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* [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Enemies|Enemies]] | * [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Enemies|Enemies]] | ||
: [[Winifred Gillyflower]] | : [[Winifred Gillyflower]] | ||
:This wicked woman tried to bring about the apocalypse. | : This wicked woman tried to bring about the apocalypse. | ||
: [[Pangol]] | : [[Pangol]] | ||
This [[Argolin]] wanted to clone himself and build an army. | : This [[Argolin]] wanted to clone himself and build an army. | ||
* [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Behind The Scenes|Behind the Scenes]] | * [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Behind The Scenes|Behind the Scenes]] | ||
Revision as of 02:30, 26 December 2013
The Doctor Who DVD Files –“The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia” in fortnightly issues.
Magazine Content
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into nine categories that could be filed accordingly.
- The Paternoster Gang
- The Doctor’s friends kept Victorian London safe from attack.
- Winifred Gillyflower
- This wicked woman tried to bring about the apocalypse.
- Pangol
- This Argolin wanted to clone himself and build an army.
- Billie Piper
- Find out all about the actor behind Rose Tyler.
- The Pit and the Pen!
- Read our exclusive interview with writers Pip and Jane Baker
- Eye Camera
- How did a human eyeball end up in a security camera?
- ”Danger Siren!”
- Amy Pond faces a demon from the deep …
- The Android Invasion
- The Doctor and Sarah Jane battle the Kraals…
- Sense Sphere
- Visit the Horsehead Nebula and the planet of the Sensorites!
DVD release (with cover blurb)
- Each issue came with a DVD release.
- Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
- "The Earth will be rid of its human population within three weeks … …” "
- The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith land in the idyllic English village of [[Devesham. But all is not as it seems, and soon the time travellers are battling the Kraal]s, aliens who have conceived a terrifying fate for the people of Earth. What is going on at the nearby Space Defence Station? Who is Guy Crayford and is he really a national hero? What is Styggron’s plan? And where on Earth is Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart?
Notable Information
- The UK’s Space Defence Station set up to detect and repel alien invasions), was the only one in the world (1973) and was overseen by UNIT.
- Winifred Gillyflower opened the gates of Sweetville in 1893.
- When the SS Madame de Pompadour’ was hit by an ion storm in the Dagmar Cluster the repair droids utilised human body parts in their repairs of the ship.
- Actress Billie Piper’s middle name is ‘Paul’. She was born in Swindon, Wiltshire on 22 September 1982.
- The planet Sense Sphere was rich in the rare metal Molybenum which has a melting point of 2622 degrees centigrade. It was also home to the dominant telepathic life-forms the Sensorites and the cave-dwelling giant spiders the Zilgans.
- The historical pirate Henry Avery who the Doctor met in The Curse of the Black Spot was previously referenced in The Smugglers with the Doctor caught up in a search for Avery’s fabled gold.
- 13 Paternoster Row was in 1890’s London, home to the Paternoster Gang of Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint.
- George Stephenson was the first civil engineer to use steam locomotives on the inter-city railways.
- Some subscribers experienced a delay of receiving this issue of several weeks.
Credits
- Project Manager: not credited this issue
- Group Editor: not credited this issue
- Editor: Kieran Grant
- Art Editor: Elanzi Smit
- Designer: not credited this issue
- Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
- Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths
- Illustrators: none credited this issue
