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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 seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
 * The Doctor
 * Part 79: Into Darkness
 * In its 26th year Doctor Who faced certain doom …


 * Allies
 * Margaret Blaine
 * Meet the MI5 boss who was murdered by a Slitheen.
 * Companions of the first Doctor
 * Meet everyone who travelled with the Doctor’s first incarnation.


 * Enemies
 * Uvodni
 * This race of warriors fought in the Ghost Wars.
 * Ancient Haemovore
 * This terrifying creature journeyed through the mists of time …


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Part 109: Tom Baker
 * A profile of the actor who brought the Fourth Doctor to life …


 * Flashback
 * “Flights of Angels!”
 * The Tenth Doctor and Astrid Peth face deadly flying angels!


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * Paradise Towers
 * The Seventh Doctor and Mel visit a dystopian future …


 * Alien Worlds
 * Dalek Crucible
 * A terrible stronghold sat at the heart of the Medusa Cascade …

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.


 * Paradise Towers
 * "They buried me away because I wanted to stop them using the Tower. And now I will destroy them. "
 * Hoping for a holiday, the Seventh Doctor and Mel arrive in the luxury high-rise building Paradise Towers. But the world they find is anything but paradise: robotic killers and gangs of teenagers patrol the filthy corridors, and deep beneath the tower a homicidal maniac is preparing for a spree. Can the Doctor defeat the architect of death?

Notable Information

 * The Architect Kroagnon also designed Golden Dream Park, the Bridge of Perpetual Motion and Miracle City.
 * The Uvodni (with at least one delegate of the Uvodni) were part of the Pandorica Alliance in which a trap was set for the Eleventh Doctor.
 * Actor Tom Baker’s full name is ‘Thomas Stewart Baker’ and he was born in Liverpool on 20 January 1934.
 * Slitheen compression suits created an unstable gas exchange which meant that they had a tendency to “fart loudly”!
 * The Dalek Crucible formed the centre of an artificial star system comprising of 27 stolen planets.
 * Russell Tovey (who played Alonso Frame), was auditioned for the role of the Eleventh Doctor but lost out the role to Matt Smith.
 * Bram Stoker may have been inspired to write Dracula in 1897 after hearing local tales of the Haemovores along the coastline draining blood of a young girl at Maiden's Point.

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: None credited this issue
 * Illustrators: none credited this issue