The Mind Robber (novelisation): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|image=Mind Robber novel.jpg

|series=[[Target novelisation]]s

|number=115

|novelisation of=The Mind Robber (TV story)

|doctor=Second Doctor

|companions=[[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]

|enemy= {{il| [[Master of the Land]],| [[Master Brain|The Master Brain]],| [[White Robot]]s,| [[Clockwork soldier]]s}}

|setting= The [[Land of Fiction]]

|writer= [[Peter Ling]]

|read by=[[Derek Jacobi]]

|publisher= Target Books

|release date= [[16 April (releases)|16 April]] [[1987 (releases)|1987]]

|format= Hardcover and paperback editions; 10 Chapters, 144 Pages

|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20286-4

|prev= The Dominators (novelisation)

|next= The Invasion (novelisation)

=== 1987 edition ===

To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]] takes [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] out of space and time-and into a void he can only describe as 'nowhere'.

The Doctor, [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] come to a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in [[18th century|eighteenth-century]] clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch...

=== 1990 edition ===

"But we can't be nowhere - that's impossible"

[[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]]'s astrophysicist companion, can't understand how [[the TARDIS]] can be beyond both [[time]] and [[space]]; but the Doctor's time-travelling craft has taken him, Zoe and [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] to a place where [[fiction]] is reality.

''The Mind Robber, ''with [[Patrick Troughton]] as the Doctor, was first broadcast in 1968. This novelisation is by Peter Ling, who wrote the scripts of four of the five television episodes.

''Doctor Who - The Mind Robber ''is available as a [[BBC (real world)|BBC]] video, and will be broadcast on BSB television during 1990.

* The story contains many scenes written specially for the novel, including a firing squad test before the Unicorn charges in and several references to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland aside many others.

* The labyrinth is presented as a hacienda from a Spanish crime novel containing Miss Haversham's wedding cake; the cave is from [[Narnia]]; the [[Karkus]] speaks using speech bubbles.

* Rather than escaping [[Dulkis]] following the events of [[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators (TV story)|The Dominators]], ''the TARDIS instead materialises on a volcano five seconds before it erupts.

* The novel opens in the [[Land of Fiction]], with the first episode of the story depicted as a flashback.

* The Master of the Land of Fiction leaves the land in the TARDIS.

* Several amendments were made to [[Peter Ling]]'s original submission. Of particular note was his mistaken belief that [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] had long blonde hair. The error was not realised until a viewing of the BBC video. Incidentally, the character of Zoe, was at one point considered to be a male, with blond hair.

* The 1990 Target / Virgin edition utilised the same new cover artwork as used on the BBC video release.

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* Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. Single paperback edition, estimated print run: 32,500, priced £1.75 (UK).

* Target / Virgin Publishing New cover artwork by Alister Pearson, priced £2.50 (UK).

The audiobook version of this novel was read by [[Derek Jacobi]], who played [[the Master]] in ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''.

[[Category:Second Doctor novels]]