DWA 78

The seventy-eighth issue of Doctor Who Adventures had a cover date of 21 August - 27 August 2008.

Free gift

 * This issue’s free gift is an inflatable Sontaran.

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * ADVENTURE GUIDE: TV: Eye of the Gorgon
 * FACTFILE: Shadow Proclamation

Comic content

 * Attack of the Mange Mites! (Part One) (5 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: TV: Planet of the Ood - Featuring the Tenth Doctor chased by the giant claw.

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * The Seventh Doctor
 * Ultimate Collection: Ood Part 2 of 4 of a booklet

Behind the scenes

 * Creating Davros’s new head

Posters

 * A3 "The whole universe is in OUTRAGE!" Shadow Proclamation from TV: The Stolen Earth - montage featuring Shadow Architect and Judoon
 * A4 "Rock on!" Maria Jackson from TV: Eye of the Gorgon - featuring the Sarah Jane Team
 * A4 "For VICTORY! Sontar-HA!" General Staal from TV: The Poison Sky - montage featuring General Staal
 * A4 "Travelling on my own, I LOVE IT!" The Doctor from TV: Midnight - montage featuring the Tenth Doctor

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere K9 to win a Doctor Who Uno set!
 * Things to do with a defeated enemy: New Earth raining Catkind and Werewolfs! (by Christopher Cooper).


 * Activity / Make-it
 * Search and Find: 2-page summer camp themed illustrated spread by Christopher Cooper.
 * Make-it: Spud monster: Davros


 * Puzzle Pages
 * Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
 * Readers contributions: Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Competition Goodies (Storm Hawks DVD and player, Remote controlled JLX Overdrive)
 * BIG WIN: Cyber Controller Head (worth almost £700) Bonus Token

Credits
Also listing: favourite Donna moment!
 * Editor: Moray Laing, Saving us all from the Daleks!
 * Deputy Editor: "Beatrice!"Annabel Gibson
 * Senior Art Editor: Paul Lang, Telling the Doctor she would travel with him forever – blub!
 * Art Editor: Steve Clarke, "Maybe it’s a Sunday?"
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett, "Don’t make me go back. Doctor. Please" –Nooooo!
 * Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Speaking Welsh in the market of Pompeii!
 * Writer: Mel Bezalel, "Why do you say 'miss'? Do I look single to you?"
 * Office Nag: Sylvia Noble, Ruining her wedding – she always wants attention!

Hidden Away / Facts

 * This magazine can be recycled: This is an official warning from the Shadow Proclamation.
 * Miss Foster: "No one ever wants to play games with me. Friendless Foster they used to call me. FOOLS!"
 * A special mini-episode, Music of the Spheres, was premiered live at the Doctor Who Prom recorded in July at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
 * Convention Fifteen of the Shadow Proclamation deals with a cessation of hostilities in order to "parley" or talk.
 * Native Judoon words all end in "o".
 * Lavender Lawns is a home for the elderly.
 * Bea's husband Edgar once met the Sontarans.
 * Prosthetics designer Neill Gorton choose to make Davros's mask himself.
 * The planets Ood-Sphere and Sense Sphere are located in the Horsehead Nebula.

Additional details

 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 30%, over £18 (UK) and a free copy of Doctor Who Files 12: The TARDIS and Doctor Who Files 1: The Doctor book or 40% off without the addition free gift as leafleted.
 * This issue and its free gifts were cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gifts are listed as a Sontaran notebook and pen.

External link

 * The official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue