DWA 218

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 19 May 2011.

Free gift

 * A Doctor Who paperback book (the first story in the new two story book releases)

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: Elisabeth Sladen Tribute "Goodbye Sarah Jane" (8 pages)
 * TARDIS Scanner: Idris
 * PREVIEW: Episode 5: The Rebel Flesh

Comic content

 * The Very Cool Bow Tie!
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Mega Moments (best bits)

 * REVIEW: TV: The Doctor's Wife Series 6 Episode 4

Fast Facts

 * Space File 3: Earth

Posters

 * A3 Sarah Jane Adventures
 * A4 Green-Eyed Ood

Behind the scenes

 * None this issue

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
 * Geronimo: Gossip: Spoilers, True or False, What is going on in a brain?, Hot or not
 * Puzzle pages and Quiz
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Doctor Who: Character Building TARDIS play sets, Wallace & Gromit Porridge Blasters)
 * Web Watch (DWA website news)

Credits
...and their favourite SJ memory
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes when she meets Rose in School Reunion
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing at her typewriter at the start of K9 and Company
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett meeting Jo Grant
 * Acting Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter when she gets gunged by an exploding Slitheen

Hidden Away / Facts

 * The Doctor was shot at Lake Silencio.
 * President Richard Nixon's middle name was Milhous.
 * The character of Sarah Jane Smith is one of the longest running characters on British TV, spanning 38 years!
 * The Earth is 40,000 km in circumference.

Further information

 * This issue's Sarah Jane mini-mag includes a list of all of Sarah Jane's appearances on TV.
 * This issue's comic strip features a bow tie designed by reader Lucy Sutton for a competition for this magazine.
 * The subscription offer for this issue was a £1 for four issues and a saving of 10% (UK).
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was cover bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a bumper pack — notebook, stickers, foil poster, and an Ood or Cyberman mask!