DWA 146

DWA 146
Cover date:	17 December- 29 December 2009
Format:	40 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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The 146th issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.

Contents

Free gift

• Monster Christmas pack with 8 free gifts (including 2010 Calendar, Master mask, 2 bookmarks, 3 postcards and sticker sheet).

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• PREVIEW: The End of Time Part One (4 pages)
• TOP TEN: Christmas Moments

Comic strip

• A Merry Little Christmas (4 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

• From: DW: The End of Time Part One
  

Featuring the Doctor rejoining the Ood and sharing in their bad dreams

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

• Davros

Posters

• A3 DW: The End of Time Part One
  montage featuring a hooded Master, the Tenth Doctor , a Christmas tree and TARDIS
• A4 “I hate funny ROBOTS!” The Tenth Doctor from DW: The Waters of Mars
  featuring the Doctor and Gadget back on Earth outside the TARDIS
• A4 “We have been UPGRADED!” Cyberman from DW: Rise of the Cybermen
  featuring party guests the Doctor and Rose Tyler with a Cyberman
• A4 “You will be CATALOGUED” Judoon from DW: Smith and Jones
  featuring the Judoon, Martha Jones and the Doctor on the moon
• A4 “Every song must END” Ood Sigma from DW: Planet of the Ood
  featuring Ood Sigma, Donna Noble and the Tenth Doctor

Behind the scenes

• Summer snowflakes (Winter specials filmed in summer)

Interview

• None

Additional features

• Welcome and news

Find in this issue hidden somewhere Adipose to win a Sarah jane Adventures The Thirteenth Stone Audio CD adventure.

• Activity / Make-it

Who’s Where? Search and Find: Santa’s grotto scene (2 pages illustrated by Christopher Cooper)

• Puzzles and Big Christmas Quiz
• Readers contributions: Time Agent Upload / Doctor You

featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.

• Competition Goodies (Merlin Books, Puzzle Cubes and Battle Deck sets)
• BIG WIN: Worth over £530 (UK) and including Doctor Who DVD’s LCD TV and DVD Player, and Bedroom set featuring curtains, rug, fleece blanket, duvet set and bean bag.
• EXCLUSIVE Readers offer: Set of 5 free magazine files for postage cost of £2.99 (UK) per set.

Credits

Also listing: Their present Christmas choice for the Doctor
Editor: Moray Laing, A box set of the adventures on DVD
Deputy Editor: Paul Lang A subscription to DWA, to keep track of his adventures
Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies A soft, cuddly toy to keep him company
Production Editor: Liza Millett, A new companion – me!
Designer: Melanie Caine, The future sonic screwdriver that River Song used
Personal Shopper: Donna Noble, Nothing – I don’t know any Doctor

Hidden Away / Facts

This magazine can be recycled: Or use it to wrap up your Christmas presents.
Carmen: “A Christmas Special at Christmas? Even I could have predicted that.”

• This weeks Tales from the TARDIS scene is from the preview of The End of Time Part One as premiered on this Novembers Children in Need night.
• Davros is a Kaled from the planet Skaro, a scientist and creator of the Daleks.
• In an early version of The Waters of Mars, Yuri Kerenski said the ‘snow’ was really a carbon wash, cleaning Earth’s polluted atmosphere.

Additional details

• A clause in the ‘Big Win’ competition states that the “bedroom set includes only those items labelled in the picture.” So those hoping to win a new bed, alarm clock, shelf, chair and ornaments – will be disappointed!
• The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 30% (UK) – and a free gift of two Christmas Special DVD’s (The Runaway Bride and Voyage of the Damned) is offered to subscribers.
• This double-issue for Christmas had an increased page count and cover price of £2.99 (UK) and its free gifts were bagged.
• Next issues free gift is promoted as a Doctor Who dress-up set and more than 70 stickers and on sale in two weeks time on Wednesday 30th December!

External links

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