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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
 * Part 57 Hidden Identities
 * Read about the Eleventh Doctor’s continuing adventures.


 * Allies
 * Amelia Pond
 * Read all about the young Pond who waited years for her Doctor.


 * Enemies
 * Plasmavore
 * Meet the bloodsucking alien disguised as a harmless old lady.
 * Henry Van Statten
 * The man who not only owned the internet, but also the last Dalek!


 * Behind the Scenes
 * What Katy Did Next …
 * Katy Manning talks about returning to the role of Jo Grant in 2010.


 * Technology
 * First Doctor’s TARDIS Console
 * Look at the inner workings of the earliest known TARDIS console …


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * Carnival of Monsters
 * The Third Doctor and Jo find themselves in a mad, miniature adventure!


 * Alien Worlds
 * Necros
 * Visit the planet of the dead that was presided over by Davros!


 * Who On Earth
 * PART 9: Aztecs and Aliens
 * Follow the Doctor’s country-hopping in the Renaissance …

DVD Release (with cover blurb)

 * Each issue came with a DVD release.
 * Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.


 * Carnival of Monsters
 * "”I may well become exceedingly hostile!” "
 * The Doctor decides to test out his newly repaired TARDIS by taking Jo on a trip to Metebelis III. But the duo never make it to that famous blue planet. Instead the TARDIS is miniaturised by the compression field of an alien Miniscope and the Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped in a bizarre sideshow world. Why are the passengers and crew of the 1920s ocean liner SS Bernice trapped in a time loop? Who is Vorg and why has he come to the planet Inter Minor? And can the Doctor and Jo restore themselves to normal size before they are eaten by Drashigs?

Notable Information

 * The video release of the Doctor Who TV movie, in 1996 was commercially available a week before its screening on 27th May.
 * In the 1996 Doctor Who movie the role of Bruce the paramedic’s wife was played by the actor Eric Roberts’s own wife Eliza Roberts.
 * In Horror of Fang Rock the Doctor quotes from the poem ‘Flannan Isle’ written by Wilfred Gibson – which is based on a true story.
 * Horror of Fang Rock was written to replace a cancelled script ‘The Witch Lords/The Vampire Mutation’ because of a possible conflict with another BBC Count Dracula drama. Terrance Dick’s story later reached the screen in 1980 as State of Decay.
 * [[Crespallion was part of the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction, in Convex 56.

Additional note
With the re-revised magazine issue count now increased to 81 issues, subscribers received a fourth binder with binders allocated to the following sections;
 * Binder One – The Doctor and Alliens
 * Binder Two – Episode Guides, Flashback and Who On Earth
 * Binder Three – Enemies and Alien Worlds
 * Binder Four – Technology and Behind the Scenes

Credits

 * Project Manager: Ben Robinson
 * Group Editor: Claire Lister
 * Art Editor: James King
 * Designer: Carly Giles
 * Writer/Sub-Editor: Neil Corry, Kieran Grant
 * Junior Sub-Editor: Poppy Kemp
 * Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths, Jason Loborik and Jacqueline Rayner.
 * Illustrators: Lee Sullivan and Gavin Rymill