New Doctor Who Target Novelisations (Do We Want Them)

Capaldi_Capaldi · 08/02/14 - 00:23

They Could be titled;

Doctor Who and Rose
Doctor Who and the End of the World
Doctor Who and the Unquiet Dead
Doctor Who and the Aliens of London in World War Three
Doctor Who and a Dalek
Doctor Who and the Long Game
Doctor Who: Father's Day
Doctor Who Dances
Doctor Who: Boom Town
Doctor Who in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
Doctor Who and the Christmas Invasion
Doctor Who and the New Earth
Doctor Who in Tooth and Claw
Doctor Who: School Reunion
Doctor Who and the Girl in the Fire Place
Doctor Who in the Rise of the Cybermen and the Age of Steel
Doctor Who and the Idiot's Lantern
Doctor Who on the Impossible Planet with the Satan Pit
Doctor Who: Love & Monsters
Doctor Who Fears Her
Doctor Who with the Army of Ghosts on Doomsday
Doctor Who and the Runaway Bride
Doctor Who and Jones
Doctor Who in the Shakespeare Code
Doctor Who in a Gridlock
Doctor Who and the Daleks in Manhattan
Doctor Who and the Evolution of the Daleks
Doctor Who and the Lazarus Experiment
Doctor Who: 42
Doctor Who in Human Nature with the Family of Blood
Doctor Who Doesn't Blink
Doctor Who in Utopia
Doctor Who in the Sound of Drums
Doctor Who is the Last of the Time Lords
Doctor Who's in Time Crash
Doctor Who in the Voyage of the Damned
Doctor Who is a Partner in Crime
Doctor Who in the Fires of Pompeii
Doctor Who on the Planet of the Ood
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky
Doctor Who's Daughter
Doctor Who, the Unicorn and the Wasp
Doctor Who in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
Doctor Who at Midnight
Doctor Who: Turn Left
Doctor Who and the Stolen Earth
Doctor Who's Journeys End
Doctor Who and the Next Doctor Who
Doctor Who on the Planet of the Dead
Doctor Who with the Waters of Mars
Doctor Who: The End of Time
Doctor Who Eleven's Hour
Doctor Who and the Beast Below
Doctor Who and the Victory of the Daleks
Doctor Who in the Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
Doctor Who and the Vampires of Venice
Doctor Who and Amy's Choice
Doctor Who and the Hungry Earth and Cold Blood
Doctor Who and Vincent
Doctor Who is the Lodger of Craig Owens
Doctor Who Sees The Pandorica Open and the Big Bang
Doctor Who hears a Christmas Carol
Doctor Who and the Impossible Astronaut in Day of the Moon
Doctor Who and the Curse of the Black Spot
Doctor Who's Wife
Doctor Who with Rebel Flesh and Almost People
Doctor Who Goes to War
Doctor Who in Let's Kill Hitler
Doctor Who in Night Terrors
Doctor Who and the Girl Who Waited
Doctor Who and the God Complex
Doctor Who at Closing Time
Doctor Who's Wedding With River Song
Doctor Who, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Doctor Who in the Asylum of the Daleks
Doctor Who on a Spaceship with Dinosaurs
Doctor Who in a Town Called Mercy
The Power of a Doctor Who, Amy and Rory
Doctor Who and the Angels in Manhattan
Doctor Who and the Snowmen
Doctor Who and the Bells of Saint John
Doctor Who and the Rings of Akhaten
Doctor Who in a Cold War
Doctor Who in Hide
Doctor Who in a Journey through the Centre of the TARDIS
Doctor Who and the Crimson Horror
Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Silver
Doctor Who's Name
Doctor Who Returns in The Night of the Doctor
The Day of All the Doctor Who's
The Time of Doctor Who

What do you think of the titles I came up with if you like them then please say if you don't tell me what you would change them to.

[Deleted User] · 08/02/14 - 00:32

I personally would love and read them, but with DVDs and Netflix they wouldn't sell. They sold in the old days because there was no way of watching it after it's first broadcast.

bennythedip · 08/02/14 - 00:33

I would prefer season novels. Each episode is one chapter. Above is too Ott. They did something similar to my idea with star trek, 79 episodes in 12 volumes.

CoalHillJanitor · 08/02/14 - 00:38

bennythedip wrote: »

They did something similar to my idea with star trek, 79 episodes in 12 volumes.

<anorak on>

Technically 76 episodes in 12 volumes, cos Blish adapted The Cage (1 ep) instead of The Menagerie (2 eps) and saved the two Harry Mudd episodes for a separate book.

<anorak off>

Capaldi_Capaldi · 08/02/14 - 02:08

Jamie_Greer wrote: »

I personally would love and read them, but with DVDs and Netflix they wouldn't sell. They sold in the old days because there was no way of watching it after it's first broadcast.

