DWA 244

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 17 November 2011.

Free gift

 * Pack of five coloured slime pots

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: The Eleven Doctors
 * FACTFILE: 10 things you might not know about Cybermen
 * RIVER'S DIARY: (A Christmas Carol, The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon)

Comic strips

 * The Frankenstein Particle
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters) featuring the Eleventh Doctor

Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

 * None this issue

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

 * FACTFILE: Crime Watch 8: The Silence

Posters

 * A3 The Eleven Doctors
 * A4 CyberKing
 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK COLLECTION: Original Dalek (1963)

Behind the scenes

 * Filming using green screen

Interview

 * Matt Smith

Also featuring
featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
 * Geronimo: Gossip: Happy 48th Birthday, Awards - Vote for SJA, sign up to DWA new newsletter Hot or not
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Doctor Who Flesh Bowl Set from Character Options, Geomag Space Set )

Main team credits
With what they are looking forward to at Christmas
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes Watching the Christmas Special with my family


 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing Going out for our team Christmas lunch


 * Production Editor: Liza Millett Getting a real sonic screwdriver


 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Popping a weeping Angel on top of the tree


 * Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter Dancing the conga with a Silent

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: “When’s the council going to fix this? Last night my telly went off in the middle of ‘Top Model’.” Kelly in Closing Time
 * Although it seemed Madame Kovarian died, that happened in another timeline.
 * On 23rd November 2011 Doctor Who is 48 years old, first appearing on television in 1963.
 * Matt Smith describes this years Christmas episode as “ a magic fairytale!”
 * In the first Cyberman story (The Tenth Planet) the Cybermen all had names – Gern, Jarl, Krail, Krang, Shav and Talon!
 * Doctor Who Adventures designer Lee Midwinter once played a Cyberman in a David Tennant episode!
 * the Doctor appears dancing in the 1939 Laurel and Hardy film The Flying Deuces.
 * In 1952, the Doctor gets engaged to Marilyn Monroe in California.
 * The Daleks that appeared in their first story in 1963 couldn’t leave their metal city.

Further information

 * This issue is the first that is published not by BBC Magazines (part of BBC Worldwide) but by Immediate Media Company London Limited under licence from BBC Worldwide.
 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 25% (six months for £49.99) (UK).
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a monster bumper issue (including Advent Calendar and four games including dice and counters)