Main Magazine Series

With the success of the Test Run in both the Grampian and West country areas, The Main Release of the magazine was re-launched nationally on the 20th of September 2006, continuing as a fortnightly magazine (GE Fabbri, 2006h). A 1-million-pound TV advertising campaign on terrestrial and satellite channels supported it. Nine million copies of the magazine and 1.5 million trading cards were planned to be distributed until the original end date of September 2008, ending on issue 52 (Retail Newsagent, 2006). This plan changed, however, and instead went on to issue 70, ending 9 months later in June 2009. Each magazine came with at least one pack of cards and was available in newsagents nationwide and some superstores such as Sainsbury’s.

This sub-page is specifically about the main release magazines of Battles in Time; for other parts, such as the Test Set magazine series or the cards, please view the relevant subsections on the dropdown menu to the left.

On this sub-page, there are scans of the printed material with included information, such as differences between the test set and the main set, for example. Also included are ‘Notable Issues’, which are issues which stand out from the main print run (usually in cellophane), as well as scans from each magazine. These scans were taken from Millennium Effect, which stopped updating information after issue 29. However, they continued to upload scans of the magazines (The Millennium Effect, n.d).