DWDVDF 61
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The Doctor Who DVD Files –“The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia” in fortnightly issues.
Contents
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
- Catkind: The Brannigans
- Meet the Doctor’s feline buddy and his human wife.
- Crespallions
- Feeling blue? You would be if you worked on Platform One!
- New Dalek Paradigm
- Meet the most recent incarnations of the Doctor’s old enemies.
- PART 61 Armed and Dangerous
- Part two of our interview with ex-companion Louise Jameson
- Dalek Execution
- Watch the Master’s dramatic demise on Skaro …
- Judoon Ship
- Get behind the controls of a vast prison ship …
- Horror of Fang Rock
- Who will survive the alien in the lighthouse?
- Telos
- Plan your trip to the Cybermen’s second home planet.
- Liz One
- The Doctor just keeps bumping into Elizabeth I.
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.
- "This lighthouse is under attack and by night we might all be dead …” "
- The TARDIS lands on Fang Rock, a remote and fogbound English island in the early 20th century. The Doctor and Leela soon discover they are not the only visitors to this barren crag. A luxury yacht has been shipwrecked on the rocks, and the survivors are seeking shelter in the island’s only building, a lighthouse that has been mysteriously drained of power. But another more sinister ship has crashed into the sea nearby, and its pilot is a creature from another world. A creature that kills and can look like anyone it wants …
Notable Information
- The video release of the Doctor Who TV movie, in 1996 was commercially available a week before its screening on 27th May.
- In the 1996 Doctor Who movie the role of Bruce the paramedic’s wife was played by the actor Eric Roberts’s own wife Eliza Roberts.
- In Horror of Fang Rock the Doctor quotes from the poem ‘Flannan Isle’ written by Wilfred Gibson – which is based on a true story.
- Horror of Fang Rock was written to replace a cancelled script ‘The Witch Lords/The Vampire Mutation’ because of a possible conflict with another BBC Count Dracula drama. Terrance Dicks’s story later reached the screen in 1980 as State of Decay.
- Crespallion was part of the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction, in Convex 56.
Credits
- Project Manager: Ben Robinson
- Group Editor: Claire Lister
- Art Editor: James King
- Designer: Carly Giles
- Writer/Sub-Editor: Neil Corry, Kieran Grant
- Junior Sub-Editor: Poppy Kemp
- Contributing Writers: Gary Gillatt, Peter Griffiths, Jason Loborik, Jacqueline Rayner and Oli Smith.
- Illustrators: Tom Connell, Lee Sullivan and Shaun Williams
