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Post by kooshmeister on May 29, 2013 5:04:23 GMT
A shame! From what I've read of it so far, it has a pretty good premise and setting. Ditto Fury from the Deep and The Macra Terror, whose novelizations I also want to nab someday. I suppose we're lucky these got released in book form. What with them being lost and all, it provides us with a means of enjoying the story. Mind you, not the best means, but anything is better than nothing.
And, saying which, aren't there some fan recreations (of sorts) of those early lost serials, using the audio, production stills, and/or animation? I thought I saw something along those lines for The Abominable Snowmen, anyway.
The Green Death's novel is the one I'm on now and it's turning out to be quite interesting, especially given it has illustrations. None of the others I've gotten have these, at least, not that I've seen (I haven't checked them all out individually of course).
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Post by mattofthespurs on May 29, 2013 7:56:18 GMT
The audio still exists from all the stories that are missing and are commercially available at places like Amazon.
Also the Doctor Who magazine (and it's sister title Doctor Who Classic Comics) reprinted the telesnaps (a photograph taken every 30 seconds to a minute) so you could listen to the audio and read the telesnaps and get an approximation of what the episode was like. Doctor Who magazine has recently put out a first Doctor special with all the telesnaps of the missing episodes that exist.
Also if you get The Aztecs special edition they include the recently found episode of Galaxy Four and have reconstructed the rest of the story around it.
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Post by valdemar on Jun 1, 2013 8:20:16 GMT
'The Faceless Ones'. Two episodes still extant. They're available on the DVD set 'Lost In Time', which contains all the remaining odds and sods from the early years of Doctor Who [minus, of course, the two recently recovered and restored episodes from 'Galaxy Four' and 'The Underwater Menace']. 'The Faceless Ones' episodes rattle along at a fair whack, and with their location filming, seem more like episodes of 'Department S', or 'The Avengers' than Doctor Who. Watching 'Lost In Time' will make you wonder why you pay your licence fee... or travel back in time and give some BBC jobsworth a slap for ditching the tapes and film reels...   |
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Post by kooshmeister on Jun 16, 2013 19:57:49 GMT
Well, so far I'm enjoy the novel of it, even if naming one of the pilots "Blade" is a little odd. Does anyone actually have that as a surname? Oh well.
Speaking of pilots, I'm also enjoying Time-Flight by Peter Grimwade. I've noticed it isn't one of the more popular serials. In fact, even middle-of-the-road opinions on it seem to be difficult to come by. But you know what? Have actually seen the episodes and now reading the novel, I think it might be my favorite Peter Davison story besides Resurrection of the Daleks.
The basic setup of a passenger jet ending up out of time is similar to The Langoliers. It even has airborne monsters! Except it's better (no idea if the novella is any good but the miniseries was crappy). Time-Flight felt like the story The Langoliers was trying and failing to be.
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Post by kooshmeister on Jul 7, 2013 12:37:12 GMT
Added four more to my little collection: The Claws of Axos by Terrance Dicks The Giant Robot by Terrance Dicks Silver Nemesis by Kevin Clarke The Happiness Patrol by Graeme Curry  |
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Post by ripper on Apr 21, 2014 8:45:09 GMT
It's been quite a few months since I read a Dr. Who novelisation, so I thought that I would try a couple from the Jon Pertwee era.
Terror of the Autons by Terrance Dicks. The first appearance of both Jo Grant and The Master. I liked this one a lot. It features probably my favourite trio of characters: The Doctor (in the persona of Jon Pertwee), Jo Grant (possibly my favourite companion, though ask me next week and I might say Leela) and The Master (played to absolute perfection by Roger Delgado). It is a short, breezey read with some great scenes: the killer chair which consumes its victim, the murderous doll, the Doctor ripping off the false face of a policeman to reveal an auton underneath, and many others. There is plenty of action with several battles between UNIT soldiers and autons. Jo Grant makes an inauspicious start by spraying foam over the Doctor's de-materialisation circuit, but later rescues him from a caravan, where he is being held by the Master's henchmen. All-in-all a fine read.
Planet of the Spiders by Terrance Dicks. Pertwee's last appearance as The Doctor and with Sarah Jane as companion. After reading Terror of the Autons this one, I thought, was only so-so. Jo Grant makes a cameo appearance in the prologue, along with her husband, while on an expedition up the Amazon. The natives are restless over the blue crystal given to Jo as a wedding gift by The Doctor, so she posts it back to him--where did she find a post office in the jungle? Does anyone know if Jo Grant also starred in the TV version--I am guessing not. I didn't really find the spiders to be a really credible foe for The Doctor to fight. In one part, the spiders boast of perhaps taking over the entire universe, but I couldn't see the Daleks or Cybermen being too worried about their threat. I thought this was a slightly weak story and a disappointment after Terror of the Autons, particularly so as this was Pertwee's finale before Tom Baker took possession of the TARDIS. Oddly, I can remember hardly anything about the TV version other than those spiders jumping on people's backs.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Nov 15, 2016 12:18:38 GMT
A rather nice free - or however much you want to pay - downloadable book (pdf format) covering all the Doctor Who novelisations and their variant editions has just been released by Paul Smith at Wonderful Books. I've only skimmed my copy, so far, but it looks like it's full of fascinating little details. www.wonderfulbook.co.uk/basedon/ |
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Post by dem on Nov 15, 2016 13:46:43 GMT
A rather nice free - or however much you want to pay - downloadable book (pdf format) covering all the Doctor Who novelisations and their variant editions has just been released by Paul Smith at Wonderful Books. I've only skimmed my copy, so far, but it looks like it's full of fascinating little details. www.wonderfulbook.co.uk/basedon/Thanks for the tip, Lurkio, marvellous work by Mr. Smith. I daren't risk further anything other than a cursory look for time being as already Abominable Snowman, Reign Of Terror, and Loch Ness Monster have joined the horror(ish) titles on stupid wants list. |
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Post by ohthehorror on Nov 15, 2016 20:12:12 GMT
Very nice. This is going to come in very handy. As it happens, I'm currently reading State of Change which isn't listed since it's an original novel rather than one based on a TV episode. Peri's in it! I love Peri!! She starts out starkers and pretty much continues that way throughout(if you don't count the feathers).
Anyway, great find. Thanks.
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