This is Doctor Who s first exciting adventure with the Daleks! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS. There they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And, what is more important, will they ever see their native Earth again? William Russell, who created the role of Ian in the original television series of Doctor Who, reads David Whitaker s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published in hardback in 1964. The book went on to spearhead the Target Books range of Doctor Who titles, and it is one of the best-loved novelisations to be based on the programme.
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David Whitaker was the first Story Editor for Doctor Who, and was responsible for finding and commissioning writers, and it was Whitaker as much as anyone who defined the narrative shape of Doctor Who. He wrote for the Doctor Who annuals, novelised the first Dalek story and worked with Terry Nation on various Dalek-related material including the hugely successful comic strip The Daleks. David Whitaker died in 1980. Terry Nation started as a comedy writer and performer, and was approached with an offer to work on Doctor Who, providing the seven episodes of the first ever Dalek story. After inventing the Daleks, Nation moved on to work on The Saint, The Champions and The Avengers. In the 1970s he scripted four more Dalek series - including Genesis of the Daleks which has been voted the best ever story in the series. Nation later devised the hugely popular BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. Terry Nation died in Los Angeles in 1996.
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William Russell, Ian in the original "Doctor Who" series, narrates the novelization of the 1964 season, a retro sci-fi adventure of two average Brits caught up in the mysterious doctor's travels. On the planet Skaro they intervene to save the pacifist Thals from the evil Daleks. Russell reads with earnest breathlessness, making Ian a sturdy, if querulous, hero. He differentiates other voices adequately, with electronic filtering for the Daleks' voices. Frequent sound effects and occasional music are sometimes laughable, sometimes effective. The story has both the charms of old-time sci-fi and the flaws, including some nasty xenophobia. But those who overlook the negatives and get into the spirit will find this title fun. W.M. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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The original Dalek story,
This review is from: Doctor Who and the Daleks (Doctor Who, Book 16) (Mass Market Paperback)
The second televised Doctor Who story introduced one of the most important elements in the show's history: the Daleks, the most constant opponents of the Doctor through his many lives. So popular were they that this novel was published in 1964. Written by the show's original script editor, it is not a straight adaptation of the show it is based on.Mr Whitaker starts the novel with a variant version of the first episode of the series, although Ian is not a teacher and Susan has a different surname (English instead of Foreman). This version is rather more atmospheric than the equivalent in the novelisation of An Unearthly Child. In fact, writing the book in the first person (narrated by Ian) is an excellent device in this book. Moving on into the story proper, it is again not a simple adaptation of the televised story. While fairly faithful, some of the deviations (like the glass Dalek) add interest in a way that the show could not actually portray at the time. The Thal characters are fairly well outlined (given that they are quite flat in the original serial), and the descriptions of the planetary environs is also good. Way back when, Doctor Who books included line drawing illustrations. I've never been impressed with these, but those in this book are among the best, and obviously based on stills from the original. An excellent, if inaccurate, adaptation of an important story. A pity they aren't all this good.
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I'm glad I bought this book, and it is different from the TV show, which is not a bad thing. I thought that An Unearthly Child was the first novelzation of the show, but it's not. Anyway this book does not disapoint at all. I hope that profits for these six reprints of the old Doctor Who stories are large eneough, so that more of these stories will be printed. There are of course Target books out there avaiable, but the ones that are new, quite often are out of my price range, while these are not. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who hopes that more of these old stories will be reprinted, and the sooner the better!
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Less interesting as an actual novel than as an artifact of a lost time. First published a year after the TV adventure it novelizes, this had to have been a treasure for the schoolchildren who wanted to experience the story again - in a time long before the advent of any videos on-demand - or for those who had missed it entirely, and had to listen with envy to tales from their pals of the strange, metal creatures known as "Daleks". As the very first novelized adventure, it has a few unusual wrinkles; the story is told in first-person, from Ian's point of view, and doesn't get the subtleties of his character entirely right. And since they couldn't have known they would eventually be novelizing the first story as well, Ian & Barbara's discovery of the Doctor happens in a markedly different form than that which comprised the first TV episode. The highlight for many may be the introduction by Neil Gaiman, but the endpiece analyzing the differences between the TV story and the book is surprisingly in-depth as well. Not great, by any measure, but certainly a cozy and decently enjoyable way to turn a few pages before bed.
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