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'''''Doctor Who: Battles in Time''''' was a fortnightly children's magazine that accompanied the [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (trading cards)|trading card game]] of the same name, both of which were published by [[GE Fabbri Ltd]].


==Overview==
The magazine had had a seven issue trial run in certain regions of the [[United Kingdom]] in spring 2006 before launching nationwide, with some modifications, on [[20 September (releases)|20 September]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]]. It was initially set to run for 52 issues but was extended twice, first to 60, then finally to 70 issues.
'''Doctor Who: Battles in Time (The ultimate card and magazine collection)''' was launched nationally in September 2006 following a number of successful regional tests (of a trimmed down version) this was initially a 70 issue partwork published by GE Fabbri Ltd, (under licence from the BBC) released fortnightly.<br>
Each issue came with (at least one pack), of collectable trading cards, which were available to buy separately at the cost of £2.50 (UK).<br>


Each issue included the following regular features;<br>
The final issue was published on [[13 May (releases)|13 May]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]], and therefore the magazine was entirely a phenomenon of the [[David Tennant]] era on television.
* '''Gameplay''' - How to use the cards to play with your friends!
* '''Card Clash''' - Two cards selected and matched to battle it out!
* '''Monster Foldout''' - Fold out guide to tie-in with the cover image.
* '''Episode Guide''' - FAQ summary from [[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' onwards.
* '''Comic Strip''' - all new Tenth Doctor Comic Strip.
* '''Behind the Scenes''' - alternating feature looking at the making of the TV series.
* '''Dalek Wars''' - alternating feature, a CGI depiction of great Dalek battles with a search and find activity.
* '''Brain Busters''' - puzzles


==Special Issues==
The first seven issues and 85 cards made for the trial run were designed by [[James King]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226211134/https://werangutan.photoshelter.com/gallery/DW-BATTLES-IN-TIME/G0000M5dxJ0Qcoto/C0000xndsJtkTbYA|title=DW - BATTLES IN TIME|publisher=Werangutan Ltd. Graphic Design & Photography|accessdate=26 February 2021}}</ref>
In addition to the regular issues there were a further four special issues.<br>
The first [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Daleks vs Cyberman)|Daleks vs Cybermen]], was a self contained special issues whereas the other three [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time  (Invader)|Invader]] and [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Ultimate Monsters)|Ultimate Monsters]] and [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Devastator)|Devastator]] were launched at the same time as expansion sets to the collectable trading card releases.
<br>
Follow the links below for coverage of each issue with contents and further information.


==Special Issues Cover Gallery==
== Overview ==
<gallery>
Each £2.50 issue came with at least one pack of collectable trading cards, which were available to buy separately at the cost of £1.50.
Image:BITS.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 1|Cardmounted First Issue]]
 
Image:BIT01.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 1| First Issue]]
Each issue included the following regular features:
* Gameplay
::''Take your card battles to the next level with cool new games. Plus learn tactics for building killer decks and find out all about the rares, super-rares, and ultra-rares in the collection!''
* Card Clash
::''Get up close to the Doctor’s friends and enemies, and watch them battle. Compare their stats, find out more about the characters, and keep an eye out for links with other cards.''
* Monster Foldout
::''Come face to face with the Doctor's greatest enemies and learn how to fight them. Get the low-down on their origins and discover some little known facts about the strangest alien creatures.''
* FAQ
::''Relive the Doctor’s adventures with an episode guide in every issue. All your questions about each story are answered. Plus use your cards to go on your own Doctor Who adventure!''
* [[DWBIT comic stories|Comic Strip]]
::''Join the Doctor for all-new adventures in the incredible comic strip. Exclusive stories take you into parts of the universe never seen before and put the Doctor into more dangerous situations than you could ever imagine.''
* Behind the Scenes
::''Go behind the scenes and meet the monster makers and special effects wizards. Find out how all the amazing effects are created and exactly how it feels to dress up as an alien creature.''
* [[DWBIT Dalek Wars|Dalek Wars]] (Search & Find)
::''Follow the Daleks as they battle their way across the Universe, exterminating everyone and everything they meet, from dinosaurs to spacemen and mechanoids.''
* The Cyber Controller's Brain Busters
* Personality Test
::''Test your wits with fantastic games and puzzles. Plus there's quizzes and fun flowcharts which reveal the Doctor Who characters you are most like!''
 
