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A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE NOVELISATIONS OF BROADCAST DOCTOR WHO COMPILED AND EDITED BY

PAUL SMITH

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INTRODUCTION

There has been something of a renaissance of the Target novelisations in recent years, what with fresh reprints, the ongoing series of audiobook readings, and 2016’s exhibitions of cover artwork. With all this going on, I was inspired to take a break from working on my next title for Wonderful Books and put together a document containing various bits of information related to the books that I’d accumulated over the years. It was supposed to be just a diversion, a fun design project for my own amusement. But as I began to collate and check the information, I kept finding more detail that made it more useful, and decided that it might be of interest to others as well.

Why a PDF and not a website? Well, for one I can’t build websites. Also, for information like this, I personally find having a single document on my computer or tablet that I can quickly scroll through to be much more convenient for finding what I want, rather than having to navigate multiple web pages.

However, this document is linked throughout so you can click on any story title in the text to be taken to its entry.

This document details every edition of every novelisation of a televised Doctor Who story (plus a few that weren’t broadcast or were on a different medium). That’s mainly the Target range, of course – in both paperback and hardback, the latter often omitted from others’ coverage – but also versions from other publishers and audio readings of the books. Following a rundown of the UK editions of each book there’s the story teaser from its back cover (usually the first edition’s), a list of chapters, and notes about the book’s writing and publication, details of later reissues, other places the artwork has appeared, and much more. Finally, there are details of any foreign editions.

The UK Editions listings are compiled from several (often incomplete or contradictory) online sources and all checked as much as possible with sight of actual books. They list ISBN, cover artist, logo and spine colours, publication date, price, print‑run (where known), and – for the Target paperbacks – which symbol and numbering appears on the cover. (Note, information in grey is my own supposition based on research and estimation so is not confirmed but, I believe, probably accurate.)

If you can confirm or correct any part of these details, especially if you have an edition not listed here, then do please get in touch so I can add it to future editions (click here to email me).

The books are presented in broadcast order, and the bookmarks list in Acrobat or iBooks replicates this for quick access to the title you’re interested in. At the front of the document they’re listed alphabetically for those less familiar with broadcast order, and at the back is an index by publication order (both also bookmarked). If you want to read through the document in publication order, you can also click the Previous/ Next Book bars at the start and end of each entry.

While the document is designed to be printed should you wish to have a paper copy, obviously that won’t benefit from the linking features. I also plan to update the document every six months or so with any new information, notably the latest audiobooks and any further reprints.

As it’s an evolving publication, I’ve decided to make it free to download. It didn’t seem fair to ask people to keep re-buying it, even for a nominal amount. However, it has taken me several months of work to compile, including sourcing, scanning and cleaning hundreds of cover images. If you find the document useful and want to show your appreciation, or would just like to support me as I work on further Wonderful Books, please consider donating whatever you feel is an appropriate amount.

You can gift me via PayPal by clicking this link, or donate via Patreon at patreon.com/basedon.

Thanks for downloading the document and I hope you find it a useful and comprehensive guide to the novelisations of televised Doctor Who – and perhaps be inspired to get the books out of the attic, or pick them up second-hand, and (re)discover their unique take on the Doctor’s adventures.

Doctor Who fans today live in blessed times. Right now we can watch any story from the series’ 50-plusyear history that survives in the BBC’s archives.

And for those that don’t, we can listen to their soundtracks thanks to enterprising early viewers and their tape recorders. Never before have the Doctor’s escapades been so readily available.

But think back to (or imagine, if you’re under 40) a time before downloads and online streaming, before DVDs and Blu-ray, before VHS, before audio recordings circulated among fans, before Doctor Who Weekly printed summaries of arcane adventures.

Back then there was just one medium by which we could relive our hero’s exploits: books.

The first Doctor Who stories immortalised in prose were published in the 1960s on the back of the unexpected popularity of the Daleks. But it was with the Target range of novelisations, which began in the mid-1970s, that fans were really able to experience again or discover for the first time television stories that had never been seen since their original broadcast. Over 20 years the publications built into an almost complete set of what’s now commonly referred to as the Classic Era. And just because these books were our only way to experience old Doctor Who doesn’t mean they were merely a stand-in for the programmes themselves.

Even when home-video releases gathered pace in the 1980s the novelisations continued because they offered something different to what could be seen on screen. Whether adapted by the original script writers or brilliant storytellers like Terrance Dicks and Ian Marter, the books gave greater insight into the characters, expanded the tales with sequences that didn’t make it into the episodes, and sparked our imaginations to dream up creatures and vistas that even modern-day CGI would struggle to match.

Modern televised Doctor Who doesn’t get book adaptations. The supposition is that because the episodes themselves are so easy to view, who would read a written version? Instead the focus is on original fiction, and that’s great. But I believe there’s a missed opportunity. Doctor Who today is fast-paced and action-packed, as befits a 21st-century adventure series, yet it’s as densely-packed with wild ideas and intriguing characters as it ever was. Given 50,000 words to play with, the series’ writers could bring out so much more detail.

Books exercise our imaginations much more directly than television or film, especially for younger readers. Doctor Who has survived 50 years and gained such an enthusiastic fanbase because there’s so much more to it than what’s seen on screen. For those who came to the Doctor’s adventures through the novelisations, watching the episodes themselves could be something of a comedown after the vivid tales the books had inspired. If you think you know Classic Doctor Who, you need to read a book.

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6 DOCTOR WHO AND THE AUTON INVASION

In this, the first adventure of his third ‘incarnation’, DOCTOR WHO, Liz Shaw and the Brigadier grapple with the

TERRANCE DICKS

nightmarish invasion of the AUTONS – living, giant-sized,

tv serial by Robert

Holmes tv– book gap 3 years 11 months 3 weeks word count 40,765

plastic-modelled ‘humans’ with no hair and sightless eyes; waxwork replicas and tailors’ dummies whose murderous behaviour is directed by the NESTENE CONSCIOUSNESS – a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic proportions and

UK EDITIONS

indescribably hideous appearance.

