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== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
=== 1982 edition === | === 1982 Target Books edition === | ||
[[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], the young air hostess who quite unintentionally became a member of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s crew, wants to return to her own time, but when the [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]] tries to take her back to [[Heathrow Airport]] in the [[20th century|twentieth century]] the TARDIS lands instead on the outskirts of [[17th century|seventeenth-century]] [[London]]. | [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], the young air hostess who quite unintentionally became a member of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s crew, wants to return to her own time, but when the [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]] tries to take her back to [[Heathrow Airport]] in the [[20th century|twentieth century]] the TARDIS lands instead on the outskirts of [[17th century|seventeenth-century]] [[London]]. | ||
The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly unfriendly welcome - but it soon becomes clear that the sinister activities of other visitors from time and space have made the villagers extremely suspicious of outsiders. | |||
[[ | As a result of the aliens' evil schemes, the Doctor finds himself on the point of playing a key role in a [[Great Fire of London|gruesome historical event]]... | ||
=== 1992 Target Books edition === | |||
"CALL YOURSELF A [[Time Lord|TIME LORD]]?" TEGAN SHOUTED. "A BROKEN CLOCK KEEPS BETTER TIME THAN YOU!" | |||
The Doctor tries to return Tegan to the Heathrow she left in [[1981]], but instead the TARDIS lands just outside London in [[1666]] - the year of the Great Plague. | |||
The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly cool welcome - and it soon becomes clear that the sinister activities of other visitors from space and time have made the villagers extremely sensitive of outsiders. | The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly cool welcome - and it soon becomes clear that the sinister activities of other visitors from space and time have made the villagers extremely sensitive of outsiders. | ||
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This is a novelization by [[Eric Saward]] of his own television story, first broadcast in [[1982 (releases)|1982]]. | This is a novelization by [[Eric Saward]] of his own television story, first broadcast in [[1982 (releases)|1982]]. | ||
=== 2016 BBC Books edition === | |||
Trying to get Tegan back to Heathrow in 1981, the Doctor brings the TARDIS to the right place, but over 300 years early - to 1666. They are not the only visitors as [[Terileptil android|Death]] stalks the local woods, complete with cloak, scythe and a skull like face. | |||
In fact, 'Death' is and android bought by a group of alien [[Terileptil]]s whose spaceship has crashed. Criminals and fugitives from their own race, they now plan to take over [[Earth]]. With [[Adric]] and Tegan captured, the Doctor and [[Nyssa]] try to deal with the deadly android, and a group of local villagers under the control of the Terileptils. | |||
But even if they succeed, can they prevent the Terileptils from unleashing an even more deadly form of the [[Bubonic plague|Black Death]]? | |||
== Chapter titles == | == Chapter titles == | ||