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* ''''SFX Issue 196'''' ([[Karen Gillan]] new companion interview)
* ''''SFX Issue 196'''' ([[Karen Gillan]] new companion interview)
* ''''SFX Issue 199'''' (Looking ahead to [[Series 4 (Torchwood)|New Torchwood]], [[Russell T Davies]] interview)  
* ''''SFX Issue 199'''' (Looking ahead to [[Series 4 (Torchwood)|New Torchwood]], [[Russell T Davies]] interview)  
 
* ''''SFX Issue 208'''' (Looking ahead to [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|New Doctor Who]], [[Steven Moffat]] interview) and the World's first TARDIS sound effect cover!
In addition to the regular issues, a further '''''SFX Collection''''' title was released six times a year which focuses on a specific theme and is often packaged with 'extras'. ''''Doctor Who'''' has has had a number of these special editions which often included premiums and a higher price. Initially issues collected togteher a range of previously released material, supplementing it and updating where possible before establishing a tradition of 100% all-new material.
In addition to the regular issues, a further '''''SFX Collection''''' title was released six times a year which focuses on a specific theme and is often packaged with 'extras'. ''''Doctor Who'''' has has had a number of these special editions which often included premiums and a higher price. Initially issues collected togteher a range of previously released material, supplementing it and updating where possible before establishing a tradition of 100% all-new material.


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file:SFX 196.jpg|SFX Issue 196 <br> Future Publishing Limited <br> July 2010
file:SFX 196.jpg|SFX Issue 196 <br> Future Publishing Limited <br> July 2010
file:SFX 199.jpg|SFX Issue 199 <br> Future Publishing Limited <br> September 2010
file:SFX 199.jpg|SFX Issue 199 <br> Future Publishing Limited <br> September 2010
 
file:SFX 208.jpg|SFX Issue 208 <br> Future Publishing Limited <br> June 2011
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file:SFX SE 2009.jpg|[[SFX Collection 33|Doctor Who (2009)]] <br> Future Publishing Limited
file:SFX SE 2009.jpg|[[SFX Collection 33|Doctor Who (2009)]] <br> Future Publishing Limited
file:SFX 47 Collection.jpg|[[SFX Collection 47|Doctor Who: A Celebration]]<br> Future Publishing Limited <br> (With free bowtie, badges and exclusive CD)
file:SFX 47 Collection.jpg|[[SFX Collection 47|Doctor Who: A Celebration]]<br> Future Publishing Limited <br> (With free bowtie, badges and exclusive CD)
file:SFXC 49.jpg|[[SFX Collection 49|Best of British Sci-Fi 2011]]<br> Future Publishing Limited <br> (With free Red Dwarf car sticker, Primeval coasters and double-sided poster featuring Misfits and Doctor Who [[The Impossible Astronaut]])
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Revision as of 01:48, 19 April 2011

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SFX was a periodical which covered science-fiction and fantasy related media. It was launched in the UK in August 1995 by Future Publishing.

As a genre magazine, 'Doctor Who' featured regularly in its previews/reviews and news pages, as well as being included in more generic features.

Of note to collectors is that subscribers of this title received copies by post that featured no words on the cover other than the SFX logo.

Although launched in 1995, it was not until 'SFX Issue 13' that 'Doctor Who' first graced the cover having been off air for a few years, (this being to mark Paul McGann's turn at playing the Time Lord with the cover caption quote of "I thought I was going to look like a tosser!").

'Doctor Who' later featured on the covers of;

  • 'SFX Issue 46' (SFX exclusive Tom Baker interview),
  • 'SFX Issue 128' (Marking a new look for the magazine and the return of Doctor Who to the screen.The Ninth Doctor and Rose "Look Who's Back! "We've come to put you back behind the sofa!",
  • 'SFX Issue 129' (Cover features Billie Piper "Times are Changing Billie Piper heads up a whole new look for Doctor Who"),
  • 'SFX Issue 132' (with a Dalek cover "Who's next? The future of Doctor Who. Russell T Davies talks Season 2"),
  • 'SFX Issue 136' (a Tenth Doctor and Rose cover against a union flag heralding "Doctor Who leads our TV revolution HOPE & GLORY The new wave of British SF shows: we predict a riot!"),
  • 'SFX Issue 139' (The Christmas Invasion - where Russell T Davies talks exclusively to SFX revealing his plans for the new Doctor)
  • 'SFX Issue 142' (Tenth Doctor and Rose Series 2).
  • Indeed such was the popularity of the new series that by 'SFX Issue 150' (which incidently featured a Torchwood cover and article), included a huge double sided poster on one side showing all 150 covers, and the reverse being given over to a wallchart that showed "'Doctor Who' is connected/ seperated from Everything (in the sci-fi fantasy world) - without resorting to actors!"
  • 'SFX Issue 176' (Ten commemorative covers commemorating 45th Anniversary, feature all the Doctors)
  • 'SFX Issue 181' (Easter special Planet of the Dead)

In addition to the regular issues, a further SFX Collection title was released six times a year which focuses on a specific theme and is often packaged with 'extras'. 'Doctor Who' has has had a number of these special editions which often included premiums and a higher price. Initially issues collected togteher a range of previously released material, supplementing it and updating where possible before establishing a tradition of 100% all-new material.

The publishers take pride in its independence, often using a cover flash of 100% unofficial and unauthorised.

In 2010 the SFX brand was extended with the launch of a new title, Comic Heroes.

Gallery Notable Covers

Gallery of notable Who themed Specials

External links

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