(ISBN 0-855-23035-5) Cover and illustrations by Chris Achilleos Black text logo; brown spine 17/01/1974 £1.75 wh allen hardback (ISBN 0-491-02895-4) Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter, illustrations by Chris Achilleos Blue Sutton logo; blue spine 19/11/1981 £4.25 3,000 allan wingate hardback

target paperback (ISBN 0-426-10313-0) Cover and illustrations by Chris Achilleos Black text logo; brown spine 17/01/1974 25 p 17/10/1974 30 p (ISBN 0-426-11295-4) H2 1975 40 p 15/01/1976 40 p Green Lodge logo; white spine 17/08/1978 60 p 10,000

21/02/1980 75 p 12,000

H1 1982 £1.50

Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter Blue Sutton logo; blue spine Q4 1982 £1.50

8/12/1983 £1.50 20,000

1984 £1.50 # Cover painting by Alister Pearson Elmes logo banner; blue spine 21/03/1991 £2.50 8,000 #

chapter titles 1 Prologue:

Exiled to Earth / 2 The Mystery of the Meteorites / 3 The Man from Space / 4 The Faceless Kidnappers / 5 The Hunting Auton / 6 The Doctor Disappears / 7 The Horror in the Factory / 8 The Auton Attacks / 9 The Creatures in the Waxworks / 10 The Final Battle

 This and Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters, released the same month, were the first all-new Target novelisations. When the publisher approached the series production office for advice on potential authors, then-script editor Terrance Dicks offered to write it himself. The prologue gives a reprise of the trial scene from the end of The War Games.  Cover artist Chris Achilleos’s reference for the Doctor is one of a series of action shots taken to promote Jon Pertwee’s first season. His source for the Brigadier is unidentified and could be from this season or The Invasion. His inclusion makes him the first companion on a cover, the first of five appearances.  Achilleos also drew 11 black-and-white illustrations for the original hardback and paperback that were reused in subsequent editions. These were not taken directly from photos from the television serial, although Achilleos clearly did have a photo from the scene in the waxworks as he bases his drawings of General Scobie on one of the actors playing a dummy, just not the one actually playing Scobie himself.  The first page of the hardback edition and Target editions up to 1976 features a paragraph explaining “the changing face of doctor who The cover illustration and others contained within this book portray the third doctor who whose physical appearance was altered by the Time Lords when they banished him to the planet Earth in the Twentieth Century.”

This also appears in the 2011 BBC Books reissue.  The back cover of paperback editions up to 1976 carry a quote from Matthew Coady in The Daily Mirror (27 January 1970): “This doctor who adventure (televised as Spearhead from Space) wins my vote as the best in the lifetime of the series so far.”; and from Gerard Garrett in The Daily Sketch: “doctor who, the children’s own programme which adults adore…”  Hardbacks were published for this and Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters (intended for libraries) but were then dropped.

They resumed at the end of 1975 but the paperbacks released in the meantime didn’t get hardback editions until the early1980s (many in 1981 when a dispute with the Writers’ Guild prevented WH Allen from publishing new books for several months). Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion also got a second hardback edition at this time with new cover artwork. This is reported as being issued in November 1981 but its price is more in line with the standard at the start of the year so it may have come out earlier, or was just cheaper than other late‑1981 hardbacks because it had been published before. Its use of the Sid Sutton logo also suggests a release date in the second half of the year.  According to an article about Doctor Who in America in issue 10 of Super Star Heroes magazine (October 1979), US publisher Pinnacle Books planned to release this book in 1980. It was dropped, however, when Lyle Stuart Inc secured the rights to distribute the Target books in America.

1 1 1

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1 ISBN given as 0-426-10313-0 inside 2 Retitled ‘Doctor Who – The Auton Invasion’

bbc audiobook (ISBN 978-1-405-68766-9) Cover painting by Chris Achilleos, read by Caroline John 12/06/2008 £17.99 4/10/2012 £40.00

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3 Part of ‘Invasion Earth!’ set, ISBN 978-1-471-30659-4

bbc books paperback (ISBN 978-1-849-90193-2) Cover and illustrations by Chris Achilleos Gold foil TVM logo; cream spine 7/07/2011 £4.99 Brown TVM logo 8/09/2011 £4.99

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 Andrew Skilleter’s cover artwork was also used on paperback editions from 1982. The story teaser on the back of these and the second hardback edition reads:

turkey Doktor Kim ve Otonlar (‘The Autons’) Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul Paperback; cover by Chris Achilleos; translation by Reha Pinar 06/1975 10 lira One of six titles published in Turkey, although the programme itself is not known to have been shown there until the late-1980s.

This book has a green spine and border on the back cover. Like the other Turkish translations, the illustrations aren’t included. holland Doctor Who en de Invasie van de Autonen

Unieboek/De Gooise, Bussum (ISBN 9-026-98105-8) Paperback; cover by Chris Achilleos; translation by JJ van den Hulst-Brander 1975/76 Fr3.95/Bfr66 The fourth of eight titles published while broadcaster TROS was showing stories from the first two Fourth Doctor seasons (July 1975 to September 1976), as mentioned on the title page.

Consequently, although the story and front cover features the Third Doctor, the back has an image of the Fourth, taken from Chris Achilleos’s cover artwork for The Doctor Who Monster Book (Target, 1975). The illustrations aren’t included. finland Tohtori Kuka Ja Autonien Hyökkäys (‘Doctor

Who and the Auton Attack’) Weilin+Göös, Helsinki (ISBN 9-513-51313-0) Hardback; cover by Adam Korpak; translator unknown 1976 price unknown One of two titles published in Finland, although the programme itself was never broadcast there in the 20th Century. japan 才ートン軍団の襲来!

Hayakawa Bunko, Tokyo Paperback with dust-jacket; cover and illustrations by Michiaki Sato; translation by Yukio Sekiguchi 04/1980 ¥300 The second of five titles published in Japan in 1980. At that time the only showing of Doctor Who had been three Third Doctor serials on JCTV-2, a closed-circuit English-language channel.

This was number 388 in Hayakawa’s SF range. A transliteration of the title is ‘Outon gundan no shuurai’, which means ‘Invasion of the Auton Army’. The book includes a colour double-page spread and black-and-white illustrations. portugal Doutor Who e a Invasão dos Autones

Editorial Presença, Barcarena Paperback; cover by Rui Ligeiro; illustrations by Chris Achilleos; translation by Conceição Jardim and Eduardo Nogueira 1983 price unknown Number 1 of 10 titles issued as part of the publisher’s Andromeda Collection, even though the series hadn’t been shown in Portugal at the time. The cover artwork wraps round onto the back.

A mysterious shower of meteorites lands in Essex, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT has reason to believe that they have been deliberately aimed at the Earth’s surface.

The Doctor joins forces with the Brigadier and Liz Shaw in a desperate bid to prevent the nightmarish invasion of the sinister Autons. Living models of human beings – like waxwork dummies – their murderous behaviour is controlled and directed by the Nestene Consciousness, a malignant, squidlike monster of cosmic proportions and indescribably hideous appearance.

 The story teaser on the back of the 1991 reissue reads: Found guilty by his fellow Time Lords of interference in the affairs of other planets, the Doctor is forced to undergo his second regeneration and is exiled to Earth.

But strange meteorites are landing in Essex and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT has reason to believe that they were deliberately aimed at the Earth’s surface. In order to avert a possible catastrophe the Doctor joins forces with UNIT and battles with the sinister Autons – creatures whose murderous behaviour is directed by the Nestene Consciousness, a hideous entity of cosmic proportions.