I Would buy them

Capaldi_Capaldi · 08/02/14 - 02:17

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GDK · 08/02/14 - 05:08

CoalHillJanitor wrote: »

<anorak on>

Technically 76 episodes in 12 volumes, cos Blish adapted The Cage (1 ep) instead of The Menagerie (2 eps) and saved the two Harry Mudd episodes for a separate book.

<anorak off>

Right!

<rolls up sleeves, spits on hands, rubs hands together vigorously>

and...

[anorak]

Actually, it was Mrs Blish (J A Lawrence) who wrote the last Star Trek novelisations (co-wrote 12 and wrote Mudd's Angels) as sadly James died before completing them all.

[/anorak]

Sorry. I'll get me coat.

andy1231 · 08/02/14 - 13:21

Re the Star Trek books. I had them all and loved them, but when the beeb repeated Star Trek I quickly realised how much of the story had been changed and even left out. Now I know that in some cases Blish was given the origional scripts to work from rather than the televised scripts, but I still felt there was something muissing. In the case of the Target books, it was a cse of one story per book, so in a lot of cases the author could actually add to the story.
I still think the best of the books is the first one, Dr Who in an exciting adventure with the Daleks. Although the story is quite a bit different from the television version, it is told in narrative form by Ian, it still stands up as a good read.
I don't think a revival would work as a previous poster has already said, the episodes are available on DVD, as well as many repeats on various channels.

Talma · 08/02/14 - 13:27

CoalHillJanitor wrote: »

<anorak on>

Technically 76 episodes in 12 volumes, cos Blish adapted The Cage (1 ep) instead of The Menagerie (2 eps) and saved the two Harry Mudd episodes for a separate book.

<anorak off>

GDK wrote: »

Right!

<rolls up sleeves, spits on hands, rubs hands together vigorously>

and...

[anorak]

Actually, it was Mrs Blish (J A Lawrence) who wrote the last Star Trek novelisations (co-wrote 12 and wrote Mudd's Angels) as sadly James died before completing them all.

[/anorak]

Sorry. I'll get me coat.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who knew that *runs away clutching everybody else's anorak*

Sniffle774 · 09/02/14 - 15:03

Capaldi_Capaldi wrote: »

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I like them, although I will say in the first one I wasn't aware that Rose was so...erm....busty.

Does bring back memories though of buying Target novels when I was a wee lad.

adams66 · 09/02/14 - 16:06

Capaldi_Capaldi wrote: »

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I LOVE those. Brings back all sorts of happy childhood memories. Those old Target books were just wonderful.

Kieran Seymour · 09/02/14 - 16:54

Capaldi_Capaldi wrote: »

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Brilliant. And I've just noticed the ISBN on the first one. That's a nice touch

Sniffle774 · 09/02/14 - 16:54

adams66 wrote: »

I LOVE those. Brings back all sorts of happy childhood memories. Those old Target books were just wonderful.

First Dr Who book I had was a readers digest three in one with, The Web of Fear, The Space War and , iirc, Robot.

After that i was hooked on the novelisations.

tiggerpooh · 10/02/14 - 05:32

Capaldi_Capaldi wrote: »

I Would buy them

So would I! Bring them on!

I can see that they wouldn't sell as well as the novels did back in the 70s, as we can easily watch them on DVD.

If they were brought out in book form, I suppose the publishers would get Gareth Roberts in again to adapt them. Just as he did with Shada in 2011.

Tom Tit · 10/02/14 - 05:39

Yeah, why bother with original fiction when you can just cash in on your existing material. Fantastic idea.

tiggerpooh · 10/02/14 - 05:45

Kieran Seymour wrote: »

Brilliant. And I've just noticed the ISBN on the first one. That's a nice touch

Here are some more:

Cold War:

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Next Doctor:

http://whopix.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/next-doctor-target.jpg

Power of Three:

http://whopix.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/power-of-three-target-cover.jpg

IWasBored · 10/02/14 - 06:41

What's going on?

tiggerpooh · 10/02/14 - 07:18

IWasBored wrote: »

What's going on?

I don't know what you mean.

[Deleted User] · 10/02/14 - 12:40

Sniffle774 wrote: »

I like them, although I will say in the first one I wasn't aware that Rose was so...erm....busty.

Put your hands up if you re-opened the link to... Err... Check it out.

*Hand goes up*

Tom Tit · 10/02/14 - 16:30

Time Ship wrote: »

Put your hands up if you re-opened the link to... Err... Check it out.

*Hand goes up*

My hand didn't even twitch. I've always thought she looks like something of a cross between a bat and a neanderthal.

IWasBored · 11/02/14 - 06:54

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