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During TheSeventies and TheEighties, in the days before video took off, the way to catch up on previous ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories was by reading the [[{{novelization}} novelisations]] from Target Books, which retold (and frequently [[AdaptationExpansion expanded on) on]]) the stories on TV.
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2023 sees the release of a new Target-length novelisation of "The Evil of the Daleks" by Creator/FrazerHines - specifically, the ''repeat'' of "Evil" that followed "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace The Wheel in Space]]" in 1968, with the Doctor showing Zoe what happened back then, since its FramingStory explores what's going on while the Doctor's telling the story.
Beginning in 2018, BBC Books started releasing novelisations of stories from the revival series, resurrecting the Target logo for the covers, along with Target versions of the Adams and Saward novelisations and new novelisations of some stories from the original range.
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2023 sees saw the release of a new Target-length novelisation of "The Evil of the Daleks" by Creator/FrazerHines - specifically, the ''repeat'' of "Evil" that followed "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace The Wheel in Space]]" in 1968, with the Doctor showing Zoe what happened back then, since its FramingStory explores what's going on while the Doctor's telling the story.
Beginning in 2018, BBC Books started releasing novelisations of stories from the revival series, resurrecting the Target logo for the covers, along with Target versions of the Adams and Saward novelisations and new novelisations of some stories from the originalrange.
range. 2024 saw the first revival novelisation to be released in hardback first, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2023CSTheChurchOnRubyRoad The Church on Ruby Road]]".
Beginning in 2018, BBC Books started releasing novelisations of stories from the revival series, resurrecting the Target logo for the covers, along with Target versions of the Adams and Saward novelisations and new novelisations of some stories from the original
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]" by Keith Temple.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]" by Phil Ford.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]" by Phil Ford.
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]" Ood]]", novelised by Keith Temple.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters ofMars]]" Mars]]", novelised by Phil Ford.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]" by Gary Russell.
* "Wild Blue Yonder" by Mark Morris.
* "The Giggle" by James Goss.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]" by Gary Russell.
* "Wild Blue Yonder" by Mark Morris.
* "The Giggle" by James Goss.
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** In "The Church on Ruby Road", the snowman belongs to [[ContinuityNod Henrik's]] (from "Rose") rather than James Howell & Co., and Mrs Flood's final line is privately aimed at the departed Abdul, rather than BreakingTheFourthWall.
** "The Giggle" reveals the Doctor, Mel, and the Nobles [[spoiler:are at the Doctor's house at the end rather than the Nobles', and he'd bought it with his UNIT back pay]].
** "The Church on Ruby Road":
*** The Doctor explains the Goblins are a result of the Toymaker's incursion in "The Giggle".
*** The Doctor's letting his emotions do the thinking when he sees Carla comforting Ruby and starts talking about how he's adopted too, so he doesn't realise what invoking the coincidence will do until it's too late.
** "The Church on Ruby Road":
*** The Doctor explains the Goblins are a result of the Toymaker's incursion in "The Giggle".
*** The Doctor's letting his emotions do the thinking when he sees Carla comforting Ruby and starts talking about how he's adopted too, so he doesn't realise what invoking the coincidence will do until it's too late.
** According to "The Giggle", Kate knows her father encountered gel guards ("The Three Doctors"), Axons ("The Claws of Axos"), and [[Literature/PastDoctorAdventures Devil Goblins from Neptune]], she's never seen a regeneration but knows her father did, she has the Silurian Triad and the Zygon Central Milkmaid on her Christmas card list, and it took until the Flux for her to properly appreciate humanity's power of denial. Donna recalls the Adipose ("Partners in Crime"), the Ood ("Planet of the Ood"), and Davros (the Series 4 finale), while Mel recalls "Delta and the Bannermen". Additionally, Colonel Ibrahim's gun fires multi-purpose bullets, incorporating gold, silver, and Dalekanium, for use against Cybermen, werewolves, and Daleks respectively (likely the next step from "Battlefield"), and the early entries in the informal UNIT death list include Death by Robot Yeti ("The Web of Fear"), Mannequin ("Spearhead from Space"), and Daffodil ("Terror of the Autons")
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* TheEndOrIsIt: For the 15th anniversary of "Rose" during the Lockdown event, RTD wrote a 'final chapter' to the novelisation he had released two years earlier. Here the last vestige of the Nestene survives, plots revenge against the Doctor and the world and merges with someone in Westminster. Their name isn't given but they are mentioned to be blond, implying that the person in question is future prime minister UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson.
