Doctor Who and the Web of Fear (novelisation)

Doctor Who and the Web of Fear
Based on:	The Web of Fear
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie, Victoria
Main enemy:	The Great Intelligence, the Yeti
Main setting:	The London Underground, circa 1970s
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W. H. Allen and Co. Ltd. UK]]
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Release details
Release number:	72 (given to later editions)
Release date:	19 August 1976
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 127 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-11084-6
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Doctor Who and the Web of Fear was a novelisation based on the 1968 television serial The Web of Fear.

Publisher's summary

1976 edition

Forty Years the Yeti had been quiet - Collector’s item in a museum. Then without warning it awoke - and savagely murdered.

At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down, penetrating the Underground System. Slowly it spread….

Then the Yeti reappeared, not just one but hordes, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. Central London was gripped tight in a Web of Fear…

Chapter titles

1. Return of Evil
2. The Web in Space
3. The Monster in the Tunnels
4. Danger for the Doctor
5. Battle with the Yeti
6. The Terror of the Web
7. Escape from the Web
8. Return of the Yeti
9. Kidnapped!
10. Danger Above Ground
11. 'I want your mind.'
12. The Fall of the Fortress
13. Captives of the Intelligence
14. The Final Duel

Deviations from televised story

• Julius Silverstein is renamed "Emil Julius" in order to remove the offensive Jewish stereotype.

Writing and publishing notes

• The cover and information from the original Target Books edition featured the artwork of Chris Achilleos.
• The first edition cover marked the last time an image of the Second Doctor would appear on a Target Books novelisation cover until The Power of the Daleks was novelised in 1993.

Additional cover images

• 3WebFear.jpg

  1983 edition; Cover by Andrew Skilleter

• 4WebFear.jpg

  1993 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

British publication history

First publication:

• Hardback

W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

60p

1983 W.H. Allen with a new cover by Andrew Skilleter priced £1.25 (UK)

1993 Virgin Publishing with a new cover by Alistair Pearson priced £3.50 (UK)

Editions published outside Britain

To be added

External links

• On Target - A comprehensive guide to Doctor Who and the Web of Fear