DWA 45

DWA 45
Cover date:	13 December - 3 January 2008
Format:	48 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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Contents

Free Gift

• This bumper 48 page issue’s free gifts included; 2 monster face marks (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 Strips

• A Klytode Christmas (Part Two) (6 pages)

Tales From the TARDIS (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

• From: (DW): Last of the Time Lords
  

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

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

• Empress of the Racnoss (Number 37 is not given):

Interview

• David Tennant

Behind the Scenes (Confidential Extra)

• CGI and aging the Doctor

New Who Preview

• (DW): Voyage of the Damned)

Posters

• A4 Unnamed publicity shot from (DW): Voyage of the Damned)

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

• A4 Unnamed publicity shot from (DW): Voyage of the Damned)

featuring a dinner suited Doctor.

• A3 EXTERMINATE!”
  montage featuring Cult of Skaro.
• A4 “I’m taking CONTRO:!“
  The Master in (DW): The Sound of Drums
  featuring The Master.

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

Also Featuring

• 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

Tochlafane 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!!

Main Team 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.

Further Information

• 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 2 covers featuring the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant or the featured companion Astrid (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, priced at £2.99 (UK) and had a slightly longer publication break The next issue being available for sale on 9th 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 issues free gifts are given as a Dalek yo-yo and holographic stickers.

External inks

• [1] the official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue.