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DWDVDF 17

The seventeenth issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files - "The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia" had a cover date of 26 August 2009.

Contents

Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.

Draconians and Daleks
The Fourth Doctor (fold out)
Tallulah
Sycorax
Cave Monsters! (Doctor Who and the Silurians)
Mark Gatiss Writer and Actor (Fold out)
Genetic Manipulation Device
Evolution of the Daleks
The Lazarus Experiment

DVD release (with cover blurb)

Each issue came with a DVD release covering two episodes.
Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
"He's a genius, and we can use him. The future of the Daleks may well depend upon the Doctor."
The Cult of Skaro finds it hard to deal with change when their leader becomes more human and rather less Dalek. The Doctor, Martha and their New York friends have a fight on their hands if they're going to save the planet from the Cult and a new kind of foe — humans that have had their DNA spliced with Dalek genes!
"Did he say he was going to change what it means to be human?"
The Doctor is immediately suspicious of Professor Lazarus, so he and Martha get dressed up to investigate what's going on at a grand scientific launch. Neither of them could have guessed, however, that the "mad" professor has the power to turn back the clock...

Notable information

  • On the contents page the Fourth Doctor is identified under "Enemies"! It even tells you to file it under the purple section after DOC 4.
  • The Empire State Building is 443.2 metres tall to the mast tip.
  • Sycorax is the name of Caliban's mother in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
  • Actress Miranda Raison's father, Nick Raison, plays jazz piano for the show song "My Angel Put the Devil in Me".
  • Lazarus was a biblical character raised from the dead.
  • The Fourth Doctor's scarf was apparently knitted by a "witty little knitter", the wife of 16th century astrologer Nostradamus.
  • One Dalek Rel is roughly equal to one second.
  • The Doctor's car on Earth, Bessie, first appeared in Doctor Who and the Silurians.

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