DWDVDF 128

The one hundred twenty-eighth issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files - "The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia" had a cover date of December 2013.

Magazine Content
Collectible loose leaf pages divided into nine categories that could be filed accordingly.


 * Allies
 * Digby and Francesca Latimer
 * Meet the children who were terrorised by the Ice Governess.
 * Clara Oswald: The Doctor's Saviour
 * Discover the secret of the Doctor's impossible girl …


 * Enemies
 * Mr Webley
 * This showman was turned into a Cyberman.
 * Anne Droid
 * The Game Station played host to this killer robot.


 * Behind the Scenes
 * Verity Lambert
 * A profile of Doctor Who's pioneering first producer.
 * Writing the Rani
 * The final part of our exclusive interview with Pip and Jane Baker.


 * Technology
 * Distress Beacon
 * River Song built this "timey-wimey" transmitter.


 * Flashback
 * Doctor Two
 * Will the "Ganger Doctor" be friend or foe?


 * DVD Episode Guide
 * An Unearthly Child
 * Journey back to the very first adventure…

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.


 * An Unearthly Child
 * "I was born in another time, another world …"
 * On a foggy November night in 1963, two school teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, follow one of their students home. The girl, Susan Foreman, is a strange genius who claims to live with her grandfather, a "doctor", and whose home address turns out to be a spooky junkyard containing a police telephone box. Ian and Barbara force their way into the box, where an incredible adventure in space and time awaits them …

Notable Information

 * CE Webber's original pilot script was called Nothing at the End of the Lane and featured a fugitive from the year 5733 who travelled in an invisible (thanks to "light resistant paint") time-machine.
 * Cybermen were once an exhibit in the travelling entertainer Vorg's Miniscope.
 * Producer Verity Lambert's middle name was Ann and she was born on 17th November 1935. At the time she was the youngest producer at the BBC.
 * Malapropism is the misquoting of sayings – a trait of the Seventh Doctor.
 * Stories to feature a Doctor "double" include The Chase (1965), The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966), The Enemy of the World (1967), Meglos (1980), Arc of Infinity (1982), Journey's End (2008), and The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People (2011).

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: Peter Griffiths
 * Illustrators: none credited this issue