The 46th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.
Contents
Free gift
- Cardboard mounted Dalek Yo-Yo and mini sticker sheet featuring pictures of Daleks and Dalek Sec Hybrid.
Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
Comic story
- The Monster Upstairs (Part One) (6 pages)
Tales from the TARDIS
- From: (TV: The Sound of Drums)
- Featuring Martha Jones' flat being blown up and her family taken by the Master.
The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)
- Toclafane (Number 38 is not given):
Behind the Scenes (Confidential Extra)
- CGI and the Christmas tree attack in The Christmas Invasion
Adventures
- (TV: Voyage of the Damned)Ten favourite things about the adventure.
Posters
- A4 "You need someone to STOP you!" Donna Noble from (TV: The Runaway Bride)
montage featuring the Doctor and Donna - A4 "The ANGELS have the PHONE BOX" the Doctor from (TV: Blink)
montage featuring the Weeping Angels and the TARDIS. - A3 "I NEVER lose!"
Max Capricorn from (TV: Voyage of the Damned)montage featuring Max Capricorn, Bannakaffalatta and the Doctor.
Additional features
- Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
- Find in this issue hidden somewhere Astrid Peth to win a Doctor Who Go Glow night light torch!
- What to do with a defeated enemy (by Christopher Cooper). Brannigan turns his car into a mobile chip van serving deep fried Macra
- Top five reasons Why we love the Daleks.
- Make-it
- Bannakaffalatta mask
- Quiz: Jackie Tyler’s Christmas Quiz
- Puzzle Pages
- Including count the Cybermen
- Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
- Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload
- featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
- Competition Goodies: Doctor Who Target Audios, new Doctor Who hardbacks and Sarah Jane Smith toy sets.
Credits
Also listing: their new year resolutions
Editor: Moray Laing, to have weekly adventures
Art Editor: Paul Lang, to do everything twice as often
Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, to meet the Doctor
Picture Editor: Shaila Bux , to control the universe
Production Editor: Ed Lomas, not to blink
Sub-Editor: Mel Bezalel, to get some specs like the Doc's
Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, travel in the TARDIS
Hospitality by Astrid Peth, to step back in time
Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: “Happy New Year”
Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan is too full from his Christmas lunch to wish you a Happy New Year!”
- Rose Tyler will return in Series Four.
- Bannakaffalatta was played by Jimmy Vee, who also played the Graske.
- The Doctor has used other names like John Smith, Doctor James McCrimmon and Sir Doctor of TARDIS.
- John Lumic invented parallel Earth Cybermen - our universe has its own.
- The Titanic space cruiseliner was en route from planet Sto in the Cassavalian Belt.
- The Christmas tree attack in The Christmas Invasion took two days to film.
- Jackie Tyler's block of flats were filmed on an estate in south London; the interior shots were filmed in a studio in Wales.
Additional details
- A full two pages are given over to the news that Doctor Who Adventures magazine is going WEEKLY from next issue, available on Thursdays priced £2.10 (UK)
- The subscription offer is revised for this issue with a saving of over £30 (UK) and a free copy of the Doctor Who TARDIS Model Making Kit (worth £9.99 (UK))
- This issue and its free gifts were cover mounted.
- Next issue's five free gifts are listed as Family of Blood notebook, pen, pencil, eraser and stickers.