The Edge of Destruction (novelisation)

The Edge of Destruction was a novelisation based on the 1964 television serial The Edge of Destruction.

	The Edge of Destruction
	First Doctor
	Susan, Barbara, Ian
	The TARDIS
	Target Books, W.H. Allen
	Nigel Robinson
	William Russell
	Alister Pearson
	132
	20 October 1988
	Hardcover and paperback editions; 14 Chapters, 120 Pages
	ISBN 0-426-20327-5
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Publisher's summary

In a final bid to regain control of the TARDIS' faulty control system the First Doctor is driven to experiment with a dangerous untried combination.

With a violent explosion, the TARDIS blacks out and the crew find themselves trapped inside.

A simple technical fault? Sabotage? Or something even more sinister? Tension mounts as the Doctor and his companions begin to suspect one another.

What has happened to the TARDIS?

Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence which is even now haunting the time-machine's dark and gloomy corridors?

Chapter titles

• Introduction
• Prologue

1. Aftershock
2. The Seeds of Suspicion
3. Inside the Machine
4. Trapped
5. 'Like a Person Possessed'
6. The End of Time
7. The Haunting
8. Accusations
9. The Brink of Disaster
10. A Race Against Time

• Epilogue
• Conclusion

Deviations from televised story

• Barbara hallucinates that Ian had too much to drink at the Cricketers.
• An original scene features the Doctor and Ian in the TARDIS engine rooms.

Writing and publishing notes

• This novelisation was originally offered to Stephen James Walker, but as a two-parter. It was declined and instead written by Nigel Robinson.
• The inside back cover includes colour Fantastic Doctor Who Poster Offers!-but instead of poster ordering details, the page details how to order Star books!

Cover gallery

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  Hardcover edition; cover by Alister Pearson

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  Target Books edition; cover by Alister Pearson

British publication history

Hardback (May 1988)

• W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031386, estimated print run: 1,000, priced £7.95)

Paperback (October 1988)

• 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 William Russell.

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The audio set of four CDs was released in January 2011 priced £13.99 (UK)