List of Doctor Who novelisations

Dr. Who in an exciting adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker, published in 1964, was the very first Doctor Who novelisation. Illustrated is the first paperback edition.

This is a list of Doctor Who novelisations, in order of publication.

The first three Doctor Who serials to be novelised were the William Hartnell stories The Daleks as Doctor Who in an exciting adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker on 12 November 1964, The Web Planet as Doctor Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton on 16 September 1965 and The Crusade as Doctor Who and the Crusaders by Whitaker in 1965. These three books were published by Frederick Muller Ltd.

Between 1973 and 1991, Target Books published almost every Doctor Who television serial as a novelisation, starting with new editions of the Frederick Muller Ltd. books. When Target was taken over by Virgin in 1991, three further serials The Power of the Daleks and The Evil of the Daleks by John Peel and the radio serial The Paradise of Death by Barry Letts were added to the range.

The only serials from the original 1963-1989 run of the show never to have been officially novelised are The Pirate Planet, City of Death, Shada (to be published in March 2012 by BBC Books), Resurrection of the Daleks (to be published in audio form by AudioGo in May 2012), and Revelation of the Daleks, due to licensing issues with the original scriptwriters. (Unofficial fan novelisations were published by the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club between 1989 and 2000.) The Children in Need special Dimensions in Time and the Comic Relief spoof Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death have also not been novelised.

The novelisation of the 1996 Doctor Who television movie by Gary Russell was published by BBC Books. There are currently no plans to novelise episodes of the revived series with Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor, David Tennant's Tenth Doctor or Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor. (However, in late 2007 unofficial fan-produced novelisations of the first two 2005 episodes were published as ebooks. They were quickly removed from the website following threat of legal action by the BBC's Brand Protection Team.)^{[citation needed]}

In addition to the television serials, three scripts from the cancelled Season 23 were novelised, The Nightmare Fair, The Ultimate Evil and Mission to Magnus (details below). Also a short series entitled The Companions of Doctor Who was published — this comprised the novelisation of the pilot of K-9 and Company, and the original works Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma and Harry Sullivan's War.

Besides The Paradise of Death, Target also novelised two additional non-televised stories: the radio play Slipback and the audio story The Pescatons.

A novelisation by Barry Letts of a further radio drama, The Ghosts of N-Space, was published as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures range in 1995, as was the novelisation of the independent spin-off Downtime; that same year, the Virgin New Adventures range published a novelisation of Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans. The most recent novelisation to be published was an adaptation of the webcast Scream of the Shalka published by BBC Books in 2004.

In 2005, BBC Audio released unabridged audiobook versions of the first three Frederick Muller novelisations, read by actor William Russell (who played Ian Chesterton). Beginning in September 2007, they began releasing further unabridged audiobooks of the Target novelisations at the approximate rate of two every two months; the books themselves remain officially out of print. BBC Books began reprinting selected titles starting in July 2011.

Publication details

Although Target endeavoured to commission the original scriptwriters to novelise their own stories, this was not always possible. As a result, many books in the Target line were written by Terrance Dicks. During the late 1970s-early 1980s Target, which classified the novelisations as children's fiction, imposed a page limit of 128 pages on the novelisations. Some books (particularly several by Dicks) even fell short of this limit and nearly fell into the category of novellas. By the late 1980s, however, the page cap had been lifted, although John Peel was still required to split his novelisation of the epic 12-episode The Daleks' Master Plan into two volumes because the manuscript was too long.

Target began numbering its novelisations from 1983, with almost all of the first seventy-three books being numbered as reprints came out. The first new book to be numbered was Time-Flight. Target's numbering did not initially reflect original publication order (which would have placed David Whitaker's Doctor Who and the Daleks book first), but rather was conducted in alphabetical order, so that the novelisation of The Abominable Snowmen was numbered "1". The numbering likewise had no connection with production or broadcast order. Due to print delays and last minute reordering of publication schedules, some of the later books were released out of numeric order.

