Doctor Who Novelisations
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The Twin Dilemma by Eric Saward

1986 shown 1st printing £ 1.60 Cover: Andrew Skilleter

The Doctor has regenerated, having sacrificed his fifth persona to save Peri's life. But things are not going well... On this occasion the process of regeneration is by no means smooth, for the even-tempered, good-humoured fifth Doctor has given way to a rather disturbed and unsettled successor. IN a particularly irascible moment the new Doctor comes dangerously close to committing a shocking crime. Overwhelmed with guilt for his violent behaviour, the repentant Time Lord decides to becomea hermit...

Attack of the Cybermen by Eric Saward

1989 shown 1st printing £ 1.99 Cover: Colin Howard

A diamond raid in modern-day London... a secret base hidden deep in the heart of the city's sewer system... a cold anddesolate planet light years from Earth... and a daring plan to alter the entire course of interplanetary history... On twentieth-century Earth it appears that the Doctor's old enemy, Lytton, has allied himself with the ruthless Cybermen. The Cybermen have devised a scheme which, if successful, could completely destroy the web of time and bring the humanrace to its knees. When the Cyber-planet of Mondas was destroyed in 1986 the Cybermen were forced to retreat to the planet Telos. Now they have journeyed back in time to prevent the destruction of their home world. And for Mondas to survive,the Earth must die...

Vengeance on Varos by Philip Martin

1988 shown 1st printing £ 1.99 Cover: David McAllister

The TARDIS has stalled in mid-flight, and it is only on the planet Varos that the Doctor can find the precious Zeiton-7 ore he needs to continue his travels through time and space. Arriving on the planet, he saves the rebel Jondar fromexecution, and incurs the wrath of Sil, the sadistic representative of the Galatron Mining Corporation on Varos. The huntis on for the Doctor and his rebel friends. And as they are pursued through the corridors of the deadly Punishment Dome,the Doctor discovers that the people of Varos have some very disturbing ideas of entertainment...

The Mark of the Rani by Pip and Jane Baker

1986 shown 1st printing £ 1.60 Cover: Andrew Skilleter

En route to Kew Gardens, the Doctor and Peri are more than a little surprised when they land in the middle of a slagheap in England at the time of the Luddite uprisings. Unknown to the Doctor, his TARDIS has been dragged off courseby the Master who plans to destroy his arch enemy once and for all, and pervert the course of history. But also present is the Rani, another exile from Gallifrey, who is conducting her own evil experiments on the humans of the nineteenth century. Soon the Doctor discovers that the female of the species is far, far deadlier than the male...

The Two Doctors by Robert Holmes

1985 shown 1st printing £ 1.75 Cover: Andrew Skilleter

Disturbed by the time travel experiments of the evil Dastari and Chessene, the Time Lords send the second Doctor and Jamie to investigate. Arriving on a station in deep space, they are attacked by a shock force of Sontarans and the Doctor is left for dead. Across the gulfs of time and space, the sixth Doctor discovers that his former incarnation is very much alive. Together with Peri and Jamie he must rescue his other self before the plans of Dastari and Chessene reach their deadlyand shocking conclusion...

Timelash by Glen McCoy

1986 shown 1st printing £ 1.60 Cover: David McAllister

The inhabitants of the planet Karfel are suffering under the tyrranical rule of their leader, the Borad, who has brought his world to the brink of interplanetary war. Those who dare to oppose the will of the Borad are mercilessly sacrificed to the Timelash, a fate considered by many to be worse than death. When the Doctor arrives on Karfel he soon discovers the Borad'shorrifying plan, a plan which will directly affect his young American assistant, Peri...

The Mysterious Planet by Terrance Dicks

1988 shown 1st printing £ 1.99 Cover: Tony Masero

The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifrey's most important law and interfering in the affairs of otherplanets. 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 Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...

Mindwarp by Philip Martin

1989 shown 1st printing £ 1.99 Cover: Alister Pearson

Accused on 'crimes against the inviolate laws of evolution', the Doctor is on trial for his life. The sinister prosecutor,the Valeyard, presents the High Council of Time Lords with the second piece of evidence against the Doctor: a dramaticadventure on the planet Thoros-Beta which led to the renegade Time Lord's summons to the Court of Enquiry. But as theDoctor watches the scenes on the Matrix he is puzzled by what he sees - his behaviour is not as he remembers. Only one thing is certain: on the evidence of the Matrix the Doctor is surely guilty as charged...

Terror of the Vervoids by Pip and Jane Baker

1988 shown 1st printing £ 1.95 Cover: Tony Masero

The Time Lords have brought the Doctor to trial, accusing him of gross interference in the affairs of other planets.If he is found guilty he must forfeit all his remaining regenerations. In his defence the Doctor tells of an adventure set on board the Hyperion III space liner in his future. Answering a distress call, the Doctor and Mel arrive on the liner just as a series of grisly murders begins. Who is behind the murders? Do the enigmatic Mogarians have anything to do with them? Who sent the distress call to the TARDIS? And what hideous menace lies waiting in the Hydroponic Centre?

The Ultimate Foe by Pip and Jane Baker

1988 shown 1st printing £ 1.99 Cover: Alister Pearson

Snatched out of time and place and brought before the Time Lords of Gallifrey, the Doctor is on trial for his life.While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tamperedwith, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that the Doctor will be sentencedto death. In a dramatic intervention the Valeyard's true identity is revealed but he escapes from the Courtroom intothe Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow - to face his ultimate foe...