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== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
=== 1982 edition === | === 1982 edition === | ||
[[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], the young air hostess who quite unintentionally became a member of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]’s crew, wants to return to her own time, but when the [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]] tries to take her back to [[Heathrow Airport]] in the [[20th century|twentieth century]] the TARDIS lands instead on the outskirts of [[17th century|seventeenth-century]] [[London]]. | [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], the young air hostess who quite unintentionally became a member of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]’s crew, wants to return to her own time, but when the [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]] tries to take her back to [[Heathrow Airport]] in the [[20th century|twentieth century]] the TARDIS lands instead on the outskirts of [[17th century|seventeenth-century]] [[London]]. | ||
=== 1992 edition === | === 1992 edition === | ||
"Call yourself a [[Time Lord]]?" [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] shouted. "A broken clock keeps better time than you!" | "Call yourself a [[Time Lord]]?" [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] shouted. "A broken clock keeps better time than you!" | ||
[[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] tries to return Tegan to the [[Heathrow Airport|Heathrow]] she left in [[1981]], but instead [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] lands just outside [[London]] in [[1666]] - the year of the Great Plague. | [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] tries to return Tegan to the [[Heathrow Airport|Heathrow]] she left in [[1981]], but instead [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] lands just outside [[London]] in [[1666]] - the year of the Great Plague. | ||
The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly cool welcome - and it soon becomes clear that the sinister activities of other visitors from space and time have made the villagers extremely sensitive of outsiders. | The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly cool welcome - and it soon becomes clear that the sinister activities of other visitors from space and time have made the villagers extremely sensitive of outsiders. | ||
And as a result of the aliens' evil schemes, the Doctor finds himself on the point of playing a key role in a gruesome historical event. | And as a result of the aliens' evil schemes, the Doctor finds himself on the point of playing a key role in a gruesome historical event. | ||
This is a novelization by [[Eric Saward]] of his own television story, first broadcast in [[1982 (releases)|1982]]. | This is a novelization by [[Eric Saward]] of his own television story, first broadcast in [[1982 (releases)|1982]]. | ||
== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
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== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
* The first book in the range to feature the use of a photographic cover. | * The first book in the range to feature the use of a photographic cover. | ||
* This was the first title to be referred to in the Target library as book number 74. The number appeared on the cover on a subsequent reprint. | * This was the first title to be referred to in the Target library as book number 74. The number appeared on the cover on a subsequent reprint. | ||
* Dedication: `For Paula, with fondest love’ | * Dedication: `For Paula, with fondest love’ | ||
* Cover Flash reads`A BBC TV PROGRAMME WITH PETER DAVISON AS THE DOCTOR’ | * Cover Flash reads `A BBC TV PROGRAMME WITH PETER DAVISON AS THE DOCTOR’ | ||
== Additional cover images == | == Additional cover images == | ||
''To be added'' | |||
== British publication history == | == British publication history == | ||
First publication: | |||
* Hardback | * Hardback | ||
: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK | : W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK | ||
* Paperback | * Paperback | ||
: Target | : Target | ||
Re-issues: | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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{{DWN}} | {{DWN}} | ||
{{TitleSort}} | {{TitleSort}} | ||
[[Category:Target novelisations]] | [[Category:Target novelisations]] | ||
[[Category:1982 novels]] | [[Category:1982 novels]] | ||
Revision as of 15:36, 8 March 2014
Doctor Who and the Visitation was a novelisation based on the 1982 television serial The Visitation. This was the first Fifth Doctor novelisation to be published.
Publisher's summary
1982 edition
Tegan, the young air hostess who quite unintentionally became a member of the TARDIS’s crew, wants to return to her own time, but when the Doctor tries to take her back to Heathrow Airport in the twentieth century the TARDIS lands instead on the outskirts of seventeenth-century London.
1992 edition
"Call yourself a Time Lord?" Tegan shouted. "A broken clock keeps better time than you!"
The Doctor tries to return Tegan to the Heathrow she left in 1981, but instead the TARDIS lands just outside London in 1666 - the year of the Great Plague.
The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly cool welcome - and it soon becomes clear that the sinister activities of other visitors from space and time have made the villagers extremely sensitive of outsiders.
And as a result of the aliens' evil schemes, the Doctor finds himself on the point of playing a key role in a gruesome historical event.
This is a novelization by Eric Saward of his own television story, first broadcast in 1982.
Deviations from televised story
- To be added
Writing and publishing notes
- The first book in the range to feature the use of a photographic cover.
- This was the first title to be referred to in the Target library as book number 74. The number appeared on the cover on a subsequent reprint.
- Dedication: `For Paula, with fondest love’
- Cover Flash reads `A BBC TV PROGRAMME WITH PETER DAVISON AS THE DOCTOR’
Additional cover images
To be added
British publication history
First publication:
- Hardback
- W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK
- Paperback
- Target
Re-issues:
