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|series=[[Target novelisation]]s | Time and the Rani novel.jpg|1988 edition | ||
|number= 128 (mislabelled 127 in first edition) | Time and the Rani novel2.jpg|1991 edition | ||
|doctor=Seventh Doctor | </gallery> | ||
|companions= [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] | |series = [[Target novelisation]]s | ||
|enemy= | |number = 128 (mislabelled 127 in first edition) | ||
|setting= [[Lakertya]] | |doctor = Seventh Doctor | ||
|writer= | |companions = [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] | ||
|publisher= Target Books | |enemy = {{O'Mara|c}} | ||
|publisher2= W.H. Allen | |setting = [[Lakertya]] | ||
|novelisation of= Time and the Rani | |writer = Pip and Jane Baker | ||
|cover= [[Chris Capstick]] | |read by = [[Bonnie Langford]] | ||
|release date= | |publisher = Target Books | ||
|format= Hardcover and paperback editions; 23 Chapters, 143 Pages | |publisher2 = W.H. Allen | ||
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20331-3 | |novelisation of = Time and the Rani (TV story) | ||
|prev=The Ultimate Foe (novelisation) | |cover = [[Chris Capstick]] | ||
| | |release date = 5 May 1988 | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the 1987 television serial ''[[Time and the Rani]]''. This first adventure of the [[Seventh Doctor]] was also the first novelisation of his era to be published; this was only also true of the [[Third Doctor|Third]] and [[ | |format = Hardcover and paperback editions; 23 Chapters, 143 Pages | ||
|isbn = ISBN 0-426-20331-3 | |||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the 1987 television serial ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''. This first adventure of the [[Seventh Doctor]] was also the first novelisation of his era to be published; this was only also true of the [[Third Doctor|Third]], [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]], [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] and [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] Doctors - all other Doctors had later stories published as their first novelisations. | |||
This was the only Seventh Doctor novelisation to be released in a hardcover edition. Chronologically it is also the last in the series to be released in that format (the actual final hardcover release was ''[[The Smugglers (novelisation)|The Smugglers]]'', a [[First Doctor]] story). | This was the only Seventh Doctor novelisation to be released in a hardcover edition. Chronologically it is also the last in the series to be released in that format (the actual final hardcover release was ''[[The Smugglers (novelisation)|The Smugglers]]'', a [[First Doctor]] story). | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
=== | === 1988 Target Books edition === | ||
Assailed by violent bolts of multi-coloured energy, [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] is blasted off-course and forced to land on the barren planet of [[Lakertya]]. | Assailed by violent bolts of multi-coloured energy, [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] is blasted off-course and forced to land on the barren planet of [[Lakertya]]. | ||
The turbulence brings about [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]]'s sixth [[regeneration]]. But that is the least of his worries. He has been hijacked by that ruthless renegade [[Time Lord|Time Lady]], [[the Rani]]. | The turbulence brings about [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]]'s sixth [[regeneration]]. But that is the least of his worries. He has been hijacked by that ruthless renegade [[Time Lord|Time Lady]], [[First Rani|the Rani]]. | ||
Why has the Rani brought the Doctor to Lakertya? What are the hideous [[Tetrap]] guards? Who are the eleven geniuses she has imprisoned in her stronghold? What is the vital significance of the asteroid of [[Strange matter|Strange Matter]]? And can the Doctor stop the Rani's diabolical scheme before it affects the whole of creation throughout time and space? | Why has the Rani brought the Doctor to Lakertya? What are the hideous [[Tetrap]] guards? Who are the eleven geniuses she has imprisoned in her stronghold? What is the vital significance of the asteroid of [[Strange matter|Strange Matter]]? And can the Doctor stop the Rani's diabolical scheme before it affects the whole of creation throughout time and space? | ||
=== 1991 edition === | === 1991 Target Books edition === | ||
HE GLARED BLEAKLY AT THE RANI. 'THAT ASTEROID'S COMPOSED OF STRANGE MATTER! WHAT MONSTROUS EXPERIMENT ARE YOU DABBLING IN NOW?' | |||
Assailed by violent bouts of energy | Assailed by violent bouts of energy the TARDIS is blasted off course and forced to land on the barrent planet of Lakertya, and the violent buffeting triggers the Doctor's sixth regeneration. But that is the least of his worries. He has been hijacked by that ruthless renegade female Time Lord, the Rani. | ||
