DWDVDF 143

The Doctor Who DVD Files –“The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia” in fortnightly issues.

Magazine content
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into nine categories that could be filed accordingly.
 * The Doctor
 * Eleventh Doctor: The Last Days
 * The Doctor's days were numbered when Silence fell.


 * Allies
 * Priests of Uxarieus
 * Who were these strange little aliens?


 * Enemies
 * Weeping Angels: Trenzalore
 * The deadly stone creatures attacked the town of Christmas
 * Gravis
 * The leader of the Tractators was good with gravity.
 * Son of Mine
 * Meet the Family of Blood's most cunning member.


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Trailer Time!
 * Discover how they made the 50th anniversary trailer.


 * Technology
 * Time Lord Weaponarys
 * Discover the military secrets of the Time War.


 * Flashback
 * Digital Doom!
 * The Spoonheads attack Clara Oswald


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * The Mind of Evil
 * The Doctor discovers the Master has returned.

DVD release (with cover blurb)

 * 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.


 * The Mind of Evil
 * "We believe what our minds tell us, Jo.” "
 * Working for UNIT, the Doctor and Jo Grant arrive at Stangmoor Prison to investigate the Keller Machine. The inventor of the device, Professor Emil Keller, claims that it will make prisoners less aggressive – but does it have a more sinister purpose? Meanwhile, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is providing security for a world peace conference that could threaten the safety of every living human being ...

Notable information

 * In The Mind of Evil the Third Doctor claimed to be a personal friend of cultural revolutionist, Mao Tse-Tung, (Chairman Mao of the People's Republic of China).
 * Using only a surviving four and a half minute colour clip from The Mind of Evil, pioneering colourisation artists and video editor Stuart Humphryes was able to fully restore colour to the previously only black and white held copy of the story.
 * Tasha Lem was otherwise known as the Mother Superior of the Papal Mainframe.
 * The Uxarieans of the planet Uxarieus evolved into three distinct species; the ruling Guardians, the Priests and the so-called Primitives.
 * The Gravis was re-settled away from Frontios, by the Fifth Doctor on the desolate planet Kolkokron.
 * The Shard (otherwise known as London Bridge Tower) was officially opened in February 2013 and featured in The Bells of Saint John broadcast on 30th March of that same year.

Credits

 * Project Manager: not credited this issue
 * Group Editor: not credited this issue
 * Editor: Kieran Grant
 * Art Editor: Pete Byrne
 * Designer: not credited this issue
 * Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
 * Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths
 * Illustrators: none credited this issue