In 1988–1989 W. H. Allen's Star label published a number of the Target novelisations in a format of two novelisations in one book. The pairings were:

• The Dalek Invasion of Earth and The Crusade
• The Gunfighters and The Myth Makers
• The Dominators and The Krotons
• The Mind of Evil and The Claws of Axos
• The Dæmons and The Time Monster
• The Seeds of Doom and The Deadly Assassin
• The Face of Evil and The Sun Makers

Titles

For the first few years of the Target line, it was common practice for the novels to have titles that differed from the adapted serials. For example, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, which was based upon the serial Spearhead from Space. This practice was dropped in the mid-1970s. Another tradition established by the books was to append the words "Doctor Who and ..." to the titles, except in a few cases where impractical. This practice continued until the early 1980s. From 1990 onwards reprints of the books generally dropped "Doctor Who and..." from the title and changed titles back to the original television story, although some of the reprints merely rejacketed earlier stock.

List of novelisations published by Target

This list of novelisations published by Target, or its successors, is sortable by its number in the "Doctor Who Library"number, title, Doctor, author or date. The Audiobook column indicates whether an abridged or unabridged audiobook has been released. See List of Doctor Who audiobooks.

No.	Title	Doctor	Author	Published	Audiobook
16	Doctor Who and the Daleks	1st	Whitaker, DavidDavid Whitaker	1973-05-022 May 1973	Unabridged
73	Doctor Who and the Zarbi	1st	Strutton, BillBill Strutton	1973-05-022 May 1973	Unabridged
12	Doctor Who and the Crusaders	1st	Whitaker, DavidDavid Whitaker	1973-05-022 May 1973	Unabridged
6	Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1974-01-1717 January 1974	Unabridged
9	Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters	3rd	Hulke, MalcolmMalcolm Hulke	1974-01-1717 January 1974	Unabridged
23	Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon	3rd	Hulke, MalcolmMalcolm Hulke	1974-04-01April 1974	Unabridged
18	Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1974-04-01April 1974
15	Doctor Who and the Dæmons	3rd	Letts, BarryBarry Letts	1974-10-1717 October 1974	Unabridged
54	Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils	3rd	Hulke, MalcolmMalcolm Hulke	1974-10-1717 October 1974
1	Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen	2nd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1974-11-2121 November 1974	Unabridged
13	Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon	3rd	Hayles, BrianBrian Hayles	1975-01-01January 1975	Abridged
14	Doctor Who and the Cybermen	2nd	Davis, GerryGerry Davis	1975-02-2020 February 1975	Unabridged
28	Doctor Who and the Giant Robot	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1975-03-1313 March 1975	Unabridged
63	Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1975-05-1515 May 1975	Unabridged
29	Doctor Who and the Green Death	3rd	Hulke, MalcolmMalcolm Hulke	1975-08-2121 August 1975	Unabridged
48	Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1975-10-1616 October 1975	Unabridged
64	The Three Doctors	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1975-11-2020 November 1975	Unabridged (twice)
40	Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1976-01-1515 January 1976	Unabridged
22	Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion	3rd	Hulke, MalcolmMalcolm Hulke	1976-02-1919 February 1976	Unabridged
62	Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet	1st	Davis, GerryGerry Davis	1976-02-1919 February 1976
33	Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors	2nd	Hayles, BrianBrian Hayles	1976-03-1818 March 1976	Unabridged
51	Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1976-05-2020 May 1976
27	Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1976-07-2222 July 1976
72	Doctor Who and the Web of Fear	2nd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1976-08-1919 August 1976
57	Doctor Who and the Space War	3rd	Hulke, MalcolmMalcolm Hulke	1976-09-2323 September 1976	Unabridged
