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* The blob men are more advanced in the novel. An example is when Benton blows one apart, the legs keep running before finally, the legs fall down. | * The blob men are more advanced in the novel. An example is when Benton blows one apart, the legs keep running before finally, the legs fall down. | ||
* Mrs. Ollis (Hollis in this novel) has the first name of Mary. | * Mrs. Ollis (Hollis in this novel) has the first name of Mary. | ||
== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
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* A few years after this book was published, Target Books began numbering its ''Doctor Who'' novelisations. Rather than number the stories in order of broadcast, or original publication, Target initially numbered the books alphabetically. Coincidentally, however, ''The Three Doctors'', numbered as No. 64 in the Target series, was also the sixty-fourth story to be broadcast (if one does not consider the single-episode [[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]'' as a standalone story). | * A few years after this book was published, Target Books began numbering its ''Doctor Who'' novelisations. Rather than number the stories in order of broadcast, or original publication, Target initially numbered the books alphabetically. Coincidentally, however, ''The Three Doctors'', numbered as No. 64 in the Target series, was also the sixty-fourth story to be broadcast (if one does not consider the single-episode [[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]'' as a standalone story). | ||
* This novelisation was later released as part of ''[[The UNIT Collection]]''. | * This novelisation was later released as part of ''[[The UNIT Collection]]''. | ||
* There is a reference in Chapter 7 to {{Delgado}} being the only other Time Lord the Doctor has faced as an enemy before Omega. Today some people would find this odd as, on television, he had previously faced [[the Monk]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'') and [[the War Chief]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') However, at the time this book was published, the "three" Time Lords were accepted as being one character. This is not made clear either way in any televised story, but was the opinion of many writers, particularly of the Target novelisations. However, ever since the dawn of the so-called "Wilderness Years", some expanded media has sought to do away with this, aside from the occasional allusion, with "[[The Monk|Mortimus]]" becoming an arch-enemy of the Doctor’s in his own right. However, the TV series is still yet to even attempt to address the controversy either way. | |||
== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||
