Doctor Who – Battles in Time #1 |
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| Editor | Claire Lister |
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| Categories | Science fiction television |
| Frequency | Fortnightly |
| First issue | 20 September 2006 (Nationwide) |
| Final issue | 13 May 2009 |
| Company | GE Fabbri |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | Doctor Who – Battles in Time |
Doctor Who – Battles in Time is a trading card game and fortnightly magazine from the partwork publishers, GE Fabbri, who acquired the license to produce Battles in Time. The game and magazine were first released in mid-April 2006 in two 'test-regions' in the United Kingdom and was made available across the UK on 20 September 2006. The magazine was released in Australia a few months later. However, only in South Australia was it made available in newsagents. In the rest of Australia it is available by subscription with the distributor only. The subscription and back issue services have now been removed from the official website. Battles in Time magazines are no longer available and the last issue was released on 13 May 2009.
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The test series was run in the Westcountry and Grampian television areas of the UK at a test market to see if Battles in Time would be popular. It released 7 pilot Magazines and the Exterminator card set.
Each issue of the magazine includes :
Each issue has a three page comic story. Occasionally these are [stand-alone] stories but usually they fit into story arcs over many issues.
Four special issues have been released (Daleks V.S Cybermen, Invader, Ultimate Monsters and Devastator). These contain several packs of cards of the current set.
| Publisher(s) | G E Fabbri |
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| Players | 2 |
| Age range | 8+ |
| Random chance | Some |
| Skill(s) required | Card playing Arithmetic Basic Reading Ability |
| Doctor Who – Battles in Time at BoardGameGeek | |
Six card sets have been issued as at 1 January 2009.
The Exterminator set totals 275 cards and was issued on 20 September 2006. It covered the 2005 and 2006 series, plus the 2005 Christmas special The Christmas Invasion.
The Annihilator set, comprises 100 cards, taken from the first two series and the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride. This set was released on 21 February 2007.
A Daleks vs Cybermen special was released 16 May 2007. This special came with a set of 18 cards, including 16 common cards and one of four variants of both a Dalek and Cyberman rare.
The Invader set, released on 5 September 2007 consists of 225 cards from the 2007 series.
The Ultimate Monsters set was released on 5 March 2008. This 225 card set is primarily sourced from the "Classic Series" of Doctor Who that ran from 1963 to 1989. Other cards came from the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned as well as the first three series of the revamped show.
The most recent release is the Devastator set which is based on the 2007 Christmas Special and the 2008 series of Doctor Who. The Devastator set was released on 3 September 2008. A special issue with four free packs and a series 4 guide was released on 17 September 2008 priced £4.99.
Additional cards released include an unnumbered card, 'Super Rose', which may be found in every 1,000 packs of each of the five main series, the 'psychic paper' card, which only came with the first issue of the magazine series, and a lenticular card, 'Dalek Blaster' unnumbered and distributed with the special issue launching the Invader series.
A special edition pack of cards on The Sarah Jane Adventures came with Issue 62 as a one-off set.
There were five different main card sets in the series, these are
There were two other, special, sets, which were
Additionally, there were some special, un-numbered, cards. These were
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