== Regular issue covers ==
<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" widths="120">
DWBIT 1.jpg|Card-mounted<br/>DWBIT 1
BIT01.jpg|[[DWBIT 1]]<br/>Daleks - Dealers of Death!
BIT02.jpg|[[DWBIT 2]]<br/>Cybermen - Steely Killers!
BIT03.jpg|[[DWBIT 3]]<br/>Krillitanes - Bat Creatures!
BIT04.jpg|[[DWBIT 4]]<br/>Slitheen - Mean and Green!
BIT05.jpg|[[DWBIT 5]]<br/>K9 - Heroic Hound!
BIT06.jpg|[[DWBIT 6]]<br/>Alien Guests - At the End of the World!
BIT07.jpg|[[DWBIT 7]]<br/>Sycorax - Scavenging Slave Masters!
BIT08.jpg|[[DWBIT 8]]<br/>The Ood - Slaves on the Beast!
BIT09.jpg|[[DWBIT 9]]<br/>The Cult of Skaro!
BIT10.jpg|[[DWBIT 10]]<br/>Cat Nurses - Medical Menaces!
BIT11.jpg|[[DWBIT 11]]<br/>Clockwork Robots - Automatic Assassins!
BIT12.jpg|[[DWBIT 12]]<br/>Cyber Leader - Ghostly Invader!
BIT13.jpg|[[DWBIT 13]]<br/>The Beast - Pure Burning Evil!
BIT14.jpg|[[DWBIT 14]]<br/>Werewolf - Howling Horror!
BIT15.jpg|[[DWBIT 15]]<br/>Autons - Plastic Power!
BIT16.jpg|[[DWBIT 16]]<br/>Racnoss Empress - Sinister Spider!
BIT17.jpg|[[DWBIT 17]]<br/>Cassandra - The Many Faces of Evil!
BIT18.jpg|[[DWBIT 18]]<br/>Empty Child - Are You My Mummy?
BIT19.jpg|[[DWBIT 19]]<br/>Judoon - Rampaging Rhinos!
BIT20.jpg|[[DWBIT 20]]<br/>Game Station - Killer Television Shows!
BIT21.jpg|[[DWBIT 21]]<br/>Carrionites - Evil Enchantments!
BIT22.jpg|[[DWBIT 22]]<br/>Abzorbaloff - Grotesque Green Giant!
BIT23.jpg|[[DWBIT 23]]<br/>Dalek Sec - Human Monster!
BIT24.jpg|[[DWBIT 24]]<br/>Macra - Car-Crushing Crabs!
BIT25.jpg|[[DWBIT 25]]<br/>Jagrafess - Deep-Freeze Demon!
BIT26.jpg|[[DWBIT 26]]<br/>Sun-Possessed - Burn with Them!
BIT27.jpg|[[DWBIT 27]]<br/>Lazarus - Genetic Mutation!
BIT28.jpg|[[DWBIT 28]]<br/>The Wire - Television Terror!
BIT29.jpg|[[DWBIT 29]]<br/>The Master - Rogue Time Lord
BIT30.jpg|[[DWBIT 30]]<br/>Family of Blood!
BIT31.jpg|[[DWBIT 31]]<br/>Weeping Angels!
BIT32.jpg|[[DWBIT 32]]<br/>Reapers - Vortex Vultures!
BIT33.jpg|[[DWBIT 33]]<br/>The Face of Boe!
BIT34.jpg|[[DWBIT 34]]<br/>Toclafane - Slicing Spheres!
