The Krotons (novelisation)

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Doctor Who – The Krotons
Doctor:	[[doctor::Second Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Jamie McCrimmon Zoe Heriot
Main enemy:	The Krotons Eelek
Main setting:	The Gond planet
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W. H. Allen and Co. Ltd. UK]]
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Release details
Release number:	154 (given to later editions)
Release date:	June 1985 (hardcover) November 1985 (paperback)
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 121 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20189-2
Target novelisations
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Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial DW: The Krotons, written by Robert Holmes and shown from 28 December 1968.
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of Andrew Skilleter. (See below for information on editions with different covers).

Publisher's summary

1985 edition

Many thousands of years ago strange crystalline creatures came down from the stars and settled on the planet of the Gonds.
Over the years they educated the Gonds through teaching machines in the great Hall of Learning. In return, the Gonds periodically selected their two most brilliant scholars to become the `companions’ of these mysterious beings.
But when the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on the planet, they soon discover the true evil purpose of the aliens and learn what it really means to be companions of the Krotons…

Illustrations

• Contains no illustrated pages

Deviations from televised story

• The Doctor's claim that he is "not a doctor of medicine" is repeated, followed by the omniscient narrator describing this reply "a little unfair[...], since he was in fact a doctor of almost everything."

Writing and publishing notes

• Inside back cover features colour Fantastic Doctor Who Poster Offers!

Additional cover images

• 2Krotons.jpg

  1991 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

British publication history

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

1991 Virgin Publishing with a new cover by Alistair Pearson priced £2.50 (UK)

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 Doctor Who - The Krotons