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doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] <br />[[Sixth Doctor]] (cameo, regenerates)||
|number         = 128 (mislabelled 127 in first edition)
companions= [[Melanie Bush]] |
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
enemy= The [[the Rani|Rani]]<br />The [[Tetrap]]s |
|companions     = [[Melanie Bush|Mel]]
year= [[Lakertya]] |
|enemy           = {{O'Mara|c}}
writer= [[Pip and Jane Baker]]|
|setting        = [[Lakertya]]
publisher= [[Target Books]], [[W.H. Allen & Co]]|
|writer         = Pip and Jane Baker
release date= December  [[1987]] (hardcover)<br />May [[1988]] (paperback)|
|read by        = [[Bonnie Langford]]
format= Hardcover and paperback editions, 143 Pages|
|publisher       = Target Books
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20331-3|
|publisher2      = W.H. Allen
prev=The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)|Doctor Who – The Ultimate Foe |
|novelisation of = Time and the Rani (TV story)
next=Paradise Towers (novelisation)|Doctor Who – Paradise Towers }}
|cover          = [[Chris Capstick]]
== Novelisation ==
|release date    = 5 May 1988  
* This novelisation is based on the original television serial ([[DW]]): '' [[Time and the Rani]],'' written by [[Pip and Jane Baker]] and shown from [[7 September]] [[1987]].
|format         = Hardcover and paperback editions; 23 Chapters, 143 Pages
* The cover and information to the right are for the original Target edition. It features the photographic artwork of [[Chris Capstick]]. (See below for information on editions with different covers). The initial release carried a "FIRST EDITION" banner on the cover.
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20331-3
* 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 [[Fourth Doctor]]s - all other Doctors had later stories published as their first novelisations.
|prev           = The Mysterious Planet (novelisation)
* 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).
|next            = Vengeance on Varos (novelisation)
|series2        = [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series order]]
|prev2          = The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)
|next2          = Paradise Towers (novelisation)
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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).


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
=== 1987 edition ===
=== 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]].<br />
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?"
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 [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] is blasted off course and forced to land on the barrent planet of [[Lakertya]], and the violent buffeting triggers [[Seventh Doctor|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.
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?
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 ==
1. Regeneration<br />
# Regeneration
2. The New Doctor<br />
# The New Doctor
3. Death Is Sprung<br />
# Death Is Sprung
4. Identity Crisis<br />
# Identity Crisis
5. Collaborators All<br />
# Collaborators All
6. On With The Fray<br />
# On With The Fray
7. Haute Couture<br />
# Haute Couture
8. Visions Of Greatness<br />
# Visions Of Greatness
9. Face To Face<br />
# Face To Face
10. A Kangaroo Never Forgets<br />
# A Kangaroo Never Forgets
11. When Strangers Meet<br />
# When Strangers Meet
12. 'You Know, Don't You!'<br />
# 'You Know, Don't You!'
13. Rendezvous With A Tetrap<br />
# Rendezvous With A Tetrap
14. The Centre Of Leisure<br />
# The Centre Of Leisure
15. Exchange Is A Robbery<br />
# Exchange Is A Robbery
16. The Twelfth Genius<br />
# The Twelfth Genius
17. Selective Retribution<br />
# Selective Retribution
18. Too Many Cooks<br />
# Too Many Cooks
19. Star Struck!<br />
# Star Struck!
20. Holy Grail<br />
# Holy Grail
21. A Dangerous Break<br />
# A Dangerous Break
22. Countdown<br />
# Countdown
23. Goodbye, Lakertya
# Goodbye, Lakertya
 
== Illustrations ==
* None


== Deviations from televised story ==
== Deviations from televised story ==
''To be added''
* 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 (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 (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".
* 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 [[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.


== 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.


== Additional cover images ==
== Cover Gallery ==
<gallery hideaddbutton="true" >
<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" >
file:2TimeRani.jpg|1991 edition; Cover by [[Alister Pearson]]  
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>


== British publication history ==
== British publication history ==
: '''Hardback''' (December 1987)
: Hardback (December 1987)
* 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. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK).
* 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 New cover artwork by Alister Pearson, estimated print run: 10,000, priced £2.50 (UK).<br />
* 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.


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* 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.


== See also ==
== Audiobook ==
* '''[[The Target Book]]''' by [[David J Howe]] ([[Telos Publishing]] 2007)
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>
 
== External links ==
== External links ==
*  [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/general/main.htm ''On Target'' a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal]
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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]]

  1. Regeneration
  2. The New Doctor
  3. Death Is Sprung
  4. Identity Crisis
  5. Collaborators All
  6. On With The Fray
  7. Haute Couture
  8. Visions Of Greatness
  9. Face To Face
  10. A Kangaroo Never Forgets
  11. When Strangers Meet
  12. 'You Know, Don't You!'
  13. Rendezvous With A Tetrap
  14. The Centre Of Leisure
  15. Exchange Is A Robbery
  16. The Twelfth Genius
  17. Selective Retribution
  18. Too Many Cooks
  19. Star Struck!
  20. Holy Grail
  21. A Dangerous Break
  22. Countdown
  23. 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]]

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

    Audiobook cover

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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