Doctor Who: The Romans
1st Doctor Novelisation

Other opinions are available, but to my mind ‘The Romans’ is the first time we see Doctor Who get just a tiny bit complacent (it wouldn’t be the last); coasting on public goodwill and the charm and chemistry of its regular cast, the series’ first attempt at a comedy historical, which could have been......more

Donald Cotton was chosen to novelise this story on the basis of the original author being dead, and his novelisations of his own comically inclined Hartnell stories. Cotton chooses to tell the story in an epistolary format, including delightfully ridiculous conceits such as Ian writing letters home.......more

Doctor Who novelisations tend to be quite faithful affairs, novelising (it must be said) a lot of stories that perhaps weren’t crying out to come alive in prose. Some of them expand interestingly on what we got on screen, perhaps building up a minor monster into something really scary or taking an u......more

4,5 ⭐️ Cuando decidí leer este libro, pensaba que sería la típica novelización de TARDIS, es decir, que un narrador en tercera persona me relataría los acontecimientos vistos en el serial “The Romans” de 1965, añadiendo, quizá, un detalle extra o dos. Pero lo que me encontré al empezar fue mucho mejo......more

As Doctor Who celebrates its sixtieth anniversary later this year, the Target audiobooks line looks to complete the range that began a decade and a half ago. For the first seven months of the year, the range is releasing one story from each classic series Doctor that hasn't seen the audio light of d......more