This edition was published alongside a reissue of Doctor Who – The Ambassadors of Death. It’s the only one of these later reissues not to revert its title to that of the television serial, which it mistakenly refers to as The Spearhead from Space.

Artist Alister Pearson’s reference for the Doctor is a photo taken in a special shoot of the series’ three new lead actors during production of The Silurians.  The unabridged audiobook reading by Caroline John, with background sound and music by Simon Power, is on 4 discs and lasts 4 hours 55 minutes. The back cover has the same story teaser as the first Target edition, while a booklet has notes by David J Howe about the novel. Also available to

download. The audiobook was re‑released as part of the set Invasion Earth! along with readings of Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth and Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion.  In December 2010, Character Options released six 5-inch action figures each with an MP3 CD on a tray that fitted together to form a model of the Pandorica (the discs were printed with the Pandorica cogs design). The reading of Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion was featured in two parts on the discs with Eleventh Doctor and Roman Auton figures.  The 2011 BBC Books reissue has an introduction by Russell T Davies; profiles of the lead characters and short biographies of Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes, written by Justin Richards; and an examination of the differences between the novelisation and the original television serial, written by Steve Tribe. The story teaser on the back reads:

NEXT BOOK DOCTOR WHO AND THE CAVE-MONSTERS

Put on trial by the Time Lords, and found guilty of interfering in the affairs of other worlds, the Doctor is exiled to Earth in the 20th century, his appearance once again changed. His arrival coincides with a meteorite shower. But these are no ordinary meteorites.

The Nestene Consciousness has begun its first attempt to invade Earth using killer Autons and deadly shop window dummies. Only the Doctor and UNIT can stop the attack.

But the Doctor is recovering in hospital, and his old friend the Brigadier doesn’t even recognise him. Can the Doctor recover and win UNIT’s trust before the invasion begins?

An ebook of this edition was also published by BBC Digital on the same date (ISBN 978-1-446-41707-2).

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The Little Planet / 2 The Doctor Gets a Message / 3 The Traitor / 4 Power Loss / 5 The Fighting Monster / 6 Into the Caves / 7 Quinn Visits His Friends / 8 Into an Alien World / 9 The Search / 10 Man Trap / 11 The Doctor Makes a Visit / 12 Goodbye, Dr. Quinn / 13 The Prisoner / 14 Man from the Ministry / 15 Attack and Counter-attack / 16 The Itch / 17 Epidemic / 18 A Hot World / 19 The Lie

PREVIOUS BOOK DOCTOR WHO AND THE AUTON INVASION

9 DOCTOR WHO AND THE CAVE-MONSTERS MALCOLM HULKE

tv– book gap 3

years 10 months

word count 44,726

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allan wingate hardback (ISBN 0-855-23036-3) Cover and illustrations by Chris Achilleos Black text logo; green spine 17/01/1974 £1.75

(ISBN 0-426-10292-4) Cover and illustrations by Chris Achilleos Black text logo; green spine 17/01/1974 25 p 20/02/975 35 p

H2 1975 40 p (ISBN 0-426-11471-X) 18/03/1976 40 p

H1 1978 60 p 4,000 Green Lodge logo; white spine Q3 1979 70 p 15,000 Q2 1980 75 p 12,000

H1 1982 £1.25

Q4 1982 £1.35

1983 £1.50 13,000

1984 £1.50 # (ISBN 0-426-20382-8) Cover painting by Alister Pearson Elmes logo banner; blue spine 20/08/1992 £2.99 #

 This was Malcolm Hulke’s first adaptation for the range. He went on to adapt seven serials into novels, all but one based on his own scripts, making him the third most prolific author after Terrance Dicks and Ian Marter.  In the prologue, three reptile men take their last look at the surface of the Earth before retreating into a deep shelter as the Moon approaches. The creatures are only referred to as Silurians on the back cover, not in the text, although the term is used as the password for entry to the research centre. The television character Major Baker is renamed Barker in the book.  Cover artist Chris Achilleos’s reference for the Doctor is a photo taken on location during production of Day of the Daleks.  Achilleos also drew 10 black-and-white illustrations, plus the ‘Horizontal section of Wenley Moor showing cave system and research centre complex’, for the original hardback and paperback that were reused in subsequent editions. His Silurians are faithful to their television appearance, while one image of the Doctor and Liz is based on a photo of the Doctor and Jo from The Curse of Peladon.  The first page of the hardback edition and Target editions up to 1976 features a paragraph explaining “the changing face of doctor who The cover illustration and others contained within this book portray the third doctor who whose physical appearance was altered by the Time Lords when they banished him to the planet Earth in the Twentieth Century.”

This also appears in the 2011 BBC Books reissue.  The story teaser on the back of the first paperback edition classifies dinosaurs as mammals, although the somewhat more accurate reptiles is used in the hardback’s blurb.  The back cover of paperback editions up to 1978 carry a quote from Gerard Garrett in The Daily Sketch: “doctor who, the children’s own programme which adults adore…”  Chris Achilleos’s cover artwork is used as a blackand-white illustration in The Doctor Who Monster Book (Target, November 1975, ISBN 0-42611447‑7, 50p). This book was written by Terrance Dicks and has cover artwork also by Achilleos.  The story teaser on the back of the 1992 reissue reads:

target paperback

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2

3 3 3 3 3

4

1 ‘Based on’ tagline dropped 2 ‘Based on’ tagline reappears on this edition only 3 ISBN given as 0-426-10292-4 inside 4 Retitled ‘Doctor Who – The Silurians’

bbc audiobook (ISBN 978-1-405-67799-8) Cover painting by Chris Achilleos, read by Caroline John 3/09/2007 £17.99

All is not well at the Wenley Moor underground atomic research station. Power is being unaccountably lost; the staff are on the verge of a strange nervous collapse and one man, his face horribly marked by some hideous claw, has been killed. The Silurians, ancient creatures who once ruled the Earth, are beginning to stir from their centuries-long slumber…

5

5 Retitled ‘Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters’

bbc books paperback (ISBN 978-1-849-90194-9) Cover and illustrations by Chris Achilleos Gold foil TVM logo; cream spine 5 7/07/2011 £4.99 Brown TVM logo 5 8/09/2011 £4.99

This edition was published alongside a reissue of Doctor Who – Warriors of the Deep. It states that the original television serial was broadcast in 1974 (instead of 1970, perhaps confusing it with the book’s original publication date) and that the producer was Derrick Sherwin rather than Barry Letts. It gained a new ISBN because the title was changed to Doctor Who –The Silurians. Cover artist Alister Pearson’s reference for the Brigadier is a photo from Spearhead from Space, while his Silurian and Tyrannosaur are drawn from photos taken in a shoot for Radio Times to promote Season 7.  A larger version of Pearson’s cover artwork appears in David J Howe’s Timeframe (Virgin Publishing, October 1993, ISBN 0-863-69861-1, £9.99). This 30th anniversary book looks back over the series’ history and is illustrated with many examples of Target cover artwork.

