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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
 * Demons and Daleks


 * Allies
 * Sarah Jane Smith


 * Enemies
 * Carrionites
 * CyberKing (Foldout)


 * Flashback
 * Space-Time Trap (Castrovalva)


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Gareth Roberts Writer


 * Technology
 * Judoon Translater (Foldout)


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * Smith and Jones
 * The Shakespeare Code

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.


 * Smith and Jones
 * "Justice is swift!"
 * When a London hospital is teleported to the Moon, trainee doctor Martha Jones thinks things couldn’t get worse. But the air’s running out, and aliens that look like rhinos are checking if everyone’s human! As far as Martha’s concerned, the key to solving the madness seems to be a patient – a strange man who calls himself ‘the Doctor’ …


 * The Shakespeare Code
 * “How can a man so young have eyes so old?!"
 * Whisked off to London in 1599, Martha and the Doctor meet William Shakespeare! The Doctor’s surprised to hear of a new play ‘Love’s Labour’s Won’, because it doesn’t exist! Investigating further, he and Martha discover three hideous aliens intent on controlling Shakespeare, hoping his words can open a portal to where millions of their kind are trapped!

Notable Information

 * Reappearing Actor/Actresses in Doctor Who include; Adjoa Andoh (who played Sister Jatt also played Francine Jones, Anne Reid (who played Florence Finnegan and Nurse Crane), Trevor Laird (who played Clive Jones also played Frax) and Freema Agyeman (who played Martha Jones also played Adeola Oshodi)
 * The Doctor once had a ‘laser spanner’ but Emmeline Pankhurst (founder of the suffragette movement) took it.
 * William Shakespeare mentions Sycorax in his last play ‘The Tempest’ a word given to him by the Doctor.
 * On filming Castrovalva, second Doctor Patrick Troughton visited the set and even stood in for the Fifth Doctor Peter Davison during rehersals.
 * Writer Gareth Roberts’ first published Doctor Who story was The Highest Science (1993).

Credits

 * Project Manager: Ben Robinson
 * Group Editor: Claire Lister
 * Art Editor: James Schiavi
 * Designer: Carly Giles
 * Writers/Sub-Editors: Neill Corry and Kieran Grant
 * Contributing Writer: Gary Gillatt, Jason Loborik and Jacqueline Rayner.