* EntertaininglyWrong: The novelization of "An Unearthly Child" has Za concluding that the four strangers were emissaries of the sun god. Given his understanding of the world, that was the only logical conclusion.
* EntertaininglyWrong: The novelization of "An Unearthly Child" has Za concluding that the four strangers were emissaries of the sun god. Given his understanding of the world, that was the only logical conclusion.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: TheEndOrIsIt:
** For the 15th anniversary of "Rose" during the Lockdown event, RTD wrote a 'final chapter' to the novelisation he had released two years earlier. Here the last vestige of the Nestene survives, plots revenge against the Doctor and the world and merges with someone in Westminster. Their name isn't given but they are mentioned to be blond, implying that the person in question is future prime minister UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson.
** "The Giggle" [[spoiler:has the Toymaker reveal at the very end that he has all the pieces in place, everyone right where he wants them, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the readers]]]].
* EntertaininglyWrong: Thenovelization novelisation of "An Unearthly Child" has Za concluding that the four strangers were emissaries of the sun god. Given his understanding of the world, that was the only logical conclusion.
** For the 15th anniversary of "Rose" during the Lockdown event, RTD wrote a 'final chapter' to the novelisation he had released two years earlier. Here the last vestige of the Nestene survives, plots revenge against the Doctor and the world and merges with someone in Westminster. Their name isn't given but they are mentioned to be blond, implying that the person in question is future prime minister UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson.
** "The Giggle" [[spoiler:has the Toymaker reveal at the very end that he has all the pieces in place, everyone right where he wants them, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou including the readers]]]].
* EntertaininglyWrong: The
* {{Gamebooks}}: "The Giggle" is a partial example, with one sequence being in a Choose Your Own Adventure format.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming:
** "The Romans" uses Roman numerals for the chapter numbers, and in keeping with its epistolary format, the chapter titles are virtually all either Extracts, Letters, or Selections.
** "Galaxy Four" uses the episode titles as the chapter titles. Other First Doctor novelisations use episode titles for some of their chapter titles, and ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'' has them for five out of six chapter titles, but only "Galaxy Four" has them as the ''only'' chapter titles.
** The chapter titles for "The Savages", "The Power of the Daleks", "The Ambassadors of Death", and "Full Circle" are taken from lines of dialogue in each chapter.
** David Fisher's novelisations of "The Stones of Blood" and "The Androids of Tara" both use Roman numerals for the chapter numbers.
** "Shada" and the full-length versions of "The Pirate Planet" and "City of Death" are divided into Parts, each Part comprising a number of Chapters, and the Chapter count proceeding uninterrupted to the end.
** "Warriors' Gate" and "Terminus" have no chapters.
** "Battlefield" is split into Parts, which in turn are subdivided into Chapters, each Part starting the Chapter count over from one again.
** "The Curse of Fenric" uses Chronicle for present-day chapters and Document for supplementary documents regarding past events, with both of them using Roman numerals for numbering.
** The TV Movie novelisation editions have no chapter numbers, only chapter titles, which form the phrase "Out with the old, in with the new", and the counting rhyme "One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told".
** Chapter numbers in "The Fires of Pompeii" are in Roman numerals, and its chapter titles are Latin words and phrases.
** The chapter titles in "The Christmas Invasion" are all taken from the titles of Christmas songs.
** "The Crimson Horror" gives its chapter numbers as "Chapter the First", "Chapter the Second", etc.
** All but one of the chapter titles in "The Day of the Doctor" include "The Doctor", the exception being "Dearest Petronella".
** Much like "Battlefield", "The Eaters of Light" has Books with their own sets of Chapters, each new Book starting a new Chapter count. The Books are numbered in words while the Chapters are numbered in Roman numerals.
** "Wild Blue Yonder" [[spoiler:uses the alien numbering system from the story for its chapter titles, counting down from ten.]]
** "The Giggle" calls its chapters "Moves", as in moves in a game.
** "The Romans" uses Roman numerals for the chapter numbers, and in keeping with its epistolary format, the chapter titles are virtually all either Extracts, Letters, or Selections.
** "Galaxy Four" uses the episode titles as the chapter titles. Other First Doctor novelisations use episode titles for some of their chapter titles, and ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'' has them for five out of six chapter titles, but only "Galaxy Four" has them as the ''only'' chapter titles.