Why has the Rani brought the Doctor to Lakertya? What are the hideous | Why has the Rani brought the Doctor to Lakertya? What are the hideous Tetrap guards? Who are the eleven geniuses she has imprisoned in her stronghold? What is the vital significance of the asteroid of Strange Matter? And can the Doctor stop the Rani's diabolical scheme before it affects the whole of creation throughout time and space? | ||
Doctor Who - Time and the Rani is the first story to feature the seventh Doctor as played by [[Sylvester McCoy]]. This novelization is by [[Pip and Jane Baker]], and is adapted from their original scripts. | Doctor Who - ''Time and the Rani'' is the first story to feature the seventh Doctor as played by [[Sylvester McCoy]]. This novelization is by [[Pip and Jane Baker]], and is adapted from their original scripts. | ||
== Chapter titles == | == Chapter titles == | ||
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== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
* The [[Sixth Doctor]] receives a "pre-regeneration" scene in the first chapter, which depicts his cause of death being a head injury he receives during the attack on the TARDIS. | * The [[Sixth Doctor]] receives a "pre-regeneration" scene in the first chapter, which depicts his cause of death being a head injury he receives during the attack on the TARDIS. | ||
* Urak does not witness the Doctor's regeneration, as he does in the televised version, instead turning over the unconscious Doctor to reveal his new face; the Doctor having already regenerated. | |||
* [[Za Panato]] and [[Ari Centos]] are listed as two of the scientists kidnapped by the Rani. | * [[Za Panato]] and [[Ari Centos]] are listed as two of the scientists kidnapped by the Rani. | ||
* It is explained that [[Sarn (Time and the Rani)|Sarn]] escapes because she is worried of being punished for helping the Doctor. | * It is explained that [[Sarn (Time and the Rani)|Sarn]] escapes because she is worried of being punished for helping the Doctor. | ||
* An explanation is given for how the Rani escaped her plight at the end of ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'': As the tyrannosaur grew to full size, its spine snapped against the roof of [[The Rani's TARDIS|her TARDIS]]. | * An explanation is given for how the Rani escaped her plight at the end of ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'': As the tyrannosaur grew to full size, its spine snapped against the roof of [[The Rani's TARDIS|her TARDIS]]. | ||
* The Doctor uses several more garbled sayings, such as "A frowning man will clutch at a straw". | * The Doctor uses several more garbled sayings, such as "A frowning man will clutch at a straw". | ||
* Mel slips through the hole in the bubble trap when [[Ikona]] removes the detonator, rather than it disappearing. | * Mel slips through the hole in the bubble trap when [[Ikona]] removes the detonator, rather than it disappearing. | ||
* Mel threatens the Doctor with a burning laboratory instrument when they first meet. | * Mel threatens the Doctor with a burning laboratory instrument when they first meet. | ||
* It is stated that the Rani | * It is stated that the Rani is still in her first incarnation, despite her being the same age as the Doctor. | ||
* The Doctor hangs up with the Tetraps in the eyrie to hide from the Rani, with [[Beyus]] trying to warn him not to go in there. | * The Doctor hangs up with the Tetraps in the eyrie to hide from the Rani, with [[Beyus]] trying to warn him not to go in there. | ||
* The Tetrap stumbles into the bubble trap instead of being pushed in by the Doctor. | * The Tetrap stumbles into the bubble trap instead of being pushed in by the Doctor. | ||
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* A Tetrap is killed by a fungus released when it steps on a phial that the Rani had tried to use on the Doctor and Mel. | * A Tetrap is killed by a fungus released when it steps on a phial that the Rani had tried to use on the Doctor and Mel. | ||
* Mel hides from the Rani in the brain chamber rather than being at the Doctor's side throughout. | * Mel hides from the Rani in the brain chamber rather than being at the Doctor's side throughout. | ||
* [[Faroon]] continues to go along with Beyus' policy after the Tetraps fit the [[Lakertyan]]s with the exploding anklets, instead of accepting Ikona's decision to go to the Doctor for help. | * [[Faroon]] continues to go along with Beyus's policy after the Tetraps fit the [[Lakertyan]]s with the exploding anklets, instead of accepting Ikona's decision to go to the Doctor for help. | ||
* Urak stuns the Rani after taking control of her TARDIS. | * Urak stuns the Rani after taking control of her TARDIS. | ||
== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
* Prepared before transmission, the original cover illustration for this title by [[Tony Masero]] showed the [[Tetrap]]s asleep standing up. The mistake wasn't realised until quite late and rather than turn the cover art upside down, resulted in the one-off, specially commissioned photograph of the [[Tetrap]]s hanging from the roof of the caves that was used instead. Proof copies featuring this artwork were circulated. | * Prepared before transmission, the original cover illustration for this title by [[Tony Masero]] showed the [[Tetrap]]s asleep standing up. The mistake wasn't realised until quite late and rather than turn the cover art upside-down, resulted in the one-off, specially commissioned photograph of the [[Tetrap]]s hanging from the roof of the caves that was used instead. Proof copies featuring this artwork were circulated. | ||
