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The 161st issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures featured a slightly new look marking the Eleventh Doctor’s adventures.
Contents
Free Gift
- Doctor Who stationery tin with pencil, eraser and ruler
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- NEW SERIES PREVIEW: Episode 2 The Beast Below
- FACTFILE: Amy Pond
- FACTFILE: Secrets of the TARDIS (4 pages)
Comic strips
- Attack of the Space Leeches! Part Two (4 pages)
Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- From: DW: The Eleventh Hour
- Episode 1 highlights
Fast Facts (Collectable Fact File)
- 002 Prisoner Zero
Posters
- A3 Eleventh Doctor in the vortex from BBC trailer
- A4 Amelia Pond and Amy Pond together
- A4 Spaceships Collection: Atraxi from DW: The Eleventh Hour
- A4 Jeff and the Eleventh Doctor
Behind the scenes
- My Diary by Matt Smith featuring a reader’s ‘Ask Matt!’ question
Interview
- Karen Gillan “I’m scared of GHOSTS!”
Additional features
- Welcome and news (featuring Who’s Who? And Monster Alert!)
- CODE ALERT: to win a new set of Character Options: Crash Doctor action figures and new sonic screwdriver]]
- Puzzle pages and Quiz (The Eleventh Hour)
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
- featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
- Picture Puzzle: Spot the Difference to win a Lord Sunday book
- Competition Goodies (Lego Toy Story sets and George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt books)
- BIG WIN: Win a TV Dalek (token collect 2 of 3)
Main Team Credits
Editor: Moray Laing
Deputy Editor: Paul Lang
Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies
Production Editor: Liza Millett
Designer: Melanie Caine
Hidden Away / Facts
- Karen Gillan’s full name is Karen Sheila Gillan, he was born in Inverness on 28th November 1987 and her hobbies include fashion modelling.
- Karen Gillan plays the piano.
- Caitlin Blackwood, who plays the younger Amy, is Karen Gillan’s cousin.
- In The Eleventh Hour the fish-fingers dunked in custard were actually coconut breaded fish-finger shaped cake things.
- Matt Smith’s favourite thing to eat at night is leek and potato soup or a banana sandwich and a cup of tea!
- The new TARDIS console features a Bunsen burner and a typewriter.
Additonal details
- The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 30% as well as Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide book
- This issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted
- Next issues free gift is promoted as 11 free gifts! (stickers, badges, door hanger, wallet, keyring and postcards)