Delta and the Bannermen (novelisation)

Delta and the Bannermen
Based on:	Delta and the Bannermen
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Mel
Main enemy:	Gavrok The Bannermen Keillor
Main setting:	South Wales, 1959 Toll port, post-1959
Key crew
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen
Writer:	Malcolm Kohll
Cover by:	Alister Pearson
Release details
Release number:	135
Release date:	19 January 1989
Format:	Paperback Book; 34 Chapters, 144 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20333-X
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Delta and the Bannermen was a novelisation based on the 1987 television serial Delta and the Bannermen.

Publisher's summary

1989 edition

As the billionth customers at a space tollport the Doctor and Mel win the Grand Prize – a place on the Fabulous Fifties Coach Tour to Disneyland, Planet Earth.

Unfortunately, they don’t quite make it there … Knocked off-course by a wayward satellite the coach party arrives instead at Shangri-la, a remote Welsh holiday camp.

But the peace and quiet of the countryside are soon shattered by the arrival of an army of marauding Bannermen soldiers, led by the ruthless Gavrok. They are tracking down Delta, the last of the Chimeron, with only one thought in mind – her destruction...

Chapter Titles

• Prologue
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Chapter Nine
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven
• Chapter Twelve
• Chapter Thirteen
• Chapter Fourteen
• Chapter Fifteen
• Chapter Sixteen
• Chapter Seventeen
• Chapter Eighteen
• Chapter Nineteen
• Chapter Twenty
• Chapter Twenty-One
• Chapter Twenty-Two
• Chapter Twenty-Three
• Chapter Twenty-Four
• Chapter Twenty-Five
• Chapter Twenty-Six
• Chapter Twenty-Seven
• Chapter Twenty-Eight
• Chapter Twenty-Nine
• Chapter Thirty
• Chapter Thirty-One
• Chapter Thirty-Two
• Epilogue

Deviations from televised story

• The Production Notes commentary on the 2009 DVD release of Delta and the Bannermen revealed that the first edition of the novelisation contains an unfortunate typographical error: during the scene in which the Doctor and Ray are caught snooping on Gavrok, the Doctor is described as "peeing over" instead of "peering over" a shelf. It also exists in the 1991 reissue. The error can be found in both editions on page 54.
• On TV, Burton has a dog. However there is no mention of this dog in the novelisation.
• On TV, Hawk burns his hand when he enters the ray of the sonic cone, but in the book, he injures his head.
• The epilogue of the book shows Billy, Delta and her daughter arriving on the brood planet, which is said to be covered in hexagonal chambers as far as the eye can see. Delta and her daughter stay on the brood planet and Billy takes the Bannermen to a galactic court before returning to the brood planet.

Writing and publishing notes

• Proclaims itself on the spine as Doctor Who – Delta and the Bannerman.
• A proposed hardback edition for January 1989 was never released.

Additional cover images

To be added

British publication history

First publication: Paperback (January 1989)

• Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 21,000, priced £1.99 (UK).

Re-issues: (November 1991)

• Target / Virgin Publishing, estimated print run: 9,000, priced £2.99 (UK).

External links

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