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THE MONSTERS COLLECTION

READ BY • MICHAEL KILGARRIFF WITH VOICES BY TRACK LISTING ORIGINAL BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

CD 1 1 Chapter 1: Prologue: The Creation of the Cybermen 3 Chapter 2: The Landing on the Moon 10 Chapter 3: The Moon Base 17 Chapter 4: Attack in the Medical Unit

CD 2 1 Chapter 5: The Space-plague 8 Chapter 6: Investigates 18 Chapter 7: The Cybermen’s Plot AND THE CYBERMEN CD 3 GERRY DAVIS 1 Chapter 8: The Battle with the Cybermen Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 12 Chapter 9: Victory, perhaps...

CD 4 1 Chapter 10: The March of the Cybermen 9 Chapter 11: Into Battle with the Gravitron!

Chapter 6 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter11 READ BY WITH CYBERMAN VOICES ANNEKE WILLS BY NICHOLAS BRIGGS

DW_Cybermen_CD6pp.indd 1 19/4/11 09:59:08 THE RECORDING THE BOOK GERRY DAVIS ANNEKE WILLS

Doctor Who and the Cybermen and the Cybermen was first published also used Achilleos’ artwork on the front cover. Gerry Davis became a BBC story editor Anneke Wills was born in 1941. A child actress, in paperback by the Universal-Tandem Publishing As this is the first appearance in print of the in 1965 at the invitation of Head of Serials she appeared in her first film at 11, and after Company on 20 February 1975. A hardback edition Cybermen, Davis pulls out all the stops to present Donald Wilson, who had been impressed by a graduating from RADA she soon became one of WRITTEN BY CREDITS wasn’t released until the W H Allen edition in July the silver giants as menacing and effective. The book course he had written on TV scriptwriting. He the busiest British actresses of the 1960s. Gerry Davis Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who: 1981. The book was the first from former story manages to transcend most of the limitations of had previously been a newspaper reporter, a She appeared in many classic TV productions, READ BY by Gerry Davis and editor of Doctor Who Gerry Davis, and was also the trying to depict a lunar base containing a massive merchant seaman and a writer for the Canadian including working with Roger Moore in The Saint, Anneke Wills Novelisation copyright © 1974 by Gerry Davis first story featuring the Cybermen to be novelised, gravity manipulator on television, and presents Broadcasting Corporation, and had studied opera and roles in The Likely Lads, The Avengers and as and worked as a cinema translator in Italy. in Doctor Who. CYBERMAN VOICES Original script copyright © 1967 by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler in this case from scripts written by Davis with an exciting and thrilling story which keeps the Nicholas Briggs regular collaborator Kit Pedler. Cybermen in the background until they are His first BBC assignments were on 199 Park She gave up acting in 1970 and moved to Lane and United!, and he was then given the Norfolk. After travelling in South East Asia, Reading produced by Jo Palmer The cover was the latest in a run of acclaimed revealed mid-way through the book. The creatures chance to take over from Donald Tosh on Doctor and living for some years in an ashram in India, Cyberman dialogue produced by Nicholas Briggs images by Chris Achilleos, and simply featured the seem scary and unstoppable, and their speech and Who. Although he never saw entirely eye to eye she moved to California and later to a small face of as the Doctor alongside description really does them justice in a way that Music composed by Simon E. Power with producer , he remained in this island in British Columbia. Having moved back the blank visage of a Cyberman and set against an never quite made it to the screen. Jamie is given Music score and special effects mixed and recorded by post for over a year before moving on to edit to England in the 1990s, she began to attend image of the Moon. Because of a lack of reference colloquial dialect in his speech and this contrasts Simon Power for Meon Productions another show, First Lady. many Doctor Who conventions and recorded www.meonsound.com material, the Cyberman pictured is actually of a well with Ben, whose down to nature (and He later returned to freelance writing, his various Doctor Who audios and DVDs for the style seen in a later adventure (The Invasion). The good eyesight) intersects nicely with the plot. Executive Producer: Michael Stevens greatest success coming in the early Seventies BBC and Big Finish. book is also illustrated with eight black and white The Doctor is impressively depicted too, with his with the BBC’s ecological drama series The first volume of her autobiography, TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson illustrations by Alan Willow. desperation to know and discover the source of the , which he co-created with Kit Pedler. Self Portrait, was published in 2007 by Hirst Books, Cover illustration by Chris Achilleos The television story, entitled The Moonbase, was mysterious illness which is ravaging the moonbase From the mid-Seventies he spent most of his and a second volume, Naked, was published in originally transmitted from February to March 1967, nicely brought over. It is stated that the Cybermen Doctor Who and the Cybermen first published by time in Hollywood, writing for American films and 2009. For more information about these titles and was actually the Cybermen’s second appearance come from the planet Telos (rather than Mondas 1975 TV series and teaching screen-writing courses at visit www.annekewills.com. in Doctor Who. The book was reprinted eight times, as on television), and the Cyber Leader is given the the UCLA Film School. For further information on the Target Books range visit and in 1981 Achilleos’ cover was replaced with one name Tarn, while another is called Krang. Neither He died on 31 August 1991, aged sixty-four. www.targetbooks.info. by Bill Donohoe showing two Cybermen (of the were named in the televised version. correct design) against a space background. Text and author biography by David J. Howe, The title enjoyed just one foreign edition, author of The Target Book, the complete appearing in 1975 as a Turkish volume from Remzi illustrated guide to the Target Doctor Who Kitabevi entitled Doktor Kim ve Sibermenler. This edition novelisations. Available from www.telos.co.uk

MCPS ISBN: 978 1408 409916

DW_Cybermen_CD6pp.indd 2 19/4/11 09:59:09 THE RECORDING THE BOOK GERRY DAVIS ANNEKE WILLS

Doctor Who and the Cybermen Doctor Who and the Cybermen was first published also used Achilleos’ artwork on the front cover. Gerry Davis became a BBC story editor Anneke Wills was born in 1941. A child actress, in paperback by the Universal-Tandem Publishing As this is the first appearance in print of the in 1965 at the invitation of Head of Serials she appeared in her first film at 11, and after Company on 20 February 1975. A hardback edition Cybermen, Davis pulls out all the stops to present Donald Wilson, who had been impressed by a graduating from RADA she soon became one of WRITTEN BY CREDITS wasn’t released until the W H Allen edition in July the silver giants as menacing and effective. The book course he had written on TV scriptwriting. He the busiest British actresses of the 1960s. Gerry Davis Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who: The Moonbase 1981. The book was the first from former story manages to transcend most of the limitations of had previously been a newspaper reporter, a She appeared in many classic TV productions, READ BY by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler editor of Doctor Who Gerry Davis, and was also the trying to depict a lunar base containing a massive merchant seaman and a writer for the Canadian including working with Roger Moore in The Saint, Anneke Wills Novelisation copyright © 1974 by Gerry Davis first story featuring the Cybermen to be novelised, gravity manipulator on television, and presents Broadcasting Corporation, and had studied opera and roles in The Likely Lads, The Avengers and as and worked as a cinema translator in Italy. Polly in Doctor Who. CYBERMAN VOICES Original script copyright © 1967 by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler in this case from scripts written by Davis with an exciting and thrilling story which keeps the Nicholas Briggs regular collaborator Kit Pedler. Cybermen in the background until they are His first BBC assignments were on 199 Park She gave up acting in 1970 and moved to Lane and United!, and he was then given the Norfolk. After travelling in South East Asia, Reading produced by Jo Palmer The cover was the latest in a run of acclaimed revealed mid-way through the book. The creatures chance to take over from Donald Tosh on Doctor and living for some years in an ashram in India, Cyberman dialogue produced by Nicholas Briggs images by Chris Achilleos, and simply featured the seem scary and unstoppable, and their speech and Who. Although he never saw entirely eye to eye she moved to California and later to a small face of Patrick Troughton as the Doctor alongside description really does them justice in a way that Music composed by Simon E. Power with producer Innes Lloyd, he remained in this island in British Columbia. Having moved back the blank visage of a Cyberman and set against an never quite made it to the screen. Jamie is given Music score and special effects mixed and recorded by post for over a year before moving on to edit to England in the 1990s, she began to attend image of the Moon. Because of a lack of reference colloquial dialect in his speech and this contrasts Simon Power for Meon Productions another show, First Lady. many Doctor Who conventions and recorded www.meonsound.com material, the Cyberman pictured is actually of a well with Ben, whose down to earth nature (and He later returned to freelance writing, his various Doctor Who audios and DVDs for the style seen in a later adventure (The Invasion). The good eyesight) intersects nicely with the plot. Executive Producer: Michael Stevens greatest success coming in the early Seventies BBC and Big Finish. book is also illustrated with eight black and white The Doctor is impressively depicted too, with his with the BBC’s ecological drama series The first volume of her autobiography, TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson illustrations by Alan Willow. desperation to know and discover the source of the Doomwatch, which he co-created with Kit Pedler. Self Portrait, was published in 2007 by Hirst Books, Cover illustration by Chris Achilleos The television story, entitled The Moonbase, was mysterious illness which is ravaging the moonbase From the mid-Seventies he spent most of his and a second volume, Naked, was published in originally transmitted from February to March 1967, nicely brought over. It is stated that the Cybermen Doctor Who and the Cybermen first published by time in Hollywood, writing for American films and 2009. For more information about these titles and was actually the Cybermen’s second appearance come from the planet Telos (rather than Mondas Target Books 1975 TV series and teaching screen-writing courses at visit www.annekewills.com. in Doctor Who. The book was reprinted eight times, as on television), and the Cyber Leader is given the the UCLA Film School. For further information on the Target Books range visit and in 1981 Achilleos’ cover was replaced with one name Tarn, while another is called Krang. Neither He died on 31 August 1991, aged sixty-four. www.targetbooks.info. by Bill Donohoe showing two Cybermen (of the were named in the televised version. correct design) against a space background. Text and author biography by David J. Howe, The title enjoyed just one foreign edition, author of The Target Book, the complete appearing in 1975 as a Turkish volume from Remzi illustrated guide to the Target Doctor Who Kitabevi entitled Doktor Kim ve Sibermenler. This edition novelisations. Available from www.telos.co.uk

