Planet of the Ood (novelisation)
Planet of the Ood was a novelisation based on the 2008 television episode Planet of the Ood. It was written by the original writer Keith Temple and released by Target Books on 13 July 2023.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
"The Ood came from a distant world, they voyaged across the stars, all for one purpose... to serve."
The TARDIS lands on the Ood-Sphere in the year 4126. Here, human profiteers have subjugated the Ood: the gentle creatures are forced into servitude and sold across the galaxy as the perfect slaves. But now, some are fighting back. Their eyes turn red as they throw off their chains and kill their oppressors...
The Doctor and Donna soon learn that the planet of the Ood holds cruel and awesome secrets. As they battle for justice and survival, the fate of the entire Ood race hangs in the balance. Will the outcome be salvation - or extinction?
Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Prologue
- 1. 'Have a Nice Day'
- 2. Controls Set to Random
- 3. An Ood Dies, Singing
- 4. The Man with the Ferrari
- 5. The Noble Corporation PLC Limited - Intergalactic
- 6. The Rabid Ood
- 7. In the Year 4126
- 8. Nice Coat, Nice Rocket
- 9. In Out of Bounds
- 10. Warehouse Fifteen
- 11. The Claw
- 12. Song of Captivity
- 13. Just Like in Ancient Times
- 14. Revolution
- 15. Ood Conversion
- 16. The Creature in Warehouse Fifteen
- 17. The Song of Freedom
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ted Bartle
- Darson Bookbinder
- Ria Capretti
- Delta Fifty
- Tenth Doctor
- Klineman Halpen
- Kappa Three Hundred
- Atol Kess
- Solana Mercurio
- Siprak Mittol
- Donna Noble
- Ood Brain
- Ood Sigma
- Dr Ryder
- Hunter Tarn
Deviations from televised story[[edit] | [edit source]]
- There is an extra opening sequence involving Delta Fifty and Kappa Three Hundred - the Ood that Kess later discovers has become rabid - starting to hear the song.
- It is mentioned that Ood Operations filled the gap in the market caused by the collapse of the Voc-Bot Corporation, but sales of servo robots are now rising.
- Ted Bartle is given a first name, and said to feign interest in art as a show for his clients.
- The novel adds a viewpoint character for the reps, Darson Bookbinder; an older rep who tries to keep the others in line and is killed by the Ood after escaping the initial massacre.
- The deleted scene of Halpen ordering Bartle's pension to be cancelled is restored.
- Kess is given a first name, Atol, and said to be a former mercenary.
- The novel restores a deleted scene of the Doctor publicly questioning Halpen about Delta Fifty's death, with added interjections from Bookbinder about the alternative of using robot servants.
- The Ood leave upper level containers by taking off their gloves and boots and using suckers to walk down the sides.
- A number of reps are killed after they take refuge in a swimming pool, only for the Ood to electrify the water.
- Solana doesn't give the order to shoot the Ood, instead spending her last moments wishing she'd gone with the Doctor.
- There is an extra sequence of the Doctor and Donna freeing a group of natural-born Ood from the processing centre and then blowing it up.
- Halpen does not tell Ood Sigma to go and be with his people, and instead assumes he has somehow lost his butler until Sigma arrives at Warehouse 15 with the Doctor and Donna.
Writing and publishing notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]
This Target Book was released as an audiobook on 13 July 2023 complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Silas Carson.
Audiobook cover
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Planet of the Ood page at Penguin Books
