Doctor Who Novelisations
Third Doctor
Doctor Who Novelisations
Third Doctor
| LINK | TITLE | PRINTING | BACK COVER TEXT |
 | Spearhead From Space by Terrance Dicks aka The Auton Invasion | 1983 shown 4th printing £ 1.50 Cover: Andrew Skilleter | A mysterious shower of meteorites lands in Essex, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT has reason to believe that they have been deliberately aimed at the Earth's surface.The Doctor joins forces with the Brigadier and Liz Shaw in a desperate bid to prevent the nightmarish invasion of the sinister Autons. Living models of human beings - like waxwork dummies - their murderous behaviour is controlled and directed by the Nestene Consciousness, a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic proportions and indescribably hideous appearance. |
| The Silurians by Malcolm Hulke aka The Cave Monsters | 1980 shown 3rd printing £ 0.75 Cover: Chris Achilleos | All is not well at the Wenley Moor underground atomic research station: there are unaccountable losses of power-output; nervous breakdowns amongst the staff; and then - a death! UNIT is called in and the Brigadier is soon joined by DOCTOR WHO and Liz Shaw in a tense and excitingadventure with subterranean reptile men - SILURIANS - and a 40 ft. high Tyrannosaurus Rex, the biggest, most savage mammal which ever trod the earth! |
 | The Ambassadors of Death by Terrance Dicks | 1987 shown 1st printing £ 1.95 Cover: Tony Masero | Seven months after it left Mars there has still been no radio communication with the Probe Seven spacecraft or the astronauts inside it. Back on Earth concern is mounting and eventually a recovery capsule is sent up to rescue the astronauts. But when the capsule returns to Earth it is found to be empty. As the Doctor and Liz investigate, they discover that the interior of the capsule is highly radioactive: if anyone was inside they would now surely be dead. Have the astronauts indeed returned to Earth? And if not, who are the sinister space-suited figures who stalk the countryside and whose very touch means instant death? |
| Inferno by Terrance Dicks | 1984 shown 1st printing £ 1.50 Cover: Nick Spender | Inferno is the name of a top-secret drilling project to penetrate the Earth's crust and release a major new energy source. A crisis develops when a noxious liquid leaks out as drilling progresses - the green poison has a grotesquely debilitating effect on human beings. As the Earth's plight worsens, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to rescue the planet and its inhabitants from the destructive force of Inferno... |
| - | Terror of the Autons by Terrance Dicks | - | Sorry, I don't have this book |
 | The Mind of Evil by Terrance Dicks | 1985 shown 1st printing £ 1.50 Cover: Andrew Skilleter | Eminent scientist Emil Keller has developed a revolutionary new process for the treatment of hardened criminals. His invention, the Keller Machine, is being heralded as a major scientific breakthrough. But Professor Keller is in truth the Master and the Keller Machine is much more than a mere machine. Soon the Doctor is involved in a bitter struggle with his deadliest enemy, an alien mind parasite, and a diabolical scheme to plunge the world into a Third World War... |
| The Claws of Axos by Terrance Dicks | 1984 shown 5th printing £ 1.35 Cover: John Geary | 'Axos calling Earth, Axos calling Earth...' The creatures stood before them, beautiful golden humanoids, offering friendship and their priceless Axonite, in return for - what? Only Doctor Who remains suspicious. What is the real reason for the Axons' sudden arrival on Earth? And why is the evil Master a passenger on their spaceship? He very soon finds out... |
 | Colony In Space by Malcolm Hulke aka The Doomsday Weapon | 1979 shown 1st printing $1.75 USA edition | TERRORIZER OF THE UNIVERSE While Doctor Who was exiled on Earth and restricted to the Twentieth Century, the charming but hypnotically evil Master, whose one ambition is to destroy Doctor Who, walked off with the Doomsday Weapon file. Doctor Who, commanded by the Time Lords to stopthe Master - at any cost - is directed to a bleak planet in the year 2471. Hidden somewhere on that planet is the Doomsday Machine - lurking somewhere in thatTime Zone is the Master! Will Doctor Who, hampered by alien monsters, locate and dismantle the Doomsday Weapon before the Master triggers it?It's a terrifying countdown affecting all mankind - past, present and forever! |
