DWDVDF 61

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

Magazine Content
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
 * Allies
 * Catkind: The Brannigans
 * Meet the Doctor’s feline buddy and his human wife.
 * Crespallions
 * Feeling blue? You would be if you worked on Platform One!


 * Enemies
 * New Dalek Paradigm
 * Meet the most recent incarnations of the Doctor’s old enemies.


 * Behind the Scenes
 * PART 61 Armed and Dangerous
 * Part two of our interview with ex-companion Louise Jameson


 * Flashback
 * Dalek Execution
 * Watch the Master’s dramatic demise on Skaro …


 * Technology
 * Judoon Ship
 * Get behind the controls of a vast prison ship …


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * Horror of Fang Rock
 * Who will survive the alien in the lighthouse?


 * Alien Worlds
 * Telos
 * Plan your trip to the Cybermen’s second home planet.


 * Who On Earth
 * Liz One
 * The Doctor just keeps bumping into Elizabeth I.

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.


 * Horror of Fang Rock
 * "This lighthouse is under attack and by night we might all be dead …” "
 * The TARDIS lands on Fang Rock, a remote and fogbound English island in the early 20th century. The Doctor and Leela soon discover they are not the only visitors to this barren crag. A luxury yacht has been shipwrecked on the rocks, and the survivors are seeking shelter in the island’s only building, a lighthouse that has been mysteriously drained of power. But another more sinister ship has crashed into the sea nearby, and its pilot is a creature from another world. A creature that kills and can look like anyone it wants …

Notable Information

 * The video release of the Doctor Who TV movie, in 1996 was commercially available a week before its screening on 27th May.
 * In the 1996 Doctor Who movie the role of Bruce the paramedic’s wife was played by the actor Eric Roberts’s own wife Eliza Roberts.
 * In Horror of Fang Rock the Doctor quotes from the poem ‘Flannan Isle’ written by Wilfred Gibson – which is based on a true story.
 * Horror of Fang Rock was written to replace a cancelled script ‘The Witch Lords/The Vampire Mutation’ because of a possible conflict with another BBC Count Dracula drama. Terrance Dicks’s story later reached the screen in 1980 as State of Decay.
 * Crespallion was part of the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction, in Convex 56.

Credits

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