All is not well at the Wenley Moor underground atomic research station : there are unaccountable losses of power-output ; nervous breakdowns amongst the staff ; and then – a death !

UNIT is called in and the Brigadier is soon joined by DOCTOR WHO and Liz Shaw in a tense and exciting adventure with subterranean reptile men – SILURIANS – and a 40 ft. high

Tyrannosaurus rex, the biggest, most savage mammal which ever trod the earth !

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portugal Doutor Who e a Monstros das Cavernas Editorial Presença, Barcarena Paperback; cover by Rui Ligeiro; illustrations by Chris Achilleos; translation by Conceição Jardim and Eduardo Nogueira 1983 price unknown Number 2 of 10 titles issued as part of the publisher’s Andromeda Collection, even though the series hadn’t been shown in Portugal at the time. The cover artwork wraps round onto the back.

 The unabridged audiobook reading by Caroline John, with background sound and music by Simon Power, is on 4 discs and lasts 4 hours 10 minutes. The back cover has the same story teaser as the first Target edition (including calling the T-rex a mammal), while a booklet has notes by David J Howe about the novel. Also available to download.  In December 2010, Character Options released six 5-inch action figures each with an MP3 CD on a tray that fitted together to form a model of the Pandorica (the discs were printed with the Pandorica cogs design). The reading of Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters was featured in two parts on the discs with Amy Pond and Silurian Warrior figures.  The 2011 BBC Books reissue has an introduction by Terrance Dicks; profiles of the lead characters and a short biography of Malcolm Hulke, written by Justin Richards; and an examination of the differences between the novelisation and the original television serial, written by Steve Tribe. The story teaser on the back reads:

NEXT BOOK DOCTOR WHO AND THE DOOMSDAY WEAPON

UNIT is called in to investigate security at a secret research centre buried under Wenley Moor. Unknown to the Doctor and his colleagues, the work at the centre has woken a group of Silurians – intelligent reptiles that used to be the dominant life form on Earth in prehistoric times.

Now they have woken, the Silurians are appalled to find ‘their’ planet populated by upstart apes. The Doctor hopes to negotiate a peace deal, but there are those on both sides who cannot bear the thought of humans and Silurians living together. As UNIT soldiers enter the cave systems, and the Silurians unleash a deadly plague that could wipe out the human race, the battle for planet Earth begins.

An ebook of this edition was also published by BBC Digital on the same date (ISBN 978-1-446-41721-8).

FOREIGN EDITIONS holland Doctor Who en de Holenmonsters Unieboek/De Gooise, Bussum (ISBN 9-026-98106-6) Paperback; cover by Chris Achilleos; translation by JJ van den Hulst-Brander 1975/76 Fr3.95/Bfr66 The fifth of eight titles published while broadcaster TROS was showing stories from the first two Fourth Doctor seasons (July 1975 to September 1976), as mentioned on the title page.

Consequently, although the story and front cover features the Third Doctor, the back has an image of the Fourth, taken from Chris Achilleos’s cover artwork for The Doctor Who Monster Book (Target, 1975). The illustrations aren’t included. finland Tohtori Kuka Ja Luolahirviöt

Weilin+Göös, Helsinki (ISBN 9-513-51312-2) Hardback; cover by Adam Korpak; translator unknown 1976 price unknown One of two titles published in Finland, although the programme itself was never broadcast there in the 20th Century. japan 戦慄! 地底モンスター

Hayakawa Bunko, Tokyo Paperback with dust-jacket; cover and illustrations by Michiaki Sato; translation by Yukio Sekiguchi 05/1980 ¥320 The third of five titles published in Japan in 1980. At that time the only showing of Doctor Who had been three Third Doctor serials on JCTV-2, a closed-circuit English-language channel.

This was number 390 in Hayakawa’s SF range. A transliteration of the title is ‘Senritsu! Chitei Monsutaa’, which literally means ‘Horror! Underground Monster’ – that is, ‘The Terrifying Underground Monsters’. The book includes a colour double-page spread and black-and-white illustrations.

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BASED ON THE POPULAR BBC TELEVISION SERIAL Since this was the last Third Doctor serial to be novelised, editor Nigel Robinson spoke directly with Jon Pertwee to gain permission to use the actor’s likeness on the cover. Tony Masero originally painted Pertwee with much darker hair, matching the lighting on his face – referencing a photo taken

by Radio Times for its Doctor Who 10th Anniversary Special magazine – but Pertwee insisted it be made lighter as he felt his Doctor was known for his white hair.  Voted eighth best Target paperback of 1987 by readers of Doctor Who Magazine (issue 143, December 1988).  The story teaser on the back of the 1991 reissue reads: 

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121 DOCTOR WHO – THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH TERRANCE DICKS

tv serial by David

Whitaker (and Malcolm Hulke and Trevor Ray, uncredited) tv– book gap 17 years 3 weeks word count 33,158

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(ISBN 0-491-03712-0) Cover painting by Tony Masero Blue Sutton logo; purple spine 21/05/1987 £7.50

wh allen hardback

Seven months after leaving Mars, the Probe 7 ship has not returned to Earth. And the rescue ship returns – poisoned with radiation and apparently abandoned. Whatever piloted it back to Earth is not human…

The Doctor must negotiate with an alien intelligence for the return of its ambassadors – or face the destruction of the Earth…

This edition was published alongside a reissue of Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion. Alister Pearson’s cover artwork featured on a postcard free with issue 202 of Doctor Who Magazine (4 August 1993). This was his 100th Target cover painting, a fact he commemorated within the artwork.  A larger version of Pearson’s artwork appears in David J Howe’s Timeframe (Virgin Publishing, October 1993, ISBN 0-863-69861-1, £9.99). This 30th anniversary book looks back over the series’ history and is illustrated with many examples of Target cover artwork.

(ISBN 0-426-20305-4) Cover painting by Tony Masero Blue Sutton logo; purple spine 15/10/1987 £1.95 27,500 # Cover painting by Alister Pearson Elmes logo banner; blue spine 21/03/1991 £2.50 5,000 # target paperback

NEXT BOOK DOCTOR WHO – THE MASSACRE

Seven months after it left Mars there has still been no radio communication with the Probe Seven spacecraft or the astronauts inside it. Back on Earth concern is mounting and eventually a recovery capsule is sent up to rescue the astronauts.

But when the capsule returns to Earth it is found to be empty. As the Doctor and Liz investigate, they discover that the interior of the capsule is highly radioactive: if anyone was inside they would now surely be dead.

