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|setting= [[Time Lord Station]]<br />[[Earth|Ravolox]] / [[Earth]], [[Far future|2,000,000]]  
|setting= [[Time Lord Station]]<br />[[Earth|Ravolox]] / [[Earth]], [[Far future|2,000,000]]  
|writer= [[Terrance Dicks]]  
|writer= [[Terrance Dicks]]  
|publisher= Target Books, [[W.H. Allen & Co]]
|publisher= Target Books
|publisher2= W.H. Allen
|release date= [[21 April (releases)|21 April]] [[1988]]
|release date= [[21 April (releases)|21 April]] [[1988]]
|novelisation of = The Mysterious Planet (TV story)
|novelisation of = The Mysterious Planet (TV story)

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The Mysterious Planet was a novelisation based on the 1986 television serial The Mysterious Planet.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifrey's most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.

If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctor's past.

It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...

Deviations from televised story

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Writing and publishing notes

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Additional cover images

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British publication history

Hardback (November 1987)
  • W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491030967, copies priced £7.95 (UK))
Paperback (April 1988)
  • Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 22,500, priced £1.99 (UK).

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