Doctor Who DVD Files

Doctor Who DVD files

Categories	Science fiction television
Frequency	Fortnightly
First issue	14 January 2009
Final issue	25 January 2012
Company	GE Fabbri
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	Doctor Who DVD files

Doctor Who DVD Files is a fortnightly partwork magazine published by GE Fabbri, authorised by 2 entertain and BBC Worldwide.^[1] Each issue consists of a magazine and a DVD.

The magazine 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). It is edited by Claire Lister and the project manager is Ben Robinson. On 7 September 2009 Doctor Who DVD Files became available in Australia as a fortnightly release.

Magazine

The magazine is divided into seven sections^[1][2]:
The Doctor - Briefly describes each the doctors known adventures as well as a sum up of each doctor;
Allies - Briefly sums up each companion and people who have helped the doctor;
Enemies - Briefly sums up all enemies the doctor has faced extra pages for the more famous enemies such as the Daleks and the Master etc.;
Episode Guides - Briefly sums up the episodes/serials on the DVD;
Technology - Takes a look at some pieces of technology seen in the series such as the Tardis, Sonic screwdriver and Bessie, the Doctors car;
Behind-the - Scenes-Often has interviews with people involved with the series;
Flashback - Which looks at classic doctor who adventures.

With Issue 51, two new dividers were added, Who on Earth and Alien Worlds.
Who on Earth - chronicles the Doctor's involvement in the history of the planet;
Alien Worlds - is your Guide to some of the weird and wonderful places that the Doctor has visited.

Subscribing to the Doctor Who DVD Files meant that you were sent 2 issues and the accompanying DVDs once a month. In subscribing collectors saved £1 of each issue and received three series 3 action figures and a simple DVD storage unit as free gifts. Notably collectors in their third month of subscription received a further gift of a bonus DVD of "The Movie" starring Paul McGann. In Australia, though, subscribers were not sent the bonus DVD of "The Movie", but were instead sent an extra action figure.^[3]