Have the astronauts indeed returned to Earth? And if not, who are the sinister space-suited figures who stalk the countryside and whose very touch means instant death? chapter titles 1 ‘Something

Took Off From Mars . . .’ / 2 ‘That Sound – It Was Some Kind Of Message . . .’ / 3 ‘They’ll Never Survive . . .’ / 4 ‘Recovery Seven – It’s On The Way Back!’ / 5 ‘The Capsule Has Landed.’ / 6 ‘They’ve Started To Crack The Code . . .’ / 7 ‘You Must Feed Them Radiation – Or They’ll Die!’ / 8 ‘We’ve Got To Get That Rocket Up!’ / 9 ‘Someone’s Threatening To Kill Miss Shaw!’ / 10 ‘An Attack On The Space Centre?’ / 11 ‘Do You Really Think They’re Not Human?’ / 12 ‘Large Unidentified Object Approaching On Collision Course . . .’ / 13 ‘The Capsule Will Be Smashed To Fragments . . .’ / 14 ‘Your Doctor Friend Is As Dead As A Doornail . . .’ / 15 ‘We May Not Have Much More Time!’ / 16 ‘We’re Being Invaded!’

 This was the last Third Doctor story to be novelised, appropriately written by the original serial’s script editor, Terrance Dicks, who also wrote the first Third Doctor adaptation, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion. An adaptation of The Ambassadors of Death had been considered as one of the first releases by Target in 1974 but was subsequently dropped.  In a break from his norm, Dicks used quotes from the story’s dialogue as chapter headings.

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PREVIOUS BOOK DOCTOR WHO AND THE GIANT ROBOT

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63 D OCTOR WHO AND THE TERROR OF THE AUTONS

TERRANCE DICKS

TERRANCE DICKS

tv serial by Don

Houghton tv– book gap 14 years 1 month word count 34,561

tv serial by Robert

Holmes years 3 months 3 weeks word count 34,356 tv– book gap 4

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wh allen hardback (ISBN 0-491-03143-2) Cover painting by Nick Spender Red Sutton logo; orange spine 19/07/1984 £5.95 3,000

(ISBN 0-426-19617-1) Cover painting by Nick Spender Red Sutton logo; orange spine 18/10/1984 £1.50 60,000 #

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audiogo audiobook (ISBN 978-1-408-46832-6) Cover painting by Nick Spender, read by Caroline John 7/04/2011 £13.25

target paperback (ISBN 0-426-10639-3) Cover painting by Peter Brookes, illustrations by Alan Willow Blue Lodge logo; white spine 15/05/1975 35 p 18/03/1976 40 p

24/03/1977 40 p (ISBN 0-426-11500-7) Cover painting by Alun Hood Orange Lodge logo; white spine 29/03/1979 60 p 12,000 H1 1980 75 p 12,000 H2 1982 £1.25 H1 1984 £1.35

H2 1987 £1.95 5,000

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Inferno is the name of a top-secret project to penetrate the

wh allen hardback (ISBN 0-491-02864-4) Cover painting by Alun Hood, illustrations by Alan Willow Orange Lodge logo; brown spine 19/02/1981 £4.25 2,500

bbc audiobook (ISBN 978-1-408-46675-9) Cover painting by Peter Brookes, read by Geoffrey Beevers 8/07/2010 £12.99

Earth’s crust and release a major new energy source.

A crisis develops when a noxious liquid leaks out as drilling progresses – the green poison has a grotesquely debilitating effect on human beings.

As the Earth’s plight worsens, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to rescue the planet and its inhabitants from the destructive force of Inferno… chapter titles 1 Project

Inferno / 2 The Beast / 3 Mutant / 4 The Slime / 5 Dimension of Terror / 6 The Nightmare / 7 Death Sentence / 8 Countdown to Doom / 9 Penetration-Zero / 10 The Monsters / 11 Escape Plan / 12 Doomsday / 13 Return to Danger / 14 The Last Mutation / 15 The Doctor Takes a Trip

The evil Master leered at the Doctor, and triumphantly pointed out of the cabin window. The many-tentacled Nestene monster – spearhead of the second Auton invasion of Earth –

 This is the earliest Target novelisation never to be reprinted, although its print run was almost three times the number for the last few books in the series.  While Nick Spender’s cover artwork references a photo of actor Ian Fairbairn as Bromley, given his features have been altered it’s unknown if his clearance would have been required.  Voted favourite Target paperback of 1984 by readers of Doctor Who Magazine (issue 108, January 1986).  Included in The Seventh Doctor Who Gift Set (Target, 1985, ISBN 0-426-20206-6, £6.50). The four books in this set were Doctor Who – The Highlanders, Doctor Who – Inferno, Doctor Who – Frontios and Doctor Who – Planet of Fire. The slipcase reused Graham Potts’ cover artwork from Doctor Who – A Celebration.  The unabridged audiobook reading by Caroline John, with background sound and music by Simon Power, is on 4 discs and lasts 4 hours 6 minutes. The back cover has the same story teaser as the Target edition, while a booklet has notes by David J Howe about the novel. Also available to download.  From 8 August 2016, Nick Spender’s original painting, loaned by current owner Colin Young, has been on display at the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff in an exhibition celebrating the art of Target’s Doctor Who range.

crouched beside the radio tower !

Part crab, part spider, part octopus, its single huge eye blazed with alien intelligence and deadly hatred . . .

Can the Doctor outwit his rival Time Lord, the Master, and save the Earth from the Nestene horror ? chapter titles 1 The

Terror Begins / 2 Sabotage at the Space Probe / 3 The Master Takes Over / 4 Death at the Plastics Factory / 5 The Killer Doll / 6 In the Hands of the Autons / 7 The Battle in the Forest / 8 The Killer Doll Attacks / 9 The Deadly Daffodils / 10 Prisoners of the Master / 11 The Final Assault / 12 The End of Round One  This book was first listed as being ‘In preparation’ six months ahead of publication, in the first edition of Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen in November 1974. It continued to be listed in all subsequent books prior to its release.  The text of the story is followed, uniquely, with a plug for other related Doctor Who books. First is: ‘The story of the Doctor’s first encounter with the Autons is told in : Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion.’; then: ‘Read of further battles between the Doctor and the Master in : Doctor Who and the Daemons [sic] Doctor Who and the Sea Devils [sic] Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon’.

