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Published May 14, 2015 Updated August 05, 2022

Dr Who Adventures

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ is a weekly magazine aimed at younger readers. From time to time free playing cards are included with the magazine

2006 United Kingdom BBC Doctor Who Fashion & Costume Pop Culture Sci-Fi Space Television Add to Collection

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ playing cards

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ is a weekly (formerly fortnightly) magazine published by BBC Magazines aimed at younger readers based on the long-running science-fiction television series produced by the BBC. The magazine launched with its first issue cover-dated 5 April 2006, priced £1.99. From time to time free playing cards are included with the magazine and some of these are shown here.

See also: ‘Doctor Who Series’ and Collector’s Edition Doctor Who playing cards →

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ playing cards, 2006

Above: in 2006 the children's magazine 'Dr Who Adventures' included a free deck of cards based upon characters from the BBC television sci-fi series 'Dr Who'. The suits have been replaced by characters from the series, Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheen and what looks like Ood. © BBC Worldwide 2006. Dalek image © BBC/Terry Nation 1963. Dalek image ™ BBC. K-9 created by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. Cybermen created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davies.

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ playing cards, 2009

Above: a freebie with the children's magazine 'Dr Who Adventures' in 2009, they are notable in that the suits have been replaced by characters and are colour coded.

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ playing cards

Above: free cards given away with the children's magazine 'Dr Who Adventures' with colour-coded suits of daleks in red, gold, black and silver.


Three series of ‘Doctor Who’ playing cards captured the moments from the different episodes   see more →

See: ‘Doctor Who Series’ and Collector’s Edition Doctor Who playing cards →

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I have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards.

Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards.

Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.

I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales.


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