The Highlanders (novelisation)

The Highlanders
Based on:	The Highlanders
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Ben, Polly, Jamie
Main enemy:	Solicitor Grey
Main setting:	Scotland, 1746
Key crew
Publisher:	Target Books
Writer:	Gerry Davis
Read by:	Anneke Wills
Release details
Release number:	90
Release date:	15 November 1984
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions; 17 Chapters, 126 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-19676-7
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The Highlanders was a novelisation based on the 1966 television serial The Highlanders.

Publisher's summary

History books don't always tell the whole story. Certainly there is no record of an episode that occurred when the Scots, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie, were defeated by the English at the Battle of Culloden in 1746...

And the presence at the time of a blue police box on the Scottish moors seems to have escaped the notice of most eye-witnesses....

THE HIGHLANDERS sets the record straight. And while the incidents described may not be of great interest to historians, for Jamie McCrimmon they mark the beginning of a series of extraordinary adventures.

Book Chapters

1. Where are we?
2. The Cottage
3. The Captives
4. The Handsome Lieutenant
5. Polly and Kirsty
6. Polly's Prisoner
7. The Water Dungeon
8. Blackmail!
9. The Doctor's New Clothes
10. Aboard the Annabelle
11. At the Sea Eagle
12. The Little Auld Lady
13. A Ducking for Ben
14. Where is the Prince?
15. The Fight for the Brig
16. Algernon Again
17. A Return to the Cottage

Deviations from televised story

• The inn; the Sea Eagle is not named within the surviving audio of The Highlanders, though it is mentioned frequently in the novelisation.
• The Sergeant is named as Klegg.
• The Doctor's alias is changed from Doctor von Wer to Doctor von Werner.
• Additional scenes feature the Doctor in drag.

Writing and publishing notes

• Dedication: To Jennifer, Emily and Isabelle. With love.
• The cover for the original Target Books edition features the artwork of Nick Spender.

Additional cover images

To be added

British publication history

• Hardback

W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Editions published outside Britain

To be added

 Audiobook

This Target Book was released complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Anneke Wills.

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The audio set of four CDs was released in September 2012 priced £13.99 (UK)