* This book should be numbered 128, not 127 as it is. | * This book should be numbered 128, not 127 as it is. | ||
* Inside back cover includes colour advert for Fantastic Doctor Who Posters Offer. | * Inside back cover includes colour advert for Fantastic Doctor Who Posters Offer. | ||
*This was the last Target novelisation to feature a photographic cover, and the only one not to be a [[Fifth Doctor]] story. | |||
== Cover Gallery == | == Cover Gallery == | ||
<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" > | <gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" > | ||
Time and the Rani Hardcover.jpg|1987 hardback edition | |||
Time and the Rani novel2.jpg|1991 Target edition.<br />Cover by [[Alister Pearson]] | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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* W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031866, copies priced £7.95 (UK) | * W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031866, copies priced £7.95 (UK) | ||
: Paperback (May 1988) | : Paperback (May 1988) | ||
* Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. | * Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK). | ||
: Paperback (1991) | : Paperback (1991) | ||
* Target / Virgin Publishing | * Target / Virgin Publishing New cover artwork by Alister Pearson, estimated print run: 10,000, priced £2.50 (UK). | ||
: Interior ISBN reads 0426202325 and the exterior ISBN 0-426-20331-3. | : Interior ISBN reads 0426202325 and the exterior ISBN 0-426-20331-3. | ||
== Editions published outside Britain == | == Editions published outside Britain == | ||
* In Canada, the UK Target edition was distributed. Due to issues at the time involving trade tariffs and a weak Canadian dollar, the book initially carried a cover price above C$7, at a time when most paperbacks of the same format (and previous Target ''Doctor Who'' releases) were rarely more than C$4. This affected the next few Target releases before Canadian prices normalised. | * In Canada, the UK Target edition was distributed. Due to issues at the time involving trade tariffs and a weak Canadian dollar, the book initially carried a cover price above C$7, at a time when most paperbacks of the same format (and previous Target ''Doctor Who'' releases) were rarely more than C$4. This affected the next few Target releases before Canadian prices normalised. | ||
== Audiobook == | |||
This Target Book was released as an audiobook on [[6 January (releases)|6 January]] [[2022 (releases)|2022]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Bonnie Langford]]. | |||
The cover blurb and thumbnail illustrations were retained in the accompanying booklet with sleevenotes by [[David J. Howe]]. Music and sound effects by [[Simon Power]]. | |||
<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" > | |||
Time and the Rani audiobook.jpg|Audiobook cover | |||
</gallery> | |||
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Latest revision as of 20:48, 5 February 2024
Time and the Rani was a novelisation based on the 1987 television serial Time and the Rani. This first adventure of the Seventh Doctor was also the first novelisation of his era to be published; this was only also true of the Third, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors - all other Doctors had later stories published as their first novelisations.
This was the only Seventh Doctor novelisation to be released in a hardcover edition. Chronologically it is also the last in the series to be released in that format (the actual final hardcover release was The Smugglers, a First Doctor story).
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
1988 Target Books edition[[edit] | [edit source]]
Assailed by violent bolts of multi-coloured energy, the TARDIS is blasted off-course and forced to land on the barren planet of Lakertya.
The turbulence brings about the Doctor's sixth regeneration. But that is the least of his worries. He has been hijacked by that ruthless renegade Time Lady, the Rani.
Why has the Rani brought the Doctor to Lakertya? What are the hideous Tetrap guards? Who are the eleven geniuses she has imprisoned in her stronghold? What is the vital significance of the asteroid of Strange Matter? And can the Doctor stop the Rani's diabolical scheme before it affects the whole of creation throughout time and space?
1991 Target Books edition[[edit] | [edit source]]
HE GLARED BLEAKLY AT THE RANI. 'THAT ASTEROID'S COMPOSED OF STRANGE MATTER! WHAT MONSTROUS EXPERIMENT ARE YOU DABBLING IN NOW?'
Assailed by violent bouts of energy the TARDIS is blasted off course and forced to land on the barrent planet of Lakertya, and the violent buffeting triggers the Doctor's sixth regeneration. But that is the least of his worries. He has been hijacked by that ruthless renegade female Time Lord, the Rani.
