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| 3 | 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]]) the stories on TV. |
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| 5 | Notable authors included Creator/TerranceDicks (who wrote more ''Doctor Who'' novelisations than anyone else), Creator/MalcolmHulke, Creator/PhilipHinchcliffe, Creator/IanMarter, and Creator/DavidWhitaker, all of whom had worked on the TV series in various capacities. |
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| 7 | Target Books was established in 1973, publishing TV novelisations and other books for children. The ''Doctor Who'' line was its most successful, and in later years the two became synonymous: "Target Books" meant ''Doctor Who'' novelisations and vice versa. |
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| 9 | Because Target's target audience was children, the novelisations used simplified language and were stuck with a maximum page count of around 150 pages, even for epics like the 10-part "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]". A special concession was made for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]", 13 episodes including [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the prologue]], which was published in two volumes, although this was very late in the series where the books were being marketed to the adult fan-collector market as much as to the original child audience. The quality of the writing varies considerably, from thin BeigeProse to relatively sophisticated works that took time to fill out characters' personalities and backstories; Malcolm Hulke's novelisations, for instance, were notable examples of the latter type. |
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| 11 | The first three ''Doctor Who'' novelisations, ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks'' (based on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" and reprinted as ''Doctor Who and the Daleks''), ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders'' (based on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade The Crusade]]"), and ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'' (based on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]") were originally published by Frederick Muller in the 1960s, before Target Books reprinted them and bought the rights to new novelisations. The Target series began with ''Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion'', written by Terrance Dicks and based on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead from Space]]". |
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| 13 | Circa 1979, ten of the novelisations were brought to America by Pinnacle Books. The reprints had a foreword by Creator/HarlanEllison, some edits to make them US-friendly (jelly babies changed to jelly beans, etc.) and covers that never actually showed the Doctor or the TARDIS. |
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| 15 | As the '80's wore on, Target began to branch out. It did abridged versions of the "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]" novelisations [[AbridgedForChildren for younger children]] under the Junior Doctor Who sub-series. It adapted the audio drama ''Doctor Who and the Pescatons'' into ''The Pescatons'', as well as another audio story, ''Slipback''. It novelised ''Series/K9AndCompany'' under the Companions of Doctor Who sub-series, which had previously included the original novels ''Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma'' by Tony Attwood and ''Harry Sullivan's War'', written by Creator/IanMarter, the Target author who had played Harry on ''Doctor Who''. Three novelisations of the original, cancelled Season 23 stories ''The Nightmare Fair'', ''The Ultimate Evil'' and ''Mission to Magnus'' appeared under another sub-series, ''The Missing Adventures''. |
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| 17 | In 1990, Target's parent company, W H Allen, became Virgin Publishing. They brought out the remaining unadapted novelisations under the Target imprint, and started a new line of original Doctor Who novels, the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures. The last original Target novelisations, none of which carried the Target logo on the cover (and are hence not considered to be "true" Target books by some purists, although they feature the logo and are identified as being part of the Target Library on the frontispiece), were radio play ''Radio/TheParadiseOfDeath'' and TV stories "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Power of the Daleks]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]". The final book under the Target imprint was a reprint of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]" in 1994. |
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| 19 | There were just four TV stories that did not receive a Target novelisation (not including the unfinished "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]"): the two Dalek stories by Creator/EricSaward, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks Resurrection of the Daleks]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]", due to conflict between Saward and Terry Nation's agent about the division of royalties; and Creator/DouglasAdams' other two stories, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]", because Adams wanted the novelisations to be done by someone who could do justice to the material (namely, himself) but having hit the big time with ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' he was too busy, or too expensive, or both. |
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| 21 | In 1995, the radio drama ''The Ghosts of N-Space'' was novelised as one of the Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures. In 1996, BBC Books released a novelisation of [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]] with Creator/PaulMcGann, and in 2004 the animated webcast "WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka" was novelised by Creator/PaulCornell as part of the Literature/PastDoctorAdventures range. |
