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Novelisations: Fourth Doctor: Season 13

Novelisations: Fourth Doctor
Archive Status / DVD Releases

With the exception of Terror the Zygons, all stories from Season 13 have been released on DVD in the UK and the United States. Revenge of the Cybermen was released in the UK in the Cybermen box set, and individually in the United States. Terror of the Zygons is due to be released late in 2013. All releases are subtitled.

Planet of Evil
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Pyramids of Mars
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The UNIT Files / The Android Invasion
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The Brain of Morbius
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The Seeds of Doom
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Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster

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Terrance Dicks
Cover image: Doctor Who, Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster, Target Books (1976)
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Country UK
Format Paperback
Publisher Target Books
Publication Date January 1976
Original Price 40p
ISBN 0426110412
Cover Artist Chris Achilleos
Book Number (No.40)

A novelisation of the 1975 television story Terror of the Zygons, featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.

Part of Chris Achilleos's front cover art was reproduced in black and white in Terrance Dicks' non-fiction book The Second Doctor Who Monster Book (Target Books, 1977), in the section devoted to the Zygons. The complete piece was one of two reproduced in David J Howe's large-format book Timeframe: An Illustrated History (Doctor Who Books, 1993) to represent Season 13 of the television series.

Later Target reprints would be numbered No.40 in the Doctor Who Library.

Back Cover Blurb
Why is DOCTOR WHO suddenly summoned to the shores of Loch Ness? Terror and panic spread as the third oil rig is smashed into the sea by a mysterious force...the monster? The controlling power must be the ZYGONS — alien creatures who have lived hidden on Earth for thousands of years, and now feel strong enough to take over the planet...The Doctor, Sarah and UNIT have different ideas — but can they outwit the supreme cunning of the ruthless ZYGONS?
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UK | Hardback | Allan Wingate Ltd | January 1976 | £2.25 | 0855230541
Released simultaneously with the paperback edition from Target Books.
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United States | Paperback | Pinnacle Books | June 1979 | $1.75 | 0523406096 | #6
One of ten novelisations to be reprinted in the United States by Pinnacle Books between 1979 and 1980. All ten books featured new cover artwork by David Mann and were accompanied by an introduction from US science fiction writer Harlan Ellison.
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BORN-AGAIN ZYGONS

Investigating mysterious attacks on North Sea oil rigs, Doctor Who discovers that, yes, there really is a Loch Ness monster.

Half-animal and half-machine, it's the Skarasen, a monster-child of the exiled Zygons. They and their crippled spaceship have been in hiding for centuries. Now that they have regained their strength, the born-again but homeless Zygons plan to invade Earth, conquer its primitive peoples and stay on — as rulers.

Doctor Who is rather worried, even terrified, that the Zygons really might take over. Will Doctor Who be able to outwit the cunning strategies of the ruthless and dynamic Zygons in time to save us all?
Flag of UK Click for cover image Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
UK | Paperback | Target Books | March 1993 | £3.50 | 0426203917 | No.40
A new edition of the novelisation, with new cover art from Alister Pearson. Like a number of other re-issues around this time, the book was released under the title of the original television story.
'THIS IS NO ORDINARY SEA SERPENT...WE'RE DEALING WITH A CYBORG!'

Summoned back to Earth by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the Doctor is asked to investigate a series of mysterious attacks on Scottish oil rigs. The culprit appears to be Nessie herself, but the monster turns out to be a Skarasen, the half animal, half machine creation of the Zygons. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry must stop the Zygons, some of whom have taken human form, from making Earth their new home planet.

