The Ultimate Foe

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The Ultimate Foe |image= Ultimate Foe TOATL novel.jpg |series=Target novelisations |number= 131 |doctor=Sixth Doctor |companions= Melanie Bush |enemy= The Valeyard
Inquisitor Darkel
The Tremas Master
Sabalom Glitz |setting= The Matrix
Time Lord Station |writer= Pip and Jane Baker |publisher= Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co |novelisation of= The Ultimate Foe]] (part 4 of [[The Trial of a Time Lord |cover= Alister Pearson |release date= 15 September 1988 |format= Hardcover and paperback editions, 126 Pages |isbn= ISBN 0-426-20329-1 |prev=Terror of the Vervoids (novelisation) |next=Time and the Rani (novelisation) }}

The Ultimate Foe was a novelisation based on the 1986. This section was written by Robert Holmes and Pip and Jane Baker television serial The Ultimate Foe (part 4 of The Trial of a Time Lord.

Publisher's summary

Snatched out of time and space 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 …

Deviations from televised story

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Writing and publishing notes

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Additional cover images

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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).

Editions published outside Britain

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External links

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