MCPS ISBN: 978 1408 409916

DW_Cybermen_CD6pp.indd 2 19/4/11 09:59:09 Doctor Who and the Cybermen

Digital Edition Chapter Listing

File 001: Chapter 1: Prologue: File 007: Chapter 7: The Cybermen’s Plot The Creation of the Cybermen File 008: Chapter 8: File 002: Chapter 2: The Battle with the Cybermen The Landing on the Moon File 009: Chapter 9: Victory, perhaps… File 003: Chapter 3: The Moon Base File 010: Chapter 10: File 004: Chapter 4: The March of the Cybermen Attack in the Medical Unit File 011: Chapter 11: File 005: Chapter 5: The Space-plague Into Battle with the Gravitron! File 006: Chapter 6: The Doctor Investigates TRACK LISTING THE BOOK

CD 1 CD 3 Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen was story, which diverges from the televised version fi rst published simultaneously in hardback in a fair amount of the actual detail and dialogue. 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 8: The Secret of the Hatch (cont.) and paperback by W H Allen & Co on 18 May It’s interesting that the Cybermen are stated in 2 Chapter 1: Victoria and Jamie 11 Chapter 9: The Cyberman Controller 1978, having been originally scheduled for the introduction to have originated from Telos 3 Chapter 2: An Expedition in Space simultaneous release in July 1977. The book was (later in the text the CyberController says their 7 Chapter 3: The Entrance to the Tombs CD 4 novelised by Gerry Davis from his own scripts ‘fi rst planet’ was Mondas), and that the Cybermats 15 Chapter 4: Cyberman Control Room 1 Chapter 10: Release the Cybermats for a television adventure transmitted from 2 to have a ‘sting’ (which comes from their most 21 Chapter 5: The Recharging Room 9 Chapter 11: The Controller is Revitalised 23 September 1967, and was his penultimate recent television appearance in ‘Revenge of the novelisation for the range. The cover was Cybermen’ (1975)) rather than gnashing teeth as CD 2 13 Chapter 12: Toberman Returns 18 Chapter 13: Closing the Tombs originally to feature an image of the second seen on television. Victoria is said to have chosen AND THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN 1 Chapter 6: The Target Room Doctor with a Cyberman (artist unknown) but one of earlier Polly’s old dresses to 9 Chapter 7: The Finding of the Cybermat this was changed when the BBC requested that wear, and the spacesuits worn by the team of GERRY DAVIS 15 Chapter 8: The Secret of the Hatch covers only feature the current incarnation of archaeologists are described as ‘sleek and shining’ the Doctor (at the time, ) or none at rather than jeans and shirts. Another element is all. The fi nal cover was painted by Jeff Cummins, that Davis refers to the Doctor as ‘Doctor Who’ and showed a Cyberman’s head against rock in on several occasions as the book progresses, a domed shape. Unfortunately Cummins was something which was dropped from the range provided with a reference image from a diff erent of books as they progressed and as it became story (‘The Invasion’) and so the design of the more established that the character is called ‘the Cyberman pictured is incorrect. The paperback Doctor’ and not ‘Doctor Who’. Visually the book is had an initial print run of 25,000 copies. The title richer than the televised version, with the main was reprinted several times, and on 15 October control room of the Tomb featuring an impressive 1992 was re-issued with a new cover by Alastair pictographic bas-relief history of the Cybermen Pearson showing the in front of on the walls, in a similar way to that used by the the Tombs. This image had originally been used Egyptians in their tombs on Earth. The Cyber on the BBC Video release of the story. No overseas Controller is described as having a black helmet – edition of the book has ever been made available. again in keeping with their most recent television At the time that this novelisation was appearance. written, the original TV episodes of ‘Tomb of the Text and author biography by David J. Howe, Cybermen’ were believed to be lost, and so Davis author of The Target Book, the complete was relying on his scripts and memory of the illustrated guide to the Target Doctor Who production when writing the book. This resulted novelisations. Available from www.telos.co.uk in a very enjoyable and evocative re-telling of the READ BY MICHAEL KILGARRIFF, WITH CYBERMAN VOICES BY NICHOLAS BRIGGS

