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Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters
Series:	Doctor Who - Target Novelisation
Release Number:	8 (given to later editions)
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companions:	Jo Grant
Enemy:	Drashigs, Cybermen, Ogrons
Setting:
Author:	Terrance Dicks
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co
Publication:	January 1977
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 125 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-11025-0
Previous Story:	Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons
Following Story:	Doctor Who and the Space War

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial DW: Carnival of Monsters which was shown from 27th January 1973 and written by Robert Holmes
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of Chris Achilleos. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover).

Publisher's Cover Blurb

1977 edition

The Doctor and Jo land on a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean in the year 1926.
Or so they think.
Far away on a planet called Inter Minor, a travelling showman is setting up his live peepshow, watched by an eager audience of space officials
On board ship, a giant hand suddenly appears, grasps the Tardis and withdraws. Without warning, a prehistoric monster rises from the sea to attack
What is happening? Where are they? Only the Doctor realises, with horror, that they might be trapped …

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from the Televised Story

• The introduction makes specific reference to the events of The Three Doctors.
• The Scope is made more impressive in the novelisation, producing a mild-hypnotic effect that helped draw the viewer into the experience of the scene being viewed.
• While in the televised version the Doctor ignited the marsh gas with his sonic screwdriver, he uses a flare pistol in the novelisation.

Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

To be added

Associated Images

1993 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

Publishing History (UK)

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

70p

1993 Virgin Publishing with a new cover by Alister Pearson priced £3.50 (UK)

International Editions

To be added

Mistakes and Errors

• At one point Plectrec calls Tellurians "Humans" when this name was not known to them.

External Sources

• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)
• On Target a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal