Doctor Who DVD Files



Doctor Who DVD Files is a fortnightly partwork magazine published by GE Fabbri Ltd, authorised by 2 entertain and BBC Worldwide. As well as a magazine, each issue includes a DVD of two episodes of the re-launched series of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, respectively.

Overview
This partwork magazine has detachable pages that can be divided and filed under 7 headings (donated by colour and page referencing). Not all sections were represented each issue and some pages are of a fold-out nature
 * GE Fabbri Ltd followed their successful Doctor Who: Battles in Time collection which had come to an end (after an extended run of 70 issues) Doctor Who DVD Files was launched on January 14th 2009 throughout the UK and Ireland after a regional test in the north-east of the UK (from September 2008).
 * This new title was promoted with a £1 million advertising campaign in magazines and on the commercial channels.
 * Due to licensing issues involving the inclusion of the DVDs, this magazine will not be distributed in North America.
 * The magazine title by necessity had to include 'DVD' in the title so as not to be confused with the Doctor Who Files, a range of BBC Children's Books.
 * The Doctor (what we know about the last of the Time Lords from Gallifrey)
 * Allies (with quotes of wit and wisdom)
 * Enemies (with essential data)
 * Behind the Scenes (with exclusive interviews)
 * Technology (with special artwork)
 * Flashback (with new artwork reliving classic moments)
 * DVD Episode Guide (with essential facts, previous encounter notes and a test yourself quiz on accompanying DVD release)

Issues

 * Issue 4 - Includes a DVD with the episodes The Long Game and Father's Day plus bonus The Five Doctors DVD.
 * Issue 5 - Includes a DVD with the episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
 * Issue 6 - Includes a DVD with the episodes Boom Town and Bad Wolf
 * Issue 7 - Includes a DVD with the episodes The Parting of the Ways and The Christmas Invasion
 * Issue 8 - Includes a DVD with episodes New Earth and Tooth and Claw
 * Issue 9 - Includes a DVD with episodes School Reunion and The Girl in the Fireplace
 * Issue 10 - Includes a DVD with episodes Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel
 * Issue 11 - Includes a DVD with episodes The Idiot's Lantern and The Impossible Planet
 * Issue 12 - Includes a DVD with episodes The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters
 * Issue 13 - Includes a DVD with episodes Fear Her and Army of Ghosts
 * Issue 14 - Includes a DVD with episodes Doomsday and The Runaway Bride
 * Issue 15 - Includes a DVD with episodes Smith and Jones and The Shakespeare Code
 * Issue 16 - Includes a DVD with episodes Gridlock and Daleks in Manhattan
 * Issue 17 - Includes a DVD with episodes Evolution of the Daleks and The Lazarus Experiment
 * Issue 18 - Includes a DVD with episodes 42 and Human Nature
 * Issue 19 - Includes a DVD with episodes The Family of Blood and Blink
 * Issue 20 - Includes a DVD with episodes Utopia and The Sound of Drums
 * Issue 21 - Includes a DVD with episodes Last of the Time Lords and Voyage of the Damned
 * Issue 22 - Includes a DVD with episodes Partners in Crime and The Fires of Pompeii
 * Issue 23 - Includes a DVD with episodes Planet of the Ood and The Sontaran Stratagem
 * Issue 24 - Includes a DVD with episodes The Poison Sky and Daughter The Doctor's Daughter
 * Issue 25 - Includes a DVD with episodes The Unicorn and the Wasp and Silence in the Library
 * Issue 26 - Includes a DVD with episodes Forest of the Dead and Midnight
 * Issue 27 - Includes a DVD with episodes Turn Left and The Stolen Earth
 * Issue 28 - Includes a DVD with episodes Journey's End and The Next Doctor
 * Issue 29 - Includes a DVD with episode Planet of the Dead and another episode - Title TBC

Credits

 * Project Manager: Ben Robinson
 * Group Editor: Claire Lister
 * Art Editor: James King
 * Designer: Carly Giles
 * Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
 * Illustrators for this part work included; Tom Connell, Nick Foreman, Carl Lyons, Lee Sullivan and Paul Williams.

Subscription Offer


Early subscribers to this title received 5 great gifts worth £50 and a discount offer that included;
 * A £1 per issue discount for subscribers off of the £6.99 cover price.
 * 3 Character Options 5” action figures from Scarecrow, Judoon, Gold Dalek, Tenth Doctor with glasses, Weeping Angel and the Master.
 * A limited edition release of '"The Doctor in Pentallion Suit (DVD FILES EDITION)"' was included in place of the third figure if you opened a subscription before the release of issue 1. The only difference between this and normal version is the inclusion of an interchangeable head between DOCTOR & SUN-POSSESSED DOCTOR.
 * DVD of the Fifth Doctor adventure, The Five Doctors, featuring Doctors one to five.
 * DVD of the Doctor Who TV Movie featuring the Eighth Doctor
 * DVD Storage holder for 14 DVD’s (subsequent holders were priced at £6.99)