BIT35.jpg|[[DWBIT 35]]<br/>The Final Experiment!
BIT36.jpg|[[DWBIT 36]]<br/>Scarecrows - Straw Soldiers!
BIT37.jpg|[[DWBIT 37]]<br/>Dalek Emperor - The God of all Daleks!
BIT38.jpg|[[DWBIT 38]]<br/>The Graske - Body Snatchers!
BIT39.jpg|[[DWBIT 39]]<br/>Time Lords - Gallifreyian Gods
BIT40.jpg|[[DWBIT 40]]<br/>Max Capricorn - And the Heavenly Hosts
BIT41.jpg|[[DWBIT 41]]<br/>The Gelth - Gaslight Ghosts!
BIT42.jpg|[[DWBIT 42]]<br/>The Zygons - Shape-Shifters!
BIT43.jpg|[[DWBIT 43]]<br/>Dalek Mutations!
BIT44.jpg|[[DWBIT 44]]<br/>Planet of the Ood!
BIT45.jpg|[[DWBIT 45]]<br/>Sontarans - Clone Warriors
BIT46.jpg|[[DWBIT 46]]<br/>Vervoids - Killer Plants!
BIT47.jpg|[[DWBIT 47]]<br/>The Hath - Bubble Rage!
BIT48.jpg|[[DWBIT 48]]<br/>Adipose - Blubber Babies
BIT49.jpg|[[DWBIT 49]]<br/>Pyroviles - Magma Monsters
BIT50.jpg|[[DWBIT 50]]<br/>The Axons - Family of Terror
BIT51.jpg|[[DWBIT 51]]<br/>Vespiform - Giant Killer Wasp
BIT52.jpg|[[DWBIT 52]]<br/>Davros - Dalek Creator
BIT53.jpg|[[DWBIT 53]]<br/>The Shadow Proclamation
BIT54.jpg|[[DWBIT 54]]<br/>Supreme Dalek and Dalek Caan
BIT55.jpg|[[DWBIT 55]]<br/>Vashta Nerada - Killer Shadows
BIT56.jpg|[[DWBIT 56]]<br/>Sybilline Sisterhood
BIT57.jpg|[[DWBIT 57]]<br/>Trickster's Brigade
BIT58.jpg|[[DWBIT 58]]<br/>CAL - Virtual Terror
BIT59.jpg|[[DWBIT 59]]<br/>Titanic - Fight for Survival!
BIT60.jpg|[[DWBIT 60]]<br/>Companions - Children of Time
BIT61.jpg|[[DWBIT 61]]<br/>Cybershades - Servants of Steel
BIT62.jpg|[[DWBIT 62]]<br/>The Gorgon - Ancient Terror!
BIT63.jpg|[[DWBIT 63]]<br/>Odd Bob - Child Stealer
BIT64.jpg|[[DWBIT 64]]<br/>Slitheen - Revenge is Green!
BIT65.jpg|[[DWBIT 65]]<br/>Kudlak - War Criminal!
DWBIT66.jpg|[[DWBIT 66]]<br/>Ancient Haemovore
DWBIT67.jpg|[[DWBIT 67]]<br/>The Trickster - Time-Twisting Terror!
BIT68.jpg|[[DWBIT 68]]<br/>CyberKing - Majestic Might!
BIT69.jpg|[[DWBIT 69]]<br/>Sontaran - Thirst for Revenge
BIT70.jpg|[[DWBIT 70]]<br/>Monsters - Feel the Fear!
</gallery>
</gallery>
<gallery>
 
