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The 45th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Contents

Free gift

  • This bumper 48 page issue’s free gifts included; 2 monster face masks (Weeping Angel and Judoon),a TARDIS key ring, a pencil and pencil topper, holographic stickers and a cool 2008 calendar.(although the cool 2008 calendar was only a double sided six-months to view, centre page pull out poster!).

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

  • Earth Attacks

Comic story

Tales from the TARDIS

Featuring Martha Jones leaving the Doctor and the arrival of the Titanic!

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

Interview

Behind the Scenes (Confidential Extra)

  • CGI and ageing the Doctor

New Who Preview

Posters

featuring the Heavenly Host Angels, Astrid Peth and the Doctor.

featuring a dinner suited Doctor.

Also: Pull-out centre-page, six-month view, double-sided 2008 calendar.

Additional features

  • Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
Find in this issue hidden somewhere a Sycorax spaceship to win a Doctor Who Go Glow night light torch!
  • Time Agent Tracker (Scoreboard) Sheet to record your report on the Christmas Special, (DW): Voyage of the Damned).
  • Top five reasons for loving Doctor Who at Christmas.
  • Top ten scares from Seies 3 as choosen by readers Number 1: Weeping Angels)
  • Make-it
Toclafane baubles for the tree.
Weeping Angel Christmas tree decoration.
  • Quiz: Jackie Tyler’s Christmas Quiz
  • Puzzle Pages
Including 2 page illustrated spread of a shopping mall (by Christopher Cooper) featuring, find the crackers.
  • Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
  • Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload
featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
  • Competition Goodies: Alvin and the Chipmunks goodie bag, Mario and Sonic Olympic game and Hot Wheels: Spin City set.
  • Bumper competition (answer the question “Who says “Exterminate””?) to win one of three bundles of Doctor Who goodies with a value over £350 (UK) including: a radio controlled Dalek, Ready Bed, Uno card game, Shaker Maker, Go Glow, sonic screwdriver, the Master’s Laser screwdriver, a Judoon keyring, , 6” figures of the Judoon Captain, Scarecrow, Martha Jones, and the Doctor, the Face of Boe, Satan Pit and Daleks in Manhattan Set, electronic flight-control TARDIS, TARDIS model-making kit, Cyberman shower radio, Dalek Sec voice changer mask, Cyberman voice changer mask, Doctor Who Time Travel Book and finally Series 3 DVD box set!!

Credits

Also listing: what they would buy the Doctor for Christmas?
Editor: Moray Laing, A subscription to DWA!
Art Editor: Paul Lang, A Mars selection box
Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, laser screwdriver
Picture Editor: Shaila Bux , New socks for his trainers
Production Editor: Ed Lomas, A satsuma
Sub-Editor: Mel Bezalel, Knitted jumper of a snowy TARDIS!
Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, A journal
Christmas Helper: Donna Noble, Me as his companion!

Hidden Away / Facts

This magazine can be recycled: “And a Merry Christmas to all of you at home!”
Jackie Tyler: “Oh, don’t mind me love, I’m just filling in for Frau Clovis while she waits in for the gas man. I’ll take your entries.”

  • RMS Titanic was an ocean liner that hit an iceberg in 1912 and sank.
  • The Doctor said “Merry Christmas” to us all in an episode on Christmas Day, 1965.
  • All the scenes in the TARDIS have the sounds added after filming.
  • The Sycorax word “Gatzaa” translate as both “human” and “cattle”.
  • The Weeping Angels aren’t actually crying they are hiding their eyes from each other.
  • The Graske were first spotted at Christmas in 2005 while on a kidnapping spree.
  • The Doctor lost his right hand fighting the Sycorax before growing another.
  • The Judoon use plasma-coil technology to move the Royal Hope Hospital to the Moon.
  • Dalek ear-lights were originally blue, but they looked like police car lights so were changed to white.

Additional details

  • This issue was dedicated to the memory of Verity Lambert.
  • To help promote the Christmas special and announce the return of the Doctor to the screen, this issue featured two covers; one with the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and the other with his companion Astrid Peth (Kylie Minogue).
  • Usually published every two weeks on a Thursday, this bumper 48 page issue had a cover price of £2.99 (UK), was available in two covers, and had a slightly longer publication break. The next issue will be available for sale on 3rd January 2008 (three weeks).
  • A full page is given over to the news that Doctor Who Adventures magazine is going WEEKLY! More details next issue!
  • The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £9 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
  • This issue and its free gifts were bagged.
  • Next issue's free gifts are listed as a Dalek yo-yo and holographic stickers.

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