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Doctor Who: The Rescue

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Following the departure of the Doctor's granddaughter Susan at the end of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", a new young female character, Vicki, was introduced. This book is the novelisation of her introductory story.

If you watch "The Rescue" on video, you will see that it is fairly insubstantial. In fact, you'd probably doubt that any kind of decent book could have been made from it. Luckily, Ian Marter shows otherwise.

By focussing on the fairly scant details provided in the televised story, Mr Marter adds detail and concentrates on character motivation to retell the story in more detail than is normal in the novelisation of Doctor Who stories. He does this without grafting more on to the story (unlike, for instance, his adaptation of "The Sontaran Experiment") and hence the story is a true but enhanced version of the original.

This kind of adaptation is not common enough in Doctor Who stories, so read this one to see what could have (and should have!) been done.