 | Colony In Space by Malcolm Hulke aka The Doomsday Weapon | 1982 shown 3rd printing £ 1.50 Cover: Jeff Cummins | The evil MASTER has stolen the Time Lords' file on the horrifying DOOMSDAY WEAPON with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out ofexistence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy! The Time Lords direct DOCTOR WHO and Jo Grant in their TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471where they find colonists from Earth under threat from mysterious, savage, monster lizards with frightful claws! And hidden upon this planet isthe DOOMSDAY WEAPON for which the MASTER is intently searching... |
| The Dæmons by Barry Letts | 1983 shown 5th printing £ 1.50 Cover: Andrew Skilleter | Doctor Who is strangely concerned about Professor Horner's plan to cut open an ancient barrow near the peaceful village of Devil's End.Equally worried is Miss Hawthorne, the local white witch, who foretells a terrible disaster if he goes ahead. The only person who wants theProfessor to open the barrow is the new vicar (in truth THE MASTER) whose secret ceremonies are designed to conjure up from out of the barrow a horribly powerful being... |
| Day of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks | 1979 shown 1st printing $1.75 USA edition | EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! The Daleks, Doctor Who's oldest and most ruthless enemies, have one goal - total world power. Their prime weapon is time travel. In the late Twentieth Century,they attacked the Planet Earth. Their plan: alter the course of history. Start World Wars. Wipe out the human population. They were very effective. Can Doctor Who, trapped in the Twenty-Second Century,reverse history's course in time to save our planet and every living thing on it, including himself, from the devastating and evil force of the Daleks? |
| Day of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks | 1980 shown 4th printing £ 0.85 Cover: Chris Achilleos | Mysterious humans from 22nd-century Earth 'time-jump' back into the 20th century so as to assassinate a high-ranking diplomat on whom the peace of the world depends.DOCTOR WHO, Jo Grant and the Brigadier are soon called in to investigate. Jo is accidentally transported forward to the 22nd century; the Doctor follows, eventually to be capturedby his oldest and deadliest enemy - the DALEKS! Having submitted the Doctor to the fearful Mind Analysis Machine, the DALEKS plan a 'time-jump' attack on Earth in the 20th century!... |
| The Curse of Peladon by Brian Hayles | 1982 shown 4th printing £ 1.50 Cover: Bill Donohoe | Again, the terrifying cry rang out. The Doctor quickened his pace along the gloomy tunnels of the castle. Suddenly, from the darkness lumbered the mighty Aggedor, Royal Beast and Protector of the Kingdom of Peladon! The Doctor fumbled in his pocket. Would the device work? As he trained the spinning mirror on the eyesof Aggedor, the terrible claws came closer and closer... What is the secret behind the killings on the Planet of Peladon? Is Aggedor seeking revenge because the King of Peladon wants his kingdom to become a member of the Galactic Federation? Will the Doctor escape the claws of Aggedor and discover the truth? |
 | The Sea Devils by Malcolm Hulke | 1980 shown 3rd printing £ 0.90 Cover: Chris Achilleos | Whilst visiting the Master, who has been exiled to a luxurious castle prison on a small island, Doctor Who and Jo Grant learn that a number of ships havevanished in the area. Whilst investigating these mysterious disappearances, Jo and the Doctor are attacked by a Sea-Devil, one of a submarine colony distantly related to the Silurians. Soon they discover that the Sea-Devils plan to conquer the Earth and enslave humanity, aided and abetted by the Master.What can Doctor Who do to stop them? |