This book, previously published as DOCTOR WHO and the Loch Ness Monster, has been retitled in line with the TV story.
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UK | Paperback | BBC Books | May 2012 | 978-1849904759 | £4.99
One of a second batch of six classic Doctor Who novelisations re-released by BBC Books the same month, each of which was modelled after the first Target editions and used the original artwork, in this case by Chris Achilleos. Each volume also contained a new background chapter about the characters and situations and an introduction — in the case of Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster the latter was by Michael Moorcock, who had penned the original Doctor Who novel The Coming of the Terraphiles in 2010. To round things off, all six books had the logo in gold foil.
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Digital edition of the book re-released the same month in paperback by BBC Books.
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster was also included as part of The Adventures of Doctor Who omnibus from Nelson Doubleday in the United States in 1979.
Television Story
Terror of the Zygons
4 × 25 Minutes | BBC1 | Colour

30/08/75 Part One Robert Banks Stewart
06/09/75 Part Two Robert Banks Stewart
13/09/75 Part Three Robert Banks Stewart
20/09/75 Part Four Robert Banks Stewart
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith / Harry Sullivan

Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / RSM Benton
Notes
  • Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster was one of three Doctor Who novelisations which were made available on tape by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). All three titles were released in 1981 and were narrated by Gabriel Woolf — best known to Doctor Who fans as the voice of Sutekh in Pyramids of Mars. None of them were released commercially.
  • Terror of the Zygons was the first of two stories to be written for the television series by Robert Banks Stewart, the other being The Seeds of Doom from the end of the season.
  • Terror of the Zygons would be the last television story to feature the Brigadier until Mawdryn Undead in 1983, at which point he would have left UNIT and started work as a maths teacher. Harry Sullivan would also be written out of the series at the conclusion of this story, deciding to remain behind on Earth. He turned up in the television series on just one further occasion, in the final episode of The Android Invasion later in the season. Later appearances for the character away from the television series would occur in Ian Marter's original novel Harry Sullivan's War, released by Target Books in 1986, and System Shock and Millennium Shock, both written by Justin Richards in the 1990s.
  • Surprisingly this was the only television story in which the Zygons were to feature, although they were to eventually re-appear in two original novels. Bodysnatchers from Mark Morris was published as part of the Eighth Doctor Adventures series in 1997, while Sting of the Zygons was a Tenth Doctor tale written by Stephen Cole for the New Series Adventures range in 2007.
Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil

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Terrance Dicks
Cover image: Doctor Who, Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil, Allan Wingate Ltd (1977)
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Publisher Allan Wingate Ltd
Publication Date July 1977
Original Price £2.95
ISBN 0855232315
Cover Artist Mike Little

A novelisation of the 1975 television story The Ark in Space, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

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UK | Paperback | Target Books | August 1977 | 60p | 0426116828

The expedition to Zeta Minor began with eight men. Seven were murdered. One survived — but he was not the murderer.

DOCTOR WHO lands on the planet at the same time as the expedition's rescue team, and is immediately taken prisoner — the suspected murderer. But even stranger things soon begin to happen...

What terrible creature inhabits this wild, desolate planet, killing mercilessly, lurking in the murky depths of the Black Pool. Will anyone ever be allowed to leave — alive?
Flag of UK Click for cover image Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil
UK | Paperback | Target Books | 1982 | £1.25 | 0426116828 | (No.47)
A new edition of the novelisation, with new cover art from Andrew Skilleter. Later Target reprints would be numbered No.47 in the Doctor Who Library.
A survey team of eight men from the mighty Morestran Empire lands on Zeta Minor, a remote planet on the fringes of the universe. Before their expedition is over, seven of the men are mysteriously and horrifically murdered.

A distress signal brings the Doctor to the planet — but his good intentions are not appreciated. The commander of a Morestran rescue party, sent to investigate the disappearance of the survey team, is convinced the Doctor is the killer.

And while the Doctor is kept prisoner and powerless to act, the merciless hell-planet claims even more victims...
Television Story
Planet of Evil
4 × 25 Minutes | BBC1 | Colour

27/09/75 Part One Louis Marks
04/10/75 Part Two Louis Marks
11/10/75 Part Three Louis Marks
18/10/75 Part Four Louis Marks
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith
Notes
  • Planet of Evil was the third of four stories written for the series by writer Louis Marks, having previously scripted Planet of Giants for the First Doctor in 1964 and Day of the Daleks for the Third Doctor in 1972. His final script would be The Masque of Mandragora the following season.
Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars

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Terrance Dicks
Cover image: Doctor Who, Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars, Target Books (1976)
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Publisher Target Books
Publication Date December 1976
Original Price 45p
ISBN 0426116666
Cover Artist Chris Achilleos

A novelisation of the 1975 television story Pyramids of Mars, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

Chris Achilleos's front cover art was reproduced in Terrance Dicks' non-fiction book The Second Doctor Who Monster Book (Target Books, 1977), in the section devoted to Pyramids of Mars.

