K9, 5th & 10th Doctor Novelisations

Doctor Who: The Companions Collection

The Doctor's companions take centre stage in four exciting TV novelisations featuring the Fifth and Ninth Doctors, plus a spin-off story featuring K9 and Sarah Jane Smith. 
 
In Mawdryn Undead, by Peter Grimwade, the Doctor is reunited with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and meets Turlough, an enigmatic public schoolboy. 
 
In Terminus, by Stephen Gallagher, Nyssa falls into danger when the TARDIS merges with a drifting spaceship threatening to endanger the entire Universe. 
 
In Enlightenment, by Barbara Clegg, a final reckoning with the Black Guardian is on the cards for both the Doctor and Turlough. 
 
In K9 & Company, by Terence Dudley, Sarah Jane Smith finds herself the recipient of a gift from the Doctor: the dog-shaped automaton, K9. 
 
In Rose, by Russell T Davies, Rose Tyler meets the Doctor whilst fleeing from Autons. Life for both of them will never be the same again! 
 
David Collings, Steven Pacey, John Leeson and Camille Coduri read these exciting adaptations of the BBC TV series. 
 
Readings produced by Neil Gardner. Sound design by Simon Power. Executive Producer for BBC Studios: Michael Stevens 
 
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Peter Grimwade (Author) Peter Grimwade was a British writer and television director whose work included several Doctor Who serials Stephen Gallagher (Author) Stephen Gallagher is a British novelist and dramatist whose works include radio and TV, including Doctor Who; Terence Dudley (Author) Terence Dudley was a British television director and writer whose work included several Doctor Who serials Russell T Davies (Author) Russell T Davies is a British writer whose work for television includes Queer as Folk, Years and Years, It's a Sin and Doctor Who. Barbara Clegg (Author) Barbara Clegg is a British actress and scriptwriter for TV and radio. Her work includes Doctor Who and Coronation Street.

5th Doctor Novelisation

Doctor Who: Time-Flight

Peter Davison reads this classic novelisation of a Fifth Doctor TV adventure featuring an old enemy. 
 
 The TARDIS arrives at Heathrow Airport at a moment of crisis: a Concorde aeroplane has inexplicably vanished while in flight. 
 
 The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa join the crew of a second Concorde that sets out to simulate the fateful journey of the missing supersonic jet...but an old enemy in disguise is lurking at their destination. 
 
 Seeing is believing, they say - but the Doctor and his friends realise that it just isn't that simple... Peter Davison - the Fifth Doctor himself - reads Peter Grimwade's own novelisation of his 1982 TV adventure.

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

Peter Grimwade was a British writer and television director whose work included several Doctor Who serials

An exciting classic novelisation of a Fifth Doctor TV adventure featuring an old enemy of the Doctor.

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

David Collings reads this dynamic classic novelisation of a Fifth Doctor TV adventure

David Collings reads this dynamic classic novelisation of a Fifth Doctor TV adventure 
 
“This range of classic Target audiobooks continues to go from strength to strength…” Doctor Who Magazine 
 
Materialising to avoid a head-on collision in space, the TARDIS becomes trapped on board an eerily deserted alien spacecraft. The Doctor transmats to Earth to solve the problem — yet when the TARDIS follows on, Tegan and Nyssa find that they have arrived five years too early. 
 
While the Doctor enjoys a reunion with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in 1983, in 1977 his companions are confronted by a hideously deformed figure who claims to be the Doctor. Unsure whether or not this is their friend, Tegan and Nyssa must choose whether to answer his desperate pleas for help. 
 
Meanwhile, schoolboy Turlough has an encounter with a mysterious stranger who’s determined to wreak revenge upon the Doctor. This is the Black Guardian, and Turlough is to do his bidding… 
 
David Collings, who has appeared in several Doctor Who TV serials, reads Peter Grimwade’s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1983. 
 
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© BBC Worldwide 2018 
 
Cover design by Lee Johnson 
 
Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead by Peter Grimwade 
 
Novelisation copyright © Peter Grimwade 1983 
Original script copyright © Peter Grimwade 1983 
 
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 
 
Cover illustration by Lee Johnson 
 
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead first published by Target Books 1983

Peter Grimwade

David Banks

David Banks reads this novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Peri. 
 
The Doctor is enjoying the sun on a holiday island, until things get hotter than he 
bargained for. 
The young American, Perpugilliam Brown, brings to the TARDIS a mysterious object that her archaeologist step-father has found in a sunken wreck. When the Doctor’s robot friend Kamelion reacts to the object unexpectedly, it has bewildering consequences for the TARDIS crew. 
For Kamelion sends the Doctor and his friends to Sarn, a terrifyingly beautiful planet of fire. This strange world provides the key to Turlough’s secret past – and, once again, the Doctor is pitted against the wily Master. 
 
David Banks, who played the Cyber Leader in the BBC TV series, reads Peter Grimwade's 1985 novelisation of his own TV serial. 
 
Reading produced by Morrison Ellis. Sound design by Oliver Denman. Executive Producer for BBC Studios: Michael Stevens 
 
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Peter Grimwade

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