Image:BITS1DaleksvsCybermen.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Dalek vs Cybermen Special|Cardmounted Daleks vs Cyberman Special]]
== Special issue covers ==
Image:BITDVC.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Dalek vs Cybermen Special| Daleks vs Cyberman Special (Dalek Cover)]]
In addition to the regular issues there were a further four special issues. The first special, ''[[DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special|Daleks vs Cybermen]]'', was a self contained special issue, whereas its three successors were launched at the same time as expansion sets to the collectable trading card releases.
Image:BITCVD.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Dalek vs Cybermen Special| Daleks vs Cyberman Special (Cyberman Cover)]]<br>
 
</gallery>
<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" widths="120">
<gallery>
BITS1DaleksvsCybermen.jpg|Card-mounted DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special
Image:BITS2Invader.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Invader Special|Cardmounted Invaders Special]]
BITDVC.jpg|[[DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special]] (Dalek Cover)
Image:BITIS.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Invader Special| Invaders Special]]<br>
BITCVD.jpg|[[DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special]] (Cyberman Cover)
</gallery>
BITS2Invader.jpg|Card-mounted DWBIT Invader Special
<gallery>
BITIS.jpg|[[DWBIT Invader Special]]
Image:BITS3Ultimate-Monsters.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Ultimate Monsters Special|Cardmounted Ultimate Monsters Special]]
BITS3Ultimate-Monsters.jpg|Card-mounted DWBIT Ultimate Monsters Special
Image:BITUMS.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Ultimate Monsters Special|Ultimate Monsters Special]]<br>
BITUMS.jpg|[[DWBIT Ultimate Monsters Special]]
</gallery>
BITS4Devastator.jpg|Card-mounted DWBIT Devastator Special
<gallery>
DWBITDEVASTATOR.jpg|[[DWBIT Devastator Special]]
Image:BITS4Devastator.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Devastator Special|Cardmounted Devastator Special]]
Image:DWBITDEVASTATOR.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Devastator Special|Devastator Special]]<br>
</gallery>
</gallery>


==Regular Issue Covers==
== Subscription offer ==
<gallery>
[[File:DWBITsub.jpg|right|thumb|The offer in the subscription form included with [[DWBIT 1|issue 1]].]]
Image:BIT01.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 1|Issue 1]] <br>Daleks - Dealers of Death!
Early subscribers to this title received 9 bonus free gifts that included:
Image:BIT02.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 2|Issue 2]]<br>  Cybermen - Steely Killers!
* An A5 size card album with space for 80 cards
Image:BIT03.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 3|Issue 3]]<br>  Krillitanes - Bat Creatures!
* A Magazine Holder
Image:BIT04.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 4|Issue 4]]<br>  Slitheen - Mean and Green!
* A SFX TARDIS Lid with flashing light for TARDIS card case
Image:BIT05.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 5|Issue 5]]<br>  K-9 - Heroic Hound!
* An Electronic L.E.D. Dice (aka Game Randomiser)
Image:BIT06.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 6|Issue 6]]<br>  Alien Guests - At the End of the World!
* A Combination Lock for TARDIS card case
Image:BIT07.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 7|Issue 7]]<br>  Sycorax - Scavenging Slave Masters!
* 4 free packs of "[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Exterminator)|Exterminator]]" trading cards
Image:BIT08.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 8|Issue 8]]<br>  The Ood - Slaves on the Beast!
 
Image:BIT09.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 9|Issue 9]]<br>  The Cult of Skaro!
The free gifts were spaced out across five deliveries: the first came with the card album & a pack of cards; the second with the TARDIS lid & a pack of cards; the third with the padlock & a pack of cards; the fourth with the magazine file & a pack of cards; and finally the fifth came with the L.E.D. dice.
Image:BIT10.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 10|Issue 10]]<br>  Cat Nurses - Medical Menaces!
 