Back Cover Blurb
For many thousands of years SUTEKH had waited...trapped in the heart of an Egyptian Pyramid. Now at last the time had come — the moment of release, when all the force of his pent-up evil and malice would be unleashed upon the world...

The TARDIS lands on the site of UNIT headquarters in the year 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah emerge to fight a terrifying and deadly battle...against Egyptian Mummies, half-possessed humans — and the overwhelming evil power of SUTEKH!
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UK | Hardback | Allan Wingate Ltd | December 1976 | £2.50 | 0855231416
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UK | Paperback | Target Books | 1982 | £1.25 | 0426116666 | (No.50)
A new edition of the novelisation, with new cover art from Andrew Skilleter. Later Target reprints would be numbered No.50 in the Doctor Who Library.
The mind of Sutekh the Destroyer is consumed with jealousy and hatred. Convinced that all living things are his mortal enemy, he is determined to annihilate all forms of life throughout the universe.

Imprisoned at the heart of an Egyptian pyramid, the force of his maniacal evil has been paralysed for centuries. But now, after thousands upon thousands of years of long captivity, the moment of deliverance has arrived.

Sutekh's vicious megalomania is about to be unleashed upon the world — unless the Doctor succeeds in outwitting a mind so powerful it can force him to his knees and torture him at a glance...
Flag of UK Click for cover image Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
UK | Paperback | Target Books | March 1993 | £3.50 | 0426116666 | No.50
A new edition of the novelisation, with new cover art from Alister Pearson.
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UK | 4 × CD | BBC Audiobooks | August 2008 | £13.25 | 978-1405687676
Unabridged reading of the novelisation, narrated by Tom Baker who played the Fourth Doctor in the television series. The audiobook was serialised weekdays on BBC Radio 4 Extra between 26/12/11 and 02/01/12, with each day's episode being broadcast twice at 1800 and 0000.
Television Story
Pyramids of Mars
4 × 25 Minutes | BBC1 | Colour

25/10/75 Part One Stephen Harris
01/11/75 Part Two Stephen Harris
08/11/75 Part Three Stephen Harris
15/11/75 Part Four Stephen Harris

Stephen Harris was aa pseudonym for Robert Holmes and Lewis Greifer.
Notes
  • The Sands of Time, a sequel to Pyramids of Mars, was released as part of the Missing Adventures range of books from Virgin Publishing in 1996. Justin Richard's novel did not, however, see the return of Sutekh, although the character would later re-appear (once again voiced by Gabriel Woolf) in a number of audio plays in the spin-off range of Faction Paradox audio dramas.
Doctor Who and the Android Invasion

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Terrance Dicks
Cover image: Doctor Who, Doctor Who and the Android Invasion, Target Books (1978)
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Publication Date November 1978
Original Price 60p
ISBN 0426200373
Cover Artist Roy Knipe
Book Number (No.2)

A novelisation of the 1975 television story The Android Invasion, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

Later Target reprints would be numbered No.2 in the Doctor Who Library.

Roy Knipe's cover art was one of two pieces reproduced in David J Howe's large-format book Timeframe: An Illustrated History (Doctor Who Books, 1993) to represent Season 13 of the television series.

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The Doctor and Sarah arrive safely back on Earth — or do they?

Why does the mysterious soldier march straight over a cliff — and then reappear unharmed?

Why are they attacked by the sinister mechanics with built-in guns for hands?

Why is a picturesque country village at first deserted — then filled with mindless zombies?

And why are their best friends suddenly trying to kill them?

