John Peel

John Peel
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1981-82, 1988-89, 1991, 1993-94, 1997-98, 2016-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Are You Afraid of the Dark series, Carmen Sandiego series, James Bond Jr sereis, Diadem series, Star Trek, Shockers series, 2099 series

John Peel is the author of Doctor Who books and comic strips. Notably, he wrote the novel Timewyrm: Genesys to launch the Virgin New Adventures line. In the early 1990s he was commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations of several key Terry Nation Dalek stories of the 1960s after the rights were finally worked out. He later wrote several more original Dalek novels, as well as The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book which included his own Dalek timeline and other additional information on the Daleks.

He has the distinction of being one of only three authors credited on a Target novelisation who had not either written a story for the TV series or been a part of the production team (the others were Nigel Robinson and Alison Bingeman).

Outside of Doctor Who, Peel has also written novels for the Star Trek franchise. Under the pseudonym "John Vincent", he wrote novelisations of episodes of the 1990s TV series James Bond Jr..

Bibliography

Comics

DWM backup comics

• The Greatest Gamble
• The Gods Walk Among Us
• Devil of the Deep
• The Fires Down Below

Novels

Target novelisations

• The Chase
• Mission to the Unknown
• The Mutation of Time
• The Power of the Daleks
• The Evil of the Daleks

Virgin New Adventures

• Timewyrm: Genesys

Virgin Missing Adventures

• Evolution

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

• War of the Daleks
• Legacy of the Daleks

Lethbridge-Stewart

• The Grandfather Infestation
• On His Majesty's National Service
• It Came from the Isle of Man

The Lucy Wilson Mysteries

• The Midnight People
• The Invisible Women

Novellas

Lethbridge-Stewart

• The Life of Evans

Short Stories

The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book

• The History of the Daleks (with Terry Nation)

The Gallifrey Chronicles

• The Scrolls of Rassilon

Lethbridge-Stewart

• Exodus from Venus (in The HAVOC Files 2)
• And the Crowd Goes Wild (in The HAVOC Files: The Laughing Gnome)
• Tall Tales (in The HAVOC Files: Loose Ends)

The Lucy Wilson Mysteries

• Get Lost in a Good Book (in Lockdown)

UNIT

• Car Wars (in The Benton Files)
• Here We Go Again (in Operation Wildcat and Other Stories)

P.R.O.B.E

• How To Appear Human In Several Uneasy Lessons (in Out of the Shadows)

Build High for Happiness

• Trank Tank

Reference books

• The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book (with Terry Nation)
• The Gallifrey Chronicles
• I Am the Doctor: The Unauthorised Diaries of a Timelord

Audio

The Brigadier Adventures

• Memories of Tomorrow

Cyberon

• The Weapon and the Warrior

External links

• Official Facebook page
• Interview with John Peel, in issue 11 of Broadsword
• INTERVIEW: FTN interviews TV show novelist extraordinaire John Peel
• Five Questions with: John Peel