The Savages (novelisation)

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Doctor Who - The Savages
Doctor:	[[doctor::First Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Steven Taylor (departs) Dodo Chaplet
Main enemy:	[[ ]]
Main setting:	[[ ]],
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co]]
Writer:	Ian Stuart Black
Release details
Release number:	109
Release date:	March 1986(hardcover) September 1986 (paperback)
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 127 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20230-9
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Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial DW: The Savages, the first Doctor Who serial to use an overall on-screen title. It was written by Ian Stuart Black and shown from 28 May 1966.
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel. It features the artwork of David McAllister . (See below for information on editions with different covers).
• The First Doctor appears on the cover of the original edition. This was unusual as at the time Target was generally no longer including the image of the Doctor on its novelisation covers; the last time was with Enlightenment in 1984. It wouldn't happen again until a year later with The Ambassadors of Death.

Publisher's summary

1986 edition

Landing on a distant planet, the First Doctor confidently announces to his companions that the TARDIS has brought them to an age of great advancement, peace and prosperity.
The Doctor’s calculations seem to be confirmed when the travellers are greeted by Jano and the Elders who take them on a tour of their city - a haven of beauty, harmony and friendship, set in a wilderness inhabited by tribes of savages.
But the security of the city is founded on one deadly and appalling secret. Soon the Doctor and his friends discover that it is not only outside the city walls that savages dwell…

Illustrations

None

Deviations from televised story

To be added

Writing and publishing notes

• Doctor Who Poster Offer features at back without the colour pictures!

Additional cover images

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  1992 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

British publication history

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

Paperback: Target / Virgin Publishing Ltd. UK November 1992 Cover by Alistair Pearson (£2.50 UK)

Editions published outside Britain

To be added

See also

• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)

External links

• On Target - A comprehensive guide to Doctor Who - The Savages