DWA 39

The 39th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free Gift

 * TARDIS themed stationery set: notepad, ruler, pencil and eraser.

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * Inside the TARDIS

Comic strips

 * Shipwreck! (Part Two) (6 pages)

Tales From the TARDIS (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

 * From: (DW): Utopia
 * Featuring: Captain Jack Harkness grabbing a ride on the TARDIS.

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * File 35: The Beast

Adventure Guide / Doctor Who Confidential
(Including readers views and behind the scenes)
 * (DW): The Family of Blood

Posters

 * A3 '''“Untitled“ featuring the TARDIS
 * A4 “Now they’re just BEASTS!“ The Doctor in (DW): Gridlock montage featuring Macra.
 * A4 “I am NOT the DOCTOR!“ The Doctor in (DW): The Family of Blood montage featuring John Smith and the Scarecrows.

Also Featuring

 * Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
 * The Vortex (Who News)
 * Humour: ‘’Things to do with a defeated enemy’’ Use the Daughter of Mine to give fashion tips to innocent shoppers! (By Christopher Cooper)
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Sarah Jane Smith’s Watch to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!


 * Time Agent Upload
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Top five reasons for loving the TARDIS
 * Quiz: The TARDIS
 * Puzzle Pages
 * Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
 * Competition Goodies: Doctor Who Fun books, LEGO and Ratatouille goodies.
 * Win a life-size Dalek (Token collect. Bonus token in this issue)

Main Team Credits
Also listing: favourite bits from Last of the Time Lords Editor: Moray Laing, The Titanic crashing in! Art Editor: Paul Lang, Martha travelling the world Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, Jack/Boe Reveal Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, The Doctor forgiving the Master Production Editor: Ed Lomas, The old Doctor in a cage Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, Martha’s goodbye Master Plan: Lucy Saxon, The Master’s goodbye …

Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: “Or store it away nicely in your TARDIS attic next to the Carrionites …” Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan is most disappointed that the Doctor didn’t visit him in ‘Gridlock’...”
 * TARDIS stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space.
 * Sarah Jane Smith lives in Bannerman Road, Ealing, West London.
 * The Fourth Doctor dropped off Sarah Jane Smith in Aberdeen, not Croydon, when she first left him.
 * The Beast was imprisoned on Krop Tor by the Disciples of the Light before the creation of the universe.
 * Forty gallons of petrol were used to explode the Family of Blood’s invisible spaceship.
 * In the original novel of Human Nature, the Doctor’s Time Lord self was hidden in a cricket ball.
 * In The Time Warrior, Sarah Jane Smith is a journalist who poses as her Aunt Lavinia so that she could find out about some top secret scientific research.
 * The planet Gallifrey was situated in the constellation named Kasterborus.

Additonal details

 * Published every two weeks on a Thursday this issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK).
 * This issue included 8 extra pages devoted to the new The Sarah Jane Adventures. It included a ‘Who is Sarah Jane’ feature, an A3 poster of the regular cast being menaced by a Slitheen, an introduction to the team feature and a preview guide to the first seasons five stories.
 * The readers vote on favourite episode in Season 2 was the Last of the Time Lords (28%), Blink (24%) and The Sound of Drums (8%).
 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £9 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
 * This issues free gift was selotaped to the cover.
 * Next issues free gift is given as Dalek slime and a yucky mutant brain!