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{{Infobox | |image= Mysterious Planet TOATL novel.jpg | ||
| | |series = [[Target novelisation]]s | ||
|number= 127 | |||
|series= | |doctor = Sixth Doctor | ||
|number= 127 | |companions=[[Peri Brown|Peri]] | ||
|doctor= | |enemy= [[The Valeyard]], [[L1|L1 Robot]], [[Sabalom Glitz]], [[Drathro]], [[Tribe of the Free]] | ||
|companions= [[Peri Brown|Peri]] | |setting= {{il|[[Space Station Zenobia|Time Lord Station]]|[[Earth|Ravolox]] / [[Earth]], [[2000000|2,000,000]]}} | ||
|enemy= [[Valeyard]], [[ | |writer= Terrance Dicks | ||
| | |read by = [[Lynda Bellingham]] | ||
|writer= [[ | |publisher= Target Books | ||
|publisher= | |publisher2= W.H. Allen | ||
|release date= | |release date= 21 April 1988 | ||
|format= Hardcover and paperback editions, 127 Pages | |novelisation of = The Mysterious Planet (TV story) | ||
|cover = [[Tony Masero]] | |||
|format= Hardcover and paperback editions; 14 Chapters, 127 Pages | |||
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20319-4 | |isbn= ISBN 0-426-20319-4 | ||
| | |prev= The Time Meddler (novelisation) | ||
|next= Time and the Rani (novelisation) | |||
|series2 = [[List of Doctor Who television stories|TV series order]] | |||
|prev2= Revelation of the Daleks (novelisation) | |||
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}} | }} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the 1986 television serial ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]''. | |||
== | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] has been taken out of time and [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] has been brought before a court of his fellow [[Time Lord]]s. There the sinister [[Valeyard]] accuses the Doctor of breaking [[Gallifrey]]'s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets. | |||
If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctor's past. | |||
If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctor's past. | |||
== | It is an adventure set on the planet [[Earth|Ravolox]], a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] find strangely familiar... | ||
== Chapter titles == | |||
# The Trial Begins | |||
# Underground | |||
# Barbarian Queen | |||
# The Stoning | |||
# The Reprieve | |||
# Meeting the Immortal | |||
# Escape | |||
# Captives of Queen Katryca | |||
# The Attack of the Robot | |||
# Hunt for the Doctor | |||
# Secrets | |||
# Tradesman's Entrance | |||
# The Big Bang | |||
# End and Beginning | |||
== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
'' | * [[Valeyard]], like [[Inquisitor]], seems to be a Time Lord title, a Special Prosecutor assigned by the [[High Council]] in serious, often political, cases. | ||
* The "lenient" sentencing during the Doctor's previous trial, as mentioned by the Valeyard, is explicitly linked to his five-year exile on the planet Earth. | |||
* The Doctor informs Peri they are currently [[2000000|two million]] years or more after her time period, while in the televised version it is not explicitly clear whether the Doctor said "two '''m'''illion" or "two '''b'''illion." | |||
* The [[Space Station Zenobia|Trial Station]] is said to be in a graveyard of spaceships. | |||
* [[Balazar]] mentioning the Immortal and the Doctor being unfamiliar with the term is omitted. | |||
* The [[L1]] is referred to simply as the Service Robot. | |||
* [[Broken Tooth]] attacks Drathro and is killed after he has killed [[Katryca]], rather than after intervening to try and save her. | |||
==Writing and publishing notes== | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
* '' | * ''to be added'' | ||
==Additional cover images== | == Additional cover images == | ||
<gallery position=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" > | |||
File:HardbackMysteriousPlanet.jpg|1987 Hardback edition | |||
</gallery> | |||
==British publication history== | == British publication history == | ||
: | : Hardback (November 1987) | ||
* W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491030967, copies priced £7.95 (UK)) | * W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491030967, copies priced £7.95 (UK)) | ||
: | : Paperback (April 1988) | ||
* Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. | * Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 22,500, priced £1.99 (UK). | ||
== Audiobook == | |||
This Target Book was released as an audiobook on [[5 September (releases)|5 September]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Lynda Bellingham]] as part of ''The Trial of a Time Lord Vol. 1''. | |||
The cover blurb and thumbnail illustrations were retained in the accompanying booklet with sleevenotes by [[David J. Howe]]. Music and sound effects by [[Simon Power]]. | |||
The audiobook was reissued on [[2 April (releases)|2 April]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] as part of ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord Collection]]''. | |||
== | <gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true"> | ||
The Mysterious Planet audiobook.jpg|Audiobook cover | |||
The Trial of a Time Lord Collection.jpg|The Trial of a Time Lord Collection | |||
</gallery> | |||
== External links == | |||
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/general/main.htm ''On Target'' a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal] | |||
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