DWDVDF 128

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
Collectible loose leaf pages divided into nine categories that could be filed accordingly.


 * Allies
 * 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 ...


 * Enemies
 * Mr Webley
 * This showman was turned into a Cyberman.
 * Anne Droid
 * The Game Station played host to this killer robot.


 * Behind the Scenes
 * 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.


 * Technology
 * Distress Beacon
 * River Song built this "timey-wimey" transmitter.


 * Flashback
 * Doctor Two
 * Will the "Ganger Doctor" be friend or foe?


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * An Unearthly Child
 * Journey back to the very first adventure...

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.


 * An Unearthly Child
 * "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

 * 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

 * 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