![]() ![]() As the elder statesman of Doctor Who fiction, he continued to get invited to contribute to the later Virgin and BBC ranges - commissioned by his former readers. There was also a short-lived attempt at a spin-off range of standalone original novels about The Doctor’s companions (Turlough and Harry Sullivan were ultimately the only candidates picked) and a trio of novelisations of unmade scripts from the cancelled 1986 TV season.Īuthor of more than sixty of Target’s novels was legendary former script editor Terrance Dicks, still much loved within fandom for repeated descriptions like the TARDIS’ “wheezing, groaning sound”. Every TV story, barring three by Douglas Adams and two by Eric Saward, got the Target treatment. Bought up and republished by Target in 1973, they kicked off a range of a further 160 books that were still being published in 1991. The first book in the range, David Whittaker’s Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks (later – thankfully - shortened to just Doctor Who And The Daleks) was actually written for a different company, Frederick Muller, as were its immediate successors Doctor Who And The Zarbi and Doctor Who And The Crusaders. These things filled the gaps tremendously, often leading to huge disappointment in the actual TV originals when they surfaced on video. ![]() Back then you could only imagine what previous Doctors’ adventures had looked like. ![]() Target’s range of novelised TV stories was a publishing phenomenon in the ‘70s and ‘80s and was much beloved of the pre-video generations. ![]()
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