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| |colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | <small> [[Frontios (TV story) | Frontios]]</small>
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| | align="center" colspan=2 bgcolor="#F5F8CA" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:150%;" | '''Frontios '''
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''Series'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | [[Target Novelisation]]
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''Number'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | 91
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''Doctor'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | [[Fifth Doctor]]
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''Companions'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | [[Tegan Jovanka | Tegan]]
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| [[Vislor Turlough | Turlough]]
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''Author'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | [[Christopher H. Bidmead]]
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''Publisher'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | W.H Allen & Co
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''Publication Date'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | 1984
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| | style="text-align: right;" | '''ISBN'''
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| | bgcolor="#F5F8CA" | ISBN 0-426-17980-1
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| | | by Oliver Mitchell |
| The [[TARDIS]] has drifted far into the future and comes to rest hovering over [[Frontios]], refuge of one group of survivors from [[Earth]] who have escaped the disintegration of their home planet.
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| The Doctor is reluctant to land on Frontios, as he does not wish to intervene in a moment of historical crisis - the colonists are still strugging to establish themselves and their continued existence hangs in the balance.
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| But the TARDIS is forced down by what appears to be a meteorite storm, and crash-lands, leaving the Doctor and his companions marooned on the hope-forsaken planet...
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| ''- taken from the jacket synopsis''
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| == Book Chapters ==
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| 01 - Refugees of Mankind<br>
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| 02 - The Unknown Invaders<br>
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| 03 - The Deadly Hail<br>
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| 04 - The Power of the Hat-Stand<br>
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| 05 - Downwardness<br>
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| 06 - Beneath the Rocks<br>
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| 07 - The Force Takes Hold<br>
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| 08 - Eaten by the Earth<br>
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| 09 - The Excavating Machine<br>
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| 10 - Prisoners of the Gravis<br>
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| 11 - The Price of Rescue<br>
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| 12 - Greed sets the Trap
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| == Deviations from the Televised Story ==
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| * Rather than having the excavating machine composed of metal (as in the televised version) with an enslaved human pilot, the Machine is instead a nightmarish vision composed of corpses of the colonists the [[Tractator|Tractators]] had pulled down to their domain:
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| ::"It was a repellent sight - a huge and hideous assembly of parts of human bodies, shaped something in the form of a giant Tractator. White bones tipped with metal cutters scraped against the rock, while rotting hands polished the surface smooth. Through illuminated windows in the body Tegan glimpsed more mechanically gesticulating human arms and legs in an advanced state of decay. It was a machine buit from the dead."
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| ::: -- <small>''Frontios'' p107</small>
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| A human pilot is still required to drive the machine. This scenario does lend a little more credence as to why Turlough had envisioned the Tractators as "Evil"
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| * [[Gravis]] is incapable of speaking directly, and instead utilises "A tall narrow trolley" on which is mounted "The head and one arm of a dead Colonist, connected by improvised metalwork to a swinging pendulum". This machine is used to translate his thoughts.
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