The eighty-sixth issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files - "The Ultimate Build-up Doctor Who Encyclopaedia" had a cover date of 18 April 2012.
Magazine Content
Collectable loose leaf pages divided into seven categories that could be filed accordingly.
- Part 62: River Revealed
- The mystery of Dr Song is finally solved. Or is it?
- Craig Owens
- Meet the Eleventh Doctor's reluctant landlord ...
- Amy Pond: The Married Years
- There was no settling down for "Mrs Rory Williams"...
- Gantok
- Dare you challenge this fiend to a game of Live Chess?
- Mars Attacks!
- Find out how the Flood managed to look so scary.
- Roboforms
- Beware of alien robot mercenaries bearing Christmas gifts.
- State of Decay
- The Fourth Doctor takes on a trio of vampire lords.
- Sarn
- The Master meets a grisly fate on the Planet of Fire.
- Dalek Invasions (c. 2100 AD – 2493 AD)
- The invaders from Mars turn their eye stalks towards Earth ...
DVD release (with cover blurb)
- Each issue came with a DVD release.
- Reversible DVD sleeves enabled the collector to display one of two designs featuring either the Doctor and his enemies or his companions.
- "There are vampire legends on almost every inhabited planet ..."
- Still trapped in E-Space, the Fourth Doctor, Romana, K-9 and their new friend Adric stumble across a medieval world ruled by a trio of dark lords. Why do blood-sucking bats swarm through the forests of this twilight planet? What is the secret of the castle that dominates the village? Why do Camilla, Aukon and Zargo need a regular supply of "volunteers"? And has the TARDIS really landed on a planet of the undead?
Notable Information
- Romana once worked in the Bureau of Ancient Records on Gallifrey, and had heard of the "Record of Rassilon" – a record that was routinely fitted to all Type 40 TT Capsule TARDIS.
- The Chess Pits of Vegas 12 hosted Live Chess matches – an arena sport in which the pieces on the board carried an electric charge that increased with every move.
- The Seventh Transept was a sealed crypt where the Headless Monks kept their "leftovers".
- Sarn was a colony world of the Trions once used as a prison planet for political rebels.
- The set used for Bowie Base One was formerly used as the Torchwood hub at the Upper Boat complex in Cardiff because it already had a special water drainage system. Afterwards it was used as the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS control room.
Credits
- Editor: Kieran Grant
- Art Editor: Elanzi Smit
- Designer: Jon Barrett
- Sub-Editor: Catherine Anderson
- Contributing Writers: Jason Loborik
- Illustrators: none credited this issue
