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==Magazine Content== | ==Magazine Content== | ||
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into | Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly. | ||
* [[Doctor Who DVD Files: The Doctor|The Doctor]] | * [[Doctor Who DVD Files: The Doctor|The Doctor]] | ||
: Part 52 Noble Sacrifices Find out how Jenny and River Song gave their lives for the Doctor … | : Part 52 Noble Sacrifices Find out how Jenny and River Song gave their lives for the Doctor … | ||
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*[[Doctor Who DVD Files: Technology|Technology]] | *[[Doctor Who DVD Files: Technology|Technology]] | ||
: [[Cybermat]]s Look beneath the metal skin of these Cyber-bugs! | : [[Cybermat]]s Look beneath the metal skin of these Cyber-bugs! | ||
* [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Episode Guide|DVD Episode Guide]] | * [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Episode Guide|DVD Episode Guide]] | ||
: [[The Deadly Assassin]] The Doctor is accused of murder on his home planet! | : [[The Deadly Assassin]] The Doctor is accused of murder on his home planet! | ||
* [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Alien Worlds|Alien Worlds]] | * [[Doctor Who DVD Files: Alien Worlds|Alien Worlds]] | ||
: [[Gallifrey]] Visit the planet that the Time Lords called home … | : [[Gallifrey]] Visit the planet that the Time Lords called home … | ||
Revision as of 03:06, 20 October 2011
The Doctor Who DVD Files –“The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia” in fortnightly issues.
Magazine Content
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
- Part 52 Noble Sacrifices Find out how Jenny and River Song gave their lives for the Doctor …
- Gwen Cooper Meet one of Captain Jack’s colleagues at Torchwood.
- Luke Rattigan Find out about the boy genius who wasn’t really that smart.
- Autons Read all about the Nestene Consciousness’ plastic minions
- Challenge Anneke!. We talk to Anneke Wills, who played Swinging Sixties companion Polly
- Cybermats Look beneath the metal skin of these Cyber-bugs!
- The Deadly Assassin The Doctor is accused of murder on his home planet!
- Gallifrey Visit the planet that the Time Lords called home …
- Part 2 Alien Gods: Discover how creatures from other worlds influenced early Earth.
DVD Release (with cover blurb)
- Each issue came with a DVD release.
- Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
- "Only hate keeps me alive! Why else should I endure this pain? "
- The Doctor returns to Gallifrey for the first time in centuries and finds the planet in the grips of dark conspiracies. The President of the High Council of the Time Lords is about to name his successor when he is assassinated by a shadowy figure. All evidence points to the Doctor, who is arrested and sentenced to death. But the Doctor knows who is really behind the murder and sets out to prove his innocence by running for President! Can the skeleton creature lurking in the catacombs really be the Master? What is the Matrix? Is the Doctor’s TARDIS really an antique? And is the end of Gallifrey and the Time Lords?
Notable Information
- The character Luke Rattigan was originally called Luke Marlow – after a young fan known to writer Helen Raynor.
- At the time of playing Polly, Anneke Wills was married to Michael Gough who had played the Celestial Toymaker
- The Doctor grew up in a house “halfway up a mountain” somewhere in South Gallifrey.
- Yellow Fever and How to Cure It” would have been an Auton story by creator/writer Robert Holmes, had the 1986 series not been reduced in length and budget.
- The Autons also appeared in an early draft script of The Five Doctors where it would have battled Sarah Jane Smith and the Third Doctor.
- Cybermats were used to infect humans at an Arctic research base in 2010.Those bitten were turned into Cyberslaves, whose job was to revive af Cybermen lying dormant in a crashed ship.
- (The above is a reference to the recent 2010 Doctor Who Adventure Game)
- Subscribers received 2 additional file dividers with this issue namely “Who on Earth” and “Alien Worlds” to help organise the new sections added to the magazine collection.
Credits
- Project Manager: Ben Robinson
- Group Editor: Claire Lister
- Art Editor: James King
- Designer: Terry Sambridge, John Singh
- Writer/Sub-Editor: Neil Corry, Kieran Grant
- Junior Sub-editor: Poppy Kemp
- Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths, Jason Loborik, Jacqueline Rayner and Oli Smith.
- Illustrators: Peter McKinstry