DWTombOfTheCybermen_Booklet.indd 1 05/03/2013 09:40 THE RECORDING GERRY DAVIS MICHAEL KILGARRIFF If you have enjoyed this audio adventure, you may like to know about our range of Doctor Who titles available on CD or as digital downloads. Gerry Davis became a BBC story editor in 1965 at Michael Kilgarriff was born in 1937 in Brighton. Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen the invitation of Head of Serials Donald Wilson, On leaving Xaverian College at 16, he started work audio exclusives who had been impressed by a course he had as a clerk in Barclays Bank before landing a job as Join the Doctor and Amy, as played by and Karen Gillan, in a series of stories WRITTEN BY CREDITS written on TV scriptwriting. He had previously an actor and pianist with the Argyle Theatre for written exclusively for audio. Gerry Davis Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who: The Tomb of the been a newspaper reporter, a merchant seaman Youth, Birkenhead. In 1964, he joined the BBC READ BY Cybermen by Gerry Davis and a writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Drama Repertory Company, performing in radio TENTH Doctor audio exclusives Michael Kilgarriff Text of book copyright © 1978 by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler Corporation, and had studied opera and worked broadcasts as diverse as Cyrano de Bergerac, Othello, A range of exclusive audio adventures featuring the Doctor and company are available, as a cinema translator in Italy. The Dales, The Archers and with Mother. read by , Catherine Tate and Michelle Ryan. Reading produced by Andrew Lawrence His first BBC assignments were on 199 Park He first appeared in Doctor Who in 1966, as Cyberman voices by Nicholas Briggs Lane and United!, and he was then given the the Cyber Controller in ‘Tomb of the Cybermen’: TENTHdleventh an e Doctor Audiobooks Musical score and special effects composed, mixed and recorded chance to take over from Donald Tosh on Doctor a role he would later reprise in ‘Attack of the Who. Although he never saw entirely eye to eye Cybermen’. He also appeared as Second Several BBC Books stories are available as Audiobooks, read by David Tennant, , by Simon Power for Meon Productions Will Thorp, Russell Tovey, Debbie Chazen and others. www.meonsound.com with producer Innes Lloyd, he remained in this in ‘’ and the in ‘Robot’. post for over a year before moving on to edit Well known for his deep, distinctive voice, he Cover illustration by Jeff Cummins another show, First Lady. has a wealth of experience in the voiceover field, Doc l tor Who C assic Novels Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen first published by He later returned to freelance writing, his with TV and film credits including Braveheart, A range of novelisations based on the original Doctor Who series are available as Audiobooks, Target Books 1978 greatest success coming in the early Seventies The Dark Crystal and Oscar’s Orchestra. His stage with additional music and effects. Readers include Tom Baker, Peter Davison, , and others. For further information on the Target Books range visit with the BBC’s ecological drama series Doomwatch, work includes many appearances in panto and www.targetbooks.info. which he co-created with Kit Pedler. From the music hall, a number of farces with Brian Rix and mid-Seventies he spent most of his time in over 35 years with the ’ Theatre. F cOurTH do tor adventures Hollywood, writing for American films and TV A prolific author, he has written many scripts Hornets’ Nest and Demon Quest, two series of exclusive multi-voice adventures starring Tom Baker series and teaching screen-writing courses at the for radio and television – including the acclaimed as the Doctor, with as and Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey. UCLA Film School. BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of The Hobbit – as well He died on 31 August 1991, aged sixty-four. as numerous collections of songs, melodramas Te h Sarah Jan Adventures MCPS and sketches, five joke books for children and A range of exclusive audio stories featuring Sarah Jane and friends are available, ISBN: 978 1445 826363 a collection of diaries and letters under the title read by Elisabeth Sladen. Back Stages. He has also donned the managerial purple with Torcwo h o d fellow actor Johnny Dennis, putting on theatre and Several audio exclusive stories are available, with readers including John Barrowman, corporate shows all over the UK and in Sweden, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori. as well as presenting a revival of Beyond the Fringe in the UK and US. They have also sailed round the world with their own company aboard Holland- These and other audiobook ranges are available from America and P&O cruise liners. www.audiogo.com/uk and all good CD and download audio retailers

