Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy (novelisation)

Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy
Based on:	The Invisible Enemy
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Leela, K9 Mark I
Main enemy:	The Swarm
Main setting:	Titan Base and the Bi-Al Foundation, 5000
Key crew
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Read by:	John Leeson
Cover by:	Roy Knipe
Release details
Release number:	36 (given to later editions)
Release date:	29 March 1979
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions; 12 Chapters, 110 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20054-3
Publication order
← Previous	Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear
Next →	Doctor Who and the Robots of Death
Target novelisation numbering
← Previous	Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time
Next →	Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken
TV series order
← Previous	Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock
Next →	Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl

Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy was a novelisation based on the 1977 television serial The Invisible Enemy.

Publisher's summary

A mysterious cloud drifts menacingly through space...

A sudden energy flash and the Fourth Doctor is infected with the Nucleus of a malignant Virus that threatens to destroy his mind.

Meanwhile, on Titan, human slaves prepare the Hive from which the Virus will swarm out and infect the universe.

In search of a cure, Leela takes the Doctor to the Foundation where they make an incredible journey into the Doctor's brain in an attempt to destroy the Nucleus.

But can the Doctor free himself from the Nucleus in time to reach Titan and destroy the Hive? Luckily he has help – in the strangely dog-like shape of a mobile computer called K9 ...

Chapter titles

1. Contact
2. The Host
3. Death Sentence
4. Foundation
5. Counter-Attack
6. The Clones
7. Mind Hunt
8. Interface
9. Nucleus
10. The Antidote
11. The Hive
12. Inferno

Deviations from televised story

• What happens to the antibodies is expanded upon.
• Leela can fly the TARDIS despite not having seen the white console room before.
• A deleted scene where the Nucleus tries to reinfect the Doctor to no avail is reinstated.
• Leela's knife hits Meeker in the chest rather than the back.
• The Doctor feigns unconsciousness before trying to shoot Leela instead of hiding around the corner.
• There are scenes onboard the Bi-Al Foundation supply shuttle, showing the crew being infected before crashing into the asteroid.
• Lowe infects more of the hospital personnel than is seen on screen, having a small army during his second assault on the isolation room rather than simply himself and three others.
• The nurses are described as wearing robes, rather than the tight-fitting trouser suits seen on screen.
• It is mentioned that Professor Marius taught at New Heidelberg University.

Writing and publishing notes

Audiobook cover.

• This story was released as an audiobook read by John Leeson.

Additional cover images

to be added

British publication history

First publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

Scheduled for a new edition in July 1994, but the release was cancelled.

External links

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