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Doctor Who and the Inferno
Series:	Doctor Who - Target Novelisation
Release Number:	89
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companions:	Liz Shaw, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, UNIT
Enemy:	Primords
Setting:	Earth, circa 1970s
Author:	Terrance Dicks
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co
Publication:	June 1984 (hardcover) October 1984 (paperback)
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 126 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-19617-1
Previous Story:	Doctor Who - The Ambassadors of Death
Following Story:	Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial DW: Inferno which was shown from 9th May 1970 and written by Don Houghton
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of Nick Spender. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover).

Publisher's Cover Blurb

Inferno is the name of a top-secret drilling project to penetrate the Earth’s crust and release a major new energy source.
A crisis develops when a noxious liquid leaks out as drilling progresses – the green poison has a grotesquely debilitating effect on human beings.
As the Earth’s plight worsens, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to rescue the planet and its inhabitants from the destructive force of Inferno…

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from the Televised Story

To be added

Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

• One of several titles commissioned by outgoing range editor Christine Donohoe and edited by Nigel Robinson.

Associated Images

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Publishing History (UK)

To be added

First Publication:

• Hardback

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK

• Paperback

Target

Re-issues:

None

International Editions

To be added

External Sources

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