The Doctor Who DVD Files –“The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia” in fortnightly issues.
Magazine Content
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into 7 categories that could be filed accordingly.
- Robots and Reptiles
- K-9: Faithful Hound
- Cast Away!
- Shop Horror!
DVD Release (with cover blurb)
- Each issue came with a DVD release covering two episodes.
- Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
- “May I introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith?"
- Mickey alerts The Doctor and Rose to strange goings-on at Deffry Vale School in London. The TARDIS crew go undercover - and bump into the Doctor's old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K-9, who are also on the case. But will the Krillitanes prove too deadly for them all?
- “I'm the Lord of Time - and I'm here to fix the clock!"
- The last thing The Doctor expects to find on an abandoned spaceship is 18th Century France! The ships's sinister Clockwork Robots have murder on their minds - but why do they want to kill Madame de Pompadour? And can the Doctor save her life if it means sacrificing his life with Rose?
Notable Information
- The Clockwork Droid's teleport noise was made using a bag of coins!
- K-9's attack command is the word 'Kalaylee'.
- There were at least 16 Cybershades on the loose in London!
- The Daleks were the very first monster to appear in Doctor Who.
- Two working titles for 'The Girl in the Fireplace' were 'Every Tick of My Heart' and 'Reinette and the Lonely Angel'.
- David Troughton(Hobbs)'s father was Patrick Troughton, who played the Second Doctor.
Credits
- Project Manager: Ben Robinson
- Group Editor: Claire Lister
- Art Editor: James Schiavi
- Designer: Carly Giles, James King
- Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
- Contributing Writer: Jason Loborik and Jacqueline Rayner.
- Illustrators for this part work included; Tom Connell, Matthew Savage and Lee Sullivan