DWDVDF 44
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The forty-fourth issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files - "The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia" had a cover date of 8 September 2010.
Contents
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
- Part 44 Friends and Foes The Tenth Doctor's adventures in time and space begin.
- Jake Simmonds This member of the Preachers helped to save two worlds.
- Zoe Herriot Was this companion really as clever as the Second Doctor?
- Morgaine Meet the evil sorceress from another dimension!
- Voc Robots Discover creepy mechanical men with murder in mind …
- Jagrafess This blobby monstrosity ruled the Human Empire!
- PART 44 Getting into character! Actor Christopher Benjamin has worked with three different Doctors!
- Yeti An exclusive glimpse beneath the fur of these alien robots …
- Inferno The Third Doctor faces death in a parallel universe …
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.
- "Listen to that! It's the sound of a planet screaming out its rage!"
- Professor Stahlman's drilling project is going to crack open the Earth's crust and release a gas that will provide the planet with a new source of power. At least that's the plan. When the drill unearths a mysterious green slime that transforms them around it into snarling primitive monsters, it's clear something has gone wrong – but Stahlman keeps on drilling! As people start to die and UNIT loses control, all eyes turn to the Doctor. But the Time Lord is trapped in a parallel universe where freedom is an illusion and the end of the world is just around the corner …
Notable Information
- The parallel world plot in Inferno was added to fill the story out.
- The Doctor has a normal pulse of one hundred seventy per minute (Inferno).
- In an alternative world, the legendary King Arthur ruled a technologically advanced England in the eighth century. (Battlefield)
- Other names for Morgaine included the Sunkiller, Dominator of the Thirteen Worlds and Battle Queen of the S'rax.
- In the novelisation of Battlefield, Merlin is a future Doctor with curly red hair and an Afghan coat.
- In The Robots of Death, fear of robots is called Grimwade Syndrome and is named after the programme's production manager.
- Production documents give Zoe's age as fifteen. She first appeared in the second episode of The Wheel in Space.
- The sound of a Yeti roar is that of a toilet being flushed played backwards.
- Although the Editor could understand the Jagrafess, the TARDIS was unable to translate the noises (or those of the Judoon).
Credits
- Project Manager: Ben Robinson
- Group Editor: Claire Lister
- Art Editor: James King
- Designer: Carly Giles, Terry Sambridge
- Writer/Sub-Editor: Neil Corry, Kieran Grant
- Designer: Carly Giles
- Editorial Assistant: Poppy Kemp
- Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths, Jason Loborik, Jacqueline Rayner and Oli Smith.
- Illustrators: Peter McKinstry
