Five complete classic novelisations

Doctor Who: The Master Collection

Five classic novelisations of TV adventures featuring the Doctor's arch enemy, the Master!

BBC Audio...has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers...they benefit from new music and sound effects

Malcolm Hulke (Author) 
Malcolm Hulke was a prolific and respected television writer from the 1950s until the 1970s. His writing credits included the early science fiction Pathfinders series, as well as The Avengers. Hulke was first approached to write for Doctor Who when the series first started, but his idea for The Hidden Planet was not pursued. In 1967 he wrote The Faceless Ones (with David Ellis) for the Second Doctor. By 1969, Hulke's friend and occasional writing partner Terrance Dicks was Script Editor for Doctor Who and needed a ten part story to replace other scripts and write out Patrick Troughton's Doctor. Together, they wrote The War Games, which for the first time explained the Doctor's origins and introduced his people, the Time Lords. Hulke continued to write for Doctor Who, providing a story for each of the Third Doctor's series. Malcolm Hulke died in 1979, soon after completing his novelisation of The War Games.

Five classic novelisations of TV adventures featuring the Doctor's arch enemy, the Master! 
 
In Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm Hulke, the Master has stolen the Time Lord's files on a weapon which could make him ruler of the Galaxy. 
 
In Doctor Who and the Daemons by Barry Letts, secret ceremonies have been designed to conjure up a horribly powerful being from another planet. 
 
Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils by Malcolm Hulke finds the Master aiding and abetting members of a submarine colony who plan to seize control of the Earth. 
 
In Logopolis by Christopher H Bidmead, even the Master is horrified by the threat of total chaos he unintentionally precipitates, and in Castrovalva by the same author he devises a trap for a newly regenerated Doctor. 
 
Read by Geoffrey Beevers, Barry Letts, Christopher H Bidmead and Peter Davison, these stories feature the Third, Fourth and Fifth Doctors. 
 
Duration: 23 hours 20 minutes approx. 
 
Each purchase is accompanied by a PDF booklet featuring full cast and credits, chapter-by-chapter navigation, and sleeve notes for each book by David J. Howe. 
 
“This range of classic Target audiobooks continues to go from strength to strength…” 
Doctor Who Magazine 
 
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm Hulke is read by Geoffrey Beevers. Novelisation © Malcolm Hulke 1974 
 
Doctor Who and the Daemons is written and read by Barry Letts. Novelisation © Barry Letts &amp; Guy Leopold 1974 
 
Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils by Malcolm Hulke is read by Geoffrey Beevers. Novelisation © Malcolm Hulke 1974 
 
Doctor Who: Logopolis is written and read by Christopher H Bidmead. Novelisation © Christopher H Bidmead 1982 
 
Doctor Who: Castrovalva by Christopher H Bidmead is read by Peter Davison. Novelisation © Christopher H Bidmead 1983 
 
Sound design by Simon Power 
TARDIS sound effect by Brian Hodgson 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens 
Cover illustration by Jeff Cummins 
(P) BBC Worldwide 2018 © BBC Worldwide 2018 
BBC logo © BBC 1996 
Doctor Who logo © BBC 2014 
A stereo recording 
MCPS 
 
Digital Edition Chapter Listing 
 
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon 
Files 001 - 021 
 
Doctor Who and the Daemons 
Files 022 - 036 
 
Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils 
Files 037 - 049 
 
Doctor Who: Logopolis 
Files 050 - 061 
 
Doctor Who: Castrovalva 
Files 062 - 073

A 5th Doctor novelisaton

Doctor Who: Frontios

An unabridged reading of this novelisation of a classic 1984 TV adventure for the Fifth Doctor.

Christopher H. Bidmead trained as an actor at RADA and subsequently played leading roles on the West End stage and television. For several years he was a regular voice on radio as a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company. He began screenwriting while working with the RSC, and at the same time a interest in science drew him towards technical journalism. His articles in the New Statesman prompted BBC producer Robert Banks Stewart to recommend him for the post of script editor on Doctor Who at the beginning of the 1980s. Following his departure from the role Bidmead contributed scripts for three Doctor Who TV serials: Logopolis, Castrovalva and Frontios. For the past quarter century he has continued to work as an IT journalist, writing for a range of publications including Wired, the Daily Telegraph and PC Plus.

An unabridged reading of this novelisation of a classic 1984 TV adventure for the Fifth Doctor. 
 
Far into the future, the TARDIS hovers over the planet Frontios, refuge of survivors from Earth who escaped the disintegration of their home planet. The Doctor is reluctant to land, not wishing to intervene in a moment of historical crisis; the colonists are still struggling to establish themselves, and their continued existence hangs in the balance. 
 
When the TARDIS is forced to crash land by an apparent meteorite storm, however, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are marooned on the hope-forsaken planet. And somewhere, beneath the surface, the Tractators are waiting…

Andrew Smith

Bob Baker And  Dave Martin

Robert Holmes

Ian Briggs

Christopher H Bidmead

Jon Culshaw

Matthew Waterhouse

Terry Molloy

Katy Manning

3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th Doctor Novelisations

Five exciting novelisations of classic TV stories in which the Doctor and his companions encounter a colourful assortment of aliens. 
 
 In Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters the TARDIS appears to land in the Indian Ocean, but something is very wrong. Here lie Drashigs... 
 
 Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment sends the Doctor and friends to a future Earth, where a familiar opponent is subjugating humans. 
 
 In Doctor Who: Full Circle the occupants of a distant planet are fleeing from Mistfall, and the coming of the Marshmen. 
 
 Doctor Who: Frontios finds the TARDIS in the far future, with a planet undermined by the monstrous Tractators. 
 
 In Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric an ancient evil stirs in 1940s England. 
 
 Katy Manning, Jon Culshaw, Matthew Waterhouse, Christopher H Bidmead and Terry Molloy read these classic tales, originally published as Target Books paperbacks. 
 
 (P) 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
 © 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
 Cover illustration by Andrew Skilleter

Christopher H Bidmead

Books by Christopher H Bidmead

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