Doctor Who Adventures - Issue 331

The cover and details of this fortnight's edition of Doctor Who Adventures magazine:

IN ISSUE 331...
Top 10 Scariest Episodes!
Make Your Own Monster Pumpkins!
Time Teasers!
Cool Comic!
Mega Posters!
Wicked Wins!
Alien Babies!

FREE GIFT: This issue comes with a cool Tardis stationery set. It's bigger on the inside!

Issue 331 of Doctor Who Adventures magazine is on sale from today at all good newsagents until 22nd October priced £2.99 per copy.

Caliburn House Playset - BBC Shop Exclusive

Character Options have revealed a new Doctor Who playset for their on-going 3'75" figure range - exclusive to BBC Shop - read on for further details:

Caliburn House Playset

Exclusive to BBC Shop and based on the Doctor Who Series 7 episode  Hide. The Doctor, Holographic Clara and and dematerialising Tardis! All exclusive to this set, the figures and Tardis are a brilliant tribute to the episode as well as a perfect addition to the Doctor Who Series 7 figures. 

The Doctor: I'm the Doctor!

Alec Palmer: Doctor what?

The Doctor: If you like!

The Doctor and Clara arrive at a haunted mansion (Caliburn House) which stands alone on a desolate moor. Here they encounter the legendary ghost hunter Professor Alec Palmer and his gifted psychic assistant, Emma Grayling. Palmer is trying to contact a fabled spirit that haunts the house - the Witch of the Well. Much to Clara's apprehension, The Doctor can't help but offer their assistance!

• Exclusive Eleventh Doctor Action Figure

• Exclusive Hologram Interface Clara Action Figure

• Exclusive Dematerialising Tardis (Non Electronic)

The Caliburn House playset is on sale from 22nd November exclusively at the BBC Shop priced £25.99 per purchase..

Missing Episodes - BBC Confirms Return!

After weeks of spontaneous rumours, the BBC have today confirmed that a set of Doctor Who episode tapes originally broadcast in the 1960s - thought to have been permanently lost - have been returned to them, read on for further details:

A number of early episodes of Doctor Who, which were believed to have been permanently lost, have been returned to the BBC.

BBC Worldwide is expected to confirm the find at a press conference in London later this week.

It follows weeks of speculation that some lost episodes had been located.

Details of how fans will be able to watch the recovered episodes are also expected to be revealed later this week.

The press pack based on what episodes have been discovered will be released later this week.

Destiny of the Doctor: The Time Machine - Cover & Details

BBC AudioGo have revealed the cover and synopsis of the eleventh and final edition of the Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctor audio series, read on for further details:

THE TIME MACHINE - written by Matt Fitton, performed by Jenna Coleman, Michael Cochrane & Nicholas Briggs
23rd November 2013. In an Oxford laboratory, graduate Alice Watson helps Professor Chivers assemble the final pieces of an impossible machine. A time machine.

The scientist and his assistant believe they are making history, little suspecting that the project’s completion will threaten the existence of the entire universe. But someone has sensed the danger, and when the mysterious Doctor arrives, Alice is taken on a desperate race from libraries and dreaming spires all the way to the nightmare world of Earth’s future.

The monstrous Creevix are coming. They seek control of time itself and are certain that the Doctor is already too late to stop them.  But can the key to saving the future lie in the Time Lord’s past lives?

Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctor - The Time Machine is on sale from 7th November at all good CD stores priced £10.20 per copy and all digital online MP3 websites priced £3.99 per download.

Latest News!

A round-up of the latest news regarding the future of Doctor Who:

12th DOCTOR - PAST CAPALDI APPEARANCES NOT TO BE IGNORED
Steven Moffat has commented in an interview with Nerd³ that the past appearences of to-be Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi in both Doctor Who and Torchwood will not be ignored and possibly create a story arc for the next series, read on for further details from Moffat's interview:

"We are aware that Peter Capaldi’s played a big old part in Doctor Who and Torchwood before and we are not going to ignore the fact."

" remember Russell [T Davies] told me that he had a big old plan as to why there were two Peter Capaldi’s in the Who universe: one in Pompeii and one in Torchwood. When I cast Peter and Russell got in touch to say how pleased he was, I said, ‘Okay, what was your theory and does it still work?” and he said, ‘Yes it does. Here it is…’"

"We’ll play that one out over time. It’s actually quite neat."

