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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 7 categories that could be filed accordingly.
 * The Doctor
 * Myths and Monsters


 * Allies
 * Astrid Peth
 * Turlough


 * Enemies
 * The Beast (foldout)


 * Flashback
 * The Doctor Reborn! (The Doctors First Regeneration)


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Growing the TARDIS (building the TARDIS)


 * Technology (foldout)
 * Sonic Screwdriver


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * The Idiot's Lantern
 * The Impossible Planet

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 Idiot's Lantern
 * The Doctor and Rose land on a world somehow balanced on the edge of a black hole and lose the TARDIS while an ancient evil stirs deep inside the planet … Could this be the end for the time-travelling pair?


 * The Impossible Planet
 * “Ooh, sweet Lord! I'm a walking doodle!"
 * “We’re on a planet that shouldn’t exist, underneath a black hole … and no way out"
 * The TARDIS mucks up the Doctor and Rose’s plan to see Elvis when it lands in the wrong country. Luckily, however this means they’re in the right time and place to save the world from the Wire, an alien entity which is stealing people’s faces through their television sets!

Notable Information

 * Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation was on 2nd June 1953.
 * Astrid is an anagram of TARDIS.
 * Magpie Electricals provided television sets in the UK from the 1950’s to present day (ref. The Sound of Drums).
 * The Doctor’s sonic screwdriver has been destroyed in The Visitation (by Terileptils) and Smith and Jones (by an X-ray machine).
 * Actor Mark Strickson who played Vislor Turlough dyed his hair for the part because it was too similar in colour to that of the Fifth Doctor.
 * Both Turlough and his younger brother Malkon carried the Misos-Triangle branded onto their arm.
 * Valtino script tells of the Beast being imprisoned on Krop Tor by the Disciples of Light.

Credits

 * Project Manager: Ben Robinson
 * Group Editor: Claire Lister
 * Art Editor: James Schiavi
 * Designers: Carly Giles and James King
 * Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
 * Contributing Writer: David Bailey, Gary Gillatt, Jason Loborik and Eddie Robson.
 * Illustrators for this part work included; Tom Connell, Matthew Savage, Lee Sullivan and Peter McKinstry