this card of the day pays tribute to the Radiophonic Workshop at Maida Vale, where they spent the hours using odd objects to make sounds.
The best known sound effects created there were for Doctor Who, which first appeared on television in 1963. Even non-Whovians can gain a lot of enjoyment at The Doctor Who Site which covers every episode from the very first one, and has loads of trivia!
Our cards were quite simple in their gameplay, only being either attack or defence. They also made it easy to start playing, by offering a bundled starter pack at newsagents, which contained a special binder, a checklist, a rule book, a proper playing surface, and sixteen cards, the equivalent of having to buy four packs. This all cost £4.99.
There was also a booster pack, which cost £5, of twenty cards and a bonus card showing a weeping angel.
Finally, if your pocket money would stretch that far, there was also a special edition tin, for £9.99, which had thirty cards in it, four of which were special foil cards; plus an exclusive card that moved to show Christopher Eccleston regenerating into David Tennant.
The total number of cards available was 240, but they were split into groups, "aliens" being the largest, with seventy-two cards, and "humans" following closely behind with sixty cards. "Companions" and "Time Lords" came next, with nineteen cards of each. Then there were eight cards of "Robots", six of "Cyborgs", five of "Humanoids", three of "Humanoid Cats", plus "Azal the Demon" and "The Dalek Mothership". Now you may be wondering how this adds up to 240, and it does not - for there were also the "Rainbow" and "Mirror" foil cards, one of which was in every packet, but despite that do not seem to be included in these groupings.