The Doctor has stumbled on a cunning alien plan to take over the Earth. Will he be in time to defeat the deadly Kraals and their terrifying android invasion?
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UK | Hardback | WH Allen | November 1978 | £3.25 | 0491020260
Released simultaneously with the paperback edition from Target Books.
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United States | Paperback | Pinnacle Books | January 1980 | $1.75 | 052340641X | #9
One of ten novelisations to be reprinted in the United States by Pinnacle Books between 1979 and 1980. All ten books featured new cover artwork by David Mann and were accompanied by an introduction from US science fiction writer Harlan Ellison.
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DOCTOR WHO MEETS HIS CLONE

Doctor Who, that cocky, crazy, cosmic hobo, and his delightful companion, Sarah, land in the small English village of Devesham. The TARDIS has brought them safely home at last. Or has it? At first the picturesque village seems deserted, but then they discover zombie-like inhabitants who won't answer their questions, and a mysterious soldier who marches over a cliff and reappears without a scratch. And then there are the weird coffin-like meteorites that open up and contain human-like creatures. Have the body snatchers returned? What Doctor Who doesn't know is that the village is not English at all, nor is it on Earth. It's a replica on the polluted Planet Oseidon, the radiation-infested home of the Kraals. The few surviving Kraals must find a new home fast and are sending androids to Earth to take it over.

Will Doctor Who be able to outsmart his own android clone in a face-to-face battle of wits and stop the android invasion of Earth?
Television Story
The Android Invasion
4 × 25 Minutes | BBC1 | Colour

22/11/75 Part One Terry Nation
29/11/75 Part Two Terry Nation
06/12/75 Part Three Terry Nation
13/12/75 Part Four Terry Nation
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith

Familiar Faces
RSM Benton / Harry Sullivan
Notes
  • The Android Invasion was a rare beast, being one of only two stories written by Terry Nation for the television series which did not feature the Daleks. The other was the distinctly average The Keys of Marinus, broadcast way back in 1964.
Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius

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Terrance Dicks
Cover image: Doctor Who, Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, Allan Wingate Ltd (1977)
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Publisher Allan Wingate Ltd
Publication Date May 1977
Original Price £2.95
ISBN 0855232013
Cover Artist Mike Little

A novelisation of the 1976 television story The Brain of Morbius, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

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UK | Paperback | Target Books | June 1977 | 60p | 0426116747 | (No.7)
After 1978 the background colour of the cover to the Target edition was changed from red to yellow. Later Target reprints would be numbered No.7 in the Doctor Who Library.
Why do so many spaceships crashland on Karn, a bleak, lonely and seemingly deserted planet?

Are they doomed by the mysterious powers of the strange, black-robed Sisterhood, jealously guarding their secret of eternal life? Or does the mad Dr Solon, for some evil purpose of his own, need the bodies of the victims? And more especially, the body of DOCTOR WHO...
Flag of France Click for cover image Docteur Who: Le Cerveau de Morbius
France | Paperback | Editions Garancière | January 1987 | 2734002183 | 5
Docteur Who: Le Cerveau de Morbius was one of eight Doctor Who novelisations to be released in France by Editions Garancière. The book was translated by Francine Mondolini, although the identity of the cover artist is unknown.
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Flag of UK Click for cover image Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
UK | Paperback | Target Books | January 1991 | £2.50 | 0426116747 | No.7
A new edition of the novelisation, utilising Alister Pearson's cover art from the BBC Video release of the story, which had been issued in July the previous year.
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UK | 4 × CD | BBC Audiobooks | February 2008 | £13.25 | 978-1405677981
Unabridged reading of the novelisation, narrated by Tom Baker who played the Fourth Doctor in the television series. The audiobook was serialised weekdays on BBC Radio 7 between 15/04/10 and 26/04/10, with each day's episode being broadcast three times at 1430, 1830 and 0030.
Television Story
The Brain of Morbius
4 × 25 Minutes | BBC1 | Colour

03/01/76 Part One Robin Bland
10/01/76 Part Two Robin Bland
17/01/76 Part Three Robin Bland
24/01/76 Part Four Robin Bland

Robin Bland was a pseudonym for Terrance Dicks.
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith

Familiar Faces
Morbius
Notes
  • A second novelisation of The Brain of Morbius was published in 1980 under the title Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, again written by Terrance Dicks.
  • Warmonger, a sequel to The Brain of Morbius, was published as part of the Previous Doctor Adventures range of books in 2002. The novel was written by Terrance Dicks and is widely considered to be amongst the worst Doctor Who books ever to be published.
Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius

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Cover image: Doctor Who, Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, WH Allen (1980)
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Publication Date June 1980
Original Price £2.95
ISBN 0491024177
Cover Artist Harry Hants
Illustrator Peter Edwards

A children's novelisation of the 1976 television story The Brain of Morbius, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

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UK | Paperback | Target Books | 1980 | 85p | 0426200640

Why do spaceships crash on the remote planet of Karn?

