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Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin
Series:	Doctor Who- Target Novelisation
Release Number:	19 (given to later editions)
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companions:	None
Enemy:	the Master
Setting:	Gallifrey, Unknown
Author:	Terrance Dicks
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co
Publication:	October 1977
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-11965-7
Previous Story:	Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear
Following Story:	Doctor Who and the Face of Evil

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial The Deadly Assassin which was shown from 30th October 1976 and written by Robert Holmes.
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of Mike Little. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover).

Publisher's Cover Blurb

The Doctor is suddenly summoned to Gallifrey, the home of the Time Lords, where his ghastly hallucination of the President’s assassination seems to turn into reality. When the Doctor is arrested for the murder, there is a hideous, dark, cowled figure gleefully watching in the shadows.

Faced with his old enemy, the Master, Doctor Who approaches defeat in a battle of minds in a nightmare world created by the Master’s imagination. But the Master’s evil intentions go much further – he has a Doomsday Plan. It is up to the Doctor to prevent him from destroying Gallifrey and taking over the Universe!

DOCTOR WHO scripts – awarded The Writers’ Guild Award for the best British children’s original drama script.

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from the Televised Story

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Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

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Associated Images

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Publishing History (UK)

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First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

International Editions

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External Sources