** The chapter titles for "The Savages", "The Power of the Daleks", "The Ambassadors of Death", and "Full Circle" are taken from lines of dialogue in each chapter.
** David Fisher's novelisations of "The Stones of Blood" and "The Androids of Tara" both use Roman numerals for the chapter numbers.
** "Shada" and the full-length versions of "The Pirate Planet" and "City of Death" are divided into Parts, each Part comprising a number of Chapters, and the Chapter count proceeding uninterrupted to the end.
** "Warriors' Gate" and "Terminus" have no chapters.
** "Battlefield" is split into Parts, which in turn are subdivided into Chapters, each Part starting the Chapter count over from one again.
** "The Curse of Fenric" uses Chronicle for present-day chapters and Document for supplementary documents regarding past events, with both of them using Roman numerals for numbering.
** The TV Movie novelisation editions have no chapter numbers, only chapter titles, which form the phrase "Out with the old, in with the new", and the counting rhyme "One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told".
** Chapter numbers in "The Fires of Pompeii" are in Roman numerals, and its chapter titles are Latin words and phrases.
** The chapter titles in "The Christmas Invasion" are all taken from the titles of Christmas songs.
** "The Crimson Horror" gives its chapter numbers as "Chapter the First", "Chapter the Second", etc.
** All but one of the chapter titles in "The Day of the Doctor" include "The Doctor", the exception being "Dearest Petronella".
** Much like "Battlefield", "The Eaters of Light" has Books with their own sets of Chapters, each new Book starting a new Chapter count. The Books are numbered in words while the Chapters are numbered in Roman numerals.
** "Wild Blue Yonder" [[spoiler:uses the alien numbering system from the story for its chapter titles, counting down from ten.]]
** "The Giggle" calls its chapters "Moves", as in moves in a game.
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* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: The "City of Death" novelization says that a past version of Scaroth was pope at one point.
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* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: The "City of Death" novelization novelisation says that a past version of Scaroth was pope at one point.
* LemonyNarrator: [[spoiler:The Toymaker]] is revealed to be the narrator of "The Giggle". [[spoiler:Twice. [[BreakingTheFourthWall And he frequently addresses the audience]].]]
* RealEventFictionalCause: In "The Curse of Fenric", Bram Stoker learns of the mysterious death of a local girl at Maidens' Bay (later renamed Maidens' Point), which becomes one of his inspirations for ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
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* SpotTheImposter: In the novelisation of "The Massacre" (which John Lucarotti based on his original scripts and contains scenes not in the televised version), Simon Duvall manages to get The Doctor and The Abbot in the same room, but can't tell which is the real Abbot. The Doctor manages to persuade him to guess wrong, with fatal consequences for the Abbot.
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* SpotTheImposter: In the novelisation of "The Massacre" (which John Lucarotti based on his original scripts and contains scenes not in the televised version), Simon Duvall manages to get The the Doctor and The the Abbot in the same room, but can't tell which is the real Abbot. The Doctor manages to persuade him to guess wrong, with fatal consequences for the Abbot.Abbot.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In "The Giggle", [[spoiler:the Toymaker claims he never cried when he was cold and alone and afraid in his void.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In "The Giggle", [[spoiler:the Toymaker claims he never cried when he was cold and alone and afraid in his void.]]
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** ''The Star Beast'' has "[[CallBack Binary]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Binary]] [[BrokenRecord Binary]]"
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** ''The Star Beast'' inserts more references to the original comic, such as Fudge and Rose having a friend named Sharon Allen, and the Wrarth being an artificial hybrid of 5 races. It also references the sequel "Star Beast II", with Fudge's given name being "Cholan" (an Asian equivalent to Colin, his name as revealed in that story) and the Wrarth being authorised by Judge Scraggs (who Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine cited as having sentenced the Meep to 3000 years in prison).
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* AssholeVictim: In the novelisation of "Rose", Jimmy Stone, Rose's good-for-nothing ex-boyfriend, is robbing his girlfriend when he's cut up into little pieces by the Autons. Meanwhile, Winston the Hennricks janitor is a thief and a pervert (which is why he's spent thirty years languishing in the store basement) who's planning on bumping his way up to arson to cover up decades of embezzlement before the Autons get him.
