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== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
* Dicks adds a segment accounting for [[Susan Foreman]]'s abduction by the timescoop, set in the era after ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]''. | * A number of deleted scenes from the Televised Version of ''The Five Doctors'' are restored for the novelisation. | ||
* The [[First Doctor]] is stated to be nearing his first [[regeneration]], having come to the rose garden in semi-retirement to prepare himself for the process ahead. | *Dicks adds a segment accounting for [[Susan Foreman]]'s abduction by the timescoop, set in the era after ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]''. She's on her way to the markets in New London. A smaller city than the original, it's populated by gleaming new buildings, motorised walkways and far more greenery. David Campbell is noted to be part of the provisional Reconstruction Government and both now have a family of three children. | ||
* Susan's line of "Grandfather" is returned to its script version, "Doctor". During shooting of the original episode, [[Carole Ann Ford]] had refused to say the line, as in her era she would never have called him "Doctor". An explanation is given that Susan was thinking of how others called him "Doctor" except for | * The [[First Doctor]] is stated to be nearing his first [[regeneration]], having come to the rose garden in semi-retirement to prepare himself for the process ahead. There, he prunes his roses and tends to his bees. He senses the time scoop as "something evil" before actually spotting it. | ||
*The Second Doctor and the Brigadier are captured by the time-scoop in an architectural dead end, rather than UNIT Headquarters's open grounds. | |||
*The Third Doctor is testing new modifications to Bessie on a privately-owned race track. The car is noted to have been modified by the Doctor to such an extent as to leave most racing vehicles in the dust. | |||
*Distinctively, the narrator refers to Romana as "Lady Romana". | |||
*Unlike the Televised Version (but similar to the Special Edition), the Fourth Doctor and Romana are relocated to the canal. The Doctor briefly registers the temporal dislocation, but dismisses it, continuing his lecture to Romana. | |||
* Susan's line of "Grandfather" is returned to its script version, "Doctor". During shooting of the original episode, [[Carole Ann Ford]] had refused to say the line, as in her era she would never have called him "Doctor". An explanation is given that Susan was thinking of how others called him "Doctor" except for her. | |||
*The chessboard's defence mechanism, rather than some kind of oscillating green laser (as in the Televised Version), is a series of thunderbolts that targets intruders directly. The Cybermen end up killing each other in friendly fire as much as by the death-trap. The Master survives the encounter by diving for the fallen Cyber-Lieutenant's Cyber-gun and blasting away at the Cyberleader. He keeps firing until he's driven the Cyberman onto the chessboard, row after row, blast after blast, until the Leader is cut down by the board's defence mechanisms. | |||
* The [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier]]'s punch only stuns [[The Master]] who is poised to use his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] on his assailant, whereas in the original special he is subdued with a single blow simultaneously as the [[Third Doctor]] kicks the weapon from his grasp. In this novelisation the Doctor is still able to do so, and the Master is ultimately subdued when the Doctors pile atop him. | * The [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier]]'s punch only stuns [[The Master]] who is poised to use his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] on his assailant, whereas in the original special he is subdued with a single blow simultaneously as the [[Third Doctor]] kicks the weapon from his grasp. In this novelisation the Doctor is still able to do so, and the Master is ultimately subdued when the Doctors pile atop him. | ||
*The ghosts that take the appearance of Liz and Mike are white and waxen with fanatically burning eyes. Their voices raise to an unearthly screech when the Third Doctor defies them. | |||
* The Third Doctor's comeback to the Second Doctor's insult (where he calls him a "scarecrow") is removed. | * The Third Doctor's comeback to the Second Doctor's insult (where he calls him a "scarecrow") is removed. | ||
* Sarah Jane is | *The Fifth Doctor explicitly explains to Tegan and Turlough that he expects Flavia to fulfil the position of Deputy President in his absence as Lord President. He expects her to be the longest serving in the role in Gallifreyan history. | ||
* The abrupt nature of Sarah Jane's departure from the TARDIS is said to have left her "more than a little resentful," and considers K9 as something of a consolation prize from the Doctor. Upon their reunion, the Third Doctor notes, fondly, that she never accepted the role of the damsel in distress in their travels together. | |||
== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
