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Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks
Series:	Doctor Who- Target Novelisation
Release Number:	46 (given to later editions)
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companions:	Jo Grant
Enemy:	Daleks, Thals
Setting:	Spiridon
Author:	Terrance Dicks
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co
Publication:	September 1976 (hardcover) October 1976 (paperback)
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-11252-0
Previous Story:	Doctor Who and the Space War
Following Story:	Doctor Who and the Green Death

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial DW: Planet of the Daleks which was shown from 7th April 1973 and written by Terry Nation
• 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

1976 edition

Jo peered through the panel and saw nothing. Yet someone had entered the cabin. She could hear hoarse breathing and stealthy padding footsteps. A beaker rose in the air of its own accord, then dropped to the floor … THE INVISIBLE ENEMY
After pursuing the DALEKS through Space, DOCTOR WHO lands on the Planet of Spiridon, in the midst of a tropical jungle … and finds more than Daleks. Vicious plants spitting deadly poison, invisible Spiridons attacking from all sides and, in hiding, a vast army, waits … for the moment to mobilise and CONQUER.

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from the Televised Story

to be added

Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

• An unused and unfinished piece of cover artwork for this title by Roy Knipe was later finished and and sold privately in the ealy 2000’s.
• Title page includes: THE CHANGING FACE OF DOCTOR WHO. The cover illustration of this book portrays the third DOCTOR WHO whose physical appearance was altered by the Time Lords when they banished him to planet Earth in the Twentieth Century.

To be added

Associated Images

1992 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

Publishing History (UK)

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

60p (UK)

1992 Virgin Publishing with a new cover by Alister Pearson priced £2.99 (UK)

International Editions

• Reprinted, with added illustrations, in the 1976 collection The Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus issued by St. Martins Press.

External Sources

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