Doctor Who Adventures #263 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 5 April 2012

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Free gift 1.2 Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info) 1.3 Comic strips 1.4 Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature) 1.5 Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files) 1.6 Posters 1.7 Behind the scenes 1.8 Interview 1.9 Also featuring 2 Main team credits 3 Hidden Away / Facts 4 Further information 5 External links

Contents Edit

Free gift Edit

• Nine piece stationery set (including giant clip, pencil, pen, eraser, Dalek notepad, ruler and three monster bands)

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info) Edit

• FACTFILE: All the Strange, strange creatures
• FACTFILE: River Song’s Diary: Episode 11 The God Complex and Episode 12 Closing Time
• FACTFILE: Disasterous Monster Plans
• Matt Smith’s EPISODE GUIDE 9: Night Terrors

Comic strips Edit

• Ghosts of the Never-were
• AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature) Edit

• None this issue.

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files) Edit

• FACTFILE: Regeneration – The Seventh Doctor

Posters Edit

A3 BACKSTAGE: Arthur Darvill, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan

A4 Madam Vastra

A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Special Weapons Dalek

Behind the scenes Edit

• Captioned behind the scenes pictures.

Interview Edit

• None this issue

Also featuring Edit

• Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
• Geronimo: News, Joke, Hot or Not,
• Big Puzzle: Giant Wordsearch (2 pages)
• Puzzle page and Quiz
• Jokes
• Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
  featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
• Doctor, Doctor! (Q&A)
• Competition Goodies (Lego Technic sets, Pokepark2 wii game set)

Main team credits Edit

With their weirdest monsters

• Editor: Natalie Barnes The Cheetah People – I met some on holiday recently
  
• Deputy Editor: Paul Laing The Empress of the Racnoss – although she was just being herself!
  
• Production Editor: Liza Millett The Carrionites – they like spelling almost as much as I do!
  
• Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Adipose – you never get rid of fat that easily!
  
• Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter Cybermen. I played one once, you know!
  

Hidden Away / Facts Edit

• WHO SAID: “You will experience a tingling sensation and then death.”

An Antibody in Let's Kill Hitler.

• Twenty-five year old actress Jenna-Louise Coleman is announced as the Eleventh Doctor’s next travelling companion after Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) leave the series.
• Bedtime stories on Gallifrey included The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes and Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday (according to the Doctor in Night Terrors).
• Night Terrors was also the title of a short story in the Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012 about the old Time Lord ruler Rassilon.
• ‘Petrichor’ means “the smell of dust after rain”.
• The Seventh Doctors last words were “I’ve got to stop him!”

Further information Edit

• 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 new regular cover price of £2.60 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
• Next issue's free gift is promoted as one of two giant notebooks with 3D covers (TARDIS or Silence)

External links Edit

• The official magazine site with features and news of the latest available issue

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