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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 nine categories that could be filed accordingly.
 * Allies
 * Rapunzel
 * In the Land of Fiction, fairy tales were real …
 * Jenny Flint
 * One third of the Paternoster Gang was a karate-kicking maid!


 * Enemies
 * Tricky Van Baalen
 * This ‘android’ was not all that he seemed …
 * Spoonheads
 * The Great Intelligence used robots to take over London …
 * Dinosaurs
 * The Doctor has encountered several prehistoric beasts.


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Russell T Davies
 * A profile of the writer who saved 'Doctor Who'.


 * Technology
 * Time Scoop
 * Discover more about this forbidden Time Lord device.


 * Flashback
 * “Nightmare!”
 * Welcome to the Minotaur’s hotel of horror.


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * The Invisible Enemy
 * The Fourth Doctor embarks on a fantastic voyage.

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.


 * The Invisible Enemy
 * "We are all predators, Doctor. We kill … we devour … to live. "
 * The TARDIS is attacked by the nucleus of a virus called The Swarm and lands at the Bi-Al Foundation, a space hospital in the 51st century. With the Doctor in a coma, it’s up to scientist Professor Marius and his robot dog, K-9, to help Leela]] save the Time Lord’s life. But will Marius’ outlandish plan really work? And are they too late to prevent the Age of the Virus?

Notable Information
The notorious pirate Blackbeard who terrorised the West Indies in the 18th century was actually called Edward Teach.
 * The Bi-Al Foundation (or Centre for Alien Biomorphology), was located at galactic co-ordinates 7438007.
 * The ‘van Baalen Brothers’ were called Tricky, Bram and Gregor.
 * Russell T Davies was born in Swansea on 27th April 1963 his full name is Stephen Russell Davies.
 * Russell T Davies’s 1995 Doctor Who novel Damaged Goods was set on a council estate that featured a family called the Tylers’ - some years before Rose Tyler made her television appearance in 2005.
 * In 1812 the Brothers Grimm published a collection of fairy tales.
 * Jenny Flint was a Victorian Match girl rescued from an attack by a Chinese gang by Madame Vastra who she later married in 1892 and along with Strax formed the Paternoster Gang.
 * Operation Golden Age was an eco-terrorist group in the early 1970’s.
 * The Time Scoop was a relic from the Dark Times in Gallifrey’s history known as the Age of Chaos.

Credits

 * Project Manager: not credited this issue
 * Group Editor: not credited this issue
 * Editor: Kieran Grant
 * Art Editor: Elanzi Smit
 * Designer: not credited this issue
 * Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
 * Contributing Writers: not credited this issue
 * Illustrators: none credited this issue