Data Extract

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Zine
Title: Data Extract
Publisher: Australasian Doctor Who Fan Club, then it became the Doctor Who Fan Club of Australia
Editor(s): Kate Orman, Neil Hogan, Sarah Groenewegen
Type:
Date(s): 1980-1998
Frequency:
Fandom: Doctor Who
External Links: club online
cover of issue #100
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Data Extract is a gen Doctor Who newsletter published by an Australian fan club. There are 140 issues. It was issued bi-monthly (eight issues a year).

Around the end of 1993, the Australasian Doctor Who Fan Club became the Doctor Who Fan Club of Australia, and Kate Orman and Sarah Groenewegen became the editors.

Issue 1

Data Extract 1 was published in November 1980. It is a one double-sided sheet of paper, with the main headline being "Tom Baker Quits!".

Issue 22

Data Extact 22 was published in July/Aug 1983.

Issue 34

Data Extract 34 was published in January 1985.

Issue 35

Data Extract 35 was published in March 1985.

Issue 42

Data Extract 42 was published in January 1986.

Issue 100

Data Extract 100 was published in May 1993 and contains 20 pages.

  • Nine Years of DE
  • RIP Jacqueline Hill
  • Resurrection and Revelation of the Daleks to be novelized by Eric Saward
  • Reviews:
  • Four to Doomsday
  • Transit
  • Evil of the Daleks audio
  • The Macra Terror audio
  • Doctor Who Pinball
  • The Aztecs
  • Shada
  • Daleks - The Early Years video
  • 'The Power of the People' Survey

Issue 101

Data Extract 101 was published in June 1993 and contains 8 pages.

  • Doctor Who: The Dark Dimension Goes Into Production for 30th Anniversary
  • Paradise of Death Pertwee Radio Story News
  • Reviews:
  • Kinda
  • Earthshock
  • Time Flight
  • Dalek Attack computer game
  • Cybermen - The Early Years video
  • The Tom Baker Years video

Issue 102

Data Extract 102 was published in August 1993 and contains 8 pages.

  • The Dark Dimension Cancelled
  • Dimensions in Time Anniversary Shorty to Cross-Over with Eastenders
  • ABC allows rights to series Australian broadcast to lapse
  • Paradise of Death news
  • Reviews:
  • Arc of Infinity
  • Snakedance
  • Mawdryn Undead
  • Warriors of the Deep
  • Frontios
  • Resurrection of the Daleks
  • The Caves of Androzani
  • Silver Nemesis extended video "Perpetrated by Kevin Clarke"
  • The Highest Science
  • Control Convention Report

Issue 103

Data Extract 103 was published in October 1993 and contains 8 pages.

  • Demise of The Dark Dimension
  • Dimensions in Time: TARDIS lands in Albert Square
  • BBC Negotiates with American TV Production Company
  • Virgin Missing Adventures series announced
  • Reviews:
  • The Twin Dilemma
  • Attack of the Cybermen
  • The Two Doctors
  • Revelation of the Daleks
  • The Pit ("Why did he bother? This book lives up to its name.")
  • Deceit
  • Power of the Daleks unofficial novelization
  • The Fourth Doctor Handbook
  • Ghost Light Silva Screen soundtrack
  • Mark of Mandragora DWM comic trade paperback
  • Silver Nemesis

Issue 104

Data Extract 104 was published in November 1993 and contains 10 pages.

  • Thirty Years in the TARDIS Anniversary Documentary News
  • Amblin Entertainment News
  • Reviews:
  • Violence (sic) on Varos
  • The Invasion
  • The Daemons, Terror of the Autons & The Silurians
  • The Trial of a Time Lord
  • The Pit ("Crayoned by Neil Penswick")
  • Ghost Light scriptbook
  • Power of the Daleks
  • Power of the Daleks John Peel novelization
  • Evening's Empire DWM Comic trade paperback
  • 30th Anniversary Survey
  • Tom Baker Interview "Odd Isn't It?"

Issue 105

Data Extract 105

Issue 106

Data Extract 106

Issue 107

Data Extract 107 was published in June 1994 and contains 12 pages.

  • Amblin Says Yes, Unofficially
  • Reviews:
  • Planet of Evil
  • Dragonfire
  • Arc of Infinity
  • The Colin Baker Years video
  • The Dimension Riders
  • The Left-Handed Hummingbird
  • The Sixth Doctor Handbook

Issue 108

Data Extract 108 was published in August 1994 and contains 12 pages.

