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publisher= [[Target Books]], [[W.H. Allen & Co]]|
publisher= [[Target Books]], [[W.H. Allen & Co]]|
release date= August  [[1984]]|
release date= August  [[1984]]|
format= Paperback Book, --- Pages|
format= Paperback Book, 126 Pages|
isbn= ISBN 0-426-19561-2|
isbn= ISBN 0-426-19561-2|
previous story=[[The Five Doctors (novelisation)|Doctor Who  - The Five Doctors]] |
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Revision as of 22:10, 21 July 2008



Novelisation

  • This novelisation is based on the original television serial (DW): Warriors of the Deep which was shown from 5th January 1984 and written by Johnny Byrne
  • The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of Andrew Skilleter. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover).

Publisher's Cover Blurb

When the TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 2084, the Doctor meets an old enemy – the Sea Devils. Once the masters of this planet, they are now forced to live in the murky depths of the sea. But their intention is to reclaim their position of domination…

This will entail the infiltration of Earth’s defence systems and the provocation of another World War, more terrible than any yet experienced, to bring about the complete annihilation of the human race.

Not only is the first stage of the Sea Devil’s attack successful, their associates in this dastardly plan are the sinister Silurians, also known to the Doctor of old.

Illustrations

  • None

Deviations from the Televised Story

  • In the televised version it is implied the Sea Devils are hibernating in a bunker beneath the ocean floor, in the novelisation they are hibernating in the lower depths of the Silurian craft.
  • Terrance Dicks in his novelisation makes no implication regarding the two sides in the human conflict, clearly referring to them as “East Block” and “West Block”.
  • Terrance Dicks” explains that Tegan’s foot is undamed when trapped under the heavy door “by a kind of freak accident”.
  • Terrance Dicks paints Doctor Solow as a sympathetic character, pursuaded by Nielson that the “East Block” had the solution to banish suffering and injustice from the world.
  • Icthar’s reference to twice having offered the hand of friendship does not fit with shown continuity (possibly explained in the Missing Adventures novel “The Scales of Injustice” by Gary Russel), and is rewritten by Terrance Dicks as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace.
  • Icthar is clearly identified as the unnamed Silurian previously encountered by the Third Doctor in the televised Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story).
  • Terrance Dicks retains in his novel a resue attempt by Tulough and Preston of the Doctor, cut from the televised version so as to emphasise Turlough cowardice and selfishness.
  • On television the Sea Devils had been hibernating for hundreds of years, in the novelisation Terrance Dicks changes this to thousands, but is likely to have been around 40 million years ago!

Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

  • To be added

Associated Images

Publishing History (UK)

To be added

First Publication:

  • Hardback
W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK
  • Paperback
Target

Re-issues:

International Editions

To be added

External Sources

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