The novelisation of a ‘lost classic’ by Terrance Dicks, revealing the original conception of The Five Doctors. Based on newly discovered scripts and treatments by Terrance Dicks.
The Six Doctors is a ‘lost classic’ by Terrance Dicks, revealing the original conception of The Five Doctors. Based on newly discovered scripts and treatments by Terrance Dicks - perhaps the most beloved Doctor Who author of all - Simon Guerrier’s novelisation of The Six Doctors reveals the original conception of The Five Doctors, a radically different take on one of the most celebrated Who adventures ever told. ‘Play the game, Doctor. Destroy your other selves!’ Fireballs tear through time and space. Each one hunts down a different incarnation of the Doctor… ready to erase them in an instant. But one Doctor is offered a terrible alternative. He can not only survive but live forever - if he agrees to help destroy his other selves. One Doctor. One timeline. One victor. The Fourth Doctor would usually refuse without hesitation. But after escaping E-Space he feels his life running out and knows he is nearing the end of his time. With nothing to lose, he accepts his role in the deadliest game of all…
The novelisation of the original script by Terrance Dicks, later rewritten as the Season 18 story “State of Decay”, based on original notes by the writer.
Just realised these were posted elsewhere, but hey. The Six Doctors sounds very intriguing to me, especially “based on newly discovered scripts and treatments by Terrance Dicks.”
They ‘adapt’ a draft script for Genesis of the Daleks into a half hour bit of dialogue and then some people reading stage directions… and yet aren’t interested in full scripts for renowned ‘lost’ stories??
I got these and the Retroduction set and the Retroduction set arrived first, I really like it! So nostalgic for my childhood and I fear I may have to buy into the ongoing Doctor sets… I just hope 8’s has at least 1 BF character. Eaglemoss made Figurines of Liv and Lucie, so anythings possible!
Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman
Paperback edition of Robert Shearman’s novelisation of his Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard audio adventure. With an updated cover, different to the hardback edition.
Never used to collect Funko Pops but got into them when I tried the Funko Fusion game. Like the look of these. I’ll probably get the Tenth Doctor TARDIS one, and maybe a Dalek. I think it would probably cost too much to get them all.
Interesting to see this (though these stories were collected very recently) coming out, hope it continues. I personally would have started with the first volume of the 8 run and maybe jumped around to the starts of other runs a la the Marvel Epic Collections but I guess starting at the start works too.
Timelash is the fifth serial of the 22nd season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on BBC1 on 9 and 16 March 1985. It is, to date, the only television Doctor Who story to have a score been composed by a woman. In the serial, the Borad (Robert Ashby), the mutated leader of the planet Karfel, plots to start a war with the Bandril race which would wipe out both the Bandrils and Karfel’s population so that the Borad could repopulate it with his own kind to rule the planet.
Track Listings
1 Doctor Who Opening Titles (Colin Baker Version, Mark Ayres Stereo Mix)
2 Karfel
3 Inner Sanctum
4 Fanfare: The Maylin Renis
5 Banishment
6 How’s That Line?/Belt Up
7 Time for Another Election
8 Fanfare: The Maylin Tekker
9 The Timelash
10 Time Just Flies
11 Feminist Sting
12 The Flower of Many Faces
13 The Morlox
14 Herbert
15 The Rebels
16 1885 A.D.
17 Amulet
18 Unpleasant Journey
19 Unpleasant Journey reprise
20 Where Are You Taking Me?
21 The Edge of Oblivion
22 Wired
23 Kontron Crystals
24 Peri Incarcerated
25 Fidelity
26 Doctor, Where Are You?
27 Time Loop with Android
28 The Bandrils are Coming
29 The Borad
30 Time Loop with Borad
31 Herbert to the Rescue
32 A Brave But Foolish Thing
33 The Writing on the Wall
34 Doctor Who Closing TItles (Colin Baker Version, Mark Ayres Stereo Mix)
35 Timelash Suite (2025 Remaster)
36 Timelash – Proto=Suite
37 Timelash Suite [B.A.S.E. processed) (2025 Remaster)
