h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Doctor Who Novels - A19406414
Author: Giford - U187177

For your debate and discernment.

See also my entry on Faction Paradox in PR.

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Might be worth making clear that "John Peel" is not THE John Peel, RIP.

SoRB

One brief footnote later, this has been done.

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Added in the numbers of books in each range.

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Added in a link to the on-line versions of some of these books, plus a brief selection of 'best in range' books.

This article is complete if there are any scouts looking...

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Nice one Gifford.

couple of typos:

matching covers and commisioning --> matching covers and commissioning
The Doctor protrayed in the EDAs --> The Doctor portrayed...
novelising two of the remianing Dalek --> novelising two of the remaining...
heavily citicised --> heavily criticised

Ta Rockhound.

Corrections made.

Gif

Changed to caps and added a note making clear that the BBC retained many of the Virgin authors as I am note sure this came across.

Gif

Nice Entry Gif -

I found a typo on read through - purchased 'buy' Virgin?

I sort of skimmed, no mention of the Big Finish novelistations? Although I guess that could be another Entry altogether.

Informative stuff, thanks I remember having a Target 'Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster' when I was of the age

Not *quite* complete, as it's missing the begining.

The first books, published by Frederick Muller in 1965, were based on three early William Hartnell stories. Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure With The Daleks (no, that's really its title!) was based on the first Dalek story, but its author, the TV show's first script editor David Whitaker, confused many young fans by inventing an entirely new reason for the characters to all meet (as the proper first story wasn't going to be novelised at that stage). The other two books were 'The Web Planet' and 'The Crusaders'.

When Target gained the rights to novelise the TV shows, they also bought up the rights to the original trio of books (thankfully renaming that cumbersome first book 'Doctor Who and the Daleks').

Hi Matt,

Ah, so you spotted my witty pun, eh?

Hi Smij,

I've incorporated your text almost verbatim, hope you don't mind. Also added some comments on numbering of the Target books and the Star two-story books (just discovered there were 6 of them - I thought I had all 5 )

Also added sections at the end on short stories and 'other'.

Gif

Another picky thing - 'diffinitive' should be 'definitive', and it's bad form to do 'see here' type links as it doesn't mean anything to blind people who use site readers. Better to delete that sentence and put the link in at the very bottom, in-between the and tags. Also, make sure all non-h2g2 links have short, clear descriptive Alt tags. Anything more than about 20 characters (including spaces) will cut off.



In the Short Trips section at the bottom, this should read 'BBC Books had their own short story collections, called Short Trips. When the range was discontinued, it was picked up by Big Finish, better known for their audio dramas.'

And to continue the bragging, I wrote the linking material for the first of the Big Finish books. Although the idea was that it was a segmented short story about the Doctor Who universe, hardly anyone got the concept and my contribution was almost universally hated. Luckily, my story for the Bernice Summerfield collection, Life During Wartime, was slightly better received.

Hi Smij,

I stopped buying the short fiction after the 2 BBC ones. Should have remembered they existed! I'll have to go back and read your text now I know who you are.

Added in links to the H2G2 pages on the TV show. Can't believe I didn't put them in in the first place!

Swiped your text verbatim again. Do you want co-authorship credit for this entry?

I have a Benny entry bubbling under, but I'm not up to date with the BF Benny audios (ie I only have 1!) or BF books (I don't even have one) so it may be a while before you see it here. Bank managers can be so unsympathetic when you explain what you need an overdraft for.

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Oh yeah, and changes made as requested.

Gif

Woah, Smij. You were the guy who wrote the mystic waffle in Zodiac? Ootb!

Can anyone write a Doctor Who entry without having to co-author it with you?

On the entry: I wouldn't call Blue Box a classic of the BBC New Adventures. I thought it was really dull. And some of the Missing Adventures (The Well Mannered War, The Sands of Time, and Empire of Glass) are also ebooks, which isn't mentioned.

Hi Zeg,

I've rejigged the note on ebooks so it now covers both NAs and MAs.

Also revised my list of recommended PDAs.

Gif

Don't worry, there's no need to credit me for those little snippets. Compared to some Who-related entries, where I've ended up systematically rewriting them, this is in great enough shape without my input

"After the Doctor linked up with new companion Fitz Kreiner - the only companion to date to smoke and the longest serving in terms of number of adventures..."

That's not quite true - Roz smoked as well. I re-read Bad Therapy last night and there's a line about cigarette smoke reminding Chris of Roz, because they used to fight about her smoking. God I'm sad.

Oh, and if you want to be picky then according to the afore mentioned 'Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks' Ian smoked as well - he lights up when he finds Barbara on barnes Common.

Incorrect tobacco-related info removed.

Gif