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== Chapter Titles ==
== Chapter Titles ==
1. Aftershock<br />
# Aftershock
2. The Seeds of Suspicion<br />
# The Seeds of Suspicion
3. Inside the Machine<br />
# Inside the Machine
4. Trapped<br />
# Trapped
5. 'Like a Person Possessed'<br />
# 'Like a Person Possessed'
6. The End of Time<br />
# The End of Time
7. The Haunting<br />
# The Haunting
8. Accusations<br />
# Accusations
9. The Brink of Disaster<br />
# The Brink of Disaster
10. A Race Against Time
# A Race Against Time


== Illustrations ==
== Illustrations ==

Revision as of 19:38, 25 February 2013

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Novelisation

  • This novelisation is based on the original television serial generally referred to as TV: The Edge of Destruction which included individual episode titles, written by David Whitaker and shown from 8 February 1964.
  • The cover and information on the right are for the original Target edition. It features the artwork of Alister Pearson. (See below for a cover gallery.)

Publisher's summary

In a final bid to regain control of the TARDIS's faulty control system the First Doctor is driven to experiment with a dangerous untried combination.
With a violent explosion the TARDIS blacks out and the crew find themselves trapped inside.
A simple technical fault? Sabotage? Or something even more sinister? Tension mounts as the Doctor and his companions begin to suspect one another.
What has happened to the TARDIS?
Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence which is even now haunting the time-machine's dark and gloomy corridors?

Chapter Titles

  1. Aftershock
  2. The Seeds of Suspicion
  3. Inside the Machine
  4. Trapped
  5. 'Like a Person Possessed'
  6. The End of Time
  7. The Haunting
  8. Accusations
  9. The Brink of Disaster
  10. A Race Against Time

Illustrations

None

Deviations from televised story

  • Barbara hallucinates that Ian had too much to drink at the Cricketers.

Writing and publishing notes

  • This novelisation was originally offered to Stephen James Walker, but as a two-parter. It was declined and instead written by Nigel Robinson.
  • The inside back cover includes colour Fantastic Doctor Who Poster Offers!-but instead of poster ordering details, the page details how to order Star books!

Cover Gallery

British publication history

Hardback (May 1988)
  • W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031386, estimated print run: 1,000, priced £7.95)
Paperback (October 1988)
  • Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK).

Editions published outside Britain

None

See also

External links