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* AssholeVictim: In the novelisation of "Rose", Jimmy Stone, Rose's good-for-nothing ex-boyfriend, is robbing his girlfriend when he's cut up into little pieces by the Autons. Meanwhile, Winston the Hennricks janitor is a thief and a pervert (which is why he's spent thirty years languishing in the store basement) who's planning on bumping his way up to arson to cover up decades of embezzlement before the Autons get him. The current Hennricks himself makes a brief appearance, being shown to be a thoroughly nasty man who despises all his employees and is planning on suing them for the store being blown up, before the Autons slaughter him.
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* DrowningMySorrows: The reason Donna misses the Auton attack in "Rose". The day before, she'd tried confessing her love to a guy he had a crush on, and was rebuffed so badly she proceeded to get blackout drunk, not coming home 'till three in the morning ([[WhatDidIDoLastNight and missing a shoe]]), and on her grandad's advice decided to sleep it off.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: "Rose" adds a scene of Jackie after the Auton attack, worried out of her mind about Rose but convinced she'll be home soon enough. She sees some victims of the attack and turns around to help.
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* AssholeVictim: In the novelisation of "Rose", Jimmy Stone, Rose's good-for-nothing ex-boyfriend, is robbing his girlfriend when he's cut up into little pieces by the Autons.
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* AssholeVictim: In the novelisation of "Rose", Jimmy Stone, Rose's good-for-nothing ex-boyfriend, is robbing his girlfriend when he's cut up into little pieces by the Autons. Meanwhile, Winston the Hennricks janitor is a thief and a pervert (which is why he's spent thirty years languishing in the store basement) who's planning on bumping his way up to arson to cover up decades of embezzlement before the Autons get him.
** When Jackie Tyler first appears in "Rose", the narration refuses to give her age, "Rise of the Cybermen" establishing Jackie is sensitive about her age, and more than willing to lie to appear younger if need be.
** Among those checking in on Rose is Howard from the market, who will provide a timely satsuma during the events of "The Christmas Invasion".
** Among those checking in on Rose is Howard from the market, who will provide a timely satsuma during the events of "The Christmas Invasion".
** Winston in "Rose" is an embezeller, pervert, all-round jerkass and planning to burn down his workplace, but while he thinks there are a few of his staff he'd gladly throw into the fire, he's not quite that far along to actually go through with it, and figures he'll shoo them out before he gets to work... fortunately, someone's already taken care of that for him.
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* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: In ''Rose'', Jackie walks in on the Doctor and Rose in a compromising position after their encounter with the Auton arm.
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* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: In ''Rose'', Jackie walks in on the Doctor and Rose in a compromising position after their encounter with the Auton arm. Jackie being Jackie, she's ''slightly'' more outraged by the fact they smashed the table, because it was ''real'' bamboo! From her mother!
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** In the novelisation of "Remembrance of the Daleks", Group Captain Gilmore's first name is Ian, Rachel's last name is Jensen, Allison's last name is Williams, Ratcliffe's first name is George (after his actor, George Sewell), the Headmaster is named Harvey Parson, Harry's last name is Fowler (after the actor who plaed him), the girl is named Judith Winters and the vicar is named Reverend Parkinson.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]" Ace befriends a Chinese girl named Shou Yuing, but the serial doesn't make clear if 'Shou Yuing' is her full name, or a double familiar name like 'Sarah Jane'. In the novelisation it's stated to be the latter; her full name is Li Shou Yuing. The novelisation also names the knights who arrive with Mordred as Sir Comus and Sir Madlamor. Mordred's initial companions are named as Sir Comus and Sir Madlamor.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]" Ace befriends a Chinese girl named Shou Yuing, but the serial doesn't make clear if 'Shou Yuing' is her full name, or a double familiar name like 'Sarah Jane'. In the novelisation it's stated to be the latter; her full name is Li Shou Yuing. The novelisation also names the knights who arrive with Mordred as Sir Comus and Sir Madlamor. Mordred's initial companions are named as Sir Comus and Sir Madlamor.
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** In the novelisation of "Remembrance of the Daleks", Group Captain Gilmore's first name is Ian, Rachel's last name is Jensen, Allison's last name is Williams, Ratcliffe's first name is George (after his actor, George Sewell), the Headmaster is named Harvey Parson, Harry's last name is Fowler (after the actor who plaed played him), the girl is named Judith Winters and the vicar is named Reverend Parkinson.
