The World in Danger contains novelisations of three episodes from Season One.
Script Writers
Gerry Davis and
Kit Pedler
Television DetailsGerry Davis and
Kit Pedler
50 Minutes / BBC1 / Colour
09/02/70 The Plastic Eaters
06/04/70 The Red Sky
11/05/70 Survival Code
Archive Details / DVD Releases
Survival Code no longer exists in the BBC archives, although the closing scenes are reprised in You Killed Toby Wren, the opening episode of Season Two which has been released on video in the UK.
The Plastic Eaters has been released on video and Region 2 DVD in the UK (Amazon.co.uk). The Red Sky has been released on video in the UK.
Doomwatch: The World in DangerDoomwatch — its proper name is Department of Measurement of Scientific Work — is a team of five people. Their work is very important; they watch all the scientific work in Britain. Science has given the world many good things — but it can be dangerous, it can kill. Scientists make mistakes — they can be careless. So the government started Doomwatch — but often the government are the last to listen to the team's advice.
Publisher Longman Group UK Ltd Format Paperback Publication Date 1975 Original Price UNKNOWN ISBN 0-582-53823-8 Illustrator Richard Osbourne Country UK
Edition Notes
- The book also contains a number of pictures from the relevant episodes.
General Notes
- The World in Danger was released as part of an educational range of books. Unfortunately this means that, in all probability, very few copies are in general circulation, making it one of the hardest UK telefantasy books to locate. The edition pictured above is the Ninth Impression of the book, released in 1986.
- Although the novelisations of The Plastic Eaters and The Red Sky retain their original titles, Survival Code is renamed A Bomb is Missing. The Plastic Eaters also formed the basis for the original novel Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater, written by Pedler and Davis in 1971.
- Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler created the Cybermen for the 1966 Doctor Who story The Tenth Planet which also saw the departure from the series of William Hartnell who had played the Doctor since the series had started in 1963.
Their script for The Tomb of the Cybermen was released by Titan Books in 1989, and during the 1970s and 1980s Davis novelised a number of Doctor Who stories for Target Books — The Celestial Toymaker, Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, The Highlanders, Doctor Who and the Cybermen and Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen.
