DWDVDF 141

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.
 * The Doctor
 * Eighth Doctor: Last Stand
 * The fate of the Eighth Doctor is finally revealed!


 * Allies
 * Joe
 * This resident of the Minotaur’s hotel had a phobia …
 * Handles
 * Meet the disembodied Cyber-chum.
 * Elizabeth I
 * The tenth Doctor married this headstrong monarch.


 * Enemies
 * Auton Brides
 * These veiled menaces attacked Jackie Tyler in London


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Memories of the Acton Hilton
 * Exclusive interview with director Alan Wareing


 * Technology
 * Sonic Cane
 * The Doctor’s latest sonic gadget was very smart indeed,


 * Flashback
 * Angel of Death
 * The Doctor loses the Ponds in New York City.


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * “ Timelash “
 * The Doctor returns to the planet Karfel

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.


 * Timelash
 * "The waves of time wash us all clean” "
 * Peri is held hostage on the planet Karfel and the Doctor is forced to travel to the 19th-century on a rescue mission. He returns with Herbert a Victorian gentleman, to face the sinister schemes of the tyrannical Borad. Who are the Bandrils? What is the ecret of Loch Ness? And what does it all have to do with science-fiction writer H.G. Wells?

Notable Information

 * In H.G. Wells’s science fiction novel The Time Machine, there were hideously mutated creatures called the ‘Morlocks’ inspired by Herberts travels with the Sixth Doctor to the planet Karfel.
 * River Song posed as private detective Melody Malone in order to investigate the house of art collector Julius Grayle in 1930s New York.
 * Handles the cyberhead (found at the Maldovar market), kept the Eleventh Doctor company for around 900 years.
 * Having ‘married’ Elizabeth I in 1562 and being furious when he abandoned her she ordered his arrest when she next saw him at the Globe Theatre in 1599.
 * Because of an asbestos scare, studio filming of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was moved to a tent erected in the Elstree studio car park.

Credits

 * Project Manager: not credited this issue
 * Group Editor: not credited this issue
 * Editor: Kieran Grant
 * Art Editor: Pete Byrne
 * Designer: not credited this issue
 * Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
 * Contributing Writers: Peter Griffiths
 * Illustrators: none credited this issue