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 Peter Brookes’ original cover sketch has the Doctor’s head in the O of ‘WHO’ (as on Doctor Who and the Giant Robot) with the Nestene Consciousness writhing around the radio telescope, dwarfing the Doctor as he leaps from a jeep. The back cover of this edition features a colour illustration by Brookes of Sergeant Benton pointing his pistol at a fallen Auton, with an inset of a UNIT soldier shooting his rifle at a line of silhouetted Autons.  Alan Willow drew 6 black-and-white illustrations for the original paperback that were reused in subsequent editions, including his own interpretation of the Nestene creature to add to those by cover artists Peter Brookes and Alun Hood.  The first page of Target editions up to 1977 features a paragraph explaining “the changing face of doctor who The cover illustration and others contained within this book portray the third doctor who whose physical appearance was altered by the Time Lords when they banished him to the planet Earth in the Twentieth Century.”  The title page of the first paperback edition credits Target editor Mike Glover.  Alun Hood’s artwork was one of three pieces the artist produced for Target reprints, along with Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders (1978) and Doctor Who and the Green Death (1979), all replacing original covers by Brookes.  According to an article about Doctor Who in America in issue 10 of Super Star Heroes magazine (October 1979), US publisher Pinnacle Books planned to release this book in 1980. It was dropped, however, when Lyle Stuart Inc secured the rights to distribute the Target books in America.  The 1984 edition was included in some releases of the unnumbered ninth and final Doctor Who Gift Set (Target, 1986, ISBN 0-426-32410-8). The four books in this set were Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus, Doctor Who – Meglos, Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken and either Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons or Doctor Who – The Mind of Evil. The slipcase featured a photo of the Sixth Doctor (the same as on the fifth set) even though none of the books featured this incarnation.  A dispute with the Writers’ Guild prevented WH Allen from publishing more than a handful of new books in 1981, so instead it issued hardback editions of some early books that hadn’t been released in that format before, including this book with Hood’s cover artwork (given a brown border).  The unabridged audiobook reading by Geoffrey Beevers, with background sound and music by Simon Power, is on 4 discs and lasts 3 hours 51 minutes. The back cover has the same story teaser as the Target edition, while a booklet has notes by David J Howe about the novel. Also available to download.

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wh allen hardback (ISBN 0-491-03333-8) Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter Red Sutton logo; orange spine 21/03/1985 £5.95

target paperback (ISBN 0-426-20166-3) Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter Red Sutton logo; orange spine 11/07/1985 £1.50 40,000 #

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bbc audiobook (ISBN 978-1-785-29600-0) Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter, read by [tba] 6/04/2017 £20.00

Eminent scientist Emil Keller has developed a revolutionary new process for the treatment of hardened criminals. His invention, the Keller Machine, is being heralded as a major scientific breakthrough.

But Professor Keller is in truth the Master and the Keller Machine is much more than a mere machine. Soon the Doctor is involved in a bitter struggle with his deadliest enemy, an alien mind parasite, and a diabolical scheme to plunge the world into a Third World War… chapter titles 1 The

Sentence / 2 The Terror / 3 The Inferno / 4 The Listener / 5 The Pistol / 6 The Dragon / 7 The Hostage / 8 The Mutiny / 9 The Test / 10 The Mind Parasite / 11 Hijack / 12 The Escape / 13 The Attack / 14 The Reunion / 15 The Mind of Evil / 16 The Farewell  Cover artist Andrew Skilleter’s reference for the Master is a photo taken on location for Terror of the Autons and used on the cover of the 2 January 1971 edition of Radio Times. Chris Achilleos had previously used the same photo for his cover for Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon.  Included in The Eighth Doctor Who Gift Set (Target, 1985, ISBN 0-426-20207-4, £6.50).

The four books in this set were Doctor Who – Marco Polo, Doctor Who – The Mind of Evil, Doctor Who – The Awakening and Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani. The slipcase featured Andrew Skilleter’s artwork for the last two stories on either side.  Included in some releases of the unnumbered ninth and final Doctor Who Gift Set (Target, 1986, ISBN 0-426-32410-8). The four books in this set were Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus, Doctor Who – Meglos, Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken and either Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons or Doctor Who – The Mind of Evil. The slipcase featured a photo of the Sixth Doctor (the same as on the fifth set) even though none of the books featured adventures of this incarnation.

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Doctor Who – The Mind of Evil was paired with Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos and released as the fourth of Star Books’ Doctor Who Classics range on 16 March 1989 (ISBN 0-352-32381-7, £2.95). These were made by gluing together two Target books with a new front page and cover. This edition has Andrew Skilleter’s artwork for The Mind of Evil on the silver-embossed front cover, while Chris Achilleos’s painting for The Claws of Axos appears on the back. This was the only pairing in this range of consecutive stories.  In November 2016, Andrew Skilleter issued a 2017 calendar featuring examples of his Target artwork, with his painting for this book (reversed) appearing on the page for April. 

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allan wingate hardback (ISBN 0-855-23181-5) Cover painting by Chris Achilleos Blue Lodge logo; white spine 21/04/1977 £2.50

target paperback (ISBN 0-426-11703-4) Cover painting by Chris Achilleos Blue Lodge logo; white spine 21/04/1977 50 p 30,000 Cover painting by John Geary Red Lodge logo; white spine 29/03/1979 60 p 28/06/1979 70 p 12,000 Q1 1980 75 p 12,000 H2 1982 £1.35 H1 1984 £1.35

H2 1984 £1.50 20,000 #

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(ISBN 978-1-785-29319-1) Cover painting by Chris Achilleos, read by Richard Franklin 2/06/2016 £20.00 bbc audiobook

‘Axos calling Earth, Axos calling Earth . . .’ The creatures stood before them, beautiful golden humanoids, offering friendship and their priceless Axonite, in return for – what ?

Only DOCTOR WHO remains suspicious. What is the real reason for the Axons’ sudden arrival on Earth ? And why is the evil Master a passenger on their spaceship? He very soon finds out . . . chapter titles 1 Invader

from Space / 2 The Landing / 3 The Voice of Axos / 4 Enter the Master / 5 The Doctor Makes a Plan / 6 Escape from Axos / 7 The Axons Attack / 8 The Power Robbers / 9 The Sacrifice / 10 Brainstorm / 11 The Feast of Axos / 12 Trapped in Time

 An adaptation of The Claws of Axos was considered among the first batch of Target books in 1974 but subsequently dropped.  Cover artist Chris Achilleos is credited on the front flap of the hardback edition’s dust-jacket. His reference for the Doctor is a photo from Frontier in Space.  The first page of the hardback edition and first Target edition features a paragraph explaining “the changing face of doctor who The cover illustration portrays the third doctor who whose physical appearance was altered by the Time Lords when they banished him to the planet Earth in the Twentieth Century.”  Achilleos’s cover artwork appears in Beauty and the Beast (Paper Tiger, September 1978, ISBN 0-905-89512-6, £3.95), a collection of the artist’s fantasy art. The original painting was bought by British fan Mick Hall, who later sold it to American fan Dale Santos for £500.

