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Doctor Who - The Edge of Destruction
Series:	Doctor Who - Target Novelisation
Release Number:	132
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companions:	Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton
Enemy:	None
Setting:	TARDIS
Author:	Nigel Robinson
Publisher:	Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co
Publication:	May 1988 (hardcover) October 1988 (paperback)
Format:	Hardcover and paperback editions, 120 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20327-5
Previous Story:	Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks
Following Story:	Doctor Who – Marco Polo

Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial generally referred to as DW: The Edge of Destruction which included individual episode titles and was shown from 8th February 1964 and written by David Whitaker.
• The cover and information shown on the right is for the original Target novel and featured the artwork of Alister Pearson. (See below for information on other UK and international editions which published with a different cover).

Publisher's Cover Blurb

In a final bid to regain control of the TARDIS’s faulty control system the Doctor is driven to experiment with a dangerous untried combination.
With a violent explosion the TARDIS blacks out and the crew find themselves trapped inside.
A simple technical fault? Sabotage? Or something even more sinister? Tension mounts as the Doctor and his companions begin to suspect one another.
What has happened to the TARDIS?
Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence which is even now haunting the time-machine’s dark and gloomy corridors?

Illustrations

None

Deviations from the Televised Story

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Author, Writing and Publishing Notes

• This novelisation was originally offered to Stephen James Walker, but as a two-parter was declined and instead written by Nigel Robinson.
• The inside back cover includes colour Fantastic Doctor Who Poster Offers!-but instead of poster ordering details, page details how to order Star books!

Associated Images

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Publishing History (UK)

Hardback (May 1988)

• W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031386, priced £7.95)

Paperback (October 1988)

• Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK).

International Editions

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External Sources

• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)
• On Target - A comprehensive guide to Doctor Who - The Edge of Destruction