DWDVDF 41

The forty-first issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files - "The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia" had a cover date of 28 July 2010.

Contents
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
 * The Doctor
 * Part 41 Sole Survivor The Time War is over but the Ninth Doctor is far from happy ...


 * Allies
 * Vinvocci Meet the spiky green aliens who absolutely do not look like cacti!
 * Susan Foreman The Doctor's granddaughter was a very mysterious figure...


 * Enemies
 * The Master: Reborn The deranged Time Lord manages to cheat death itself!
 * Sisters of Plenitude The sinister Catkind nurses of New Earth have a cure for everything...


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Clan TARDIS! Actor Frazer Hines talks about his time playing Jamie McCrimmon


 * Flashback
 * Mind the Gap The Second Doctor dodges Yeti in the London underground!


 * Technology
 * Vortex manipulator Check out Captain Jack's amazing time-hopping wristwatch.


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang The Fourth Doctor and Leela unravel a Victorian mystery...

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 Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * "Let the Talons of Weng-Chiang shred your flesh!"
 * Leela finds herself plunged into a world stranger than any alien planet when she and the Doctor journey to the dark heart of Victorian London. Joining forces with police surgeon Professor Litefoot and theatre manager Hugo Jago, the pair are soon mixed up in the macabre machinations of the mutilated madman Magnus Greel. What is the sinister secret of Mr Sin, the ventriloquist's dummy with a taste for murder? And are the sewers of London really infested with giant rats?

Notable information

 * In The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Magnus Greel mistakes the Fourth Doctor and Leela for Time Agents.
 * The 51st century is home to Magnus Greel, K9 Mark I, Jack Harkness and River Song.
 * The Doctor can speak Mandarin, Tibetan, Cantonese and Ancient North Martian. (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
 * The Immortality Gate was found by Torchwood in the wreck of a Vinvocci ship that crashed into Mount Snowdon.
 * Susan Foreman was originally going to be called Bridget (known as "Biddy") and not be the Doctor's granddaughter. In the pilot she claimed she was from the 49th century.
 * Susan Foreman's hairstyle was created by Vidal Sasson and was much shorter than the style of the day.
 * A vortex manipulator can transport any number of people at a time as long as they are in contact with it at the time of activation.
 * The Sisters of Plenitude worship the goddess Santori.

Credits

 * Project Manager: Ben Robinson
 * Group Editor: Claire Lister
 * Art Editor: James King
 * Designer: Carly Giles, Terry Sambridge
 * Writer/Sub-Editor: Neil Corry, Kieran Grant
 * Editorial Assistant: Poppy Kemp
 * Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths, Jason Loborik, Jacqueline Rayner, Eddie Robson and Oli Smith.
 * Illustrators: Tom Connell, Lee Sullivan and Shaun Williams.