Doctor Who DVD Files

Doctor Who DVD Files was a fortnightly partwork magazine published by GE Fabbri Ltd, authorised by 2|entertain and BBC Worldwide. As well as a magazine, each issue included a DVD of two episodes of the re-launched series of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, launching Issue 1 with Rose and The End of the World (DWDVDF 1).

From Issue 29, the series was extended beyond The Next Doctor release (DWDVDF 28), with DVDs of classic stories, starting with Remembrance of the Daleks (DWDVDF 29). Following the first black/white release, with the story The Tomb of the Cybermen (DWDVDF 73), the magazine began releasing back-to back episodes of the Eleventh Doctor's televised adventures (from DWDVDF 74) up to A Christmas Carol (DWDVDF 80). Following that they returned to releasing classic stories, starting with Planet of the Daleks (DWDVDF 81) and ending with Black Orchid (DWDVDF 152).

Overview[]

GE Fabbri Ltd ended their successful Doctor Who: Battles in Time collection after an extended run of 70 issues. Doctor Who DVD Files was launched on 14 January 2009 throughout the UK and Ireland after a regional test in the north-east of the UK (from September 2008).
This new title was promoted with a £1 million advertising campaign in magazines and on the commercial channels.
Due to licensing issues involving the inclusion of the DVDs, this magazine was not distributed in North America. However, beginning in February 2009 the magazine introduced an online version without DVD content that was accessible worldwide (see below).
The magazine title by necessity had to include "DVD" so as to avoid confusion with the Doctor Who Files, a range of BBC Children's Books.
Initially launched as a twenty-eight-part series (including releases up to and including The Next Doctor), the title was expanded to forty issues with "classic" story releases as "vanilla" editions (i.e., without extras). It was expanded several more times, completing after some 152 issues in November 2014.

Online content[]

The publisher (GE Fabbri Ltd) anticipated that before this title was announced there would be interest in the magazine portion only from UK fans who already had access to the stories on DVD, individually or as part of a boxset release, as well as non-UK Doctor Who fans. DVD licensing prevented the magazine from being distributed outside the British Isles.

Because the DVDs were supplied with all copies of the magazine, a magazine-only version was not practical. A different approach was adopted. Following the launch of the accompanying website [1], an expansion into an archive subscription service (updated with each new issue released) was announced and implemented in February 2009.

For a subscription fee of £3 per month (or £25 per year), this archive service allowed online readers unlimited access to the 600+ pages of the magazine and a further 150 pages that made up the comic strip that ran in their other successful title, Doctor Who: Battles in Time.

The website also included bonus features including a desktop Dalek, online games and downloadable wallpapers.

Content[]

This partwork magazine with detachable pages and online archive service had pages that could be divided and filed under seven headings (denoted by colour and page references). Not all sections were represented each issue and some pages are of a fold-out nature.

The Doctor (what we know about the last of the Time Lords from Gallifrey)
Allies (with quotes of wit and wisdom)
Enemies (with essential data)
Behind The Scenes (with exclusive interviews)
Technology (with special artwork)
Flashback (with new artwork reliving classic moments)
DVD Episode Guide (with essential facts, previous encounter notes and a test yourself quiz on accompanying DVD release)

Two further sections were added from issue 51. These are:

Issue List[]


