Time-Flight (novelisation)

Time-Flight
Based on:	Time-Flight
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Nyssa, Tegan
Featuring:	Adric
Main enemy:	The Tremas Master
Main setting:	Heathrow Airport, 1982 Earth, Jurassic
Key crew
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen
Writer:	Peter Grimwade
Release details
Release number:	74 (given to later editions)
Release date:	15 April 1983
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions; 10 Chapters, 128 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-19297-4
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Time-Flight was a novelisation based on the 1982 television serial Time-Flight.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and his companions arrive on Tegan's home planet at a moment of crisis: a Concorde aeroplane has inexplicably vanished while in flight.

The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa, together with the TARDIS, join the crew of a second Concorde that sets out to simulate the fateful journey of the missing supersonic jet...

Coming back to Earth is not the return to normality that the rescue team might reasonably have expected. Seeing is believing, people say. The Doctor and his friends begin to realise that it just isn't as simple as that...

Chapter titles

1. Flight to Infinity
2. An Unauthorised Police Box
3. The Doctor Goes Supersonic
4. The Coming of the Plasmatons
5. The Magic of Kalid
6. The Doctor and the Magician
7. The Enemy Unmasked
8. The Power in the Sanctum
9. On a Wing and a prayer
10. In Transit

Deviations from televised story

• Several lines of dialogue are omitted or paraphrased, making scenes seem very streamlined.
• Dave Culshaw is specified as Concorde Speedbird Flight 192's first officer.
• The Master holding some of the Concorde passengers hostage until he gets the temporal limiter is omitted.

Writing and publishing notes

• Plans were underway for AudioGO to produce an audiobook of this novelisation narrated by Matthew Waterhouse. Waterhouse agreed to do it, but the demise of AudioGO put an end to the project. (DOC: Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 97)

Additional cover images

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British publication history

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

External links

• On Target a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal