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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 7 categories that could be filed accordingly.
- New Friends, Old Enemies
- The Eighth Doctor
- Possessed Ood
- Back to the Drawing Board: Interview with concept artist Peter McKinstry
- The Army Awakes shows a cyberman bursting out of its tomb from DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen
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.
- “Are you my mummy?"
- Following a canister falling through time leads the Doctor and Rose to war-torn London in 1941. Soon separated, the Doctor finds himself on the trail of a lost little boy who is causing a strange plague, while Rose is saved from an air-raid by the dashing Captain Jack Harkness, a time traveller from the 51st century!
- “You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them.”
- Time is running out for the Doctor as he tries to solve the mystery of the gas mask-wearing little boy. As more and more people become infected by the alien plague, the Doctor locates the canister that's fallen through time - but wil he find the answer to the boy's heart-wrenching plea: "Are you my mummy?"
Notable Information
- The episode 'The Doctor Dances' was originally going to be called 'Captain Jax', and it would have been revealed that Jack was an alien and this was his real name!
- Also in the first draft of the script there was no Chula ambulance and the crashed object was Jack's own ship time-looped from the future.
- Paul McGann's brother Mark also auditioned for the role of the Eighth Doctor!
- At one stage the Ood were going to be in the series three episode '42', where they were to be possessed again.
- Writer Steven Moffat got the word Chula from a restaurant in London.
Additional Notes
- Subscribers received with this issue a DVD storage holder.
- Credits: Ben Robinson (Project manager), Claire Lister (Group editor), James King (Art Editor), Carly Giles (Designer), with Neill Corry and Kieran Grant (Writers/Sub-Editors).
- Illustrators for this part work included; Tom Connell, Nick Foreman, Carl Lyons, Lee Sullivan and Paul Williams.
