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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.
 * The Doctor
 * New Friends, Old Enemies
 * The Eighth Doctor


 * Allies
 * Jabe


 * Enemies
 * Possessed Ood


 * Behind the Scenes (fold-out)
 * Back to the Drawing Board: Interview with concept artist Peter McKinstry


 * Technology (fold-out)
 * Chula Ship


 * Flashback
 * The Army Awakes shows a cyberman bursting out of its tomb from DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * The Empty Child
 * The Doctor Dances

DVD Release (with cover blurb)

 * Each issue came with a DVD release covering two episodes.
 * Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.


 * The Empty Child
 * “Are you my mummy?"
 * Following a canister falling through time leads the Doctor and Rose to war-torn London in 1941. Soon separated, the Doctor finds himself on the trail of a lost little boy who is causing a strange plague, while Rose is saved from an air-raid by the dashing Captain Jack Harkness, a time traveller from the 51st century!


 * The Doctor Dances
 * “You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them.”
 * Time is running out for the Doctor as he tries to solve the mystery of the gas mask-wearing little boy. As more and more people become infected by the alien plague, the Doctor locates the canister that's fallen through time - but wil he find the answer to the boy's heart-wrenching plea: "Are you my mummy?"

Notable Information

 * The episode 'The Doctor Dances' was originally going to be called 'Captain Jax', and it would have been revealed that Jack was an alien and this was his real name!
 * Also in the first draft of the script there was no Chula ambulance and the crashed object was Jack's own ship time-looped from the future.
 * Paul McGann's brother Mark also auditioned for the role of the Eighth Doctor!
 * At one stage the Ood were going to be in the series three episode '42', where they were to be possessed again.
 * Writer Steven Moffat got the word Chula from a restaurant in London.
 * Time Agents were first mentioned in the (DW): The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
 * (DW): Tomb of the Cybermen was the first the first story to feature a Cyber Controller

Credits

 * Project Manager: Ben Robinson
 * Group Editor: Claire Lister
 * Art Editor: James King
 * Designer: Carly Giles
 * Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
 * Contributing Writer: Gary Gillatt, Jason Loborik, Jacqueline Rayner and Eddie Robson.
 * Illustrators for this part work included; Tom Connell, Nick Foreman, Carl Lyons, Lee Sullivan, Peter McKinstry and Paul Williams.

Additional Notes

 * Subscribers received with this issue a DVD storage holder.

Online Content

 * The supporting website gave online subscribers unlimited access to the magazine content as they were released (and the Doctor Who: Battles in Time comic strip pages). Subscription cost £3 per month or £25 per year.
 * The supporting website also offered online games, downloads (including wallpapers and further additional content.