Doctor Who Adventures #271 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 31 May 2012
Contents
Free gift
- Squirty sonic screwdriver
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- FACTFILE: Alien Invasions of Earth
- FACTFILE: Companions who weren’t
Comic strips
Mega Moments (story told as a photo-feature)
Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)
- FACTFILE: DOCTOR’S COMPANIONS: Captain Jack Harkness
Posters
- A3 FREAKY FIRST ENCOUNTERS: Second Doctor and Yeti in (1967)
- A4 Exterminate
- A4 ULTIMATE DALEK The Lone Dalek
Behind the scenes
- Art Team designs for greatest gizmos
Interview
- None this issue
Also featuring
- Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
- Geronimo: News, Monster Companions!, Freaky Formula, Dalek Hororscope, Hot or Not
- Big Puzzle: (2 pages)
- Puzzle page and Quiz
- What’s on the Doctor’s phone messages.
- Jokes
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art. - Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
- Competition Goodies (Horrible Histories / DVD player sets, redakai Championship setand a Doctor Who boardgame)
Main team credits
With their most liked to text characters
- Editor: Natalie Barnes A Cyberman to ask for an upgrade!
- Deputy Editor: Paul Laing I’d text Mrs Tinkle and invite her round to watch Corrie!
- Production Editor: Liza Millett The Doctor – just to find out where he is!
- Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies I’d text the Werewolf so we could howl with laughter!
- Writer: Craig Donaghty I’d text the Smilers some smileys.
Hidden Away / Facts
- WHO SAID: “Look at the detail on that cheese plant. ”
LW Amy Pond in Amy's Choice
- River Song will appear in the new series 2012.
- The Art Department which builds all the props often have only a few words to go on from a script e.g. “futuristic chess board, large scary device, wrist unit, technical apparatus. The Doctor’s sonic cane was described as having a silvery top “which extends exactly like the sonic screwdriver” (and makes the same noise).
Further information
- The subscription offer for this issue was 4 issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (13 issues for £29.25) (UK).
- This issue had a cover price of £2.60 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
- Next issue's free gift is promoted as an expandable Dalek disc
External links
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