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CD 1 CD 3 Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen was story, which diverges from the televised version fi rst published simultaneously in hardback in a fair amount of the actual detail and dialogue. 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 8: The Secret of the Hatch (cont.) and paperback by W H Allen & Co on 18 May It’s interesting that the Cybermen are stated in 2 Chapter 1: Victoria and Jamie 11 Chapter 9: The Cyberman Controller 1978, having been originally scheduled for the introduction to have originated from Telos 3 Chapter 2: An Expedition in Space simultaneous release in July 1977. The book was (later in the text the CyberController says their 7 Chapter 3: The Entrance to the Tombs CD 4 novelised by Gerry Davis from his own scripts ‘fi rst planet’ was Mondas), and that the Cybermats 15 Chapter 4: Cyberman Control Room 1 Chapter 10: Release the Cybermats for a television adventure transmitted from 2 to have a ‘sting’ (which comes from their most 21 Chapter 5: The Recharging Room 9 Chapter 11: The Controller is Revitalised 23 September 1967, and was his penultimate recent television appearance in ‘Revenge of the novelisation for the range. The cover was Cybermen’ (1975)) rather than gnashing teeth as CD 2 13 Chapter 12: Toberman Returns 18 Chapter 13: Closing the Tombs originally to feature an image of the second seen on television. Victoria is said to have chosen AND THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN 1 Chapter 6: The Target Room Doctor with a Cyberman (artist unknown) but one of earlier companion Polly’s old dresses to 9 Chapter 7: The Finding of the Cybermat this was changed when the BBC requested that wear, and the spacesuits worn by the team of GERRY DAVIS 15 Chapter 8: The Secret of the Hatch covers only feature the current incarnation of archaeologists are described as ‘sleek and shining’ the Doctor (at the time, Tom Baker) or none at rather than jeans and shirts. Another element is all. The fi nal cover was painted by Jeff Cummins, that Davis refers to the Doctor as ‘Doctor Who’ and showed a Cyberman’s head against rock in on several occasions as the book progresses, a domed shape. Unfortunately Cummins was something which was dropped from the range provided with a reference image from a diff erent of books as they progressed and as it became story (‘The Invasion’) and so the design of the more established that the character is called ‘the Cyberman pictured is incorrect. The paperback Doctor’ and not ‘Doctor Who’. Visually the book is had an initial print run of 25,000 copies. The title richer than the televised version, with the main was reprinted several times, and on 15 October control room of the Tomb featuring an impressive 1992 was re-issued with a new cover by Alastair pictographic bas-relief history of the Cybermen Pearson showing the second Doctor in front of on the walls, in a similar way to that used by the the Tombs. This image had originally been used Egyptians in their tombs on Earth. The Cyber on the BBC Video release of the story. No overseas Controller is described as having a black helmet – edition of the book has ever been made available. again in keeping with their most recent television At the time that this novelisation was appearance. written, the original TV episodes of ‘Tomb of the Text and author biography by David J. Howe, Cybermen’ were believed to be lost, and so Davis author of The Target Book, the complete was relying on his scripts and memory of the illustrated guide to the Target Doctor Who production when writing the book. This resulted novelisations. Available from www.telos.co.uk in a very enjoyable and evocative re-telling of the READ BY MICHAEL KILGARRIFF, WITH CYBERMAN VOICES BY NICHOLAS BRIGGS

DWTombOfTheCybermen_Booklet.indd 1 05/03/2013 09:40 Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen

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File 012: Introduction File 020: Chapter 8: The Secret of the Hatch File 013: Chapter 1: Victoria and Jamie File 021: Chapter 9: File 014: Chapter 2: An Expedition in Space The Cyberman Controller File 015: Chapter 3: File 022: Chapter 10: Release the Cybermats The Entrance to the Tombs File 023: Chapter 11: File 016: Chapter 4: The Controller is Revitalised Cyberman Control Room File 024: Chapter 12: Toberman Returns File 017: Chapter 5: The Recharging Room File 025: Chapter 13: Closing the Tombs File 018: Chapter 6: The Target Room File 019: Chapter 7: The Finding of the Cybermat TRACK LISTING

CD 1 CD 3 1 Chapter 1: The Secret of the Snows 1 Chapter 7: A Plan to Conquer Earth 7 Chapter 2: The Creature in the Cave 8 Chapter 8: Revolt in the Monastery 16Chapter 3: Live Bait to Catch a Monster 15 Chapter 9: Attack of the

CD 2 CD 4 1 Chapter 4: Jamie Traps a Yeti 1 Chapter 10: Peril on the Mountain 10 Chapter 5: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum 7 Chapter 11: The Final Battle 16 Chapter 6: A Yeti Comes to Life 18Chapter 12: The Abominable Snowmen AND THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN

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DW_Abominable Snowmen_CD6pp.indd1 1 31/10/08 10:10:38 THE RECORDING THE BOOK TERRANCE DICKS DAVID TROUGHTON

Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen was W H Allen, again featuring Skilleter’s art. There were Born in , , in 1935, Terrance Dicks David Troughton was born in London on 9 June first published in paperback by Universal-Tandem three foreign editions of the book published: Doktor was educated at the local grammar school and 1950, the eldest son of Patrick Troughton, who Publishing on 21 November 1974, having been Kim ve Korkunç KaradamlarI from Turkey in 1975, went on to read English at Downing College, famously played the Second Doctor in DoctorWho. WRITTEN BY CREDITS trailed in earlier books as Doctor Who and the Yeti. DouterWho E Os Abominaveis Homens Das Neves . After two years’ National Service An acclaimed Shakespearean actor, David Terrance Dicks Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who –The Abominable The book was the tenth in the run of successful from Portugal in 1983 and Docteur Who: L’Abominable in the army, he got a job as an advertising Troughton has performed many times with READ BY Snowmen by and Doctor Who novelisations, and, as with the others, Homme des Neiges from France in 1987. copywriter. This lasted for five years, during which the RSC, in roles including Macbeth, Henry IV, David Troughton Text © Terrance Dicks 1974 featured a cover painting by Chris Achilleos. Terrance Dicks stays very close to the time he started writing radio scripts as a sideline. Bolingbroke, Caliban and Bottom, and he won the Eventually he switched to full-time freelance Globe Theatre Award for Best Actor for his role Reading produced by Kate Thomas The cover showed the second Doctor (Patrick television version for this adaptation. There is some Troughton) along with one of the Yeti and elaboration of the opening scene, with Professor writing, first working on plays and comedy as Richard III. Other theatrical credits include series for radio and then working in television George Aldred in Playing with Fire, Martin in Music composed by Simon E. Power companions Jamie (Fraser Hines) and Victoria Travers turning restlessly in his tent on the barren on programmes like The Avengers and Crossroads. Fool for Love and Hook in Peter Pan. Music score and special effects mixed and recorded by () against an image of the Earth. mountain and going over in his mind the events Following some five years as script editor on On television, he has been seen in numerous Simon Power for Meon Productions at the Marine Centre, Evercreech The book also featured six black and white which brought him in search of the elusive Yeti. Doctor Who, ending in 1974, he returned to a roles including Ricky Hanson in New Tricks, www.meonsound.com internal illustrations by Alan Willow. In other areas the book diverges from the televised freelance writing career. Later he produced some Eddie West in Casualty, Mr Idds in Fingersmith Executive Producer: Michael Stevens The story was originally transmitted on BBC episodes by simplifying the events seen on screen, of the BBC’s classic serials. and Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson television from September to November 1967, presumably to bring the book in at the right Aside from his contributions to the Doctor (playing alongside Peter Davison, then fresh from and was written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry length, but this also keeps things straightforward Cover illustration by Chris Achilleos Who TV series, he has also written two spin-off his role as the ). He has appeared Lincoln, being their first contribution to the series. for a young readership. One point of note is that plays (Doctor Who and the – The Seven four times in Doctor Who, first as an extra in Internal line illustrations by Alan Willow Terrance Dicks once more took on the task of Jamie’s speech is written complete with Scottish Keys to in 1974 and Doctor Who – The ‘The Enemy of the World’, when his father Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen first published by novelising a story not originally written by himself. colloquialisms and spellings such as ‘aye’, ‘verra well’, Ultimate Adventure in 1989) and well over fifty Patrick was playing the Second Doctor, then as Target Books 1974 The book was reprinted seven times, and ‘can you no’ tell us’,‘och’ and ‘wee’. novelisations. Today he is one of the UK’s most a 19th Century English soldier in ‘’, Achilleos’ art was used on all but the final edition in Text and author biography by David J. Howe, For further information on the Target Books range visit prolific authors of children’s fiction. as King Peladon in ‘The Curse of Peladon’ and as www.targetbooks.info. 1984, which had a cover by Andrew Skilleter which author of The Target Book, the complete Professor Hobbes in ‘’. featured a Yeti standing on a mountainside. On 17 illustrated guide to the Target Doctor Who January 1985, a hardback edition was issued by novelisations. Available from www.telos.co.uk

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DW_Abominable Snowmen_CD6pp.indd2 2 31/10/08 10:10:38 THE RECORDING THE BOOK TERRANCE DICKS DAVID TROUGHTON

Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen was W H Allen, again featuring Skilleter’s art. There were Born in East Ham, London, in 1935, Terrance Dicks David Troughton was born in London on 9 June first published in paperback by Universal-Tandem three foreign editions of the book published: Doktor was educated at the local grammar school and 1950, the eldest son of Patrick Troughton, who Publishing on 21 November 1974, having been Kim ve Korkunç KaradamlarI from Turkey in 1975, went on to read English at Downing College, famously played the Second Doctor in DoctorWho. WRITTEN BY CREDITS trailed in earlier books as Doctor Who and the Yeti. Douter Who E Os Abominaveis Homens Das Neves Cambridge. After two years’ National Service An acclaimed Shakespearean actor, David Terrance Dicks Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who –The Abominable The book was the tenth in the run of successful from Portugal in 1983 and Docteur Who: L’Abominable in the army, he got a job as an advertising Troughton has performed many times with READ BY Snowmen by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln Doctor Who novelisations, and, as with the others, Homme des Neiges from France in 1987. copywriter. This lasted for five years, during which the RSC, in roles including Macbeth, Henry IV, David Troughton Text © Terrance Dicks 1974 featured a cover painting by Chris Achilleos. Terrance Dicks stays very close to the time he started writing radio scripts as a sideline. Bolingbroke, Caliban and Bottom, and he won the Eventually he switched to full-time freelance Globe Theatre Award for Best Actor for his role Reading produced by Kate Thomas The cover showed the second Doctor (Patrick television version for this adaptation. There is some Troughton) along with one of the Yeti and elaboration of the opening scene, with Professor writing, first working on plays and comedy as Richard III. Other theatrical credits include series for radio and then working in television George Aldred in Playing with Fire, Martin in Music composed by Simon E. Power companions Jamie (Fraser Hines) and Victoria Travers turning restlessly in his tent on the barren on programmes like The Avengers and Crossroads. Fool for Love and Hook in Peter Pan. Music score and special effects mixed and recorded by (Deborah Watling) against an image of the Earth. mountain and going over in his mind the events Following some five years as script editor on On television, he has been seen in numerous Simon Power for Meon Productions at the Marine Centre, Evercreech The book also featured six black and white which brought him in search of the elusive Yeti. Doctor Who, ending in 1974, he returned to a roles including Ricky Hanson in New Tricks, www.meonsound.com internal illustrations by Alan Willow. In other areas the book diverges from the televised freelance writing career. Later he produced some Eddie West in Casualty, Mr Idds in Fingersmith Executive Producer: Michael Stevens The story was originally transmitted on BBC episodes by simplifying the events seen on screen, of the BBC’s classic serials. and Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson television from September to November 1967, presumably to bring the book in at the right Aside from his contributions to the Doctor (playing alongside Peter Davison, then fresh from and was written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry length, but this also keeps things straightforward Cover illustration by Chris Achilleos Who TV series, he has also written two spin-off his role as the Fifth Doctor). He has appeared Lincoln, being their first contribution to the series. for a young readership. 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File 026: Chapter 1: The Secret of the Snows File 032: Chapter 7: A Plan to Conquer Earth File 027: Chapter 2: File 033: Chapter 8: Revolt in the Monastery The Creature in the Cave File 034: Chapter 9: Attack of the Yeti File 028: Chapter 3: File 035: Chapter 10: Peril on the Mountain Live Bait to Catch a Monster File 036: Chapter 11: The Final Battle File 029: Chapter 4: Jamie Traps a Yeti File 037: Chapter 12: File 030: Chapter 5: The Abominable Snowmen The Secret of the Inner Sanctum File 031: Chapter 6: A Yeti Comes to Life FRAZER HINES Audio Born on 7 March 1930 in Portsmouth, Brian Frazer Hines is best known for his roles as Hayles set out to be a sculptor and taught art in Jamie McCrimmon in Doctor Who and Joe Sugden Canada. Returning to England, he continued to in Emmerdale. teach in Birmingham, while writing in his spare Born in Horsforth, Yorkshire, Hines studied time. He eventually turned to writing full time. acting at the Corona Academy. He appeared in In 1965 he wrote a five part television serial the fi rst Hammer horror fi lm X The Unknown called Legend of Death, a reworking of the Minotaur (1955) and then Charlie Chaplin’s A King in New story directed by Gerald Blake and produced by York (1957). By the end of the 1950s he had Alan Bromly. His work included shows as diverse appeared in twelve fi lms. as radio’s The Archers and television’s United!, Out In Doctor Who he played the part of Jamie, of the Unknown, Doomwatch and The Regiment. In a companion of the Second Doctor, from 1966 to 1975 he was co-recipient of the Writers’ Guild of 1969 as well as reappearing in ‘’ Great Britain Award for Best Children’s Drama and ‘’. AND Scripts for his work on Doctor Who. The award Hines has recorded linking narration for many BRIAN HAYLES was shared with Robert Holmes, , Second Doctor soundtracks released on CD by and Robert Sloman. As a playwright BBC Audiobooks. his work included Lord Dracula (1974), The Curse of the Labyrinth (1976), The Doomsday Buttons (1976) and Hour of the (1976). His last television work was The Moon Stallion in 1978. Published work included a novel based on The Archers (Spring at Brookfield, Nov 1975) and The Moon Stallion (Nov 1978) as well as an original novel called Goldhawk (eventually published July 1979). Hayles’ fi lm work included the 1978 adventure movie Warlords of Atlantis which was followed by Arabian Adventure. It was while working on the latter that he died on 30 October 1978.

