DWA 63

DWA 63
Cover date:	8 May - 14 May 2008
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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The 63rd issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.

Contents

Free gift

• This issue’s free gift is a Sontaran Pencil Case, pen, pencil and rubber

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• STORY PREVIEW: The Doctor's Daughter

Comic story

• Nightmare on the Boulevard (Part One) (5 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

• From: (TV: Partners in Crime)

Featuring Donna miming to the Tenth Doctor

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

• UNIT

Behind the scenes)

• Creating the explosion of Mount Vesuvius

Posters

• A3 (TV: The Poison Sky)
  montage featuring Luke Rattigan and Sontaran
• A4 “It's a BRAIN!” the Doctor from (TV: Planet of the Ood) - montage featuring the Ood
• A4 (TV: Human Nature) - featuring BBC DVD cover without caption with Martha, the maid, John Smith, Scarecrow and pages from A Journal of Impossible Things
• A4 “Now don’t start FIGHTING” the Doctor from (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
  montage featuring the Doctor, Donna and Martha

Additional features

• Welcome and news

Find in this issue hidden somewhere Ood Sigma to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!

Things to do with a defeated enemy: Matron Cofelia – nurse to the Slitheen (by Christopher Cooper).

• Activity / Make-it

Time Agent Scorecard Story 6

Search and Find: 2-page 'The Weakest Link' scene (by Christopher Cooper)

• Puzzle Pages and Doctor Who Quiz (The Poison Sky)
• Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
• Readers contributions: Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload / Doctor You

featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.

• Competition Goodies ( Dalek/Cyberman costumes, Mr Magorium DVD)
• BIG WIN: Lifesize Ood head Token 2

Credits

Also listing: favourite bit of The Fires of Pompeii

• Editor: Moray Laing, The Doctor saving the family
• Art Editor: Paul Lang, Donna pleading to save the family
• Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, “I’m Sparticus.” “So am I.”
• Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Donna shock at speaking Latin
• Sub-Editor: Mel Bezalel, Lucius’s arm breaking off, argh!
• Freelancer: Liza Millett, The Doctor’s water pistol
• Freelancer: Richard Atkinson, Caecillius’s Celtic
• Office Psychic: Pyrovile, Turning everybody to stone

Hidden Away / Facts

This magazine can be recycled: At your local collection point, or volcano – whichever is nearest.

Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan’s washing machine has broken down, so he can’t clean his clothes. Yuck!”

• The Doctor Who Prom, hosted by Freema Agyeman, will be at 11am, 27th July at the Royal Albert Hall.
• The Weakest Link Doctor Who Special was won by Camille Coduri who played Jackie Tyler.
• Sontarans have three fingers.
• For the visual effects team to recreate the Mount Vesuvius eruption they used it, as it is today, for the template.
• UNIT : Unified Intelligence Taskforce
• The Earth protecting ship The Valiant was built by Harold Saxon; the Master

Additional details

• The subscription offer is revised for this issue with a saving of 30%, over £18 (UK) and a free Character Options Micro Universe set.
• This issue and its free gifts were cover mounted.
• Next issue's free gifts are listed as Doctor dress set (glasses, sonic screwdriver and badges).

External link

• The official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue