1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th Doctor Novelisations

Doctor Who: The Invaders Collection

Four classic TV novelisations in which the Doctor and friends are witnesses to alien invasion. 
 
In Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, by Gerry Davis, the First Doctor, Ben and Polly help the crew of an Antarctic tracking station as they resist invasion by the Cybermen, intent on enslaving humanity for their own needs. 
 
In The Dominators, by Ian Marter, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find the peaceful planet Dulkis threatened with subjugation by brutal aliens and their robotic Quarks. 
 
In The Pirate Planet, by Douglas Adams and James Goss, the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 encounter the tyrannical Captain of Zanak, whose pillaging of other planets apparently knows no bounds. 
 
In The Christmas Invasion, by Jenny T Colgan, a newly regenerated Tenth Doctor must rely on Rose Tyler to help save Earth from the deadly invading Sycorax. 
 
Anneke Wills, Michael Troughton, Jon Culshaw and Camille Coduri read these thrilling tales, with Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Cybermen. 
 
Duration: 20 hours 20 mins approx. 
 
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Ian Marter (Author) 
Ian Marter is best remembered by Doctor Who fans as the actor who played the Fourth Doctor's companion Harry Sullivan. In fact, his first role in Doctor Who came a couple of years earlier when he played the character of Andrews in 'Carnival of Monsters'. Marter worked with his friend Tom Baker on ideas for a possible Doctor Who film, and together they developed a script. Though the film was never made, Marter continued to write and novelised nine Doctor Who adventures for Target books. Ian Marter died in 1986. 
 
Robert Holmes, the original script writer of 'Ark in Space', served with distinction in the army and also in the police before becoming a journalist and television writer. Holmes went on to become one of the Doctor Who's most prolific writers. He took over as script sditor of Doctor Who in 1974 during one of the programme's most successful periods at the start of the Fourth Doctor's era, and established a background and society for the Time Lords that has endured to this day. Robert Holmes wrote for many other series including Doomwatch, Spy Trap, Dixon of Dock Green, Blake's 7 and many others. Holmes died in 1986, while working on the final episodes of the Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord. 
 
Douglas Adams (Author) 
Douglas Noel Adams was born on 11 March 1952 in Cambridge. His parents divorced when he was five, and Douglas and his younger sister Susan were brought up by their mother in Essex. From 1959 to 1970 Douglas attended Brentwood School, and he first thought seriously about writing when a teacher named Frank Halford gave him ten out of ten for a composition. He was the only boy ever to have been awarded full marks. 
Leaving school in December 1970, Douglas won a scholarship to study English at Cambridge. His main reason for going there was to join Footlights, although his first attempt to do so was a failure. He succeeded in joining in his second term, but found the group which ran the society a bit stand-offish. He also felt constrained by the limits of pantomimes and mid-term revues, so instead he set up his own revue group, Adams-Smith-Adams, with two friends. It was very successful. 
 
Douglas left Cambridge in the summer of 1974 and took occasional office jobs before joining forces with Monty Python team member Graham Chapman. They collaborated on a number of projects; unfortunately, very few of them were ever broadcast. A while later he was invited to Cambridge to direct the 1976 Footlights revue, but even this turned out to be a disappointment. At the end of the year, broke and feeling like a failure, Douglas moved back home with his mother. 
In 1977 his luck changed. Through his former flatmate John Lloyd, Douglas met BBC Radio 4 producer Simon Brett. He felt that Douglas' style of humour should have its own show, rather than being crammed into existing formats. Having been inspired by a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe, Douglas came up with a draft for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. After several delays the first six-episode series was broadcast, with a second rapidly following. The worldwide phenomenon they spawned includes five novels, a book of scripts, two LPs, a television series, a computer game and two stage plays. 
In addition to Hitchhiker, Douglas' work included two Dirk Gently detective novels and two humorous place-name 'dictionaries', The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (both co-written with John Lloyd) as well as Last Chance to See, an account of a global search for rare and endangered species which he co-wrote with Mark Carwardine. 
 
In 1999 Douglas moved to Santa Barbara with his wife and daughter to work on a proposed Hitchhiker film. Always a keen advocate of new technology, his last series for Radio 4 was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future, a look at the advances mankind was likely to make in future years.He died suddenly of a heart attack, aged 49, in May 2001. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy feature film was produced in 2005, whilst both Stephen Mangan and Samuel Barnett have portrayed Dirk Gently on television in recent years. 
 
James Goss (Author) 
James Goss has adapted three Doctor Who stories by Douglas Adams for BBC Books (City of Death, The Pirate Planet, and The Krikkitmen). He's also written several original Doctor Who and Torchwood books. His novel #Haterz is in development as a motion picture. He's also written for the stage and the radio. 
 
Nicholas Briggs (Reader) 
Nicholas Briggs has been a prolific Doctor Who contributor since 1999, when he began work on the Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas, for which he has written and directed extensively and is now Executive Producer. Nick is also an actor, and since Doctor Who’s return to television in 2005, he’s worked on set with all four of the new Doctors as the voice of the Daleks (also providing the voice of the Cybermen, and other aliens). Having spent most of his life in London, Nick now lives in Dorset with his wife and son, where he hopes life will be more peaceful... But, so far, London keeps dragging him back.

1st, 2nd, 4th & 7th Doctor Novelisations

Doctor Who: The Second Earth Adventures Collection

A collection of five classic TV novelisations featuring the Doctor's hectic adventures on Earth. 
 
"Slick and polished...immersive productions of much-loved novelisations...long may we enjoy them." - Doctor Who Magazine 
 
In Planet of Giants present day England becomes a nightmare landscape when a freak accident causes the TARDIS and its occupants to be reduced to miniature size. 
 
In The Massacre the Doctor and Steven land in 16th Century Paris, where danger stalks the streets. 
 
In The Invasion present day London has been infiltrated by International Electromatics in collaboration with the Cybermen. 
 
In The Horror of Fang Rock the TARDIS lands on a foggy island beset by death and disaster. 
 
In Delta and the Bannermen the Doctor and Mel find themselves holed up in a remote Welsh holiday camp, where several of the holidaymakers are not what they first appear... 
 
Carole Ann Ford, Peter Purves, David Troughton, Louise Jameson and Bonnie Langford read these classic tales, first published as Target Books in the 1970s and 1980s. Nicholas Briggs provides the authentic voice of the Cybermen. 
 
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in along with the audio. 
 
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Slick and polished...immersive productions of much-loved novelisations...long may we enjoy them

1st Doctor Novelisation

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

Jamie Glover reads a thrilling novelisation of an adventure in history for the First Doctor. 
 
 It's 1794, and the TARDIS materialises some distance from Paris during the French Revolution, the scene of the infamous Reign of Terror. Soon the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara find themselves caught up in the tangled web of historical events. 
 
 Who is James Stirling, the master-spy to whom Ian must deliver a message? What world-shattering events are being discussed in a deserted inn off the Calais road? And can the Doctor and his friends escape a violent and bloody death at the dreaded guillotine? 
 
 
Jamie Glover, who played William Russell in BBC TV's An Adventure in Space and Time, reads Nigel Robinson's novelisation of the 1964 TV serial by Dennis Spooner. 
 
 
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Jamie Glover reads a thrilling novelisation of an adventure in history for the First Doctor. 
 
 It's 1794, and the TARDIS materialises some distance from Paris during the French Revolution, the scene of the infamous Reign of Terror. Soon the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara find themselves caught up in the tangled web of historical events. 
 
 Who is James Stirling, the master-spy to whom Ian must deliver a message? What world-shattering events are being discussed in a deserted inn off the Calais road? And can the Doctor and his friends escape a violent and bloody death at the dreaded guillotine? 
 
Jamie Glover, who played William Russell in BBC TV's An Adventure in Space and Time, reads Nigel Robinson's novelisation of the 1964 TV serial by Dennis Spooner. 
 
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1st, 4th, 6th, 7th Doctor Novelisations

Doctor Who: The Third Alien Worlds Collection

Five exciting novelisations featuring adventures for the Doctor and his companions on weird and wonderful planets.

Slick and polished...immersive productions of much-loved novelisations...long may we enjoy them.

Five exciting novelisations featuring adventures for the Doctor and his companions on weird and wonderful planets. 
 
In The Rescue, the First Doctor meets the sole survivors of a crashed spaceliner on Dido. 
 
In Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit, the ruthless Lady Adrasta is keeping an unusual visitor prisoner on the planet Chloris. 
 
In The Twin Dilemma, a newly regenerated Doctor tries to become a hermit on the planet Titan 3. 
 
In Paradise Towers, the Doctor and Mel meet the residents of a dystopian hell, and in The Happiness Patrol the TARDIS lands in trouble on the colony world Terra Alpha. 
 
 Maureen O'Brien, Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford and Rula Lenska are the readers for this quintet of stories based on classic BBC TV serials.

2nd Doctor Novelisation

Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World

An exciting novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Second Doctor.

Ian Marter (1944 – 1986) was an English actor and writer, known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who.

David Troughton reads this exciting novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Second Doctor, as played by Patrick Troughton. 
 
"Slick and polished...immersive productions of much-loved novelisations...long may we enjoy them." - Doctor Who Magazine 
 
In the year 2030, when the world is hit by a series of terrible natural disasters, only one man seems to know what action to take. 
 
Salamander’s success in handling these monumental problems has brought him enormous power. But what more lies behind his public persona? 
 
From the moment the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria land on an Australian beach, they are caught up in a struggle for world domination — a struggle in which the Doctor’s startling resemblance to Salamander plays a vital role. 
 
David Troughton, who has played several roles in the TV series, reads Ian Marter's novelisation of the 1967 TV serial by David Whitaker. 
 
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© 1981 by Ian Marter and David Whitaker 
Cover illustration by Bill Donohoe 
 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd 
Sound design by Simon Power for Meon Productions 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens 
 
TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson

Doctor Who: The Dominators

Michael Troughton reads this gripping novelisation of a classic adventure for the Second Doctor.

Ian Marter (1944 – 1986) was an English actor and writer, known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who. He wrote many novelisations of TV and film scripts, including several Doctor Who serials.

Michael Troughton reads this gripping novelisation of a classic adventure for the Second Doctor. 
 
"[Michael] Troughton makes a winning debut for the range and...has the uncanny ability to evoke the vocal tones of his father Patrick." Doctor Who Magazine 
 
The Doctor remembers Dulkis as a civilised and peaceful place. But times have changed, and his second visit is not quite the holiday he was expecting. 
 
When the whole planet and its inhabitants are threatened with annihilation by an alien race, the pacifist Dulcians are more reluctant than ever to engage in acts of violence. None of them will lift a finger to fight the Dominators and their robot slaves, the Quarks. 
 
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe may be the only ones capable of intervening to save the whole planet.

Ian Marter

Christopher Naylor

Beyond the Doctor

Christopher Naylor reads this original novel featuring the Doctor's former companion in his own adventure. 
 
It's ten years since Harry Sullivan left UNIT and gave up his travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Sarah Jane. 
 
Since then he has been engaged in top secret work, developing antidotes to nerve toxins. But when he is transferred to Yarra in the Hebrides to work on weapons research, he has severe misgivings. For one thing, it goes against much of what he believes in. For another, someone is out to kill Harry Sullivan. 
 
Who wants Harry safely out of the way? What significance does Van Gogh painting have? And can Harry's old friend, the Brigadier, really be involved in a scheme which threatens the security of the Western World? 
 
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Reading produced by Morrison Ellis. Sound design by Oliver Denman. Executive producer for BBC Audiobooks: Michael Stevens

Ian Marter

Doctor Who: Harry Sullivan's War

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