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A larger version of John Geary’s cover artwork for the 1979 reprint appears in David J Howe’s Timeframe (Virgin Publishing, October 1993, ISBN 0-863-69861-1, £9.99). This 30th anniversary book looks back over the series’ history and is illustrated with many examples of Target cover artwork.  Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos was paired with Doctor Who – The Mind of Evil and released as the fourth of Star Books’ Doctor Who Classics range on 16 March 1989 (ISBN 0-352-32381-7, £2.95). These were made by gluing together two Target books with a new front page and cover. This edition has Andrew Skilleter’s artwork for The Mind of Evil on the silver-embossed front cover, while Chris Achilleos’s painting for The Claws of Axos appears on the back. This was the only pairing in this range of consecutive stories.  The unabridged audiobook reading by Richard Franklin, with background sound and music by Simon Power, is on 4 discs and lasts 3 hours 41 minutes. The back cover has the same story teaser as the Target edition, while a booklet has notes by David J Howe about the novel. Also available to download.  From 8 August 2016, John Geary’s original painting has been on display at the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff in an exhibition celebrating the art of Target’s Doctor Who range. 

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(ISBN 0-426-10372-6) Cover and illustrations by Chris Achilleos Black text logo; purple spine 18/04/1974 30 p 20/06/1974 30 p 13/03/1975 35 p H1 1976 40 p Cover painting by Jeff Cummins Black Lodge logo; white spine 16/08/1979 70 p 12,000 H2 1980 85 p 15,000

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wh allen hardback (ISBN 0-491-02707-9) Cover painting by Jeff Cummins, illustrations by Chris Achilleos Purple Sutton logo; purple spine 18/03/1982 £4.95 2,500

bbc audiobook (ISBN 978-1-405-67795-0) Cover painting by Jeff Cummins, read by Geoffrey Beevers 3/09/2007 £17.99

The evil MASTER has stolen the Time Lords’ file on the horrifying DOOMSDAY WEAPON with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy ! The Time Lords direct DOCTOR WHO and Jo Grant in their TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471 where they find colonists from Earth under threat from mysterious, savage, monster lizards with frightful claws !

And hidden upon this planet is the DOOMSDAY WEAPON for which the MASTER is intently searching . . . chapter titles 1 A

Missing Secret / 2 Into Time and Space / 3 The Planet / 4 The Monster / 5 Starvation / 6 The Survivor / 7 The Robot / 8 The Men from IMC / 9 The Spy / 10 The Claw / 11 Face-to-Face / 12 The Bomb / 13 The Attack / 14 The Adjudicator / 15 Primitive City / 16 The Ambush / 17 Captain Dent Thinks Twice / 18 The Master’s TARDIS / 19 The Return of Captain Dent / 20 The Doomsday Weapon / 21 Mission Completed  The novelisation was commissioned from Malcolm Hulke in July 1973. Since it was the first to feature Jo Grant, it rewrites her introduction to the Doctor. It was also the first novel to include the Master. Sergeant Benton makes an appearance in the book but isn’t in the television serial.  Cover artist Chris Achilleos’s reference for the Doctor is actually a photo from the correct story for once. The source for his Master, however, is the cover of the 2 January 1971 edition of Radio Times promoting the start of Season 8 with photos taken on location for Terror of the Autons. Andrew Skilleter later used the same photo as reference for his cover for Doctor Who and the Mind of Evil.

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 Achilleos also drew 11 black-and-white illustrations for the original paperback that were reused in subsequent editions.

He clearly had photos from the story available for reference, including of the Doctor, Jo, the robot and the Primitives.  The first page of Target editions up to 1976 features a paragraph explaining “the changing face of doctor who The cover illustration and others contained within this book portray the third doctor who whose physical appearance was altered by the Time Lords when they banished him to the planet Earth in the Twentieth Century.”  The back cover sets the adventure in the year 2471 whereas on page 31 Jo learns from Mary Ashe that it’s now 2972. The television serial was set in 2472.  The back cover of paperback editions up to 1976 carry a quote from Gerard Garrett in The Daily Sketch: “doctor who, the children’s own programme which adults adore…”  With the first edition of this book the paperback price rose from 25p to 30p, just under a year after the range began.  This was the first book not to have a hardback edition on its original release. The three original First Doctor stories were initially published as hardbacks, and the first two Third Doctor books released in 1974 had simultaneous hardback and paperback editions. But from Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon the publisher dropped its library-targeted hardback editions and they weren’t resumed until the end of 1975, by which time the company had a new owner. This left ten books that only received hardback versions in the early-1980s.  The book was reprinted in 1979 with new cover artwork by Jeff Cummins and the story teaser on the back changed to read:

turkey Doktor Kim ve Gizli Silah (‘The Secret Weapon’) Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul Paperback; cover by Chris Achilleos; translation by Reha Pinar 06/1975 10 lira One of six titles published in Turkey, although the programme itself is not known to have been shown there until the late-1980s.

This book has a purple spine and border on the back cover. Like the other Turkish translations, the illustrations aren’t included. holland Doctor Who en het Dodelijk Wapen

Unieboek/De Gooise, Bussum (ISBN 9-026-98107-4) Paperback; cover by Chris Achilleos; translation by Wim Hohage 1975/76 Fr3.95/Bfr66 The sixth of eight titles published while broadcaster TROS was showing stories from the first two Fourth Doctor seasons (July 1975 to September 1976), as mentioned on the title page.

Consequently, although the story and front cover features the Third Doctor, the back has an image of the Fourth, taken from Chris Achilleos’s cover artwork for The Doctor Who Monster Book (Target, 1975). The illustrations aren’t included. america Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon

Pinnacle Books, New York Paperback; cover by David Mann; introduction by Harlan Ellison 04/1979 $1.75 (ISBN 0-523-40566-9)

0 8/1982 $1.95 (ISBN 0-523-42005-6) 3 printings

1984 $2.95 (ISBN 0-523-42497-3)

01/1989 $3.50 (ISBN 1-558-17189-4) Number 2 of 10 Third and Fourth Doctor novelisations published in America following Time Life’s licensing of Seasons 12-15 in August 1978. The first edition has a yellow logo and title/spine text; for the 1982 reprint these became green, then a red logo but the title still in green in 1984 and 1989. The second edition was reprinted twice in 1983, one possibly specifically for sale in Canada. The title is abbreviated to ‘Dr. Who and the Doomsday Weapon’ on the spine. The introduction by sciencefiction author Harlan Ellison features in all editions but is only quoted on the cover of the first. japan 恐るべき最終兵器!

Hayakawa Bunko, Tokyo Paperback with dust-jacket; cover and illustrations by Michiaki Sato; translation by Yukio Sekiguchi 07/1980 ¥340 The fourth of five titles published in Japan in 1980. At that time the only showing of Doctor Who had been three Third Doctor serials on JCTV-2, a closed-circuit English-language channel.