Why is the evil Solon creating a monster in his secret laboratory?

Why does the witch-like Sisterhood hate and fear intruders?

The Doctor and Sarah must find the answers or lose their lives like the other victims of this terrifying planet.

Due to popular demand, Terrance Dicks has rewritten this DOCTOR WHO story especially for 5 to 8 year olds.
Flag of UK Click for cover image Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius
UK | Paperback | Target Books | June 1987 | £1.60 | 0426200640
The back cover blurb was exactly the same as for the original 1980 Target Books edition.
Television Story
The Brain of Morbius
4 × 25 Minutes | BBC1 | Colour

03/01/76 Part One Robin Bland
10/01/76 Part Two Robin Bland
17/01/76 Part Three Robin Bland
24/01/76 Part Four Robin Bland

Robin Bland was a pseudonym for Terrance Dicks.
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith

Familiar Faces
Morbius
Notes
  • Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius was the second and final title in the series for younger readers, after the release of Junior Doctor Who and the Giant Robot the previous year.
Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom

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Philip Hinchcliffe
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ISBN 0426116585
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Book Number (No.55)

A novelisation of the 1976 television story The Seeds of Doom, featuring the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

Later Target reprints would be numbered No.55 in the Doctor Who Library.

Back Cover Blurb
In the snowy wastes of blizzard-swept Antarctica, a strange pod-like object is unearthed, buried deep in the ice. Curiosity turns to alarm as the pod begins to grow — then horror when suddenly it cracks open and a snaking green tendril shoots out, mercilessly seeking the nearest live victim...

In London, the botanical experts are bewildered. DOCTOR WHO is called in to fight this unknown horror. But will he be in time to save Earth from the rapidly spreading tentacles of the KRYNOID, giant man-eating monster from an alien world?
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UK | Hardback | Allan Wingate Ltd | February 1977 | £2.50 | 0855231610
Released simultaneously with the paperback edition from Target Books.
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United States | Paperback | Pinnacle Books | March 1980 | $1.75 | 0523406398 | #10
The last of ten novelisations to be reprinted in the United States by Pinnacle Books between 1979 and 1980. All ten books featured new cover artwork by David Mann and were accompanied by an introduction from US science fiction writer Harlan Ellison.
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In the frozen reaches of the Antarctic, deep in the permafrost, the World Ecology Bureau uncovers two of the strangest pods ever known to man — two pods that have been buried in ice for thirty thousand years.

Then, one of the pods is destroyed, and the second is stolen...

The pod is an alien Krynoid — hostile to all animal life — including man. Only Doctor Who is able to stop its spreading tentacles of destruction. But will he be in time to save mankind?
Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom was also included as part of the Doctor Who Classics: The Seeds of Doom and The Deadly Assassin omnibus from Star Books in May 1989.
Television Story
The Seeds of Doom
6 × 25 Minutes | BBC1 | Colour

31/01/76 Part One Robert Banks Stewart
07/02/76 Part Two Robert Banks Stewart
14/02/76 Part Three Robert Banks Stewart
21/02/76 Part Four Robert Banks Stewart
28/02/76 Part Five Robert Banks Stewart
06/03/76 Part Six Robert Banks Stewart
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith
Notes
  • Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom was the first of Philip Hinchcliffe's three Doctor Who novelisations to be released. He would go on to novelise the following story in transmission oreder, The Masque of Mandragora, as well as Terry Nation's First Doctor story The Keys of Marinus.
  • Philip Hinchcliffe is best known to Doctor Who fans as the producer of the television series between 1974 and 1977, and alongside Robert Holmes, who served as script writer over the same period, is widely considered to have overseen one of the best periods in the series' history. Highlights of this period include notable stories such as The Ark in Space, Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, The Seeds of Doom, The Robots of Death and The Talons of Weng-Chiang.