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| 23 | In 2007 the BBC began releasing audiobooks of the novelisations, read by a cast member; several stories had entirely new adaptations written, often due to dissatisfaction with the original on the author's part. Also that year, Telos Publishing published ''The Target Book'', a guide to the history of Target and its ''Doctor Who'' novelisations. |
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| 25 | 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]], followed in 2023 by a fully illustrated hardback of "Rose". |
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| 27 | In 2012, BBC Books published the first new novelisation in years: Gareth Roberts' novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]". Unlike previous novelisations, it was aimed at a general audience, and clocked in at approximately 400 pages. James Goss's novelisation of "City of Death" followed in 2015, with his novelisation of "The Pirate Planet" officially completing the set of Adams-related novelisations in 2017. Goss's novelisation of Adams' unmade film proposal "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" (best known [[DolledUpInstallment as the basis for]] ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'') was released in 2018, followed in 2019 by ''[[Script/DoctorWhoMeetsScratchman Scratchman]]'', a collaboration between Goss and Tom Baker, adapting "Doctor Who Meets Scratchman", an unproduced screenplay Baker had co-written with Creator/IanMarter. Creator/EricSaward adapted his two [=80s=] Dalek serials as Target-length books for BBC Books in 2019, meaning every classic serial at last had a novelisation. |
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| 29 | 2023 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. |
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| 31 | 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. 2024 saw the first revival novelisation to be released in hardback first, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2023CSTheChurchOnRubyRoad The Church on Ruby Road]]". |
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| 33 | [[folder:BBC Books Target novelisations]] |
| 34 | !!!2018 |
| 35 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", novelised by Creator/RussellTDavies. |
| 36 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", novelised by Jenny Colgan. |
| 37 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", novelised by Creator/StevenMoffat. |
| 38 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]", novelised by Creator/PaulCornell. |
| 39 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]", novelised by James Goss, abridged and restructured from the 2015 novelisation. |
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| 41 | !!!2021 |
| 42 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]]", novelised by Creator/RobertShearman. |
| 43 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror The Crimson Horror]]", novelised by Creator/MarkGatiss. |
| 44 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders The Witchfinders]]", novelised by Joy Wilkinson. |
| 45 | * A new version of "The Pirate Planet", again by James Goss, this one adapting the story as-broadcast where the 2017 novelisation adapts Adams' original treatment. |
| 46 | * Creator/EricSaward's "Resurrection of the Daleks" and "Revelation of the Daleks" novelisations in paperback. |
| 47 | * A reissue of the TV Movie novelisation by Gary Russell, slightly revised from the original. |
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| 49 | !!!2022 |
| 50 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii The Fires of Pompeii]]", novelised by James Moran. |
| 51 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E10TheEatersOfLight The Eaters of Light]]", novelised by Rona Munro. |
| 52 | * New versions of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E4TheAndroidsOfTara The Androids of Tara]]", adapted from their audio novelisations by David Fisher, their original scriptwriter. |
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| 54 | !!!2023 |
| 55 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]", novelised by Keith Temple. |
| 56 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]", novelised by Phil Ford. |
| 57 | * ''The Zygon Invasion'', adapting "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion The Zygon Invasion]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]", novelised by Peter Harness (postponed from 2022). |
| 58 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam Kerblam!]]", novelised by Pete [=McTighe=]. |
| 59 | * ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warriors' Gate]] and 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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| 61 | !!!2023-2024[[note]]These three novelisations were released as ebooks in 2023, followed by paperbacks in 2024[[/note]] |
| 62 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]", novelised by Gary Russell. |
| 63 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]", novelised by Mark Morris. |
| 64 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]", novelised by James Goss. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
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| 67 | In 2019, BBC Books released ''The Target Storybook'', an anthology with stories [[{{Pastiche}} pastiching the style of]] the Target novelisations that expanded on events in the TV series, with a story for each of the (fourteen) Doctors including War, plus an additional one for Thirteen's era. It's notable for featuring Terrance Dicks' last ''Doctor Who'' story. |
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| 70 | !!These novels provide examples of: |