Parkinson. These names for the ICMG members would be confirmed in Big Finish's ''Intrusion Counter-Measures'' series.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]" Ace befriends a Chinese girl named Shou Yuing, but the serial doesn't make clear if 'Shou Yuing' is her full name, or a double familiar name like 'Sarah Jane'. In the novelisation it's stated to be the latter; her full name is Li Shou Yuing. The novelisation also names the knights who arrive with Mordred as Sir Comus and Sir Madlamor. Mordred's initial companions are named as Sir Comus and Sir Madlamor.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]" Ace befriends a Chinese girl named Shou Yuing, but the serial doesn't make clear if 'Shou Yuing' is her full name, or a double familiar name like 'Sarah Jane'. In the novelisation it's stated to be the latter; her full name is Li Shou Yuing. The novelisation also names the knights who arrive with Mordred as Sir Comus and Sir Madlamor.
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In 2011, the BBC reissued six of the novelisations in new editions with introductions by writers including Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/StephenBaxter, and Creator/RussellTDavies. In 2012, they reissued six more. In 2013, when the BBC reissued a spin-off novel for each Doctor as part of the 50th anniversary, the first six were Past Doctor Adventures released in the late 1990s and 2000s, but the Seventh Doctor's was the 1990 novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]". In 2016, they reissued ten more novelisations, three of which were hardback facsimiles of the original Frederick Muller novelisations. 2021 saw the release of ''The Essential Terrance Dicks'', a two-volume hardback collection of ten of Dicks' novelisations, marking the second anniversary of his death. In 2022, a fully illustrated hardback edition of ''Doctor Who and the Daleks'' was released.[[note]]This was the third set of illustrations the book had received, and the first in colour.[[/note]]
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In 2011, the BBC reissued six of the novelisations in new editions with introductions by writers including Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/StephenBaxter, and Creator/RussellTDavies. In 2012, they reissued six more. In 2013, when the BBC reissued a spin-off novel for each Doctor as part of the 50th anniversary, the first six were Past Doctor Adventures released in the late 1990s and 2000s, but the Seventh Doctor's was the 1990 novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]". In 2016, they reissued ten more novelisations, three of which were hardback facsimiles of the original Frederick Muller novelisations. 2021 saw the release of ''The Essential Terrance Dicks'', a two-volume hardback collection of ten of Dicks' novelisations, marking the second anniversary of his death. In 2022, a fully illustrated hardback edition of ''Doctor Who and the Daleks'' was released.[[note]]This released[[note]]This was the third set of illustrations the book had received, and the first in colour.[[/note]]
[[/note]], followed in 2023 by a fully illustrated hardback of "Rose".
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* "Wild Blue Yonder" by Mark Morris.
* "The Giggle" by James Goss.
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During TheSeventies and TheEighties, in the days before video took off, the way to catch up on previous ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories was by reading the [[{[novelization}} [[{{novelization}} novelisations]] from Target Books, which retold (and frequently expanded on) the stories on TV.
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** ''Doctor Who and the Space War'' removes the "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" twist {{Cliffhanger}} ending of the Doctor getting shot, but both ''Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks'' and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]" start with the Doctor near-fatally wounded.
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** ''Doctor Who and the Space War'' removes the "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" twist {{Cliffhanger}} {{cliffhanger}} ending of the Doctor getting shot, but both ''Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks'' and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]" start with the Doctor near-fatally wounded.
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During the 70s TheSeventies and 80s, TheEighties, in the days before video took off, the way to catch up on previous ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories was by reading the novelisations from Target Books, which retold (and frequently expanded on) the stories on TV.
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* ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warriors' Gate]] and Other Stories'', featuring Stephen Gallagher's restored text for the novelisation (also used for the audio novelisation), along with two short stories exploring the aftermath - one a print version of Gallagher's BBC Audio story "The Kairos Ring", the other original to this book, "The Little Book of Fate".
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* ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warriors' Gate]] and Other Stories'', Beyond'', featuring Stephen Gallagher's restored text for the novelisation (also used for the audio novelisation), along with two short stories exploring the aftermath - one a print version of Gallagher's BBC Audio story "The Kairos Ring", the other original to this book, "The Little Book of Fate".
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The novelisation of "Dalek" expands on many of the one-shot characters' backstories and makes the circumstances of the story a lot more tragic. It also gives Van Statten a more [[KarmicDeath deserved]] [[MindRape fate]].