DVD Files

• Issue 1 – "Rose" and "The End of the World" – 14 January 2009
• Issue 2 – "The Unquiet Dead" and "Aliens of London" – 28 January 2009
• Issue 3 – "World War Three" and "Dalek" – 11 February 2009
• Issue 4 – "The Long Game" and "Father's Day" plus bonus "The Five Doctors" DVD – 25 February 2009
• Issue 5 – "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" – 11 March 2009
• Issue 6 – "Boom Town" and "Bad Wolf" – 25 March 2009
• Issue 7 – "The Parting Of The Ways" and "The Christmas Invasion" – 8 April 2009
• Issue 8 – "New Earth" and "Tooth and Claw" – 22 April 2009
• Issue 9 – "School Reunion" and "The Girl in the Fireplace" – 6 May 2009
• Issue 10 – "The Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" – 20 May 2009
• Issue 11 – "The Idiot's Lantern" and "The Impossible Planet" – 3 June 2009
• Issue 12 – "The Satan Pit" and "Love & Monsters" – 17 June 2009
• Issue 13 – "Fear Her" and "Army of Ghosts" – 1 July 2009
• Issue 14 – "Doomsday" and "The Runaway Bride" – 15 July 2009
• Issue 15 – "Smith and Jones" and "The Shakespeare Code" – 29 July 2009
• Issue 16 – "Gridlock" and "Daleks in Manhattan" – 12 August 2009
• Issue 17 – "Evolution of the Daleks" and "The Lazarus Experiment" – 26 August 2009
• Issue 18 – "42" and "Human Nature" – 9 September 2009
• Issue 19 – "The Family of Blood" and "Blink" – 23 September 2009
• Issue 20 – "Utopia" and "The Sound of Drums" – 7 October 2009
• Issue 21 – "Last of the Time Lords" and "Voyage of the Damned" – 21 October 2009
• Issue 22 – "Partners in Crime" and "The Fires of Pompeii" – 4 November 2009
• Issue 23 – "Planet of the Ood" and "The Sontaran Stratagem" – 18 November 2009
• Issue 24 – "The Poison Sky" and "The Doctor's Daughter" – 2 December 2009
• Issue 25 – "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and "Silence in the Library" – 16 December 2009
• Issue 26 – "Forest of the Dead" and "Midnight" – 30 December 2009
• Issue 27 – "Turn Left" and "The Stolen Earth" – 13 January 2010
• Issue 28 – "Journey's End" and "The Next Doctor" – 27 January 2010
• Issue 29 – Remembrance of the Daleks – 10 February 2010
• Issue 30 – The Three Doctors – 24 February 2010
• Issue 31 – Genesis of the Daleks – 10 March 2010
• Issue 32 – Earthshock – 24 March 2010
• Issue 33 – Pyramids of Mars – 7 April 2010
• Issue 34 – Resurrection of the Daleks – 21 April 2010
• Issue 35 – Spearhead from Space – 5 May 2010
• Issue 36 – The Caves of Androzani – 19 May 2010
• Issue 37 – City of Death – 2 June 2010
• Issue 38 – Revelation of the Daleks – 16 June 2010
• Issue 39 – The Curse of Fenric – 30 June 2010
• Issue 40 – The Brain of Morbius – 14 July 2010
• Issue 41 – The Talons of Weng-Chiang – 28 July 2010
• Issue 42 – The Visitation – 11 August 2010
• Issue 43 – The Hand of Fear – 25 August 2010
• Issue 44 – Inferno – 8 September 2010
• Issue 45 – The Two Doctors – 22 September 2010
• Issue 46 – Logopolis – 6 October 2010
• Issue 47 – Castrovalva – 20 October 2010
• Issue 48 – The Green Death – 3 November 2010
• Issue 49 – Robot – 17 November 2010
• Issue 50 – Mawdryn Undead- 1 December 2010
• Issue 51 – Survival – 15 December 2010
• Issue 52 – The Deadly Assassin – 29 December 2010
• Issue 53 – The Time Warrior – 12 January 2011
• Issue 54 – The Robots of Death – 26 January 2011
• Issue 55 – "Planet of the Dead" and "The Waters of Mars" – 9 February 2011
• Issue 56 – The End of Time (Parts One and Two) – 23 February 2011
• Issue 57 – Enlightenment – 9 March 2011
• Issue 58 – Destiny of the Daleks – 23 March 2011
• Issue 59 – Battlefield – 6 April 2011
• Issue 60 – Carnival of Monsters – 20 April 2011
• Issue 61 – Horror of Fang Rock – 4 May 2011
• Issue 62 – Delta and the Bannermen – 18 May 2011
• Issue 63 – The Mark of the Rani – 1 June 2011
• Issue 64 – The Masque of Mandragora – 15 June 2011
• Issue 65 – Doctor Who and the Silurians – 29 June 2011
• Issue 66 – The Sea Devils – 13 July 2011
• Issue 67 – The Stones of Blood – 27 July 2011
• Issue 68 – Vengeance on Varos – 10 August 2011
• Issue 69 – The Keeper of Traken – 24 August 2011
• Issue 70 – Image of the Fendahl – 7 September 2011
• Issue 71 – The Curse of Peladon – 21 September 2011
• Issue 72 – The Androids of Tara – 5 October 2011
• Issue 73 – The Tomb of the Cybermen – 19 October 2011
• Issue 74 – "The Eleventh Hour" and "The Beast Below" – 2 November 2011
• Issue 75 – "Victory of the Daleks" and "The Time of Angels" – 16 November 2011
• Issue 76 – "Flesh and Stone" and "The Vampires of Venice" – 30 November 2011
• Issue 77 – "Amy's Choice" and "The Hungry Earth" – 14 December 2011
• Issue 78 – "Cold Blood" and "Vincent and the Doctor" – 28 December 2011
• Issue 79 – "The Lodger" and "The Pandorica Opens" – 11 January 2012
• Issue 80 – "The Big Bang" and "A Christmas Carol" – 25 January 2012

External links

• Doctor Who DVD Files website

See also

Doctor Who DVD releases

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Outpost Gallifrey News, 14 January 2009
2. ^ Promotional leaflet with Doctor Who DVD Files, issue 1
3. ^ [1] As advertised in literature with each shop issue and on the DVD files website.