Image:BIT11.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 11|Issue 11]]<br>  Clockwork Robots - Automatic Assassins!
This offer for the free gifts ended somewhere between [[19 April (releases)|19]]-[[27 April (releases)|27 April]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070419154706/http://www.battlesintime.com:80/subscribe.php|title=Subscribe|date of source=19 April 2007|publisher=Battles in Time|accessdate=26 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427010024/http://www.battlesintime.com:80/subscribe.php|title=Subscribe|date of source=27 April 2007|publisher=Battles in Time|accessdate=26 February 2021}}</ref>
Image:BIT12.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 12|Issue 12]]<br>  Cyber Leader - Ghostly Invader!
Image:BIT13.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 13|Issue 13]]<br> The Beast - Pure Burning Evil!
Image:BIT14.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 14|Issue 14]]<br> Werewolf - Howling Horror!
Image:BIT15.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 15|Issue 15]]<br> Autons - Plastic Power!
Image:BIT16.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 16|Issue 16]]<br> Racnoss Empress - Sinister Spider!
Image:BIT17.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 17|Issue 17]]<br> Cassandra - The Many Faces of Evil!
Image:BIT18.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 18|Issue 18]]<br> Empty Child - Are You My Mummy?
Image:BIT19.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 19|Issue 19]] <br> Judoon - Rampaging Rhinos!
Image:BIT20.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 20|Issue 20]] <br> Game Station - Killer Television Shows!
Image:BIT21.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 21|Issue 21]]<br> Carrionites - Evil Enchantments!
Image:BIT22.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 22|Issue 22]]<br> Abzorbaloff - Grotesque Green Giant!
Image:BIT23.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 23|Issue 23]]<br> Dalek Sec - Human Monster!
Image:BIT24.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 24|Issue 24]]<br> Macra - Car-Crushing Crabs!
Image:BIT25.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 25|Issue 25]]<br> Jagrafess - Deep-Freeze Demon!
Image:BIT26.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 26|Issue 26]]<br> Sun-Possessed - Burn with Them!
Image:BIT27.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 27|Issue 27]]<br> Lazarus - Genetic Mutation!
Image:BIT28.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 28|Issue 28]]<br> The Wire - Television Terror!
Image:BIT29.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 29|Issue 29]]<br> The Master - Rogue Time Lord
Image:BIT30.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 30|Issue 30]]<br> The Family of Blood!
Image:BIT31.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 31|Issue 31]]<br> Weeping Angels!
Image:BIT32.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 32|Issue 32]]<br> Reapers - Vortex Vultures!
Image:BIT33.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 33|Issue 33]]<br> The Face of Boe!
Image:BIT34.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 34|Issue 34]]<br> Toclafane - Slicing Spheres!
Image:BIT35.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 35|Issue 35]]<br> The Final Experiment!
Image:BIT36.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 36|Issue 36]]<br> Scarecrows - Straw Soldiers!
Image:BIT37.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 37|Issue 37]]<br> Dalek Emperor - The God of all Daleks!
Image:BIT38.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 38|Issue 38]]<br> The Graske - Body Snatchers!
Image:BIT39.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 39|Issue 39]]<br> Time Lords - Gallifreyian Gods
Image:BIT40.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 40|Issue 40]]<br> Max Capricorn - And the Heavenly Hosts
Image:BIT41.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 41|Issue 41]]<br> The Gelth - Gaslight Ghosts!
Image:BIT42.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 42|Issue 42]] The Zygons - Shape-Shifters!
Image:BIT43.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 43|Issue 43]]<br> Dalek Mutations!
Image:BIT44.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 44|Issue 44]]<br> Planet of the Ood!
Image:BIT45.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 45|Issue 45]]<br> Sontarans - Clone Warriors
Image:BIT46.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 46|Issue 46]]<br> Vervoids - Killer Plants!
Image:BIT47.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 47|Issue 47]]<br> The Hath - Bubble Rage!
Image:BIT48.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 48|Issue 48]]<br> Adipose - Blubber Babies
Image:BIT49.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 49|Issue 49]]<br> Pyroviles - Magma Monsters
Image:BIT50.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 50|Issue 50]]<br> The Axons - Family of Terror
Image:BIT51.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 51|Issue 51]]<br> Vespiform - Giant Killer Wasp
Image:BIT52.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 52|Issue 52]]<br> Davros - Dalek Creator
Image:BIT53.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 53|Issue 53]]<br> The Shadow Proclamation
Image:BIT54.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 54|Issue 54]]<br> Supreme Dalek and Dalek Caan
Image:BIT55.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 55|Issue 55]]<br> Vashta Nerada - Killer Shadows
Image:BIT56.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 56|Issue 56]]<br>
Image:BIT57.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 57|Issue 57]]<br>
Image:BIT58.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 58|Issue 58]]<br>
Image:BIT59.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 59|Issue 59]]<br>
Image:BIT60.jpg|[[ Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 60|Issue 60]]<br>
</gallery>


==Subscription Offer==
== International distribution ==
[[Image:DWBITsub.jpg|left|350px]]
The magazine was available in [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and [[South Africa]].


