DWDVDF 128
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The one hundred twenty-eighth issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files - "The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia" had a cover date of December 2013.
Magazine content[[edit] | [edit source]]
Collectible loose leaf pages divided into nine categories that could be filed accordingly.
- Digby and Francesca Latimer
- Meet the children who were terrorised by the Ice Governess.
- Clara Oswald: The Doctor's Saviour
- Discover the secret of the Doctor's impossible girl ...
- Mr Webley
- This showman was turned into a Cyberman.
- Anne Droid
- The Game Station played host to this killer robot.
- Verity Lambert
- A profile of Doctor Who's pioneering first producer.
- Writing the Rani
- The final part of our exclusive interview with Pip and Jane Baker.
- Distress Beacon
- River Song built this "timey-wimey" transmitter.
- Doctor Two
- Will the "Ganger Doctor" be friend or foe?
- An Unearthly Child
- Journey back to the very first adventure...
DVD release (with cover blurb)[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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.
- "I was born in another time, another world ..."
- On a foggy November night in 1963, two school teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, follow one of their students home. The girl, Susan Foreman, is a strange genius who claims to live with her grandfather, a "doctor", and whose home address turns out to be a spooky junkyard containing a police telephone box. Ian and Barbara force their way into the box, where an incredible adventure in space and time awaits them ...
Notable information[[edit] | [edit source]]
- CE Webber's original pilot script was called Nothing at the End of the Lane and featured a fugitive from the year 5733 who travelled in an invisible (thanks to "light resistant paint") time-machine.
- Cybermen were once an exhibit in the travelling entertainer Vorg's Miniscope.
- Producer Verity Lambert's middle name was Ann and she was born on 17th November 1935. At the time she was the youngest producer at the BBC.
- Malapropism is the misquoting of sayings – a trait of the Seventh Doctor.
- Stories to feature a Doctor "double" include The Chase (1965), The Massacre (1966), The Enemy of the World (1967), Meglos (1980), Arc of Infinity (1982), Journey's End (2008), and The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People (2011).
Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Project Manager: not credited this issue
- Group Editor: not credited this issue
- Editor: Kieran Grant
- Art Editor: Elanzi Smit
- Designer: not credited this issue
- Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
- Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths
- Illustrators: none credited this issue