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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.
- Isaac
- This United States Marshal fought the Gunslinger.
- Val
- This shop assistant gave the Doctor a job!
- Black Daleks
- Beware the commanders of the Daleks!
- The Master: Cheetah World
- The renegade Time Lord went wild on an alien planet.
- Jenna Coleman
- Read our profile of the actor who plays Clara Oswald.
- Suited and Booted!
- Discover more about the Tenth Doctor's costume.
- Validium
- The Time Lords invented this deadly 'living metal'.
- Time-Flight
- The Fifth Doctor takes flight on a supersonic jet.
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.
- "This is the 1980s, Nyssa. Police boxes went out with flower power...” "
- The Doctor finally manages to deliver his companion, Tegan Jovanka, to Heathrow Airport, where he gets drawn into an investigation into the disappearance of a supersonic jet. The Time Lord discovers that the plane has been transported back millions of years into the past through a time corridor. Who is Kalid and what is his insane plan? What has happened to the Xeraphin? And will Tegan ever get back home?
Notable information
- In the 1980s, following the Brigadiers retirement in 1977, UNIT was run by a secret Whitehall office named Department C19. (Time-Flight)
- The turbo-powered supersonic passenger jet from Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde was launched in 1976 and retired in 2003.
- Validium was a living metal created by the Time Lords. It could be fashioned into any form and was capable of making its own tactical decisions.
- Actress Jenna-Louise Coleman was born in Blackpool on 27 April 1986.
- Mark Gatiss used the pseudonym 'Rondo Hoxton' when he played the role of Gantok.
- Val worked at Sanderson & Grainger department store in Colchester – home town of Craig Owens. The actress Lynda Baron had previously appeared as Captain Wrack in Time-Flight.
- The Tenth Doctor's first pair of white trainers actually belonged to David Tennant. Red versions were introduced to be worn with his blue suit.
Credits
- Project Manager: not credited this issue
- Group Editor: not credited this issue
- Editor: Kieran Grant
- Art Editor: Pete Byrne
- Designer: not credited this issue
- Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
- Contributing Writers: not credited this issue
- Illustrators: none credited this issue