He adds: "The face is not set from birth. It’s not like he was always going to be one day Peter Capaldi. We know that’s the case because in The War Games he has a choice of faces. So we know it’s not set, so where does he get those faces from? They can’t just be randomly generated because they’ve got lines. They’ve aged. When he turns into Peter he’ll actually have lines on his face. So where did that face come from?"

Peter Capaldi will make his Doctor Who debut in this year's Christmas special on BBC One and BBC One HD.

MOFFAT "PROBABLY DONE" WRITING ABOUT THE WEEPING ANGELS
Continuing on from his interview with Nerd³, Moffat said that his "probably done" writing anymore episodes of Doctor Who featuring the Weeping Angels, but hasn't ruled out any other writers using them in future stories:

"I’m probably done to be honest on what you can do with the Weeping Angels. But other writers have to have a go. There’s only so many times you can think, ‘Right, it’s a chase scene and statues’. How many times can the lights flicker? What happens if a moth sees them? Is the alien invasion cancelled at that point?"

However, Moffat reveals another Doctor Who writer recently pitched a new story starring the Lonely Assassins: "It’s not going to happen but a very good Doctor Who writer pitched a great idea for the Weeping Angels the other day and I was very excited about it."

"We had a long phone call about it and I went away thinking, ‘That is going to be brilliant!’ And about two days later he admitted he wasn’t going to have time to do it. Hopefully we’ll get to it in the next year."

RIVER SONG TO RETURN?
Alex Kingston who played River Song in Doctor Who has recently teased that the character might make a return to the show in the future, despite what writer Steven Moffat has previously said on thinking the character's story is "done".

Speaking in a BBC America video, she said: "I look forward to sharing more of [River] with you in the future, but… spoilers!"

Rumours have suggested that River will appear in current Doctor Matt Smith’s final episode this Christmas, although could the character also carry over to Peter Capaldi’s era.

The Day of the Doctor to Broadcast in 75 Countries Simultaneously

The BBC have confirmed that the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor is to broadcast in at least 75 countries simultaneously, read on for further details:

BBC Worldwide today announces that the special 50th Anniversary episode of Doctor Who, the world’s longest running and most successful sci-fi series will, for the first time ever, be broadcast simultaneously to millions of viewers worldwide in a global simulcast on 23rd November 2013.

From Canada to Colombia, Brazil to Botswana and Myanmar to Mexico, fans in at least 75 countries spanning six continents will be able to enjoy the episode in 2D and 3D (3D television broadcast is subject to availability within global region) at the same time as the UK broadcast, with more countries expected to be confirmed within the next month. The US, Australia and Canada have also signed up for the simulcast which will be shown in numerous countries across Europe, Latin America and Africa. In addition to Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman, the one-off special, entitled The Day of the Doctor stars former Time Lord David Tennant as well as Billie Piper, and John Hurt.

On top of the worldwide TV broadcast, hundreds of cinemas in the UK and across the world also plan to screen the hotly anticipated special episode simultaneously in full 3D, giving fans the opportunity to make an event of the occasion and be part of a truly global celebration for the iconic British drama series.  Details about tickets for the anniversary screening will be announced in due course.

Tim Davie, CEO of BBC Worldwide comments: "Few TV shows can still lay claim to being appointment viewing but Doctor Who takes this to another level. In its 50th Anniversary year we wanted to create a truly international event for Doctor Who fans in as many countries as possible and the simultaneous broadcast and cinema screening of the special across so many countries will make for a fitting birthday tribute to our Time Lord."

Steven Moffat, current showrunner for Doctor Who and executive producer of the 50th Anniversary episode adds: "The Doctor has always been a time traveller - now he’s travelling time zones. On the 23rd of November, it won’t be the bad guys conquering the Earth - everywhere it will be The Day of the Doctor!"

The free-to-air 3D coverage will be available to those with access to a 3D TV set and to the BBC’s HD Red Button service.  This is part of the BBC’s two-year trial experimenting with 3D production and distribution, which has also included selected coverage from Wimbledon 2012 and the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor will broadcast on Saturday 23rd November on BBC One and BBC One HD, a time is yet to be officially confirmed.

The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage - Cover & Details

Puffin have revealed the cover and synopsis of the tenth edition of their ebooks celebrating the 
50th anniversary of Doctor Who, read on for further details:

THE MYSTERY OF THE HAUNTED COTTAGE - by Derek Landy
When the Tardis lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood. But who has the power to create an entire world out of books and why? The Doctor and Martha must solve the mystery before their story ends!

Doctor Who: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage will be released on 23rd October onto all good digital media outlets priced £1.99 per download and will be available as a physical paperpack in November to co-elide with Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, more information coming soon.