Waterstones Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
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Description: A mysterious black hole is draining away power from the Universe. Even the Time Lords are threatened. The Doctor is also in trouble. Creatures from the black hole besiege UNIT Headquarters. The only person who can help the Doctor is. himself. The Time Lords bring together the first three incarnations of the Doctor to discover the truth about the black hole and stop the energy drain. The Doctors and their companions travel through the black hole itself, into a universe of anti-matter. Here they meet one of the very first Time Lords - Omega, who gave his race the power to travel through time. Trapped for aeons in the black hole, he now plans to escape - whatever the cost. This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 30 December 1972 to 20 January 1973. Featuring the first three Doctors as played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee, together with Jo Grant and the UNIT organisation commanded by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Waterstones Doctor Who: The Three Doctors - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781849904780
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ISBN: 9781849904780
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Author: Alaran
Rating: 5
Review: Through a point of singularity at the centre of a black hole exists an anti-matter world with a sole inhabitant, an entity so powerful that he threatens the entire universe. Not even the Time Lords can stop him and the Doctor faces a foe that he alone cannot overcome. Fortunately though he is not alone as this time there are three Doctors. The novelisation is more or less what appears on screen. Little is added by Dicks but he does expand considerably on Omega’s world. Most notably the appearance of Omega’s ‘palace’ is given far more detail than ever seen in the programme. There is also a touch more opulence to it and it seems more in tune with Omega’s mood. There is also a description of an immense sacred flame not really visualised on screen. Even Omega’s minions, referred to in the novelisation as ‘blob men’, are given more attention. Here they break apart and reform like a living jelly substance. They also seem one and the same with the anti-matter mass that hunts the Doctor and attacks UNIT HQ. Despite being called ‘The Three Doctors’ it only really extensively features two of them, leaving the First Doctor in a minor adversary capacity. The advantage of this is that it leads to the main joy of the story, the relationship between the Third and Second Doctors. No one probably understands the characters of the Third and Second Doctors better than Terrance Dicks. Thus, amongst his vast multitude of Target novelsations this is, perhaps, the one he is best suited to write. He captures their petty bickering but begrudging respect for each other perfectly. But then much of this is gained from the scripted dialogue and the adlibs of the actors. Dicks clearly enjoys the interaction between these two Doctors and expands upon it in his later script for ‘The Five Doctors’. Interestingly enough the Doctors are not referred to as the First, Second and Third Doctors. Dicks continues to refer to Pertwee’s version as ‘The Doctor’ whilst Troughton’s oddly becomes ‘Doctor Two’ rather than the Second Doctor. This is supposed to be more from Jo’s viewpoint though and it does seem fitting for her character. The First Doctor meanwhile is generally referred to along the lines of being 'an old man on the screen'. The story is also notable for its expansion on Time Lord society. In the televised version the ranking between President and Chancellor is fairly vague. However, there is no doubt in the novelisation that the Preseident outranks the Chancellor, which was later clarified in the programme during ‘The Deadly Assassin’. The novelisation also states that this president was one of the three judges that presided over the trial of the Second Doctor. It is an intriguing link to ‘The War Games’. This is a strong novelisation of a very enjoyable story which contains some of the best dialogue to appear in Doctor Who.
Author: Dean Thornton
Rating: 3
Review: Not had chance to start reading this book yet.
