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Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet
 

No. 62 of 156 in the Target novelisations series
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By:Gerry Davis
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Editions:  UK (1st paperback) | UK (hardback) | UK (2nd paperback) | UK (3rd paperback) | UK (4th paperback)
Description:  Novelisation of the 1966 Doctor Who TV story The Tenth Planet. Also available as an audio reading.

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Edition: UK (1st paperback)
Released:  February 1976
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11068-4
Format: paperback
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Cover blurb:
The Sergeant blinked again. Three lights were moving towards him through the murk of the blizzard. Even as he looked, the lights changed into three tall, straight figures, clad in silver-armoured suits, advancing across the ice with a slow, deliberate step. Horror-struck, the Sergeant reached for his gun, and a stream of bullets sprayed across the marching figures. BUT THEY CONTINUED MARCHING...

The CYBERMEN have arrived. The first invasion of Earth by this invincible, fearless race — and the last thrilling adventure of the first DOCTOR WHO.

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Edition: UK (hardback)
Released:  February 1976
Publisher:  Allan Wingate
ISBN:0-85523-062-2
Format: hardback
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Also available in the ‘Doctor Who’ series

DOCTOR WHO AND THE PLANET OF THE SPIDERS
Terrance Dicks
The last exciting adventure of DOCTOR WHO’S third incarnation — in which he has to surrender to a force stronger than himself — the ambitious evil Eight-Legs, the SPIDERS!

DOCTOR WHO
THE THREE DOCTORS
Terrance Dicks
In which Doctors One, Two and Three cross time and space and come together to fight their most dangerous enemy — OMEGA — an exiled and bitter Time Lord, who is ruthlessly planning the destruction of the whole Universe.

DOCTOR WHO AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
Terrance Dicks
At last! The encounter of the fourth Doctor with the dreaded monster — will DOCTOR WHO be able to unravel the legend of Loch Ness, and overcome the power of the ruthless ZYGONS?

DOCTOR WHO AND THE DINOSAUR INVASION
Malcolm Hulke
The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London completely deserted — except for prehistoric dinosaurs which keep appearing, and just as suddenly disappearing. Has their return to Earth been planned? Who can be behind it all?

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The Sergeant blinked again. Three lights were moving towards him through the murk of the blizzard. Even as he looked, the lights changed into three tall, straight figures, clad in silver-armoured suits, advancing across the ice with a slow, deliberate step. Horror-struck, the Sergeant reached for his gun, and a stream of bullets sprayed across the marching figures. BUT THEY CONTINUED MARCHING...

The CYBERMEN have arrived. The first invasion of Earth by this invincible, fearless race — and the last thrilling adventure of the first DOCTOR WHO.

DOCTOR WHO — awarded The Writer’s Guild Award for the best British children’s original drama script.


Gerry Davis has engaged in almost every branch of show business, from English provincial repertory theatre to writing (and making) documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada.

During seven years at the B.B.C., he wrote and edited a variety of television drama shows, including ‘Softly Softly’, ‘Doomwatch’ and, of course, ‘Doctor Who’, for which he and scientist Kit Pedler created the famous Cybermen.

The author is now a full-time and very successful writer. He lives in Sussex and lists his hobbies as music, walking, sailing and tennis.

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Edition: UK (2nd paperback)
Released:  March 1978 (Exact date unconfirmed)
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11068-4
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Note:  Same ISBN as previous edition — simply an updated cover design, changing the logo from purple to light blue and altering the background of the painting to a “flat” purple colour.

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Edition: UK (3rd paperback)
Title:  The Tenth Planet
Released:  February 1993
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11068-4
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Note:  Same ISBN as previous paperback edition.

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The tall figures, each one seemingly clad in a silver armoured suit, continued to move inexorably towards them...

When the Tardis materialises in the middle of a snowstorm, Ben and Polly, driven to distraction by weeks cooped up in the time ship, insist on going outside with the Doctor. As they battle through the storm, they are unaware that they are being watched — and unaware that the planet is about to be invaded by creatures deadlier than any it has ever seen before...

Based on the original TV story by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, The Tenth Planet is the first story to feature the deadly Cybermen, and the last story in which the first Doctor, as played by William Hartnell, was to appear. It was to reveal an ability of the time lords never before suspected...

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Edition: UK (4th paperback)
Released:  May 2012
Publisher:  BBC Books
ISBN:978-1-84990-474-2
Format: paperback
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Note:  Following Random House/BBC Books’ 6 successful novelisation reprints in 2011, this was a second batch of half-a-dozen reprints, released in both paperback and e-book form. The others in this batch were: The Ark in Space, The Day of the Daleks, The Ice Warriors, The Loch Ness Monster and The Three Doctors.

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‘We were exactly like you once. Then our cybernetic scientists realised that our race was weakening. Our scientists and doctors invented spare parts for our bodies until we could be almost completely replaced.’

The TARDIS brings the Doctor and his friends to a space tracking base in the Antarctic — and straight into trouble. A space mission is going badly wrong, and a new planet has appeared in the sky.

Mondas, ancient fabled twin planet of Earth has returned. Soon its inhabitants arrive. But while they used to be just like the humans of Earth, now they are very different. Devoid of emotions, their bodies replaced with plastic and steel, the Cybermen are here.

Humanity needs all the help it can get, but the one man who seems to know what’s going on is terminally ill. As the Cybermen take over, the Doctor is dying...

THIS NOVEL IS BASED ON THE FINAL STORY TO FEATURE THE FIRST DOCTOR, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST FROM 8 TO 29 OCTOBER 1966. THIS WAS THE FIRST DOCTOR WHO STORY TO FEATURE THE CYBERMEN.

Featuring the First Doctor as played by William Hartnell in his very last adventure, and his companions Ben and Polly


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