DWA 147
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The 147th issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.
Contents
Free gift
- This issues free gifts were a giant sticker sheet with over 70 stickers from every Tenth Doctor adventure, and a Tenth Doctor dress up set (glasses, sonic screwdriver pen, TARDIS key and psychic paper wallet/notebook.
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- PREVIEW: The End of Time Part Two (2 pages)
- 5 Amazing Moments from The End of Time Part One
- TOP TEN: Tenth Doctor Moments
Comic strip
- We Will Rock You (4 pages)
Tales from the TARDIS
- From: DW: The Waters of Mars
- As the crew of Bowie Base One prepare to evacuate the planet the Flood makes its way to the roof.
The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)
Posters
- A3 DW: The End of Time Part Two
montage featuring the Tenth Doctor , Wilfred Mott and the Master with his death-face. - A4 “Calling all DALEK boys and girls!” Captain Jack Harkness from DW: Journey's End
featuring the Captain Jack and a Dalek - A4 “BBC One”
featuring BBC channel ident of the TARDIS ‘sleigh’ being pulled by Reindeer.
Behind the scenes
- Filming DW: The Waters of Mars the Floods special effects created by Neill Gorton
Interview
- None
Additional features
- Welcome and news
- Find in this issue hidden somewhere Gadget to win a Sarah Jane Adventures The Thirteenth Stone Audio CD adventure.
- Activity / Make-it
- Who’s Where? Search and Find: (2 pages illustrated by Christopher Cooper)
- Puzzles and Quiz
- Readers contributions: Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
- featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
- Competition Goodies (My Sims Agents DS game,Cars Race-O-Rama Wiisets, Simpsons DVD scene it? Game)
- BIG WIN: 20 life-size cutouts to be won from cardboardcutout.net
- EXCLUSIVE Readers offer: Cyberman Stationery Set (sketch book, eraser, felt-tip pens, folder and pencil tin) for postage cost of £2.99 (UK) per set (web address: www.easyanswer.net/DrWho) .
Credits
Also listing: Their Who year resolutions
Editor: Moray Laing, To defeat the Daleks
Deputy Editor: Paul Lang To watch more Doctor Who
Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Campaign to bring back the Hath
Production Editor: Liza Millett, I WILL find the lost moon of Poosh
Designer: Melanie Caine, To keep the TARDIS tidy
New Starter: The Eleventh Doctor, To have lots of exciting adventures
Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: for use in newspapers and packaging – then it can regenerate into something new!
The Master: “I’m everywhere this week.”
- The Flood monsters breathe water not air.
- Original plans to have water pour from The Flood monsters heads through a helmet-like prop proved unworkable as water ran into the actors eyes. Neill Gorton devised an alternate prop where water spray from above the lip through a series of concealed tubes.
- For filming of DW: The Waters of Mars water was pumped from two trucks that held a total of 15,000 litres in total.
- The idea for DW: The Waters of Mars came from the discovery by NASA in 2006 of evidence of real water on Mars.
Additional details
- The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 40% (UK) – no free gift is offered to subscribers.
- This issue had a cover price of £2.75 (UK) and its free gifts were bagged.
- Next issues free gift is promoted as all new stickers from the Tenth Doctor’s last story and an amazing regenerating cover!