Issue	Episodes Included	Release Date
1	Rose/The End of the World	14 January 2009
2	The Unquiet Dead/Aliens of London	28 January 2009
3	World War Three/Dalek	11 February 2009
4	The Long Game/Father's Day	25 February 2009
5	The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances	11 March 2009
6	Boom Town/Bad Wolf	25 March 2009
7	The Parting of the Ways/The Christmas Invasion	8 April 2009
8	New Earth/Tooth and Claw	22 April 2009
9	School Reunion/The Girl in the Fireplace	6 May 2009
10	Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel	20 May 2009
11	The Idiot's Lantern/The Impossible Planet	3 June 2009
12	The Satan Pit/Love & Monsters	17 June 2009
13	Fear Her/Army of Ghosts	1 July 2009
14	Doomsday/The Runaway Bride	15 July 2009
15	Smith & Jones/The Shakespeare Code	29 July 2009
16	Gridlock/Daleks in Manhattan	12 August 2009
17	Evolution of the Daleks/The Lazarus Experiment	26 August 2009
18	42/Human Nature	9 September 2009
19	The Family Of Blood/Blink	23 September 2009
20	Utopia/The Sound of Drums	7 October 2009
21	Last of the Time-Lords/Voyage of the Damned	21 October 2009
22	Partners in Crime/The Fires of Pompeii	4 November 2009
23	Planet of the Ood/The Sontaran Stratagem	18 November 2009
24	The Poison Sky/The Doctor's Daughter	2 December 2009
25	The Unicorn and the Wasp/Silence in the Library	16 December 2009
26	Forest of the Dead/Midnight	30 December 2009
27	Turn Left/The Stolen Earth	13 January 2010
28	Journey's End/The Next Doctor	27 January 2010
29	Remembrance of the Daleks	10 February 2010
30	The Three Doctors	24 February 2010
31	Genesis of the Daleks	10 March 2010
32	Earthshock	24 March 2010
33	Pyramids of Mars	7 April 2010
34	Resurrection of the Daleks	21 April 2010
35	Spearhead from Space	5 May 2010
36	The Caves of Androzani	19 May 2010
37	City of Death	2 June 2010
38	Revelation of the Daleks	16 June 2010
39	The Curse of Fenric	30 June 2010
40	The Brain of Morbius	14 July 2010
41	The Talons of Weng-Chiang	28 July 2010
42	The Visitation	11 August 2010
43	The Hand of Fear	25 August 2010
44	Inferno	8 September 2010
45	The Two Doctors	22 September 2010
46	Logopolis	6 October 2010
47	Castrovalva	20 October 2010
48	The Green Death	3 November 2010
49	Robot	17 November 2010
50	Mawdryn Undead	1 December 2010
51	Survival	15 December 2010
52	The Deadly Assassin	29 December 2010
53	The Time Warrior	12 January 2011
54	The Robots of Death	26 January 2011
55	Planet of the Dead/The Waters of Mars	9 February 2011
56	The End of Time	23 February 2011
57	Enlightenment	9 March 2011
58	Destiny of the Daleks	23 March 2011
59	Battlefield	6 April 2011
60	Carnival of Monsters	20 April 2011
61	Horror of Fang Rock	4 May 2011
62	Delta and the Bannermen	18 May 2011
63	The Mark of the Rani	1 June 2011
64	The Masque of Mandragora	15 June 2011
65	The Silurians	29 June 2011
66	The Sea Devils	13 July 2011
67	The Stones of Blood	27 July 2011
68	Vengeance on Varos	10 August 2011
69	The Keeper of Traken	24 August 2011
70	Image of the Fendahl	7 September 2011
71	The Curse of Peladon	21 September 2011
72	The Androids of Tara	5 October 2011
73	The Tomb of the Cybermen	19 October 2011
74	The Eleventh Hour/The Beast Below	2 November 2011
75	Victory of the Daleks/The Time of Angels	16 November 2011
76	Flesh and Stone/The Vampires of Venice	30 November 2011
77	Amy's Choice/The Hungry Earth	14 December 2011
78	Cold Blood/Vincent and the Doctor	28 December 2011
79	The Lodger/The Pandorica Opens	11 January 2012
80	The Big Bang/A Christmas Carol	25 January 2012
81	Planet of the Daleks	8 February 2012
82	Attack of the Cybermen	22 February 2012
83	Warriors of the Deep	7 March 2012
84	The Mind Robber	21 March 2012
85	Full Circle	4 April 2012
86	State of Decay	18 April 2012
87	Warriors' Gate	2 May 2012
88	The Invasion: Episodes 1-4	16 May 2012
89	The Invasion: Episodes 5-8	30 May 2012
90	The Ark in Space	13 June 2012
91	The Daleks	27 June 2012
92	Day of the Daleks	11 July 2012
93	Kinda	25 July 2012
94	Planet of Evil	8 August 2012
95	The Dalek Invasion of Earth	22 August 2012
96	Ghost Light	5 September 2012
97	The Claws of Axos	19 September 2012
98	The Leisure Hive	3 October 2012
99	Time and the Rani	17 October 2012
100	Frontios	31 October 2012
101	Terror of the Autons	14 November 2012
102	Silver Nemesis	28 November 2012
103	Snakedance	12 December 2012
104	Frontier in Space	26 December 2012
105	Four to Doomsday	9 January 2013
106	Paradise Towers	23 January 2013
107	The Ribos Operation	6 February 2013
108	Arc of Infinity	20 February 2013
109	Meglos	6 March 2013
110	Planet of the Spiders	20 March 2013
111	Revenge of the Cybermen	3 April 2013
112	The Pirate Planet	17 April 2013
113	The Greatest Show in the Galaxy	1 May 2013
114	Death to the Daleks	15 May 2013
115	The Seeds of Death	29 May 2013
116	Planet of Fire	12 June 2013
117	The Daemons	26 June 2013
118	The Invasion of Time	10 July 2013
119	The Happiness Patrol	24 July 2013
120	The Seeds of Doom	7 August 2013
121	Invasion of the Dinosaurs	21 August 2013
122	The Aztecs	4 September 2013
123	Dragonfire	18 September 2013
124	The Face of Evil	2 October 2013
125	The Monster of Peladon	16 October 2013
126	The Android Invasion	30 October 2013
127	The Twin Dilemma	13 November 2013
128	An Unearthly Child	27 November 2013
129	The Mysterious Planet	11 December 2013
130	Mindwarp	25 December 2013
131	Terror of the Vervoids	8 January 2014
132	The Ultimate Foe	22 January 2014
133	The Invisible Enemy	5 February 2014
134	Nightmare of Eden	19 February 2014
135	Time-Flight	5 March 2014
136	The Armageddon Factor	19 March 2014
137	The Time Monster	2 April 2014
138	The Chase	16 April 2014
139	The Horns of Nimon	30 April 2014
140	Terminus	14 May 2014
141	Timelash	28 May 2014
142	The War Machines	11 June 2014
143	The Mind of Evil	25 June 2014
144	The Awakening	9 July 2014
145	The Ambassadors of Death	23 July 2014
146	The War Games: Episodes 1-5	6 August 2014
147	The War Games: Episodes 6-10	20 August 2014
148	Colony in Space	3 September 2014
149	The Creature from the Pit	17 September 2014
150	The Time Meddler	1 October 2014
151	Terror of the Zygons	15 October 2014
152	Black Orchid	29 October 2014