46	Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1976-10-2121 October 1976	Abridged
50	Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1976-12-1616 December 1976	Unabridged
8	Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-01-2020 January 1977	Unabridged
55	Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom	4th	Hinchcliffe, PhilipPhilip Hinchcliffe	1977-02-1717 February 1977
17	Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth	1st	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-03-2124 March 1977	Unabridged
10	Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-04-2121 April 1977
4	Doctor Who and the Ark in Space	4th	Marter, IanIan Marter	1977-05-1010 May 1977
7	Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-06-2323 June 1977	Unabridged
47	Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-08-1818 August 1977
44	Doctor Who and the Mutants	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-09-2929 September 1977
19	Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-10-2020 October 1977
61	Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1977-11-1515 November 1977
42	Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora	4th	Hinchcliffe, PhilipPhilip Hinchcliffe	1977-12-88 December 1977	Unabridged
25	Doctor Who and the Face of Evil	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1978-01-1919 January 1978	Unabridged
32	Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1978-03-3030 March 1978
66	Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen	2nd	Davis, GerryGerry Davis	1978-05-1818 May 1978
65	Doctor Who and the Time Warrior	3rd	Dicks, Terrance and Robert HolmesTerrance Dicks and Robert Holmes	1978-06-2929 June 1978	Unabridged
20	Death to the Daleks	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1978-07-2020 July 1978
2	Doctor Who and the Android Invasion	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1978-11-1616 November 1978
56	Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment	4th	Marter, IanIan Marter	1978-12-77 December 1978
30	Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1979-01-1818 January 1979
36	Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1979-03-2929 March 1979
53	Doctor Who and the Robots of Death	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1979-05-2424 May 1979
34	Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1979-07-2626 July 1979
70	Doctor Who and the War Games	2nd	Hulke, MalcolmMalcolm Hulke	1979-09-2525 September 1979	Unabridged
21	Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1979-11-2020 November 1979
52	Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation	4th	Marter, IanIan Marter	1979-12-1111 December 1979	Unabridged
67	Doctor Who and the Underworld	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-01-2424 January 1980
35	Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-02-2121 February 1980
59	Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-03-2020 March 1980
3	Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-04-2424 April 1980
49	Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-05-2626 May 1980
5	Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-06-2626 June 1980
38	Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus	1st	Hinchcliffe, PhilipPhilip Hinchcliffe	1980-08-2121 August 1980
45	Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-08-2121 August 1980
31	Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-10-1616 October 1980
43	Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1980-12-44 December 1980
11	Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit	4th	Fisher, DavidDavid Fisher	1981-01-1515 January 1981	Unabridged
24	Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World	2nd	Marter, IanIan Marter	1981-04-1717 April 1981
68	Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child	1st	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1981-10-1515 October 1981
58	Doctor Who and the State of Decay	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1982-01-1414 January 1982
71	Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate	4th	Gallagher, StephenStephen Gallagher as John Lydecker	1982-04-1515 April 1982
