DWA 65

The 65th issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * This issue’s free gift is a Power Rollers & Ood Dress-up Set (Mask and ID badge)

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * STORY PREVIEW: Episodes 8 - 13

Comic content

 * Windswept (Part One) (5 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: (TV: Planet of the Ood)


 * Featuring Halpen's transformation into Oodkind

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * The Fourth Doctor

Behind the scenes

 * Filming the car crash stunt for The Sontaran Stratagem
 * Interview with Freema Agyeman (Donna Noble)

Posters
featuring Vespiform montage featuring Ood Sigma, Halpen and Dr Ryder montage featuring Martha Jones montage featuring the Doctor, Donna and Agatha Christie.
 * A3 (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
 * A4 “The Ood are NOTHING without us!” Halpen from TV: Planet of the Ood
 * A4 “I’ve MISSED all this!” Martha Jones from TV: The Poison Sky
 * A4 “If anyone can SOLVE this, it’s you!” The Tenth Doctor from TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Ross Jenkins to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!
 * Things to do with a defeated enemy: Adipose create a shortage of fat suits for the Slitheen (by Christopher Cooper).


 * Activity / Make-it
 * Mask: Hath
 * Be an Ood (with your dress up kit)


 * Puzzle Pages and Doctor Who Quiz (The Unicorn and the Wasp)
 * Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
 * Readers contributions: Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Competition Goodies (Doctor Who Top trumps game, Nintendo DS and Voyage of the Damned set, Agatha Christie DVD and player.
 * BIG WIN: Design a Dalek ‘colouring’ competion for a Dalek Voice Changer Helmet
 * Includes life-size Ood head bonus token.

Credits

 * Also listing: favourite bit of The Sontaran Stratagem
 * Editor: Moray Laing, The Sontarans war cry!
 * Acting Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson Martha’s return
 * Art Editor: Paul Lang, Sylvia’s diet
 * Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, “Intruder window!"
 * Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Staal betraying Luke,
 * Sub-Editor: Mel Bezalel, Martha covered in goo!
 * Freelancer: Liza Millett, Bad-boy Luke!
 * Freelancer: Richard Atkinson, “We like Ross”
 * War Co-ordinator: General Staal, preparing for victory!

Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: Or prepare to undergo Ood transformation …

Frau Clovis: “I demand to know when there will be a three-part poster of me and my children.”

The Firestone was actually a Vespiform telepathic recorder
 * The Ood are connected to their full brain, the hind brain (which is held), and, a telepathic centre (which for a while was housed in Warehouse 15, on Ood-Sphere).
 * Halpen’s hair tonic was actually an Ood-graft suspended in a biological compound.
 * In The Sontaran Stratagem, journalist Jo Nakashima’s ATMOS equip car entered the water at 60mph and was an adapted vehicle that was fired into the water like a rocket. The scene was filmed in one take.
 * Lady Eddison caught malaria in India.

Additional details

 * The subscription offer is revised for this issue with a saving of 30%, over £18 (UK) and a free Character Options Micro Universe set.
 * There was no episode of Doctor Who broadcast this week, so instead several of the features were a looking back so far and to come focused.
 * This issue and its free gifts were cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gifts are listed as Sontaran Mask, badges and stickers.

External link

 * The official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue