The Adventures of Doctor Who

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The Adventures of Doctor Who

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Author(s):

Terrance Dicks

First Pub:

1979

Genre(s):

Novelization; Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

See 4

1 - Introduction

2 - Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks

3 - Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen

4 - Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster

Internal ID:

1206

Series:

The Further Adventures of Doctor Who ->

Doctor Who - Novelizations (Collections)*

#1 of 2

Doctor Who - Novelizations (Collections)*

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1) The Adventures of Doctor Who
2) The Further Adventures of Doctor Who

First Sentence:

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Last Sentence:

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Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

Contains three novelizations: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen and Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster. This book was released through the Science Fiction Book Club in the United States.

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Added: 30-Jul-2002

Last Updated: 10-Apr-2020

Publications

01-Oct-1979

Nelson Doubleday

Hardback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Oct-1979

Format:

Hardback

Cover Price:

$5.98

Pages*:

307

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1260

Publisher:

Nelson Doubleday

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Daniel R Horne - Cover Artist

He's tall and thin, wears a motley array of garments that includes an incredibly long scarf and a battered wide-brimmed hat - and he's a centuries-old Time Lord. Untold years ago he left his own people to roam through Space and Time, fighting evil, righting wrongs, and trying to satisfy a deep-rooted curiosity.

Now, the resourceful adventurer who has long thrilled British television viewers is winning legions of fans in the U.S.A., and this volume captures all the excitement, humor and imagination of that popular TV series. It contains a trio of action-packed novelisations:

DOCTOR WHO AND THE GENESIS OF THE DALEKS. The war between the Thals and the Kaleds had been raging for a thousand years. Then, suddenly, one side gained an advantage: machine creatures called Daleks, programmed to kill on command... grim weapons which would insure the annihilation of any race - or individual - that opposed them. And the Doctor had traveled through centuries to oppose them.

DOCTOR WHO AND THE REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN. A mysterious plague had wiped out almost everyone aboard Space Beacon Nerva. The only survivors were the Beacon's commander, two of his crew, and a civilian professor. The professor was there, ostensibly, to study a new asteroid; but before long it became clear to the Doctor that the man's interest was far from scholarly. For the space fragment proved to be the remains of Voga - a planet of gold destroyed long ago in the war against the dreaded Cybermen.

DOCTOR WHO AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER. The recent destruction of oil rigs in the North Sea had brought Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart to a small Scottish village on the shores of Loch Ness. But when his investigation failed to shed any light on the matter, he called for the Doctor's help - and the Doctor uncovered the bizarre truth. The Zygons, alien beings who had been shipwrecked on Earth millenia ago, were trying to take over the planet... and the use of a cyborgized, dinosaurlike creature from their home world was only part of their diabolical plan.

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Notes and Comments:

Author(s)

Terrance Dicks
Birth: 10 May 1935 East Ham, London, England, UK
Death: 29 Aug 2019

Notes:

From the back of the book Warmonger.

Terrance Dicks joined Doctor Who as junior assistant trainee script editor in 1968, when they were making The Web of Fear and desperately trying to make a roaring Yeti sound less like a flushing lavatory. He worked on the show during the end of the Patrick Troughton years, and co-wrote The War Games, Troughton's last show, with Malcolm Hulke. He stayed on as a script editor for the whole of the Jon Pertwee period, and left to write Robot, the first Tom Baker story. (This was in accordance with an ancient Who tradition, which he'd just invented, that the departing script editor writes the first show of the next season.)

In the years that followed he wrote a handful of Doctor Who scripts, finishing in 1983 with The Five Doctors, the programmes twentieth anniversary special.

In the early 1970s he was in at the very beginning of the Doctor Who novelisation programme and ended up, more by luck than judgment, writing most of them - seventy something in all. He has since written a number of Doctor Who 'originals', including Exodus, part of the opening Timewyrm sequence published by Virgin, and The Eight Doctors, the first original novel published by BBC Worldwide.

He has written two Doctor Who stage plays, one a flop d'éstime (great reviews, poor audiences), the other a bit of a pantomime but a modest touring success. He has also written about a hundred non-Who books, fiction and non-fiction for young adults, but nobody ever asks about them.

In over thirty years with the Doctor he has grown older, fatter, greyer and grumpier. But not noticeably wiser.

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