** The novelisation of "Dalek" gets even darker than the aired episode, with the revelation that Simmons is actually a violent criminal named Aaron Denton who beat the real Simmons half to death as a child, and is implied to have killed him as an adult.
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* FreudianExcuse: Spoofed in the novelisation of "Shada". Skagra talks about his planet to Romana, explaining how a rogue Time Lord conquered his planet, brainwashed the populace and, when he eventually left for Gallifrey again, the people were unable to handle their own emotions after centuries of repression and tore each other apart in an unspeakable war that almost destroyed the entire planet. Romana is horrified and expresses pity for his people, until Skagra informs her that it happened thousands of years before he was born and that they were not his people. He then shows her the planet from ''his'' point in history, a rich, laid-back, beachy PleasurePlanet with a primary import of ice cream. Romana is slightly less able to sympathise with this, no matter how much he insists that his people's shallowness and consumerism was unbearable to someone as brilliant and clever as him.
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* FreudianExcuse: FreudianExcuse:
** The novelisation of "Dalek" gives Van Statten a backstory that explains why he is such a contemptible asshole.
** Spoofed in the novelisation of "Shada". Skagra talks about his planet to Romana, explaining how a rogue Time Lord conquered his planet, brainwashed the populace and, when he eventually left for Gallifrey again, the people were unable to handle their own emotions after centuries of repression and tore each other apart in an unspeakable war that almost destroyed the entire planet. Romana is horrified and expresses pity for his people, until Skagra informs her that it happened thousands of years before he was born and that they were not his people. He then shows her the planet from ''his'' point in history, a rich, laid-back, beachy PleasurePlanet with a primary import of ice cream. Romana is slightly less able to sympathise with this, no matter how much he insists that his people's shallowness and consumerism was unbearable to someone as brilliant and clever as him.
** The novelisation of "Dalek" gives Van Statten a backstory that explains why he is such a contemptible asshole.
** Spoofed in the novelisation of "Shada". Skagra talks about his planet to Romana, explaining how a rogue Time Lord conquered his planet, brainwashed the populace and, when he eventually left for Gallifrey again, the people were unable to handle their own emotions after centuries of repression and tore each other apart in an unspeakable war that almost destroyed the entire planet. Romana is horrified and expresses pity for his people, until Skagra informs her that it happened thousands of years before he was born and that they were not his people. He then shows her the planet from ''his'' point in history, a rich, laid-back, beachy PleasurePlanet with a primary import of ice cream. Romana is slightly less able to sympathise with this, no matter how much he insists that his people's shallowness and consumerism was unbearable to someone as brilliant and clever as him.
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*** Clive tells Rose that his researches into the Doctor's activities began with his own father's involvement in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the Shoreditch Incident]].
*** When Rose and the Doctor enter the Nestene lair, Rose encounters a second duplicate of Mickey who tricks her into telling him what she knows about the Doctor's intentions, explaining how the Nestene Consciousness found out about the antiplastic.
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** In the novelisation of "Rose", Wilson's position at Hernik's is Senior Caretaker instead of Chief Electrical Officer.
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** In the novelisation of "Rose", Wilson's position at Hernik's Henrik's is Senior Caretaker instead of Chief Electrical Officer.
* AmbiguousGender: In the novelisation of "Rose", Clive has a picture of a presumably future Doctor who's a wheelchair bound child of unknown gender.
* CallForward: The novelisation of "Rose" incorporates the scene from "The End of Time" in which a future version of the Doctor talks to Rose shortly before she meets his past self for the first time.
* CelebrityCasualty: For the fifteenth anniversary, Russell T. Davies wrote an additional chapter to his novelisation of "Rose" which is heavily implied to depict UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson as having been crushed to death by a steel beam as a consequence of the Autons' attack in 2005. As a result, the Johnson who became Prime Minister in 2019 is actually an Auton which absorbed his body to become a new entity.