 | The Mutants by Terrance Dicks | 1982 shown 4th printing £ 1.25 Cover: Jeff Cummins | A massive shape scuttles out of the darkness and strikes the earth Overlord down. It is a Mutant - a huge insectoid creature. It moves in a crouch, its backarched and scaly, with huge knobbly vertebrae. The controlling Overlord, the Marshal, has ordered all such Mutants killed instantly. What was happening to the peopleof Solos? Why are they gradually turning into Monsters? Hands that become claws, flesh that turns scale-like... When DOCTOR WHO meets the Marshal and Jaeger, herealizes that all is not as it appears to be. The Marshal has a sinister plan to gain control of this planet, and DOCTOR WHO must save Solos from this mad earthman, as wellas save the Solonians themselves. DOCTOR WHO scripts - awarded the Writer's Guild Award for the best British children's original drama script. |
 | The Time Monster by Terrance Dicks | 1986 shown 1st printing £ 1.60 Cover: Andrew Skilleter | Outside the bounds of this world lives Kronos, the Chronivore - a mysterious creature that feeds on time itself. Posing as a Cambridge professor the Masterintends to use Kronos in his evil quest for power. To stop him, the Doctor and Jo must journey back in time to Ancient Atlantis and to a terrifying confrontationwithin the Time Vortex itself. But can even the Doctor save himself from the awesome might of the Time Monster? |
| The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks | 1984 shown 7th printing £ 1.50 Cover: Jeff Cummins | Jo glanced up at the Doctor. 'Things must be pretty serious then.' 'They are, Jo. Very serious indeed. The whole of the Universe is in danger!'The most amazing DOCTOR WHO adventure, in which Doctors One, Two and Three cross time and space and come together to fight a ruthlessly dangerousenemy - OMEGA. Once a Time Lord himself, now exiled to a black hole in space, Omega is seeking a bitter and deadly revenge against the whole Universe... |
| Carnival of Monsters by Terrance Dicks | 1984 shown 5th printing £ 1.35 Cover: Chris Achilleos | The Doctor and Jo land on a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean in the year 1926. Or so they think. Far away on a planet called Inter Minor,a travelling showman is setting up his live peepshow, watched by an eager audience of space officials... On board ship, a giant hand suddenlyappears, grasps the Tardis and withdraws. Without warning, a prehistoric monster rises from the sea to attack... What is happening? Where are they? Only the Doctor realises, with horror, that they might be trapped... |
 | Frontier In Space by Malcolm Hulke aka The Space War | 1984 shown 4th printing £ 1.35 Cover: Chris Achilleos | 'Doctor' screamed Jo. 'Look at that thing. It's coming straight at us!' A small, black spaceship, about a mile away, was approaching rapidly.It had no lights, no markings. But some instinct told Jo that the tiny craft meant danger. The year is 2540, and two powers loom large in the Galaxy - Earthand Draconia. After years of peace, their spaceships are now being mysteriously attacked and cargoes rifled. Each suspects the other and full-scale war seems unavoidable. The Doctor, accused of being a Draconian spy, is thrown into prison. And only when the MASTER appears on the scene do things really begin to move... |
 | Planet of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks | 1980 shown 3rd printing £ 0.75 Cover: Chris Achilleos | Jo peered through the panel and saw - nothing. Yet someone had entered the cabin. She could hear hoarse breathing and stealthy padding footsteps.A beaker rose in the air of its own accord, then dropped to the floor... THE INVISIBLE ENEMY. After pursuing the DALEKS through Space, DOCTOR WHO lands on the Planetof Spiridon, in the midst of a tropical jungle... and finds more than Daleks. Vicious plants spitting deadly poison, invisible Spiridons attacking from all sidesand, in hiding, a vast army waits... for the moment to mobilise and CONQUER. |
| The Green Death by Malcolm Hulke | 1983 shown 4th printing £ 1.35 Cover: Alun Hood | The Green Death begins slowly. In a small Welsh mining village a man emerges from the disused colliery covered in a green fungus. Minutes later he is dead.Unit, Jo Grant and Doctor Who in tow, arrive on the scene to investigate, but strangely reluctant to assist their enquiries is Dr Stevens, director of the local refinery Panorama Chemicals. Are they in time to destroy the mysterious power which threatens them all before the whole village, and even the world, iswiped out by a deadly swarm of green maggots? |
