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Revision as of 21:19, 28 October 2017
The Ultimate Foe was a novelisation based on the 1986 television story The Ultimate Foe.
Publisher's summary
Snatched out of time and spaaace and brought before the Time Lords on Gallifrey, the Sixth Doctor is on trial for his life.
While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tampered with, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that the Doctor will be sentenced to death.
In a dramatic intervention the Valeyard's true identity is revealed but he escapes from the courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow – to face his ultimate foe ...
Chapter titles
- Prologue
- The Key of Rassilon
- An Unwelcome Intruder
- Evil Intent
- Twelve-and-a-half
- Treason
- A World Apart
- A Lethal Greeting
- Mr Popplewick
- A Sticky End
- To Be Or Not To Be
- Out of the Frying Pan
- The Baiter Bitten
- False Witness
- Off With His Head
- Mesmeric Riches
- Point and Counterpoint
- About-face
- Two-faced
- Double-faced
- Particles of Death
- The Price of Vanity
- The Keeper Vanishes
- Catrot Juice
- Epilogue
Deviations from televised story
The Master states "The Valeyard, Doctor, is your penultimate reincarnation... Somewhere between your twelfth and thirteenth regeneration". In the televised show the line is "The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation." Since in the novel, the Valeyard is an actual Doctor incarnation (like the Sixth Doctor), and not a 'dark side' of the Doctor (like the Dream Lord), it is unclear as to what he could possibly gain from killing the Doctor and taking all his regenerations.
Writing and publishing notes
- to be added
Additional cover images
Unused jacket painting by Alister Pearson, 1988
British publication history
- Hardback (April 1988)
- W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031068, copies priced £7.95)
- Paperback (September 1989)
- Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK).
Audiobook
This Target Book was released complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Michael Jayston.
The audio set of four CDs was released in October 2013 as part of The Trial of a Time Lord Vol. 2
