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The Doctor Who DVD Files –“The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia” in fortnightly issues.
Magazine Content
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into nine categories that could be filed accordingly.
- Part 82: The Sound of Fear
- Doctor Who spent the Millennium conquering a new medium …
- Captain Price
- This UNIT officer helped avert a nuclear missile crisis.
- Kahler-Jex
- Was this alien refugee a friend or foe?
- Mechanoids
- Meet the metal monsters that took on the Daleks.
- Directing Daleks
- Read the penultimate part of our Michael E. Briant interview …
- Crystal Ball
- The Carrionites used witchcraft to threaten the Earth …
- “Rose Returns!”
- The Doctor’s old friend saves Wilf and Sylvia from the Dalek]]s.
- The Pirate Planet
- The Doctor searches for the second segment of the Key to Time
- Dalek Asylum
- Dare you set foot on the planet of the insane Daleks?
DVD release (with cover blurb)
- Each issue came with a DVD release.
- Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
- "You don’t want to take over the Universe do you? You wouldn’t know what to do with it beyond shout at it. "
- The Doctor, Romana and K-9 are searching for the segments of the Key to Time. Having found the first one on the planet Ribos, the time travellers head for Calufrax – and end up on Zanak. A vast space-hopping ‘pirate planet’ that plunders other worlds. Zantak is ruled by a cyborg pirate captain with a robot parrot. But are things really as they seem?
Notable Information
- The crystal ball of the Carrionites contained another dimension, much like the outer shell of the Doctor’s TARDIS.
- Back in 1999 Richard Curtis (a writer later to pen Vincent and the Doctor), approached Steven Moffatt (writer and also Executive Producer of the show), to write a sketch for Comic Relief that became The Curse of Fatal Death.
- Inspiration for the concept of the alien Vogan species was drawn from Shakespearean-style characterswith the aliens carrying “sticks and proclaiming things!” according to director Michael E. Briant.
- The planet Calufrax was crushed by the planet Zanak and the planet Calufrax Minor was for a while moved by Davros to the Medusa Cascade.
Credits
- Project Manager: not credited this issue
- Group Editor: not credited this issue
- Editor: Kieran Grant
- Art Editor: Elanzi Smit
- Designer: not credited this issue
- Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
- Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths
- Illustrators: none credited this issue