This was number 398 in Hayakawa’s SF range. A transliteration of the title is ‘Osoru Beki Saishuu Heiki!’, which means ‘Formidable Ultimate Weapon!’. The book includes a colour double-page spread and black-and-white illustrations. portugal Doutor Who e a Arma Total

Editorial Presença, Barcarena Paperback; cover by Shanti; illustrations by Chris Achilleos; translation by Conceição Jardim and Eduardo Nogueira 1983 price unknown Number 4 of 10 titles issued as part of the publisher’s Andromeda Collection, even though the series hadn’t been shown in Portugal at the time. The cover artwork wraps round onto the back.

Despite ingenious security precautions, the Time Lords’ secret file on the devastating Doomsday Weapon is stolen by the Master.

Realising that the Master will attempt to find the weapon and will use it to blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the galaxy, the Time Lords decide to intervene by enlisting the help of the Doctor – whether he likes it or not.

The Doctor and Jo Grant find themselves in the year 2471 on a bleak planet where colonists from Earth are being terrorised by savage monster lizards with fearsome claws – and where the Master hopes to lay hands on the Doomsday Weapon…

 A dispute with the Writers’ Guild prevented WH Allen from publishing more than a handful of new books in 1981, so instead it issued hardback editions of some early books that hadn’t been released in that format before. Although an agreement was reached late in the year, the hardback of this book was probably already in production, with Cummins’ cover artwork (given a purple border), the Sid Sutton logo and the new story teaser on the back.  A larger version of Cummins’ artwork appears in David J Howe’s Timeframe (Virgin Publishing, October 1993, ISBN 0-863-69861-1, £9.99). This 30th anniversary book looks back over the series’ history and is illustrated with many examples of Target cover artwork.  The unabridged audiobook reading by Geoffrey Beevers, with background sound and music by Simon Power, is on 4 discs and lasts 4 hours 50 minutes. The back cover has the same story teaser as the first Target edition, while a booklet has notes

by David J Howe about the novel. Also available to download.  From 28 April to 5 June 2016, Jeff Cummins’ original painting, loaned by current owner Craig Robins, was displayed in an exhibition at the Cartoon Museum in London celebrating the art of Target’s Doctor Who range. On 8 August the exhibition reopened at the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff where this cover is still on display.

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His depictions of Azal and Bok match their on-screen appearance, although Jo is in her suit from The Sea Devils.  The first page of Target editions up to 1976 features a paragraph explaining “the changing face of doctor who The cover illustration and others contained within this book portray the third doctor who whose physical appearance was altered by the Time Lords when they banished him to the planet Earth in the Twentieth Century.”  The title page of the first paperback edition credits Target editor Mike Glover.  The back cover of paperback editions up to 1976 carry a quote from Gerard Garrett in The Daily Sketch: “doctor who, the children’s own programme which adults adore…”  The second edition’s price of 40p is unusual as this wouldn’t become the standard paperback price for another year. This must have been a popular book to justify the increase. Reprints of other titles in the second half of 1975 also carry this price.  Chris Achilleos’s cover artwork is used as a blackand-white illustration in The Doctor Who Monster Book (Target, November 1975, ISBN 0-42611447‑7, 50p). This book was written by Terrance Dicks and has cover artwork also by Achilleos.  The book was reprinted in 1980 with new cover artwork by Andrew Skilleter and the story teaser on the back reworked slightly to read:

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target paperback (ISBN 0-426-10444-7) Cover painting by Chris Achilleos, illustrations by Alan Willow Black text logo; purple spine 17/10/1974 30 p (ISBN 0-426-11332-2) 16/01/1975 40 p 15/01/1976 40 p Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter Green Lodge logo; white spine 24/01/1980 75 p 12,000 H2 1980 85 p H1 1982 £1.50 H2 1982 £1.50

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(ISBN 0-491-02687-0) Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter, illustrations by Alan Willow Red Sutton logo; red spine 14/01/1982 £4.95 3,000

Doctor Who is strangely concerned about Professor Horner’s plan to cut open an ancient barrow near the peaceful village of Devil’s End. Equally worried is Miss Hawthorne, the local white witch, who foretells a terrible disaster if he goes ahead.

The only person who wants the Professor to open the barrow is the new vicar (in truth THE MASTER) whose secret ceremonies are designed to conjure up from out of the barrow a horribly powerful being…

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bbc audiobook (ISBN 978-1-405-68762-1) Cover painting by Andrew Skilleter, read by Barry Letts 14/08/2008 £17.99

 A dispute with the Writers’ Guild prevented WH Allen from publishing more than a handful of new books in 1981, so instead it issued hardback editions of some early books that hadn’t been released in that format before. Although an agreement was reached late in the year, the hardback of this book was probably already in production, with Skilleter’s cover artwork (given a red border), the Sid Sutton logo and the new story teaser on the back. It also has the full title ‘Doctor Who and the Dæmons’ written below the logo.  Doctor Who and the Dæmons (written without the diphthong) was paired with Doctor Who – The Time Monster and released as the fifth of Star Books’ Doctor Who Classics range on 16 March 1989 (ISBN 0-352-32382-5, £2.95). These were made by gluing together two Target books with a new front page and cover.

This edition has Andrew Skilleter’s artwork for The Dæmons on the silver-embossed front cover, while his painting for The Time Monster appears on the back.  Voted second all-time favourite novel in Doctor Who Magazine’s 25th anniversary poll (issue 150, July 1989), behind Doctor Who – Fury from the Deep.  The story teaser on the back of the 1993 reissue is a slightly reworded version of that from the 1980 reprint, notably now beginning with an explanatory: ‘Working with UNIT on Earth, the Doctor is strangely concerned…’ This edition was published alongside a reissue of Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive. It reuses Alister Pearson’s artwork for the March 1993 BBC Video release of the television serial. His reference for the

DOCTOR WHO is strangely concerned about Professor Horner’s plan to cut open an ancient barrow near the peaceful English village of Devil’s End ; equally worried is Miss Hawthorne, the local white witch, who foretells a terrible disaster if he goes ahead ; determined that the Professor should is Mr. Magister, the new vicar (in truth the MASTER) whose secret ceremonies are designed to conjure up from out of the barrow a horribly powerful being from a far-off planet . . .

The Brigadier and Jo Grant assist DOCTOR WHO in this exciting confrontation with the forces of black magic ! chapter titles Prologue

/ 1 The White Witch / 2 The New Vicar / 3 The Opening of the Barrow / 4 The Appearance of the Beast / 5 The Heat Barrier / 6 Meetings / 7 Explanations / 8 The Second Appearance / 9 Into Danger / 10 The Third Appearance / 11 The Rescue / 12 Into the Cavern / 13 The Sacrifice / Epilogue  This was Barry Letts’ only Target novelisation, adapted from his own script written under a pseudonym with Robert Sloman. The Master’s incantation on page 130 reads: ‘dnaw onssa etihw sawece elfstib ! malelt tilad ahyram !’, which when written backwards and the letters re-spaced is, ‘Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow and…’

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