DWA 17

DWA 17
Cover date:	15 November - 28 November 2006
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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The 17th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Contents

Free gift

• TARDIS Notebook and Dalek Stickers

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• The Time War

Comic strip

• Heads You Lose (Part Two) (6 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

• From: (DW): The Christmas Invasion
  

Featuring Rose Tyler defending the Earth against the Sycorax while the Doctor wakes up.

Monster A-Z

• I is for Ice Warriors

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

• File 16: Reapers

Adventure Guide (Photofeature) and Behind the scenes Feature

• (DW): Doomsday

Posters

• A3 “Cybermen PRIMARY TARGET!“ Dalek Sec in (DW): Doomsday
  montage featuring Dalek Sec and Cyberman
• A4 “You’re NOT keeping the HORSE!“ Rose Tyler in (DW): The Girl in the Fireplace
  montage featuring The Doctor and Arthur the horse
• A4 “I wanna see what’s OUT THERE!“Rose Tyler in School Reunion
  montage featuring Mickey Smith and Rose Tyler

Additional features

• Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
• The Vortex (Who’s News)

Humour: ‘’What to do with a defeated enemy’’ Spider Robots can help to search out hidden Christmas presents (By Christopher Cooper)

Find in this issue hidden somewhere Mrs Pakoo to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!

• TARDIS Inbox / Gallery

featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art

• Make It

Cut out and make Monster Memory Game

• Puzzle Pages
• Competition Goodies: Doctor Who DVD’s, PS2 Games, King Arthur DVD’s, Roboreptiles

Credits

Also listing: favourite Doctor
Editor: Moray Laing, David Tennant
Art Editor: Paul Lang, Whatsisname. Him with the scarf!
Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, Richard E Grant
Picture Editor: Shaila Bux , Tom Baker
Production Editor: Ed Lomas, Peter Davison
Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, David Tennant
Head Girl Doll Corpulone, Jon Pertwee

Hidden Away / Facts

This magazine can be recycled: “Something kinda Ood next issue …”
Mini Motto: “Even monsters from under the bed have nightmares, don’t you monster?”
Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan reserves the right to eat any entries he thinks look tasty.”

• An early design for the Ice Warriors was for it to look like a crocodile on two legs wearing a Viking helmet.
• The ending for Doomsday drew inspiration from Phillip Pullman’s trilogy in which the hero and the heroine end up in separate worlds.
• Four wind suffers accidentally wandered into shot when filming the closing scenes of Doomsday.

Additional details

• Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £1.99 (UK) and is cover marked 100% Official!
• The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £6 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
• The comic strip part two has a title tdifferent from part one: Gangster's Paradise.
• This issue's free gift was selotaped to the cover.
• Next issue's free gift is named as Doctor Who 2007 calendar.

External links

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