DWA 245

The 245th issue of Doctor Who Adventures was released in November 2011.

Free gift

 * Bumper Pack includes a double sided board game and advent calendar, and a monster games set comprising spinner, dice, maze counters and mini-pinball.

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * NEWS EXTRA: Christmas Special Secrets!
 * FACTFILE: Sontarans
 * DESTINATION: 1941

Comic strips

 * Dog of War!
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

 * From: DW: Night Terrors Highlighted moments from episode 10

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

 * A4 ULTIMATE MONSTER: Pig slave

Posters

 * A3 Rory Williams, The Doctor and Amy Pond
 * A4 General Staal

Behind the scenes

 * Backstage filming of the Stormcage facility

Interview

 * Madame Kovarian

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
 * Geronimo: What’s new -DVD Box-set extras, What’s going on in a Silent’s Brain?, Hot or not!
 * Big Puzzle: Giant Suduko (2 pages)
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Day trip to London and steam train adventure.)
 * Readers Offer: 25% discount of personalised Doctor Who cards from funkypigeon.com

Main team credits
With the character they would most like to chat to on the phone.
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes Joy – we could chat about eyewear fashions!
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing Yvonne Hartman – we’d discuss pensions
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett The Doctor – but only on free weekend calls, because he talks too much!
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Captain Jack – I’d ask to borrow his coat for winter
 * Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter The Silurians, to talk about celeriac

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: “The House is all around you, my sweets. You are standing on him.” TBC
 * The first Sontaran on television was Commander Jingo Linx in The Time Warrior.
 * On a secret mission in a war against the Rutan Host, Field Major Kaarsh had a three-fingered hand in Guy Fawkes’ plot to blow up Parliament.
 * The Stormcage facility was flmed at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
 * Breakfast cereal Cheerios first went on sale in 1941. The Midnight Snack was To

Further information

 * Destination is a new feature that looks at events in both the real world and the Whoniverse.
 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 25% (six months for £49.99) (UK).
 * Subscribers received a letter explaining a change in publisher’s name. from BBC to Immediate Media Company London.
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was bagged
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a mobile phone kit (Phone Sock, Lanyard and screen wipe)