The Pescatons (novelisation)

The Pescatons (novelisation)

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Doctor Who – The Pescatons
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fourth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Sarah Jane Smith
Main enemy:	Pescatons
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W. H. Allen and Co. Ltd. UK]]
Writer:	Victor Pemberton
Release details
Release date:	September 1991
Format:	Paperback Book, 124 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20353-4

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original audio release Doctor Who and the Pescatons. It has the distinction of being the final release by Target Books in the shorter paperback format that had been used since the book series was launched in 1973. It was not, however, the last Target novelization as additional releases would occur in the larger format of the Virgin Missing Adventures line.
• Although three more books were published under the Target Books series, this was the last to feature the Target Books logo, and a book number, on its cover (later volumes would include this only on the inside title pages).
• First novelisation to feature the Fourth Doctor since the publication of Meglos in 1983.
• Although Target (and later Virgin) would publish novelisations based upon Doctor Who radio plays, this remains the only official novelisation of a Doctor Who audio play, as none of the later productions by Big Finish Productions have, to date, been adapted in this way.

Publisher's summary

An invasion of meteorites and an environmental crisis!

A scientific expedition has disappeared from the bed of the Thames Estuary, where a giant meteorite had landed years previously.

Having landed the TARDIS in the same vicinity, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane are attacked at night by a vast, roaring creature.

Someting reminds the Doctor of his encounter with the marine denizens of the planet Pesca, but before long his worst fears are confirmed: strange meteorites are landing all over the world, and the Pescaton invasion has begun.

The Pescatons, starring Tom Baker as the Doctor and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, was released as an LP record in 1976, and re-released in 1985. Victor Pemberton, who wrote the original script for the LP, has been variously scriptwriter, script editor and novelizer of several Doctor Who television stories.

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Sarah Jane Smith
• Pescatons

Continuity

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Notes

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Timeline

• The Pescatons occurs before: To be added
• The Pescatons occurs after: To be added

Additional cover images

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British publication history

First Publication:

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

None

Editions published outside Britain

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See also

• On Target - A comprehensive guide to The Pescatons
• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)

External links

• The Pescatons at the Doctor Who Reference Guide