DWA 162
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The 162nd issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.
Contents
Free Gift
- Bumper bag of 11 free gifts! (Stickers, 3 badges, door hanger, wallet, keyring and 4 postcards)
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- NEW SERIES PREVIEW: Episode 3 Victory of the Daleks
- FACTFILE: Earth Invaders
Comic strips
- Madness on the M1! (4 pages)
Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- From: DW: The Beast Below
- Episode 2 highlights
Fast Facts (Collectable Fact File)
- 003 Cyberman
Posters
- A3 Hooded and angry Smiler
- A4 Amy, Liz Ten and the Eleventh Doctor
- from DW: The Beast Below
- A4 Prisoner Zero
- A4 Peter the Winder from DW: The Beast Below
- A4 SPACESHIP COLLECTION: The TARDIS
Behind the scenes
- My Diary by Matt Smith featuring a reader’s ‘Ask Matt!’ question
- Filming: The Beast Below
Interview
- None
Additional features
- Welcome and news (featuring Who’s Who? And Monster Alert!)
- CODE ALERT: to win a new Character Options: sonic screwdriver
- Picture Puzzle: I-Spy! Star Ship UK
- Puzzle page and Quiz (The Beast Below)
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
- featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
- Picture Puzzle: Spot the Difference to win Elemental Fusion toy figures.
- Competition Goodies (32-inch LCD TV, Merlin goodies)
Main Team Credits
Editor: Moray Laing
Deputy Editor: Paul Lang
Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies
Production Editor: Liza Millett
Designer: Melanie Caine
Hidden Away / Facts
- Starship UK has lots of different places all joined together – including the Queen Vic from Eastenders
- Filming of The Beast Below featured Karen Gillan and her stunt double on wires outside the TARDIS.
- The ‘goo’ in the Star Whale’s mouth included cabbage and bits of potato and stunk. “It was brutally smelly, really grim.” According to Matt Smith
- Onboard Starship UK, London is on floor 207
- Filming for The Beast Below on 10th September 2009 for the scene where Amy saves the day and Liz Ten abdicates, took place at Neath Abbey, Wales – about an hour’s drive from Cardiff.
- Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of Great Britain around 70 years ago, during World War Two. He became a national hero for the work he did.
Additional details
- The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 30% as well as Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide book
- This issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK) and the free gift was cover bagged.
- Next issue's free gift is promoted as 10 Dalek gifts (Notebook, folder, eraser and 7 pencils)
