Doctor Who Adventures #257 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 23 February 2012.
Contents
Free gift
- Dalek Pack (featuring ball, key ring, stamp, magnet, puffy stickers and badge) and a pack of Deadly 60 Trading Cards
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- FACTFILE: Five Mad Dalek Schemes
- FEATURE: Holiday Destinations and Lost Worlds
- FEATURE: (Human) Defenders of Earth
- FACTFILE: First Doctor Regeneration
- Matt Smith's EPISODE GUIDE 3: The Curse of the Black Spot
Comic content
Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- From: TV: Night Terrors - Highlighted moments from episode 10
Fast Facts
- A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Glass Dalek
Posters
- A3 Night Terrors
- A4 Silence
Behind the scenes
- Behind the scenes filming of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
Interview
- None this issue.
Also featuring
- Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
- Geronimo: Gossip: Crazy Caption, Hot or not,
- Big Puzzle: Giant Doctor Quiz (2 pages)
- Puzzle page and Quiz
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
- Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
- Competition Goodies (Sarah Jane Adventures DVD sets, Lego Hero Factory sets)
Credits
With new series monster/villains most wanted
- Editor: Natalie Barnes The Daleks – I've missed them!
- Deputy Editor: Paul Laing Kovarian – none of the other villains are a patch on her!
- Production Editor: Liza Millett Auntie and Uncle!
- Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies The Rani – she has the best hair!
- Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter The Siren. She's so pretty!
Hidden Away / Facts
- WHO SAID: "I'm a head! I have rights!" Dorium Maldovar in Let's Kill Hitler.
- Each episode of Doctor Who (around forty-two minutes) takes about twelve days to film. That's about three and a half minutes a day.
- Glass Dalek shells with a mutating human head inside were seen in Revelation of the Daleks in 1985, featuring the Sixth Doctor.
Further information
- The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (thirteen issues for £29.25) (UK).
- This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
- Next issue's free gift is promoted as a monster gift set comprising 40 sticker roll, large Doctor sticker, foam sticker and TARDIS yo-yo.