Doctor Who And The Abominable Snowmen

Such a shame that most of the original episodes from these serials have been lost in time. A really cool setting with the story taking place in a Tibetan monastery. There’s fascinating monsters as you’ve got not only the robotic yeti but also the great intelligence. And the pace is very quick in thi......more

This is a novelization of the second serial of the fifth season of Doctor Who, which was broadcast from September-November of 1967. The script was written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, and was one of the first that was adapted by Terrance Dicks for book publication. He stuck to the script ver......more

The last time I read Terrence Dicks’ ‘Doctor Who and The Abominable Snowmen’ I must have been about twelve or thirteen years old. As a child I had an impressive collection of Doctor Who Target novelizations – it was a go to birthday/Christmas present for me from members of my extended family. I can......more

Dicks manner of explaining so much in short simple sentences helped make the Target series so popular. Especially as this serial is still missing from the archives. From the wheezing-groaning noise of the TARDIS arrival, to The Doctor in his second incarnation shock of black hair really helps describe......more

Before we had easy access to telesnaps, orphan episodes and the complete audio soundtrack for missing stories, there was the Target novelization of the lost "Doctor Who" stories. I vividly recall picking this one up not because I knew it was a lost story but because the Target numbering system set u......more