Full Circle (novelisation)

Full Circle (novelisation)

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Full Circle
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fourth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Romana II K9 Adric (introduction, joins)
Main enemy:	Marshmen, Alzarian spiders
Main setting:	Alzarius, E-Space Unknown
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co]]
Writer:	Andrew Smith
Release details
Release number:	26 (given to later editions)
Release date:	September 1982
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 123 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20150-7

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial DW: Full Circle which was written by Andrew Smith and shown from 25 October 1980.
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel. It featured the artwork of Andrew Skilleter. (See below for information on other editions published with different covers).

Publisher's summary

Romana has been recalled to Gallifrey by the Time Lords – a summons that cannot be ignored, despite her extreme reluctance to give up the freedom and excitement life as the Fourth Doctor’s companion has brought.
The time traveller’s course is set, the flight path is clear, estimated time of arrival on Gallifrey is in thirty-two minutes – then the unexpected happens …
The full significance of their temporary loss of control over the TARDIS is only gradually brought home to the Doctor. For it is not on Gallifrey that they land but on the terror planet Alzarius, and at a time when the legendary Mistfall comes again – when the giant scaly creatures that inhabit the planet’s swamps leave the marshes and go on the rampage, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake …

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from televised story

• In Chapter Five, Romana II utters the mild expletive, "Damn", which assuredly does not happen in the original story, as such language was forbidden of the Doctor and his companions on television at the time.

Writing and publishing notes

• Producer John Nathan-Turner instructed that an epilogue written by Andrew Smith be deleted from the novelisation.
• Dedication: ”To the cast, crew and production team of the television production Full Circle. Thank you.”

Additional cover images

To be added

British publication history

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

Editions published outside Britain

To be added

See also

• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)

External links

• On Target a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal