Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
1st Doctor Novelisation
- Compact Disc
1 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2017
Summary
An unabridged reading of this classic TV novelisation featuring the First Doctor.Carole Ann Ford reads this classic TV novelisation featuring the First Doctor, as played on TV by William Hartnell. The Doctor is feeling confident: this time the TARDIS has landed on Earth; in England; in 1963. But when he and his companions Susan, Ian and Barbara venture outside, they are soon lost in a maze of ravines and menaced by gigantic insects. However, the insects are dying - every living thing is dying…Meanwhile, in a cottage garden on a perfect summer’s day, the man from the Ministry arrives to put a stop to the production of DN6, a pesticide with the power to destroy all life-forms. But the men who invented DN6 will stop at nothing-not even murder-in their desire to see DN6 succeed.Can the one-inch-tall Doctor foil their plans? Carole Ann Ford, who played Susan in the original TV series, reads Terrance Dicks’s novelisation. Duration: 2 hours 30 mins approx
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785295980 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1785295985 |
| Author: | Terrance Dicks, Carole Ann Ford |
| Publisher: | BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House |
| Imprint: | BBC Physical Audio |
| Format: | Compact Disc |
| Number of Pages: | 1 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 125mm x 142mm |
| Series: | Doctor Who |
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Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks (Author)Terrance Dicks became Script Editor of Doctor Who in 1968, co-writing Patrick Troughton’s classic final serial, The War Games, and editing the show throughout the entire Jon Pertwee era to 1974. He wrote many iconic episodes and serials for the show after, including Tom Baker’s first episode as the Fourth Doctor, Robot; Horror at Fang Rock in 1977; State of Decay in 1980; and the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors in 1983. Terrance novelised over sixty of the original Doctor Who stories for Target books, including classics like Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen and Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, inspiring a generation of children to become readers and writers. He died in August 2019, only weeks before the publication of his final Doctor Who short story, ‘Save Yourself’, in The Target Storybook.
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