Why has the Rani brought the Doctor to Lakertya? What are the hideous Tetrap guards? Who are the eleven geniuses she has imprisoned in her stronghold? What is the vital significance of the asteroid of Strange Matter? And can the Doctor stop the Rani's diabolical scheme before it affects the whole of creation throughout time and space?
Doctor Who - Time and the Rani is the first story to feature the seventh Doctor as played by Sylvester McCoy. This novelization is by Pip and Jane Baker, and is adapted from their original scripts.
Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Regeneration
- The New Doctor
- Death Is Sprung
- Identity Crisis
- Collaborators All
- On With The Fray
- Haute Couture
- Visions Of Greatness
- Face To Face
- A Kangaroo Never Forgets
- When Strangers Meet
- 'You Know, Don't You!'
- Rendezvous With A Tetrap
- The Centre Of Leisure
- Exchange Is A Robbery
- The Twelfth Genius
- Selective Retribution
- Too Many Cooks
- Star Struck!
- Holy Grail
- A Dangerous Break
- Countdown
- Goodbye, Lakertya
Deviations from televised story[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Sixth Doctor receives a "pre-regeneration" scene in the first chapter, which depicts his cause of death being a head injury he receives during the attack on the TARDIS.
- Urak does not witness the Doctor's regeneration, as he does in the televised version, instead turning over the unconscious Doctor to reveal his new face; the Doctor having already regenerated.
- Za Panato and Ari Centos are listed as two of the scientists kidnapped by the Rani.
- It is explained that Sarn escapes because she is worried of being punished for helping the Doctor.
- An explanation is given for how the Rani escaped her plight at the end of The Mark of the Rani: As the tyrannosaur grew to full size, its spine snapped against the roof of her TARDIS.
- The Doctor uses several more garbled sayings, such as "A frowning man will clutch at a straw".
- Mel slips through the hole in the bubble trap when Ikona removes the detonator, rather than it disappearing.
- Mel threatens the Doctor with a burning laboratory instrument when they first meet.
- It is stated that the Rani is still in her first incarnation, despite her being the same age as the Doctor.
- The Doctor hangs up with the Tetraps in the eyrie to hide from the Rani, with Beyus trying to warn him not to go in there.
- The Tetrap stumbles into the bubble trap instead of being pushed in by the Doctor.
- The Tetraps' native language is revealed to be English backwards.
- The Doctor gets out of his cubicle with a penknife.
- A Tetrap is killed by a fungus released when it steps on a phial that the Rani had tried to use on the Doctor and Mel.
- Mel hides from the Rani in the brain chamber rather than being at the Doctor's side throughout.
- Faroon continues to go along with Beyus's policy after the Tetraps fit the Lakertyans with the exploding anklets, instead of accepting Ikona's decision to go to the Doctor for help.
- Urak stuns the Rani after taking control of her TARDIS.
Writing and publishing notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Prepared before transmission, the original cover illustration for this title by Tony Masero showed the Tetraps asleep standing up. The mistake wasn't realised until quite late and rather than turn the cover art upside-down, resulted in the one-off, specially commissioned photograph of the Tetraps hanging from the roof of the caves that was used instead. Proof copies featuring this artwork were circulated.
- This book should be numbered 128, not 127 as it is.
- Inside back cover includes colour advert for Fantastic Doctor Who Posters Offer.
- This was the last Target novelisation to feature a photographic cover, and the only one not to be a Fifth Doctor story.
Cover Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]
1987 hardback edition
1991 Target edition.
Cover by Alister Pearson
British publication history[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Hardback (December 1987)
- W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031866, copies priced £7.95 (UK)
- Paperback (May 1988)
- Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK).
- Paperback (1991)
- Target / Virgin Publishing New cover artwork by Alister Pearson, estimated print run: 10,000, priced £2.50 (UK).
- Interior ISBN reads 0426202325 and the exterior ISBN 0-426-20331-3.
Editions published outside Britain[[edit] | [edit source]]
- In Canada, the UK Target edition was distributed. Due to issues at the time involving trade tariffs and a weak Canadian dollar, the book initially carried a cover price above C$7, at a time when most paperbacks of the same format (and previous Target Doctor Who releases) were rarely more than C$4. This affected the next few Target releases before Canadian prices normalised.
Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]
This Target Book was released as an audiobook on 6 January 2022 complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Bonnie Langford.
The cover blurb and thumbnail illustrations were retained in the accompanying booklet with sleevenotes by David J. Howe. Music and sound effects by Simon Power.
Audiobook cover
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
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