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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.
- Enemies of Humanity
- Creature Features
- Robot Spiders
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.
- “Ooh, sweet Lord! I'm a walking doodle!"
- The TARDIS takes a trip to galaxy M87 and the planet New Earth after an old friend sends a message to the Doctor's psychic paper. While there, they discover cat nuns are doing hideous experiments in a huge hospital and fall foul of an old adversary out for revenge!
- “And so begins the empire of the wolf!"
- The Doctor and Rose bump into Queen Victoria when she is passing through Scotland. A tree across the line has stopped the royal train so she must stay at Sir Robert MacLeish's house. But he has uninvited guests, and one in particular will make for a terrifying evening when the Moon is full!
Notable Information
- The cat masks were so delicate that they were destroyed every time the actresses removed them. They had to wear new ones every day!
- Effects company The Mill, who created the werewolf, also worked on the werewolf that appeared in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- 'Ice Warrior' is the human nickname for the Martians. No one knows what they call themselves!
- Although one Robot Spider prop was made, the moving ones are all CG!
Credits
- Project Manager: Ben Robinson
- Group Editor: Claire Lister
- Art Editor: James Schiavi
- Designers: Carly Giles and James King
- Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
- Contributing Writer: David Bailey, Gary Gillatt, Jason Loborik and James King Rayner]].
- Illustrators for this part work included; Peter McKinstry