37	Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1982-05-2020 May 1982
39	Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive	4th	Fisher, DavidDavid Fisher	1982-07-2222 July 1982
69	Doctor Who and the Visitation	5th	Saward, EricEric Saward	1982-08-1919 August 1982
26	Full Circle	4th	Smith, AndrewAndrew Smith	1982-09-1616 September 1982
41	Logopolis	4th	Bidmead, Christopher H.Christopher H. Bidmead	1982-10-2121 October 1982	Unabridged
60	Doctor Who and the Sunmakers	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1982-11-1818 November 1982
74	Time-Flight	5th	Grimwade, PeterPeter Grimwade	1983-04-1515 April 1983
75	Meglos	4th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1983-05-055 May 1983
76	Castrovalva	5th	Bidmead, Christopher H.Christopher H. Bidmead	1983-06-1616 June 1983	Unabridged
77	Four to Doomsday	5th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1983-07-2121 July 1983
78	Earthshock	5th	Marter, IanIan Marter	1983-08-1818 August 1983
79	Terminus	5th	Gallagher, StephenStephen Gallagher as John Lydecker	1983-09-1515 September 1983
80	Arc of Infinity	5th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1983-10-2020 October 1983
81	The Five Doctors	5th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1983-11-2424 November 1983
82	Mawdryn Undead	5th	Grimwade, PeterPeter Grimwade	1984-01-1212 January 1984
84	Kinda	5th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1984-03-1515 March 1984	Abridged
83	Snakedance	5th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1984-05-033 May 1984
85	Enlightenment	5th	Clegg, BarbaraBarbara Clegg	1984-05-2424 May 1984
86	The Dominators	2nd	Marter, IanIan Marter	1984-07-1919 July 1984
87	Warriors of the Deep	5th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1984-08-1616 August 1984	Abridged
88	The Aztecs	1st	Lucarotti, JohnJohn Lucarotti	1984-09-2020 September 1984
89	Inferno	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1984-10-1818 October 1984	Unabridged
90	The Highlanders	2nd	Davis, GerryGerry Davis	1984-11-1515 November 1984	Unabridged
91	Frontios	5th	Bidmead, Christopher H.Christopher H. Bidmead	1984-12-1010 December 1984	Unabridged
93	Planet of Fire	5th	Grimwade, PeterPeter Grimwade	1985-02-1414 February 1985
92	The Caves of Androzani	5th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1985-03-1414 March 1985
94	Marco Polo	1st	Lucarotti, JohnJohn Lucarotti	1985-04-1111 April 1985
95	The Awakening	5th	Pringle, EricEric Pringle	1985-06-1313 June 1985	Unabridged
96	The Mind of Evil	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1985-07-1111 July 1985
97	The Myth Makers	1st	Cotton, DonaldDonald Cotton	1985-09-1212 September 1985	Unabridged
98	The Invasion	2nd	Marter, IanIan Marter	1985-10-1010 October 1985
99	The Krotons	2nd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1985-11-1414 November 1985
100	The Two Doctors	6th(&2nd)	Holmes, RobertRobert Holmes	1985-12-055 December 1985
101	The Gunfighters	1st	Cotton, DonaldDonald Cotton	1986-01-099 January 1986
102	The Time Monster	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1986-02-1313 February 1986
103	The Twin Dilemma	6th	Saward, EricEric Saward	1986-03-1313 March 1986	Unabridged
104	Galaxy Four	1st	Emms, WilliamWilliam Emms	1986-04-1010 April 1986
105	Timelash	6th	McCoy, GlenGlen McCoy	1986-05-1515 May 1986
--	Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma (original novel)	none	Attwood, TonyTony Attwood	1986-05-1515 May 1986
107	The Mark of the Rani	6th	Baker, Pip and JanePip and Jane Baker	1986-06-1212 June 1986
108	The King's Demons	5th	Dudley, TerenceTerence Dudley	1986-07-1010 July 1986
--	Slipback (radio play)	6th	Saward, EricEric Saward	1986-08-2121 August 1986
109	The Savages	1st	Black, Ian StuartIan Stuart Black	1986-09-1111 September 1986
110	Fury from the Deep	2nd	Pemberton, VictorVictor Pemberton	1986-10-1616 October 1986	Unabridged
--	Harry Sullivan's War (original novel)	none	Marter, IanIan Marter	1986-10-1616 October 1986
111	The Celestial Toymaker	1st	Davis, Gerry and Allison BingemanGerry Davis and Alison Bingeman	1986-11-2020 November 1986
112	The Seeds of Death	2nd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1986-12-044 December 1986
