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| Doctor Who Adventures | |
|---|---|
| Editor | |
| Categories | Science fiction television |
| Frequency | Fortnightly, released on Wednesdays |
| First Issue | 5 April 2006 |
| Company | BBC Magazines |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | |
| Website | BBC Magazines- Doctor Who Adventures |
| ISSN | 1750-1717 |
Doctor Who Adventures is a fortnightly magazine based on the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It is published by BBC Magazines and aimed at 6-12 year-olds, a different demographic to the Doctor Who Magazine audience.
[edit] History
The first edition of Doctor Who Adventures was published in April 2006. The success of the 2005 series of Doctor Who with young viewers in the UK prompted the BBC to publish a magazine aimed at them. It includes original comic strips featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, interviews, competitions, puzzles and behind-the-scenes photos. Each issue also comes with a unique free gift on the cover. Each issue costs £1.99 (except issue 19 which was £2.50), and is available for retail purchase within the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
It is sold in high volumes for a United Kingdom only children's magazine, average 77,852, but due to it being targeted at a younger market, each issue becomes highly sought after by collectors within days of issue and depending on the free gift with the magazine, issues change hands for many times the cover price very shortly after issue.
[edit] Regular features
[edit] Who's News/The Vortex
A two-page guide to the next two new Doctor Who episodes or upcoming Who event. After issue 8, it was renamed to 'The Vortex'. It currently features information on upcoming Doctor Who merchandise releases, Mini Mottos, a partial contents list, a competition to find somebody 'hiding' in the magazine, pictures of people acting out Doctor Who scenes, their collections and Who things they've made, plus facts (including hints about upcoming Doctor Who episodes).
[edit] Fact File
Information on a character or thing, i.e. The Doctor or Torchwood
[edit] Monster A-Z
An A-Z of Monsters, covering a different letter every issue from Issue 9.
Issue:
9 - A - Abzorbaloff
10 - B - Beast
11 - C - Cybermen
12 - D - Daleks
13 - E - Empty Child
14 - F - Face of Boe
15 - G - Graske
16 - H - Hand of Fear
17 - I - Ice Warrior
18 - J - Jagaroth
19 - K - Krillitane
? - L - None
20 - M - Moxx of Balhoon
21 - N - Nestene
22 - O - Ood
[edit] Interview
An interview with a Doctor Who cast character or staff member. (Not in every issue)
[edit] Comic
A Doctor Who comic, usually 6 pages long, appears in each issue. Despite her departure from the show following issue 7, comics featuring Rose Tyler continued to appear, placing most of the comics between the events of New Earth and Doomsday. Complete descriptions of the comics can be found here, at the Doctor Who Reference Guide. However in issue 20 after the broadcast of The Runaway Bride the Doctor is traveling alone.
[edit] Who Wins
Two pages, containing various competitions (not always for Doctor Who items), with various other competitions spread across the issue
[edit] Adventures
Double-page spread about a Doctor Who episode from the 9th or 10th doctors episodes.
[edit] Doctor Who Confidential Extra
Information on how the episode covered in Adventures was made - facts on scenes removed from the final version, how certain costumes were made, and pictures of production.
[edit] Things To Do With A Defeated Enemy
Half-page feature suggesting what you could do with a defeated enemy.
[edit] TARDIS Teasers
Puzzle page, usually with a Spot the Difference, along with Mazes, Odd One Out and others. Each issue includes a competition wordsearch based on a certain theme (usually an episode of Doctor Who) with one word missing. To win the competition you have to send them the missing word
[edit] Tales from the TARDIS
Chosen moments from the series such 'Cybermen Moments' "Top 5 exterminates" or 'The Doctor's regeneration'.
[edit] Posters
Each issue comes with one double-page poster of a scene from an episode plus a quote from that scene, and one or more single-page posters.
[edit] Doctor's Data
Cut-out information page on a Doctor Who monster or thing such as:
- Daleks - Cybermen - Cassandra - CyberController - TARDIS - Sycorax - Reapers - Dalek Sec - Robot Santas - K-9 - Forest of Cheem - Clockwork Robot - Werewolf - Living Plastic - Floor 500 - Gelth - Krillitanes - Sisters of Plenitude - Moxx of Balhoon - Slitheen - Ood
[edit] Make It
A cut-out "make", usually a mask.
[edit] Quiz
A quiz where you answer questions and see which letter you got the most, a flowchart, or how many questions you got right. So far there has been four including 'Which monster are you?' and 'How well do you know the Daleks?'.
[edit] Game
A board game - so far there has been two.
[edit] TARDIS Inbox
Letters and pictures page that readers can write to.
[edit] Other
There are also standard features like a subscriptions page and sometimes surveys. Also advertising from Doctor Who stockists, such as Sci-Fi Collector and The Who Shop appear in this magazine, along with a list of products. There have also been 'one-off' features, including what the show would be like in a parallel world.
[edit] Free gifts
Every issue has come with a free gift and it is not unusual for an issue to include more that one gift.
[edit] Trivia
- The first issue features the words "Fantastic first issue" on the cover. The same words appeared on the front cover of the first issue of Doctor Who Magazine.
- Issue 8, which was billed as a 'collector's edition', included a pullout section on the Tenth Doctor and came with two covers to collect, one with Cybermen and one with Daleks.
- The favoured episode of assistant editor Moray Laing is Doomsday.
- Issue 8 had two phone-in polls, on the best episode of the second series and who was better - Cybermen or Daleks (The winners were Doomsday and the Daleks).
- The quote on the Abzorbaloff poster in issue 7 is given as "now meet the real thing" rather than "now meet the genuine article". This was due to willy the transmitted line differing from the script.
- The free gifts for issues 3 and 4 (the TARDIS clock and the radio, respectively) were swapped around for copies sold at Tesco because the supermarket needed more advance notice to be able to allocate enough shelf space to include the free clock.
- Some of the TARDIS clocks sold with issue 3 did not come with the sticker saying "POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX" on the top.
- Expanded pictures of the cover of issue 5 and issue 3's K-9 factfile appear by the K-9 exhibit at the Doctor Who Exhibition in Cardiff.
- Issue 4's Cyberman mask has the same black handles as a Cyberleader. It is not mentioned as a Cyberleader, however.
- Both Issues 13 and 14 have extra-large covers that come off to reveal a wallchart on the other side, leaving the reader with a normal-size magazine. Issue 13's cover had a Cyberman wallchart, and issue 14's had a Dalek wallchart.
- Some issues have had alternative free gifts in certain regions. This is because, due to the success of the magazine, more copies than anticipated had to be printed.
- In the Monster A-Z there is no "L"
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Clockworkrobot.com, who are responsible for the paper engineering of the cut out and make models.
