DWA 39
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Contents
Free Gift
- Four free gifts (tbc)
Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- Inside the TARDIS
Comic Strips
- Shipwreck (Part Two) (6 pages)
Tales From the TARDIS (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- Featuring: Captain Jack Harkness grabbing a ride on the TARDIS.
The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)
- File 35: The Beast
Adventure Guide / Doctor Who Confidential
(Including readers views and behind the scenes)
Posters
- A3 “Untitled“
featuring the TARDIS - A4 “Now they’re just BEASTS!“ The Doctor in (DW): Gridlock
montage featuring Macra. - A4 “I am NOT the DOCTOR!“ The Doctor in (DW): The Family of Blood
montage featuring John Smith and the Scarecrows .
Also Featuring
- Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
- The Vortex (Who News)
- Humour: ‘’Things to do with a defeated enemy’’ Use the Daughter of Mine to give fashion tips to innocent shoppers! (By Christopher Cooper)
- Find in this issue hidden somewhere Sarah Jane Smith’s Watch to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!
- Time Agent Upload
- featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
- Top five reasons for loving the TARDIS
- Quiz: The TARDIS
- Puzzle Pages
- Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
- Competition Goodies: Doctor Who Fun books, LEGO and Ratatouille goodies.
- Win a life-size Dalek (Token collect. Bonus token in this issue)
Main Team Credits
Also listing: favourite bits from Last of the Time Lords
Editor: Moray Laing, The Titanic crashing in!
Art Editor: Paul Lang, Martha travelling the world
Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, Jack/Boe Reveal
Picture Editor: Shaila Bux , The Doctor forgiving the Master
Production Editor: Ed Lomas, The old Doctor in a cage
Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, Martha’s goodbye
Master Plan: Lucy Saxon, The Master’s goodbye …
Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: “Or store it away nicely in your TARDIS attic next to the Carrionites …”
Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan is most disappointed that the Doctor didn’t visit him in ‘Gridlock’...”
- TARDIS stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space.
- Sarah Jane Smith lives in Bannerman Road, Ealing, West London.
- The Fourth Doctor dropped Sarah Jane Smith off in Aberdeen not Croyden, when she first left him.
- The Beast was imprisoned on Krop Tor by the Disciples of Light before the creation of the universe.
- Forty gallons of petrol were used to explode the Family of Blood’s invisible spaceship.
- In the original novel of Human Nature, the Doctor’s Time Lord self was hidden in a cricket ball.
- In The Time Warrior , Sarah Jane Smith is a journalist who poses as her Aunt Lavinia so that she could find out about some top secret scientific research.
- The planet Gallifrey was situated in the constellation named Kasterborus.
Further Information
- Published every two weeks on a Thursday this issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK).
- This issue included 8 extra pages devoted to the new Sarah Jane Adventures. It included a ‘Who is Sarah Jane’ feature, an A3 poster of the regular cast being menaced by a Slitheen, an introduction to the team feature and a preview guide to the first seasons five stories.
- The readers vote on favourite episode in Season 2 was the Last of the Time Lords (28%), Blink (24%) and The Sound of Drums (8%).
- The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £9 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
- This issues free gift was selotaped to the cover.
- Next issues free gift is given as Dalek slime and a yucky mutant brain!
External inks
- [1] the official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue.