  • BBC and Amblin Expected to Announce in August
  • More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS expected on Video
  • Novacon '95 Convention Announcement with Nicholas Courtney, Katy Manning & John Levene
  • Reviews:
  • The Worlds of Doctor Who CD
  • Decalog
  • No Future
  • Survey Results

Issue 109

Data Extract 109 was published in October 1994.

  • Fox to Broadcast Doctor Who TV Movie in May 1995
  • Razvedka Reviews Renamed The White Fedora
  • Reviews:
  • Blood Harvest
  • Goth Opera
  • The Rescue/The Romans video
  • Strange England
  • Inferno
  • Ghost Light
  • Conundrum

Tragedy Day

Issue 110

Data Extract 110 was published in December 1994.

  • Amblin Fox Doctor Who Pilot Delayed
  • Five Minutes of Galaxy Four Part One Rediscovered
  • Survey
  • Blue Peter Returns Missing Daleks' Masterplan footage
  • Reviews:
  • White Darkness
  • Evolution
  • St Anthony's Fire
  • The Stranger: The Terror Game and Breach of the Peace
  • Venusian Lullaby
  • Legacy
  • Theatre of War
  • Blood Harvest
  • Goth Opera

Issue 111

Data Extract 111 was published in February 1995.

  • Amblin Fox Doctor Who Project Shelved
  • The Ghosts of N-Space Pertwee Radio Project News
  • Novacon '95 Convention Report
  • Survival '94 Convention Report (a disaster)
  • 1994 Survey Results
  • Reviews:
  • The Crystal Bucephalus
  • Falls the Shadow
  • State of Change
  • First Frontier
  • Strange England
  • All-Consuming Fire
  • Venusian Lullaby
  • The Rescue/The Romans video
  • Dreamwatch #1 & 2 magazine relaunch

Issue 112

Data Extract 112 was published in April 1995 and contains 16 pages.

  • Doctor Who TV Movie to proceed for Fox TV
  • Gallifrey 1995 Convention Report
  • New Internet Column
  • Reviews:
  • Warlock
  • The Romance of Crime
  • Set Piece
  • The Ghosts of N-Space novelization
  • Just War Sneak Preview
  • Kinda
  • Snakedance
  • More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS
  • Falls the Shadow
  • The Crystal Bucephalus

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 16

Data Extract has long been the Australian newsletter as far as Who goes. It started back in November 1980 as one double-sided sheet of paper, with the main headline being "Tom Baker Quits!". The latest issue is now 16 pages of news and reviews. It is very column-oriented, and is famous for "Think Tank", its letter of comment area. Anyone who knows me will know I’m no fan of reviews, and fully half of DE is just that. A tad dry, but with a good Just War preview courtesy of Lance Parkin. The editor being who she is, there is often New and Missing Adventure details not found elsewhere (well, until they get copied!). Rating: • • 1/2 (out of 5) [1]

Issue 113

Data Extract 113 was published in 1995.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 13

Nothing too special this time around, as I saw it. If you like lots of reviews, though, this is your thing. Rating: • • 1/2 out of five.[2]

Issue 114

Data Extract 114 was published in 1995. It contains letters, a new rumour column, reviews (zines, NAs, MAs, videos, other shows, reviews of reviews, and a few others), guest appearances by Gareth Roberts and Paul Cornell.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 114

News, lots of letters, a new rumour column, reviews (zines, NAs, MAs, videos, other shows, reviews of reviews, and a few others), guest appearances by Gareth Roberts and Paul Cornell. I always find it hilarious that they have "Previews" of books that have already come out in both Britain and Minotaur… Rating: • • 1/2 out of five.[3]

Issue 115

Data Extract 115 was published in 1995. It has "Cat Tread Tax" on the front. It is the last issue to be edited by Kate Orman.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 115

Contains, even by normal DE standards, an absolute stack of news, tidbits, and a swag of the most outrageous rumours you could ever think up. Fave bits were the review of the new TARDIS Cafe in Manly, the letters column and Sonic being called "a staple for Doctor Who fans". Sounds like a potato! The layout is a bit more interesting too. Rating: • • • (out of five) [4]

Issue 116

Data Extract 116 was published in 1996. It was edited by Neil Hogan who takes over from Kate Orman.

