DWA 244
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Doctor Who Adventures #244 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 17 November 2011.
Contents
Free gift
- Pack of five coloured slime pots
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- FACTFILE: The Eleven Doctors
- FACTFILE: 10 things you might not know about Cybermen
- RIVER'S DIARY: (A Christmas Carol, The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon)
Comic strips
- The Frankenstein Particle
- AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters) featuring the Eleventh Doctor
Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- None this issue
Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)
- FACTFILE: Crime Watch 8: The Silence
Posters
- A3 The Eleven Doctors
- A4 CyberKing
- A4 ULTIMATE DALEK COLLECTION: Original Dalek (1963)
Behind the scenes
- Filming using green screen
Interview
Also featuring
- Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
- Geronimo: Gossip: Happy 48th Birthday, Awards - Vote for SJA, sign up to DWA new newsletter Hot or not
- Puzzle page and Quiz
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art. - Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
- Competition Goodies (Doctor Who Flesh Bowl Set from Character Options, Geomag Space Set )
Main team credits
With what they are looking forward to at Christmas
- Editor: Natalie Barnes Watching the Christmas Special with my family
- Deputy Editor: Paul Laing Going out for our team Christmas lunch
- Production Editor: Liza Millett Getting a real sonic screwdriver
- Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Popping a weeping Angel on top of the tree
- Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter Dancing the conga with a Silent
Hidden Away / Facts
- WHO SAID: “When’s the council going to fix this? Last night my telly went off in the middle of ‘Top Model’.” Kelly in Closing Time
- Although it seemed Madame Kovarian died, that happened in another timeline.
- On 23rd November 2011 Doctor Who is 48 years old, first appearing on television in 1963.
- Matt Smith describes this years Christmas episode as “ a magic fairytale!”
- In the first Cyberman story (The Tenth Planet) the Cybermen all had names – Gern, Jarl, Krail, Krang, Shav and Talon!
- Doctor Who Adventures designer Lee Midwinter once played a Cyberman in a David Tennant episode!
- the Doctor appears dancing in the 1939 Laurel and Hardy film The Flying Deuces.
- In 1952, the Doctor gets engaged to Marilyn Monroe in California.
- The Daleks that appeared in their first story in 1963 couldn’t leave their metal city.
Further information
- This issue is the first published not by BBC Magazines (part of BBC Worldwide) but by Immediate Media Company London Limited under licence from BBC Worldwide.
- The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 25% (six months for £49.99) (UK).
- This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
- Next issue's free gift is promoted as a monster bumper issue (including Advent Calendar and four games including dice and counters)
