DWA 146

The 146th issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * Monster Christmas pack with eight free gifts (including 2010 Calendar, Master mask, two bookmarks, three postcards and sticker sheet).

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * PREVIEW: The End of Time Part One (4 pages)
 * TOP TEN: Christmas Moments

Comic story

 * A Merry Little Christmas (4 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: DW: The End of Time Part One 


 * Featuring the Doctor rejoining the Ood and sharing in their bad dreams

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * Davros

Posters
montage featuring a hooded Master, the Tenth Doctor, a Christmas tree and TARDIS featuring the Doctor and Gadget back on Earth outside the TARDIS featuring party guests the Doctor and Rose Tyler with a Cyberman featuring the Judoon, Martha Jones and the Doctor on the moon featuring Ood Sigma, Donna Noble and the Tenth Doctor
 * A3 DW: The End of Time Part One
 * A4 “I hate funny ROBOTS!” The Tenth Doctor from DW: The Waters of Mars
 * A4 “We have been UPGRADED!” Cyberman from DW: Rise of the Cybermen
 * A4 “You will be CATALOGUED” Judoon from DW: Smith and Jones
 * A4 “Every song must END” Ood Sigma from DW: Planet of the Ood

Behind the scenes

 * Summer snowflakes (Winter specials filmed in summer)

Interview

 * None

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Adipose to win a Sarah Jane Adventures The Thirteenth Stone Audio CD adventure.


 * Activity / Make-it
 * Who’s Where? Search and Find: Santa’s grotto scene (2 pages illustrated by Christopher Cooper)


 * Puzzles and Big Christmas Quiz
 * Readers contributions: Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Competition Goodies (Merlin Books, Puzzle Cubes and Battle Deck sets)
 * BIG WIN: Worth over £530 (UK) and including Doctor Who DVD’s LCD TV and DVD Player, and Bedroom set featuring curtains, rug, fleece blanket, duvet set and bean bag.
 * EXCLUSIVE Readers offer: Set of 5 free magazine files for postage cost of £2.99 (UK) per set.

Credits
Also listing: Their present Christmas choice for the Doctor

Editor: Moray Laing, A box set of the adventures on DVD

Deputy Editor: Paul Lang A subscription to DWA, to keep track of his adventures

Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies A soft, cuddly toy to keep him company

Production Editor: Liza Millett, A new companion – me!

Designer: Melanie Caine, The future sonic screwdriver that River Song used

Personal Shopper: Donna Noble, Nothing – I don’t know any Doctor

Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: Or use it to wrap up your Christmas presents.

Carmen: “A Christmas Special at Christmas? Even I could have predicted that.”
 * This weeks Tales from the TARDIS scene is from the preview of The End of Time Part One as premiered on this Novembers Children in Need night.
 * Davros is a Kaled from the planet Skaro, a scientist and creator of the Daleks.
 * In an early version of The Waters of Mars, Yuri Kerenski said the ‘snow’ was really a carbon wash, cleaning Earth’s polluted atmosphere.

Additional details

 * A clause in the ‘Big Win’ competition states that the “bedroom set includes only those items labelled in the picture.” So those hoping to win a new bed, alarm clock, shelf, chair and ornaments – will be disappointed!
 * The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 30% (UK) – and a free gift of two Christmas Special DVD’s (The Runaway Bride and Voyage of the Damned) is offered to subscribers.
 * This double-issue for Christmas had an increased page count and cover price of £2.99 (UK) and its free gifts were bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a Doctor Who dress-up set and more than seventy stickers and on sale in two weeks' time on Wednesday 30th December!

External link

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