DWIce Warriors_CD4pp.indd 1 5/11/09 08:49:45 THE RECORDING THE BOOK

Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors was first published television story, with only a few changes. One in paperback by the Tandem Publishing Company such is that Leader Clent, in the book, is relatively and in hardback by Allen Wingate on 18 March healthy, whereas on television he walked with WRITTEN BY CREDITS 1976. The book was novelised by the story’s the aid of a stick. The Warriors themselves are Brian Hayles Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors by original author, Brian Hayles, from his original well characterised, and their part-organic, part- READ BY Brian Hayles 1967 television scripts, and was his second and cybernetic nature is brought out by describing Frazer Hines Novelisation copyright © 1976 by Brian Hayles final contribution to the range of Doctor Who their eyes – ‘a vaguely flickering light illuminated novelisations. The cover was painted by Chris their dark depths’ – and by including descriptions PRODUCED BY Music score and special effects composed, mixed and recorded Achilleos, who handled several titles for the range of some sort of sonar device in Varga’s chest. Kate Thomas by Simon Power for Meon Productions at this time, and featured a painting of a screaming It is interesting to note that the novelisation www.meonsound.com Victoria in front of a looming image of Varga the concentrates heavily on the first three episodes Cover illustration by Chris Achilleos . The book was reprinted around ten (covering roughly the first 100 pages of the book) Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors first published by times, each time using the same cover image. There and then the remaining 40 pages documents the Target Books 1976 have been no foreign adaptations of the book. final three episodes.This makes for a slow build up For further information on the Target Books range visit Although The Ice Warriors is the television story of menace, and then a fast paced conclusion which www.targetbooks.info. which introduces the reptilian creatures from serves the book well. Mars, it was their second appearance in the series Text and author biography by David J. Howe, of novelisations, Hayles having previously adapted author of The Target Book, the complete his story, The Curse of Peladon, for illustrated guide to the Target Doctor Who the range. The book is a faithful rendition of the novelisations. Available from www.telos.co.uk

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DWIce Warriors_CD4pp.indd 2 5/11/09 08:49:45 Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors

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CD 1 CD 3 Doctor Who – was first published well handled and gruesome, and the descriptions in hardback by W H Allen on 19 May 1983, of the Cybermen themselves are superb, 1 Chapter 1: Shadows 1 Chapter 5: Stowaways (cont) and then in paperback on 18 August 1983. highlighting their alien and robotic natures. 9 Chapter 2: Labyrinth of Death 2 Chapter 6: Monstrous Awakenings The book was novelised by from the Of particular note is when the Doctor and others 16 Chapter 3: Uneasy Allies 10 Chapter 7: A Siege scripts by for a television adventure get close to them, we are told of a sweet, oily 17 Chapter 8: War of Nerves transmitted in March 1982. In common with vapour emitted from their mouths, and there CD 2 other covers at the time, the book had a are also mentions of the sounds as they move. 1 Chapter 3: Uneasy Allies (cont.) photographic image of the Fifth Doctor holding Adding to what was seen on television, we hear 5 Chapter 4: A Crisis Defused CD 4 a pistol. The paperback was reprinted in 1983 in a better explanation as to why the whole army 13 Chapter 5: Stowaways 1 Chapter 8: War of Nerves (cont.) a more or less identical edition, and then once animates just as the CyberLeader is evacuating EARTHSHOCK 6 Chapter 9: Accidents Happen more, in 1992, with a new artwork cover by the freighter, and here deliberately chooses 13 Chapter 10: Triumph and Tragedy Alister Pearson showing a Cyberman fl anked to stay to try and stop the ship crashing, rather by the Fifth Doctor and Adric. than it being an almost secondary decision as on This was Marter’s fifth Doctor Who television. The fi nal scenes in the TARDIS, as the novelisation, and he manages an excellent job in freighter crashes into Earth, are slightly diff erent translating Saward’s action packed and moody from those on television, but contain as much teleplay into prose form. Although the book power, and end the book on a similarly bleak note. rarely strays from the original scripts, there is Text and author biography by David J. Howe, much description included to give the reader a author of The Target Book, the complete good sense of what is happening. The deaths of illustrated guide to the Target Doctor Who Snyder and troopers near the start are novelisations. Available from www.telos.co.uk

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DWEarthshock_CD6pp.indd 1 05/12/2011 09:27 Doctor Who: Earthshock

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File 048: Chapter 1: Shadows File 053: Chapter 6: Monstrous Awakenings File 049: Chapter 2: Labyrinth of Death File 054: Chapter 7: A Siege File 050: Chapter 3: Uneasy Allies File 055: Chapter 8: War of Nerves File 051: Chapter 4: A Crisis Defused File 056: Chapter 9: Accidents Happen File 052: Chapter 5: Stowaways File 057: Chapter 10: Triumph and Tragedy