Doctor Who And The Green Death, Malcolm Hulke
Doctor Who And The Green Death, Malcolm Hulke
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Doctor Who And The Green Death

Author: Malcolm Hulke

Narrator: Katy Manning

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The Green Death begins slowly. In a small Welsh mining village a man emerges from the disused colliery covered in a green fungus. Minutes later he is dead. UNIT, Jo Grant and Doctor Who in tow, arrive on the scene to investigate, but strangely reluctant to assist their enquiries is Dr Stevens, director of the local refinery, Panorama Chemicals. Are they in time to destroy the mysterious power which threatens them all before the whole village, and even the world, is wiped out by a deadly swarm of green maggots? Katy Manning, who played Jo Grant in the original 1973 TV serial on which this book is based, reads Malcolm Hulke’s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1975. ‘BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers... they benefit from new music and sound effects’ Doctor Who Magazine

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken on June 06, 2019

The one with the Giant Maggots! One of the best Pertwee stories gets the perfect novelisation treatment by Hulke. The show has always tackled relevant issues, with this story focusing on Panorama Chemicals who start to pollute the small mining village in Wales. Talk of oil replacing coal would have bee......more

Goodreads review by Craig on August 06, 2021

This is Malcolm Hulke's novelization of the fifth serial of the tenth season of Doctor Who. The script was written by Robert Sloman and the show was broadcast in May and June of 1973. It features the third incarnation of The Doctor with his companion Jo Grant, and they're accompanied by several fami......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on May 27, 2019

I read this story just to see what the famous old Dr.Who books were really like. First you must remember that the books were adapted directly from the TV programmes series (not the usual other-way round) and therefore the story and character backgrounds are necessarily light. One can easily detect th......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 26, 2009

Back in the mid-70's, the "Doctor Who" production team decided to make an environmental statement. The result was "The Green Death" which thanks to the visuals of a horde of giant green maggots is firmly entrenched in the memories of "Who" fans of that era. Watching the story and hearing the audio b......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 19, 2023

[Target] (1985). SB. 142 Pages. Reprint. Purchased from Zardoz Books. A few of Allan Willow’s illustrations are unintentionally comical. He somehow contrived to make the Doctor’s companion look scarier than a giant, carnivorous maggot bearing down upon her. Not long after - clearly shaken up - she to......more