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Doctor Who: Time Flight

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One thing that Doctor Who is not known for is reflection. Adric is dead, so let's talk about it for 1 small paragraph. This story is a little disjointed. The first half is a weird twist on the typical Who story, and the second half is the reappearance of an old foe. Why was the old foe hiding through the first half? No explanantion. The book does contain a cool alien race that had to take some drastic steps to survive, so that was kinda innovative. Overall, an okay Target novel of an okay story.

Still reeling from Adric's death, the TARDIS crew are forced to materialise their ship suddenly to avoid a collision with another ship travelling on the same space-time axis - and arrive at, of all times and places, Heathrow airport - where they had tried to get to on several occasions in order to return Tegan in time for her first day on the job. But the landing place is no coincidence: a Concorde has disappeared and it seems likely to the Doctor that it was the other ship they materialised to avoid. Using his UNIT connections, the Doctor arranges to have the TARDIS loaded onto a second Concorde and it is flown on the same path as the missing plane - and also vanishes down a time contour to...

The novelisation of the story given the unenviable task of finishing up Doctor Who's nineteenth season, 'Time-Flight' is inevitably overshadowed by 'Earthshock' and Adric's death. It also has a less coherent storyline than its immediate predecessor, with another old for returning in a somewhat ludicrous disguise and some unbelievable occurrences (for example, how do the Concordes land safely at the other end of the time contour?).

Peter Grimwade's novelisation of his own script is competently done, and helps explains some deficiencies in the original TV serial, but it can't overcome the problems inherent in the original storyline.