113	Black Orchid	5th	Dudley, TerenceTerence Dudley	1987-02-1919 February 1987	Unabridged
114	The Ark	1st	Erickson, PaulPaul Erickson	1987-03-1919 March 1987
115	The Mind Robber	2nd	Ling, PeterPeter Ling	1987-04-1616 April 1987	Unabridged
116	The Faceless Ones	2nd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1987-05-2121 May 1987
117	The Space Museum	1st	Jones, GlynGlyn Jones	1987-06-1818 June 1987
118	The Sensorites	1st	Robinson, NigelNigel Robinson	1987-07-1616 July 1987
119	The Reign of Terror	1st	Marter, IanIan Marter	1987-08-2020 August 1987
120	The Romans	1st	Cotton, DonaldDonald Cotton	1987-09-1919 September 1987
121	The Ambassadors of Death	3rd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1987-10-011 October 1987
--	K-9 and Company (spin-off)	none	Dudley, TerenceTerence Dudley	1987-10-01October 1987
122	The Massacre	1st	Lucarotti, JohnJohn Lucarotti	1987-11-1919 November 1987
123	The Macra Terror	2nd	Black, Ian StuartIan Stuart Black	1987-12-1010 December 1987
124	The Rescue	1st	Marter, IanIan Marter	1988-01-2121 January 1988
125	Terror of the Vervoids	6th	Baker, Pip and JanePip and Jane Baker	1988-02-1818 February 1988
126	The Time Meddler	1st	Robinson, NigelNigel Robinson	1988-03-01March 1988
127	The Mysterious Planet	6th	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1988-04-2121 April 1988
128	Time and the Rani	7th	Baker, Pip and JanePip and Jane Baker	1988-05-055 May 1988
106	Vengeance on Varos	6th	Martin, PhilipPhilip Martin	1988-06-1616 June 1988	Abridged
129	The Underwater Menace	2nd	Robinson, NigelNigel Robinson	1988-07-2121 July 1988
130	The Wheel in Space	2nd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1988-08-1818 August 1988
131	The Ultimate Foe	6th	Baker, Pip and JanePip and Jane Baker	1988-09-1515 September 1988
132	The Edge of Destruction	1st	Robinson, NigelNigel Robinson	1988-10-2020 October 1988	Unabridged
133	The Smugglers	1st	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1988-11-1717 November 1988
134	Paradise Towers	7th	Wyatt, StephenStephen Wyatt	1988-12-011 December 1988
135	Delta and the Bannermen	7th	Kohl, MalcolmMalcolm Kohll	1989-01-1919 January 1989
136	The War Machines	1st	Black, Ian StuartIan Stuart Black	1989-02-1616 February 1989
137	Dragonfire	7th	Briggs, IanIan Briggs	1989-03-1616 March 1989
138	Attack of the Cybermen	6th	Saward, EricEric Saward	1989-04-2020 April 1989	Abridged
--	The Nightmare Fair (unproduced script)	6th	Williams, GrahamGraham Williams	1989-05-1818 May 1989
139	Mindwarp	6th	Martin, PhilipPhilip Martin	1989-06-1515 June 1989
140	The Chase	1st	Peel, JohnJohn Peel	1989-07-2020 July 1989	Unabridged
--	The Ultimate Evil (unproduced script)	6th	Daly, Wally K.Wally K. Daly	1989-08-1717 August 1989	Unabridged
141	The Daleks' Master Plan Part I: Mission to the Unknown	1st	Peel, JohnJohn Peel	1989-09-2121 September 1989	Unabridged
142	The Daleks' Master Plan Part II: The Mutation of Time	1st	Peel, JohnJohn Peel	1989-10-1919 October 1989	Unabridged
143	Silver Nemesis	7th	Clarke, KevinKevin Clarke	1989-11-1616 November 1989
144	The Greatest Show in the Galaxy	7th	Wyatt, StephenStephen Wyatt	198-12-2121 December 1989
145	Planet of Giants	1st	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1990-01-1818 January 1990
146	The Happiness Patrol	7th	Curry, GraemeGraeme Curry	1990-02-1515 February 1990	Unabridged
147	The Space Pirates	2nd	Dicks, TerranceTerrance Dicks	1990-03-1515 March 1990
148	Remembrance of the Daleks	7th	Aaronovitch, BenBen Aaronovitch	1990-06-2121 June 1990
--	Mission to Magnus (unproduced script)	6th	Martin, PhilipPhilip Martin	1990-07-1919 July 1990
149	Ghost Light	7th	Platt, MarcMarc Platt	1990-09-2020 September 1990	Unabridged
150	Survival	7th	Munro, RonaRona Munro	1990-10-1818 October 1990
151	The Curse of Fenric	7th	Briggs, IanIan Briggs	1990-11-1515 November 1990
152	Battlefield	7th	Platt, MarcMarc Platt	1991-07-1818 July 1991
153	The Pescatons (audio drama)	4th	Pemberton, VictorVictor Pemberton	1991-09-1515 September 1991
154	The Power of the Daleks	2nd	Peel, JohnJohn Peel	1993-07-01July 1993
155	The Evil of the Daleks	2nd	Peel, JohnJohn Peel	1993-08-01August 1993
156	The Paradise of Death (radio play)	3rd	Letts, BarryBarry Letts	1994-04-01April 1994

