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Doctor Who and the Mutants
  • Imprint: BBC Digital Audio

  • Published: 04/10/2018

  • ISBN: 9781787532823

  • Length: 240  Minutes

  • RRP: £7.00

Doctor Who and the Mutants

  • 3rd Doctor Novelisation

  • Terrance Dicks

  • Jon Culshaw (Read by)

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Jon Culshaw reads this gripping novelisation of a classic adventure for the Third Doctor.

The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mysterious mission to Skybase One in the late 30th Century, from where the Earth Empire governs affairs on the primitive planet Solos.

Yet on the eve of their independence, something is happening to the Solonians: their hands are becoming claws and their skin is changing scales. Why are they gradually turning into monsters?

The Doctor and Jo soon discover that the natural order on Solos is threatened by the ruthless Marshal and his scientist Jaeger. Their dangerous quest has only just begun…

Text of book copyright © Terrance Dicks, Bob Baker and Dave Martin 1977

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 © Jeff Cummins

Doctor Who and the Mutants first published by Target Books 1977

  • Imprint: BBC Digital Audio

  • Published: 04/10/2018

  • ISBN: 9781787532823

  • Length: 240  Minutes

  • RRP: £7.00


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About the Author

Terrance Dicks

Terrance Dicks became Script Editor of Doctor Who in 1968, co-writing Patrick Troughton’s classic final serial, The War Games, and editing the show throughout the entire Jon Pertwee era to 1974. He wrote many iconic episodes and serials for the show after, including Tom Baker's first episode as the Fourth Doctor, Robot; Horror at Fang Rock in 1977; State of Decay in 1980; and the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors in 1983. Terrance novelised over sixty of the original Doctor Who stories for Target books, including classics like Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen and Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, inspiring a generation of children to become readers and writers. He died in August 2019, only weeks before the publication of his final Doctor Who short story, ‘Save Yourself’, in The Target Storybook.

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