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In a dramatic intervention the Valeyard's true identity is revealed but he escapes from the courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow – to face his ultimate foe … | In a dramatic intervention the Valeyard's true identity is revealed but he escapes from the courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow – to face his ultimate foe … | ||
== Chapter Titles == | |||
* Prologue | |||
# The Key of Rassilon | |||
# An Unwelcome Intruder | |||
# Evil Intent | |||
# Twelve-and-a-half | |||
# Treason | |||
# A World Apart | |||
# A Lethal Greeting | |||
# Mr Popplewick | |||
# A Sticky End | |||
# To Be Or Not To Be | |||
# Out of the Frying Pan | |||
# The Baiter Bitten | |||
# False Witness | |||
# Off With His Head | |||
# Mesmeric Riches | |||
# Point and Counterpoint | |||
# About-face | |||
# Two-faced | |||
# Double-faced | |||
# Particles of Death | |||
# The Price of Vanity | |||
# The Keeper Vanishes | |||
# Carrot Juice | |||
* Epilogue | |||
== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
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[[Category:1988 novels]] | [[Category:1988 novels]] | ||
[[Category:Sixth Doctor novels]] | |||
Revision as of 18:00, 27 October 2014
The Ultimate Foe was a novelisation based on the 1986 television story The Ultimate Foe.
Publisher's summary
Snatched out of time and space and brought before the Time Lords on Gallifrey, the Sixth Doctor is on trial for his life.
While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tampered with, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that the Doctor will be sentenced to death.
In a dramatic intervention the Valeyard's true identity is revealed but he escapes from the courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow – to face his ultimate foe …
Chapter Titles
- Prologue
- The Key of Rassilon
- An Unwelcome Intruder
- Evil Intent
- Twelve-and-a-half
- Treason
- A World Apart
- A Lethal Greeting
- Mr Popplewick
- A Sticky End
- To Be Or Not To Be
- Out of the Frying Pan
- The Baiter Bitten
- False Witness
- Off With His Head
- Mesmeric Riches
- Point and Counterpoint
- About-face
- Two-faced
- Double-faced
- Particles of Death
- The Price of Vanity
- The Keeper Vanishes
- Carrot Juice
- Epilogue
Deviations from televised story
The Master states "The Valeyard, Doctor, is your penultimate reincarnation... Somewhere between your twelfth and thirteenth regeneration". In the televised show the line is "The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation."
Writing and publishing notes
- To be added
Additional cover images
To be added
British publication history
- Hardback (April 1988)
- W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031068, copies priced £7.95)
- Paperback (September 1989)
- Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK).