| The Time Warrior by Terrance Dicks | 1983 shown 4th printing £ 1.35 Cover: Roy Knipe | His spaceship crippled in an inter-stellar battle, the Sontaran warrior, Linx, is forced to crash-land on earth. He arrives in the Middle Ages, a time too primitive to provide the technology he needs to repair his ship. Allying himself with the local robber chief, Linx uses his powers to 'borrow'scientists and equipment from twentieth-century earth. Doctor Who tracks down the missing scientists and journeys into the past to save them. But can he defeat the ruthless Linx and his savage human allies before the course of human history is changed forever? |
| Invasion of the Dinosaurs by Malcolm Hulke aka The Dinosaur Invasion | 1979 shown 1st printing $1.75 USA edition | RETURN OF THE PREHISTORIC CREATURES Three hundred and fifty million years ago, dinosaurs crawled the Earth, devouring everything in sight. But then they disappeared. Certainly, no one ever expected them to return... When Doctor Who lands in London and finds the entire city deserted - except for dinosaurs -he figures something really weird is going on. It is. A clever group of misguided idealists is at the center of a bizarre plot to reverse Time to a golden era - an era before technology, before pollution, before the hydrogen bomb. The group is going to give the human race a second chance. But, to implementOperation Golden Age, the past must be eliminated. The present will not exist - and only the chosen will survive. Doctor Who must turn the clock forward to stop Operation Golden Age, but will he be able to do it before Earth's Time runs out? |
| Invasion of the Dinosaurs by Malcolm Hulke aka The Dinosaur Invasion | 1982 shown 4th printing £ 1.25 Cover: Jeff Cummins | The Doctor walked slowly forward into the cul-de-sac. The giant dinosaur turned its head to focus on the midget now approaching...the Doctor aimed his gun to fire...suddenly from behind came a great roar of anger. He spun round - blocking the exit from the narrow street towered a Tyrannosaurus rex, its savagejaws dripping with blood... The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London completely deserted - except for the dinosaurs. Has the return ofthese prehistoric creatures been deliberately planned and, if so, who can be behind it all? |
 | Death to the Daleks by Terrance Dicks | 1984 shown 6th printing £ 1.35 Cover: Roy Knipe | A mysterious power-loss strands the TARDIS on Exxilon, a sinister fog-shrouded alien planet. Forced to brave the dangers of the planet, the Doctor meets the survivors of a beleaguered expedition from Earth searching for a precious mineral that can save the galaxy from a terrible space-plague. Sarah finds a mysterious super-City and becomes a captive of the savage Exxilons, and, worst of all, the Doctor's greatest enemies, the dreaded Daleks, arrive on a secret mission of theirown. What terrifying power makes captives of all who come to the planet? What is the secret of the mysterious deserted City with its great flashing beacon? Andwhat sinister plan has brought the Daleks to Exxilon? The Doctor and Sarah must risk their lives time and again in a desperate attempt to foil the Daleks and savemillions of humans from the horrific plague. |
| The Monster of Peladon by Terrance Dicks | 1980 shown 1st printing £ 0.85 | Fifty years after his first visit to Peladon, the Doctor returns to find that Queen Thalira has inherited a troubled kingdom from her father. Membership of the Galactic Federation was expected to bring peace and prosperity to the planet, but the spirit of the sacred monster Aggedor is once more spreading terror and death. TheDoctor uncovers a treacherous plot to steal the mineral wealth of Peladon, and is again confronted by his old enemies - the Ice Warriors. |
| Planet of the Spiders by Terrance Dicks | 1980 shown 4th printing £ 0.85 | 'It's happening, Brigadier! It's happening!' Sarah cried out. The Brigadier watched, fascinated, as the lifeless body of his old friend and companion,Dr Who, suddenly began to glow with an eerie golden light... The features were blurring, changing... 'Well, bless my soul,' said the Brigadier. 'WHO will he be next?' Read the last exciting adventure of DR WHO's 3rd Incarnation! |
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