  • a debate between Doctor Who Magazine editor Gary Gillatt and upcoming NA writer Matt Jones on whether the New Adventures are real Who
  • other unknown content

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 116

First impressions: that has got to the crappiest logo I’ve seen on any zine for a long time. And the main headline is wrong, and shown as such in the text beneath it. Having said that, Neil Hogan’s first issue as editor of DE is really quite good. Actually, I’ve just noticed as I review it that there were no reviews. Maybe that’s why I liked it… Best bit is the debate on whether the New Adventures are real Who (between Doctor Who Magazine editor Gary Gillatt and upcoming NA writer Matt Jones). Rating: • • • (out of 5) [5]

Issue 117

Data Extract 117 was published in 1996.

Issue 118

Data Extract 118 was published in 1996.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 118

DE continues to pick up. The last two issues are both up to twelve pages just packed with info. And yes, with issue 118 that horrid logo gets the flick. If editor Neil Hogan can just stop himself slipping in rumours as fact, he’ll be onto a real winner. My only other wish is that the news would be written, not just slapped in as unordered snippets.[6]

Issue 119

Data Extract 119 was published in 1996.

  • contains tidbits about the new movie
  • other unknown content

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 119

Data Extract #119 is typically chocker full of info, though (and I know I’m repeating myself!) I do wish editor Neil Hogan would sort and organise the news a bit more. The readers aren’t supposed to be doing that work! Of course there’s lots of tidbits and photos to do with the upcoming movie. George Stamatiadis writes half-a-dozen hilarious reviews, and the issue is big enough that they had to use staples for a change! Three and a half little hollow triangles out of five.[7]

Issue 120

Data Extract 120 was published in 1996.

  • content is mostly about the death of Jon Pertwee

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 120 and 121

Issue 120 is basically turned over to the death of Jon Pertwee, with masses of clippings and a few personal pieces. There’s consequently bugger-all news in this issue, but for posterity’s sake, it gets four tributes out of five. The next issue has more info, though I still find Neil’s rather "unique" approach to reporting news very annoying. And Neil, for cruk’s sake, stop printing indecipherable pictures. People have either already seen the pic on the Internet already, or haven’t and therefore are left with black and white coffee stains that could be anything. Three blobbies out of five.[8]

Issue 121

Data Extract 121 was published in 1996.

Issue 122

Data Exact 122 was published in 1997.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 122

Data Extract is back to what it does best: lots of news (though anyone on the Net increasingly knows most of it), interesting letters, only slightly out-of-date reviews, some mind-numbing details of Who on Foxtel that I hope no one is memorising, and lots of people saying ‘Go to Timestorm!’. What more could a fanboy want? [9]

Issue 128

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 128

And finally, issue 128 of Data Extract is back to what it does best: lots of news (though anyone on the Net increasingly knows most of it), interesting letters, only slightly out-of-date reviews, some mind-numbing details of Who on Foxtel that I hope no one is memorising, and lots of people saying ‘Go to Timestorm!’. What more could a fanboy want? Three-and-a-half exclamations of ‘Dallas, the font is big enough to read!’ out of five.[10]

Issue 133

Data Extract 133 was published in 1998.

  • interview with Peter Davison from the American con Visions ‘97
  • many photos
  • other unknown content

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 133

Data Extract continues on as always; highlights are an extraordinary series of photos of Sophie and husband Vince from Timestorm—what are they doing in them? There’s also a new and quite interesting interview with Peter Davison from the American con Visions ‘97 in the latest issue (#133).[11]

Issue 140

Data Extract 140 was published in Nov/Dec 1998.

Hardbound Reprint

The club offered a hardbound reprint of issue 1-100 through Lulu Press.[12] Example here.

References

  1. ^ from Sonic Scewdriver #90
  2. ^ August 1995, Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
  3. ^ October 1995, Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
  4. ^ November 1995, Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
  5. ^ January 1996, Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
  6. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #95
  7. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #96
  8. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #97
  9. ^ from a review in The Sonic Screwdriver #104
  10. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #104
  11. ^ David J. Richardson
  12. ^ https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/doctor-who-club-of-australia/doctor-who-fanzine-collection-data-extract-issues-1-to-100/hardcover/product-1nzen7p5.html?page=1&pageSize=4
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