The Three Doctors (novelisation)

Doctor Who and the Three Doctors
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companion(s):	Jo Grant Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Sgt. Benton UNIT
Featuring:	First Doctor Second Doctor
Main enemy:	The Omega The Gell guards
Main setting:	Earth, circa 1970s
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co]]
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Release details
Release number:	64 (given to later editions)
Release date:	November 1975
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 127 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-11578-3
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Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial TV: The Three Doctors, written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin and shown from 30 December 1972.
• The information on the right is for the original Target edition. It featured the artwork of Chris Achilleos. (See below for information on editions with different covers).
• This was the first novelisation to be published without using the form "Doctor Who and ..."
• A few years after this book was published, Target Books began numbering its Doctor Who novelisations. Rather than number the stories in order of broadcast, or original publication, Target initially numbered the books alphabetically. Coincidentally, however, The Three Doctors, numbered as No. 64 in the Target series, was also the sixty-fourth story to be broadcast (if one does not consider the single-episode TV: Mission to the Unknown as a standalone story).

Publisher's summary

1975 edition

Jo glanced up at the Doctor. 'Things must be pretty serious then.' 'They are, Jo. Very serious indeed. The whole of the Universe is in danger!'

The most amazing DOCTOR WHO adventure, in which Doctors One, Two and Three cross time and space and come together to fight a ruthlessly dangerous enemy – OMEGA. Once a Time Lord himself, now exiled to a black hole in space, Omega is seeking a bitter and deadly revenge against the whole Universe...

DOCTOR WHO scripts — awarded the 1974 Writers' Guild Award for the best British children's original drama script.

Illustrations

• None

Chapter Titles

1. Lightning from Space
2. Attack from the Unknown
3. The Menace of the Black Hole
4. Beyond the Unknown
5. A Shock for the Brigadier
6. In the Hands of the Enemy
7. Door to Freedom
8. Escape from Omega
9. 'All things shall be destroyed'
10. Return through the Flame
11. Three Doctors Minus Two

Deviations from televised story

To be added

Writing and publishing notes

• Title page includes: “THE CHANGING FACE OF DOCTOR WHO: The cover illustration portrays the first, second and third Doctors”

To be added

Additional cover images

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  1976 edition; Cover by Jeff Cummins

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  1991 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

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  2012 edition

British publication history

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

60p (UK)

1976 reissue with new cover by Jeff Cummins

1991 Virgin Publishing with a new cover by Alister 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 Three Doctors