** The novelisation of "Rose" includes mentions of all the previous incarnations of the Doctor when Rose is trying to learn who he is. She finds a picture of the Fourth Doctor on the internet, and during her meeting with Clive he shows her pictures of the First Doctor during the events of "The War Machines", the Second Doctor during the events of "Evil of the Daleks", the Third Doctor with his Whomobile, the Fourth Doctor during the events of "Terror of the Zygons", the Fifth Doctor during the events of "Timeflight", the Sixth Doctor ("clearly on his way to a fancy-dress party dressed as a picnic"), the Seventh Doctor during the events of "Curse of Fenric", and the Eighth Doctor during the events of the TV Movie.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The novelisation of "The Enemy of the World" was infamous for containing swear words and bloody violence.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: DarkerAndEdgier:
** The novelisation of "The Enemy of the World" was infamous for containing swear words and bloodyviolence.violence.
** In the novelisation of "Rose", the Auton attack is more gruesome and includes decapitations through the Autons forming their hands into sharp blades. In the scene where the duplicate of Mickey talks to Rose in the restaurant, he threatens to kill the people in the restaurant if Rose doesn't tell him about the Doctor.
** The novelisation of "The Enemy of the World" was infamous for containing swear words and bloody
** In the novelisation of "Rose", the Auton attack is more gruesome and includes decapitations through the Autons forming their hands into sharp blades. In the scene where the duplicate of Mickey talks to Rose in the restaurant, he threatens to kill the people in the restaurant if Rose doesn't tell him about the Doctor.
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** In "Rose", Mickey's mother committed suicide when he was five, and Rose's asshole ex-boyfriend Jimmy Stone (who's never seen in the TV series) dies in the Auton attack.
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** In "Rose", Mickey's mother committed suicide when he was five, five (with Rose's comment about having to tell Mickey's mother if he's dead being changed to having to tell his friends), and Rose's asshole ex-boyfriend Jimmy Stone (who's never seen in the TV series) dies in the Auton attack.
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** In the "Rose" novelisation, Clive shows Rose evidence of the Doctor's recorded presence throughout history, expanding it to include footage of [[Creator/MattSmith Eleven]], [[Creator/PeterCapaldi Twelve]] (in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker deep cover]]", to boot) and [[Creator/JodieWhittaker Thirteen]], along with a few imagined future incarnations. Later on, as the Autons attack London, the book cuts to Donna and Wilf to [[RunningGag explain how she missed it]]. Clive also shares a theory that people's memories of alien encounters have been wiped by cracks in time.
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** In the "Rose" novelisation, Clive shows Rose evidence of the Doctor's recorded presence throughout history, expanding it to include footage of [[Creator/DavidTennant Ten]] (which Rose is distracted and doesn't look at, explaining why she doesn't find his appearance familiar), [[Creator/MattSmith Eleven]], [[Creator/PeterCapaldi Twelve]] (in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker deep cover]]", to boot) and [[Creator/JodieWhittaker Thirteen]], along with a few imagined future incarnations. Later on, as the Autons attack London, the book cuts to Donna and Wilf to [[RunningGag explain how she missed it]]. Clive also shares a theory that people's memories of alien encounters have been wiped by cracks in time.
* TheEndOrIsIt: For the 15th anniversary of "Rose" during the Lockdown event, RTD wrote a 'final chapter' to the novelisation he had released two years earlier. Here the last vestige of the Nestene survives, plots revenge against the Doctor and the world and merges with someone in Westminster. Their name isn't given but they are mentioned to be blond, implying that the person in question is future prime minister UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson.
* FlamingSword: In the novelisation of "Rose", Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who's a black bald woman with a flaming sword.
** The original broadcast of "Rose" contained an unintended error where TV presenter Graham Norton's voice was heard over a scene. The novelisation incorporates this with his voice being heard on a radio in the background.
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** In the novelisation of "Rose", Mickey's mother and grandmother are named Odessa and Rita-Anne, while the security guard that hands Rose the lottery money is given a name, Lee Lin.
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** In the novelisation of "Rose", Mickey's mother and grandmother are named Odessa and Rita-Anne, while the security guard that hands Rose the lottery money is given a name, Lee Lin. Clive has two sons, Ben and Michael, instead of the one unnamed son on screen.
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* RacialTransformation: In the novelisation of "Rose", Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who has regenerated black.
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* AWizardDidIt: The novelisation of "Rose" explains the episode's depiction of the Nestene Consciousness as a creature composed of living plastic (as opposed to earlier Nestene stories depicting it as an EnergyBeing which possessed plastic receptacles) by saying the Time War altered the Nestene Consciousness' history so that it was always made from plastic.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: In the novelisation of "Rose", the Doctor went travelling for several weeks between his trip to Rose's apartment and when he saves her from Auton!Mickey at the restaurant later the same day. This is noted in him gaining a scar on his hand from the fight with the Auton arm which has healed when Rose next sees him.