^a The 1976 edition (and subsequent reprintings until 1991) have the title as Doctor Who and the Three Doctors on the front cover.
^b Initial copies were mistakenly printed as number 127

List of other novelisations

Other Doctor Who or Doctor Who-related productions have been novelised outside of the Target Books line. This includes a series of novelisations by the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club which were privately published and not licensed by the BBC (all based upon serials Target were unable to obtain the rights to), several novelisations of radio and independent film stories published by Virgin after it had retired Target, novelisations published by BBC Books, and novelisations written exclusively for audiobooks.

Title	Doctor	Author	Published	Publisher
State of Decay	4th	Terrance Dicks	June 1981	Pickwick
Doctor Who and Shada	4th	Paul Scoones	March 1989	TSV (unlicensed)
Doctor Who and the Pirate Planet	4th	David Bishop	September 1990	TSV (unlicensed)
Revelation of the Daleks	6th	Jon Preddle	July 1992	TSV (unlicensed)
Doctor Who and the City of Death	4th	David Lawrence	November 1992	TSV (unlicensed)
The Ghosts of N-Space	3rd	Barry Letts	February 1995	Virgin
Shakedown	7th	Terrance Dicks	December 1995	Virgin
Downtime	None	Marc Platt	January 1996	Virgin
Doctor Who: The Novel of the Film	8th	Gary Russell	May 1996	BBC Books
Resurrection of the Daleks	5th	Paul Scoones	January 2000	TSV (unlicensed)
Scream of the Shalka	9th (alt)	Paul Cornell	February 2004	BBC Books
The Stones of Blood	4th	David Fisher	5 May 2011	BBC Audio
Shada	4th	Gareth Roberts	15 March 2012	BBC Books
Resurrection of the Daleks	5th	Eric Saward	3 May 2012	AudioGo
The Androids of Tara	4th	David Fisher	2012	AudioGo

^a Different text from the Target novelisation. ^b An abridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released. See List of Doctor Who audiobooks.
^c New novelisation exclusive to audio.

List of Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations

Beginning in 2007, Penguin Books under its Penguin Character Books imprint began publishing novelisations based upon the spinoff series The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Title	Author	Published	Publisher
Invasion of the Bane	Terrance Dicks	1 November 2007	Penguin Character Books
Revenge of the Slitheen	Rupert Laight	1 November 2007	Penguin
Eye of the Gorgon	Phil Ford	1 November 2007	Penguin
Warriors of Kudlak	Gary Russell	1 November 2007	Penguin
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?	Rupert Laight	3 November 2008	Penguin
The Lost Boy	Gary Russell	3 November 2008	Penguin
The Last Sontaran	Phil Ford	November 2008	Penguin
The Day of the Clown	Phil Ford	5 November 2008	Penguin
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith	Gareth Roberts	5 November 2009	Penguin
The Nightmare Man	Joeseph Lidster	25 November 2010	ePenguin (e-book)
Death of the Doctor	Gary Russell	25 November 2010	ePenguin (e-book)

Adaptations

Generally, Doctor Who stories that have been broadcast will be adapted into print, rather than vice-versa. There have been some occasions where written media has been adapted for the screen or formed inspiration for television episodes.

• The 1995 New Adventures novel Human Nature, written by Paul Cornell and featuring the Seventh Doctor, has been adapted by the same author for the 2007 series of Doctor Who as a two part story with the episode titles "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.
• Steven Moffat based his 2007 episode, Blink upon a 2006 short story, "What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow", originally published in Doctor Who Annual 2006.
• Gareth Roberts reused his concept from a 2006 Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story as the basis for an episode of the same name The Lodger, which was transmitted as part of Series 5 (2010), featuring Matt Smith.

See also

List of Torchwood novels and audio books

External links

• On Target, a guide to Target novelisations
• The TARDIS Library: Books A comprehensive guide to all official & unofficial Doctor Who novelisations and other books ever published