Top Trumps Collectors Edition: 45 Years of Time Travel
Top Trumps Collectors Edition: 45 Years of Time Travel was the first special pack of Top Trumps cards released by Winning Moves in July 2008.
It was the first pack to cover the "Classic Series", released to celebrate the programmes' 45th anniversary, and came in a TARDIS-shaped cardboard presentation box.[1]
It contained 30 game cards with six new attributes: adventures, global threat, brains, style, strength & fear factor, and covered characters from TV: An Unearthly Child-The TV Movie.
Publisher's summary
Now that Season four of Doctor Who has drawn to a close, and the children of time have fought the new Dalek Empire on a stolen Earth, you might be feeling a little lost without an adventure every week. But never fear, the Top Trumps Tardis is here to take you spinning through space and time and celebrate 45 years of Doctor Who!
The first Top Trumps: Collectors Edition, this pack takes you from Coal Hill School in 1963 through to San Francisco in the 20th Century as we look at the daring escapades of all the Doctor's classic regenererations! No adventure would be complete without companions, and the Top Trumps Tardis has them all, from Susan to Leela to Ace, not forgetting of course the tenacious Sarah Jane Smith. Of course, every adventure needs a villain and this pack has creatures from across the universe - from the Sea Devils, the Zygons and the Kandyman to the Master's and his evil schemes and the wanton destruction of the Daleks and Cybermen.[2][3]
Card list
| Top Trumps Collectors Edition: Doctor Who 45 Years of Time Travel | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Adventures | Global Threat | Brains | Style | Strength | Fear Factor |
| 1 | Ace | 9 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 36 |
| 2 | Ian Chesterton | 16 | 0 | 40 | 4 | 7 | 21 |
| 3 | Jamie McCrimmon | 21 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 25 |
| 4 | Jo Grant | 15 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 23 |
| 5 | K-9 | 19 | 0 | 65 | 2 | 2 | 20 |
| 6 | Leela | 9 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 39 |
| 7 | Mr. Sin | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 148 |
| 8 | Romana | 16 | 0 | 56 | 5 | 3 | 24 |
| 9 | Sarah Jane Smith | 19 | 0 | 40 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
| 10 | Sil | 2 | 5 | 40 | 2 | 4 | 68 |
| 11 | Susan Foreman | 11 | 0 | 45 | 9 | 2 | 23 |
| 12 | The Cybermen | 10 | 45 | 48 | 9 | 20 | 160 |
| 13 | The Daleks | 16 | 50 | 74 | 5 | 16 | 180 |
| 14 | The Eighth Doctor | 1 | 0 | 80 | 7 | 9 | 70 |
| 15 | The Fifth Doctor | 20 | 0 | 80 | 8 | 9 | 68 |
| 16 | The First Doctor† | 30 | 0 | 80 | 2 | 3 | 100 |
| 17 | The Fourth Doctor | 42 | 0 | 80 | 8 | 10 | 86 |
| 18 | The Haemovores | 1 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 136 |
| 19 | The Kandyman | 1 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 116 |
| 20 | The Master | 20 | 30 | 78 | 10 | 10 | 150 |
| 21 | The Rani | 2 | 20 | 72 | 7 | 8 | 68 |
| 22 | The Sea Devils‡ | 2 | 25 | 33 | 2 | 14 | 147 |
| 23 | The Second Doctor† | 24 | 0 | 80 | 5 | 7 | 52 |
| 24 | The Seventh Doctor | 12 | 0 | 80 | 3 | 8 | 85 |
| 25 | The Sixth Doctor | 11 | 0 | 80 | 5 | 8 | 84 |
| 26 | The Sontarans | 4 | 36 | 48 | 6 | 18 | 133 |
| 27 | The Third Doctor† | 25 | 0 | 80 | 9 | 11 | 83 |
| 28 | Victoria Waterfield | 7 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 21 |
| 29 | Yeti | 3 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 148 |
| 30 | Zygon | 1 | 35 | 16 | 3 | 12 | 116 |
| STT | Davros | 6 | 44 | 70 | 5 | 2 | 154 |
† On the reverse of these three cards was an 'Adventures' list from TV: An Unearthly Child-TV: Journey's End including TV: Shada.
‡ On the reverse of this card was a 'Cast List'.
Exclusive cards
An exclusive "Super Top Trumps Card" of Davros was included (in the UK), in stickered editions of the Doctor Who: Series 4, Volume 4 & Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord DVDs released on 1 and 29 September 2008 respectively.[4]
The card was also given out at the Doctor Who Up Close exhibition at Earls Court between 27 September-9 November 2008, to coincide with the arrival of Davros at the exhibition.[5]
This card was later released in the US, included with orders of the Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series DVD box set from BBC America Shop.com, released on 18 November 2008; again it was called a "Supercard".
Non-game cards
In addition to the 30 game cards the pack came three non-game cards. These cards were:
- Cover Card / How to play Top Trumps
- Have you got it? / Full Trade Mark & Copyright Notices:
- Advertisement for the Top Trumps: Doctor Who video game on PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS & PC CD-ROM / Advertisement for the second & third Doctor Who Top Trumps packs
Notes
- The Romana card only shows Romana I.
- The Cybermen card shows the Cyber Leader from TV: Earthshock.
- The Daleks card shows the Gold Dalek and two grey Daleks from TV: Day of the Daleks.
- The Master card only shows his Roger Delgado incarnation.
- The Sontarans card shows Commander Linx.
- The Zygon card shows Broton.
- The Davros card shows him as he appeared in TV: The Stolen Earth / Journey's End.
- The 'Adventures' list made the following errors:
- The Daleks' Master Plan is spelt The Daleks' Masterplan.
- Inferno is missing.
- Season 18 is inserted in-between The Brain of Morbius and The Seeds of Doom.
- Battlefield is inserted in-between Remembrance of the Daleks and The Happiness Patrol.
- Voyage of the Damned is The Voyage of the Damned.
- The 'Cast List' shows:
- Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
- Ian Chesterton - William Russell
- Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
- Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling
- Jo Grant - Katy Manning
- Sarah-Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
- Romana - Mary Tamm / Lalla Ward
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- The Master - Roger Delgado, Anthony Ainley, Peter Pratt, Eric Roberts, Derek Jacobi & John Simm
- The Rani - Kate o'Mara
- This pack uses the same design template as Character Options classic series action figures.
- The information in this pack of Top Trumps is based on the BBC TV incarnation of Doctor Who from 1963 to 2008. The Doctors, companions and villains chosen represent the show's 'classic' era.
- Ref. No. 405
- Design - RedMullet Design
- Pack Director - Nik Battersby
- Top Trumps Guardian - Tom Liddell
Footnotes
- ↑ TOP TRUMPS - 45 Years Of Time Travel. Blogtor Who (18 July 2008). Retrieved on 11 February 2021.
- ↑ Dr Who: Collectors Edition. Winning Moves (15 November 2008). Retrieved on 11 February 2021.
- ↑ TOP TRUMPS - Classic Pack & STT News. Blogtor Who (14 July 2008). Retrieved on 11 February 2021.
- ↑ TOP TRUMPS - DAVROS STT. Blogtor Who (1 September 2008). Retrieved on 11 February 2021.
- ↑ Earls Court Exhibition. Doctor Who Museum & Exhibitions (13 October 2008). Retrieved on 11 February 2021.
