DWDVDF 2
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The second issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files - "The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia" had a cover date of 28 January 2009.
Contents
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
- The Early Years
- Model Behaviour: Interview with Mike Tucker Model Maker
DVD release (with cover blurb)
- Each issue came with a DVD release covering two episodes.
- Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
- "Pity the Gelth! There is so little time — help us!"
- The Doctor and Rose step back into the 19th century and meet Charles Dickens, who has just been visited by a mysterious gaseous creature that terrorised the theatre he was performing in! What is the connection between the phantasm and a serving girl with an uncanny ability to read people's minds? The Doctor discovers a race of aliens on the verge of extinction — but can the Gelth be trusted?
- "It's not an invasion! That was a genuine crash-landing!"
- Rose thinks she's the only person in the world who knows about spaceships until one roars overhead. With central London gridlocked, the Doctor and Rose can't investigate after the ship crashes through Big Ben and into the Thames. Is this a new age for mankind? And just what has happened to the Prime Minister?
Notable information
- The Face of Boe had six children who only lived for about 40 years.
- In Time Lord society the Academician oversaw the initiation of novice Time Lords.
- Actress Georgia Moffett (who played the Doctor's daughter Jenny) auditioned for the role of Rose.
- AMNN is an American News Network channel on television that reported the Big Ben crash (at 09:58)
- A Zygon's main food supply is Skarasen milk.
- The Dalek Emperor model was only 1.5 metres tall.
- Steven Moffat also wrote the 1999 Comic Relief skit The Curse of Fatal Death.
Credits
- Project Manager: Ben Robinson
- Group Editor: Claire Lister
- Art Editor: James King
- Designer: Carly Giles
- Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
- Contributing Writers: David Bailey, Jason Loborik
- Editorial Assistant: Poppy Kemp
- Illustrators for this part work included Tom Connell, Nick Foreman, Carl Lyons, Lee Sullivan, Peter McKinstry and Paul Williams.
Additional notes
- This issue came with a free Doctor Who binder to file away the magazine pages.
Online content
- The supporting website [1] gave online subscribers unlimited access to the magazine content as they were released (and the Doctor Who: Battles in Time comic strip pages). Subscription cost £3 per month or £25 per year.
- The supporting website also offered online games, downloads, wallpapers, and other content.
