. In the next few years he was followed by the Daleks, Cybermen, Patrick Troughton and covers marking the beginning of each of Jon Pertwee's five seasons playing the Doctor.

After eleven covers in the first ten years of the programme, Who-related covers disappeared completely for the following decade, and amazingly none at all appeared during the Tom Baker era. Apparently the series was popular enough as it was not to require a Radio Times cover to help promote it!

The next two covers celebrated the twentieth and thirtieth anniversaries in 1983 and 1993. Paul McGann's appearances marked the ill-fated 1996 television movie. In 1999 Lord Snowdon's superb Dalek portrait, which originally saw the light of day as a stamp design, marked 1999's Doctor Who Night.

In 2003 Radio Times produced four alternative covers to mark the fortieth anniversary - which make one big picture when you put them all together. Then in 2005 the magazine celebrated Doctor Who's long-awaited return with a special collectable cover which opened up to reveal Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper inside the new-look TARDIS. But just two weeks earlier David Tennant, who would very soon afterwards be revealed as Eccleston's successor, made an appearance on the cover starring in BBC3's Casanova - but with the words 'Doctor Who' prominently displayed next to him. Coincidence - or consipiracy?

Doctor Who's next cover appearance celebrated the return of the Daleks, in a cover which pays homage to 1964's The Dalek Invasion of Earth, designed to link the pepperpots' comeback to that week's General Election! And a remarkable year for the Time Lord was rounded off with a rare programme-specific Christmas cover for Radio times.