Early subscribers to this title received 9 bonus free gifts that included;
== Footnotes ==
* A5 size card album with space for 80 cards
{{Reflist}}
* Magazine Holder
* SFX TARDIS roof unit with flashing light and sound effect
* Electronic LED Dice
* Combination lock for TARDIS case
* 4 extra free packs of ‘EXTERMINATOR’ trading cards
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
==Related Articles==
[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time]]<br>
For trading card details;
: [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Trading Cards)]] <br>
: [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Exterminator)]]  <br>
: [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Annihilator)]] <br>
: [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Invader)]]  <br>
: [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Ultimate Monsters)]] <br>
: [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Devastator)]] <br>
[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Comic Strip)]]<br>


==External Links==
== External links ==
* [http://www.battlesintime.com '''Doctor Who: Battles in Time''' official website, with magazine and trading card details]
* [http://www.battlesintime.com '''Doctor Who: Battles in Time''' official website, with magazine and trading card details] (Now defunct)
* [http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/galleries/comics/drwhobattlesintime.htm Battles in Time Comic Gallery]
* [https://millenniumeffect.co.uk/index.php/battles-in-time/ Battles in Time @ Millennium Effect]


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Doctor Who: Battles in Time was a fortnightly children's magazine that accompanied the trading card game of the same name, both of which were published by GE Fabbri Ltd.

The magazine had had a seven issue trial run in certain regions of the United Kingdom in spring 2006 before launching nationwide, with some modifications, on 20 September 2006. It was initially set to run for 52 issues but was extended twice, first to 60, then finally to 70 issues.

The final issue was published on 13 May 2009, and therefore the magazine was entirely a phenomenon of the David Tennant era on television.

The first seven issues and 85 cards made for the trial run were designed by James King.[1]

Overview[[edit] | [edit source]]

Each £2.50 issue came with at least one pack of collectable trading cards, which were available to buy separately at the cost of £1.50.

Each issue included the following regular features:

  • Gameplay
Take your card battles to the next level with cool new games. Plus learn tactics for building killer decks and find out all about the rares, super-rares, and ultra-rares in the collection!
  • Card Clash
Get up close to the Doctor’s friends and enemies, and watch them battle. Compare their stats, find out more about the characters, and keep an eye out for links with other cards.
  • Monster Foldout
Come face to face with the Doctor's greatest enemies and learn how to fight them. Get the low-down on their origins and discover some little known facts about the strangest alien creatures.
  • FAQ
Relive the Doctor’s adventures with an episode guide in every issue. All your questions about each story are answered. Plus use your cards to go on your own Doctor Who adventure!
Join the Doctor for all-new adventures in the incredible comic strip. Exclusive stories take you into parts of the universe never seen before and put the Doctor into more dangerous situations than you could ever imagine.
  • Behind the Scenes
Go behind the scenes and meet the monster makers and special effects wizards. Find out how all the amazing effects are created and exactly how it feels to dress up as an alien creature.
Follow the Daleks as they battle their way across the Universe, exterminating everyone and everything they meet, from dinosaurs to spacemen and mechanoids.
  • The Cyber Controller's Brain Busters
  • Personality Test
Test your wits with fantastic games and puzzles. Plus there's quizzes and fun flowcharts which reveal the Doctor Who characters you are most like!

Regular issue covers[[edit] | [edit source]]

Special issue covers[[edit] | [edit source]]

In addition to the regular issues there were a further four special issues. The first special, Daleks vs Cybermen, was a self contained special issue, whereas its three successors were launched at the same time as expansion sets to the collectable trading card releases.

Subscription offer[[edit] | [edit source]]

The offer in the subscription form included with issue 1.

Early subscribers to this title received 9 bonus free gifts that included:

  • An A5 size card album with space for 80 cards
  • A Magazine Holder
  • A SFX TARDIS Lid with flashing light for TARDIS card case
  • An Electronic L.E.D. Dice (aka Game Randomiser)
  • A Combination Lock for TARDIS card case
  • 4 free packs of "Exterminator" trading cards

The free gifts were spaced out across five deliveries: the first came with the card album & a pack of cards; the second with the TARDIS lid & a pack of cards; the third with the padlock & a pack of cards; the fourth with the magazine file & a pack of cards; and finally the fifth came with the L.E.D. dice.

This offer for the free gifts ended somewhere between 19-27 April 2007.[2][3]

International distribution[[edit] | [edit source]]

The magazine was available in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ DW - BATTLES IN TIME. Werangutan Ltd. Graphic Design & Photography. Retrieved on 26 February 2021.
  2. ↑ Subscribe. Battles in Time (19 April 2007). Retrieved on 26 February 2021.
  3. ↑ Subscribe. Battles in Time (27 April 2007). Retrieved on 26 February 2021.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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