| 71 | * ActorAllusion: The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen The Tomb of the Cybermen]]" has the Doctor compare Victoria to [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice Liddell]]. Creator/DeborahWatling had previously played Alice in Creator/DennisPotter's TV play of the same name. The novelisation even goes to the length of making Victoria blonde so she resembles the Tenniel illustrations of Alice. |
| 72 | * AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The Novel of the Film does not end with TARDIS mechanical failure. Instead the Doctor ponders over where to go next, hoping for somewhere exciting — or at least a place with a good pot of tea. |
| 73 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: |
| 74 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E8TheReignOfTerror The Reign of Terror]]", Ian and Barbara are more despondent about their inability to change the course of history than on television. The latter questions whether they learnt anything at all, which Susan refutes by pointing out they aren't the same people who came aboard in Totter's Lane. |
| 75 | ** In "Earthshock", Commander Scott is more visibly shaken by Professor Kyle's death than his grim resignation in televised story. He has to repeatedly order Nyssa to let him out of the TARDIS to help the Doctor. |
| 76 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: |
| 77 | ** In the novelisation of "Shada", Skagra is described as extremely, androgynously beautiful, especially his 'full, sensual lips'. A side character expresses amazement that even though Skagra has a facial scar, it's a [[GoodScarsEvilScars sexy one instead of a disfiguring one]]. |
| 78 | ** Also in the novelisation of "Shada", DiscussedTrope InUniverse when Romana sees the Outlaws, ancient murderers, tyrants and terrorists of Gallifreyan history she used to have nightmares about as a child, based on a children's picture book she used to have called "Our Planet Story". She sees that the real Lady Scintilla is very different to the drawing of her in the book, which portrayed her as a tall, imperious IceQueen, remarking that she's actually short and 'dumpy' -- but she still possesses razor-sharp, blood red FemmeFatalons. |
| 79 | ** In the novelisation of "The Web of Fear", Emil is described as tall and white-haired; in the television version he is short, balding and dark-haired. |
| 80 | * 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]]. |
| 81 | * AdaptationalBadass: |
| 82 | ** In "City of Death", Countess Scarlioni gets a bit more to do than snark and look fabulous -- such as opening up on Romana and the Doctor with a machine gun! |
| 83 | ** In "Earthshock", the Cybermen aboard the freighter prove to be far more resilient to weapons fire than their televisual counterparts, surviving numerous impacts and requiring concentrated blasts to their ventilator units to be bested in combat. |
| 84 | ** In "Warriors of the Deep", the Myrka is described as a kind of "sea dragon", specially bred and adapted by the Silurians with cybernetic technology. It electrocutes its victims as with the televised story, but attacks with a lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power alone. To the Doctor's knowledge, the creature is "almost invincible". |
| 85 | * AdaptationalContextChange: |
| 86 | ** In "Doctor Who and The Crusaders", the Doctor flees the court after Richard accuses him of giving away his plan to Joanna, rather than Richard realising the Doctor is innocent as in the television version. |
| 87 | ** In "The Daleks' Masterplan" novelisation, the scene where Steven confronts Sara about Bret's death is quite different. It takes place in a cave on Mira instead of out in the open and she is more emotional than she is on television. It's because of this that the Doctor leaves to collect wood for a fire as he is made "most uncomfortable" by crying women. |
| 88 | ** In "Doctor Who and the Cybermen", the Cyberman dialogue has been edited in places, in order to make them less emotional. |
| 89 | ** In "The Web of Fear", the Doctor's anger at his friends inadvertently ruining his plan to destroy the Intelligence is reduced somewhat. |
| 90 | ** In "The War Games", Jamie expresses a desire to return home, rather than an open resistance. |
| 91 | ** In "The Claws of Axos", when Jo enters the office to introduce Filer, the Brigadier bellows irritably at her whereas on-screen he is calm. Also, some of Benton's dialogue in the operations room is given to a technician and Jo suspects the Doctor having betrayed them, more confrontational (and much earlier) than on-screen. |
| 92 | ** In "Doctor Who and the Mutants", Cotton's "We'll all be done for!" speech at the end of episode five is turned into a calmer explanation about "The Marshal's arranged another of his little accidents!" |
| 93 | ** In "Planet of the Daleks", Marat describes the Dalek Supreme's rank in awe instead of just describing him to be a member of the Supreme council. |
| 94 | ** In "The Seeds of Doom", the Doctor telling Moberly to amputate Winlett's arm is played a lot less harshly. |
| 95 | ** In "The Robots of Death", two of Zilda's lines are reassigned: Her suggestion of ore raiders is given to Uvanov and her comment about an increased share being no consolation for the deaths is given to Toos. |
| 96 | ** In "The Sun-Makers", one of Goudry's lines is given to another member of the Others and some of the Commander's role is given to an unnamed technician. |
| 97 | ** In "The Invasion of Time", the Doctor's order for Leela to shut up, rather than relaying it to K9 thoughtlessly, she repeats it in outrage and K9 only complies as she gave the order. Also, Andred vows to strike back at the Lord President in front of Leela, rather than after she's gone on ahead with Rodan. |
| 98 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation The Ribos Operation]]", Romana's comment about Unstoffe having an honest face is said to be ironic, rather than the Doctor having to explain to her that he is a crook. Also, Garron's line about dying being the last thing he'll do is given to the Doctor and rewritten to remove much of the humour. |
| 99 | ** In "The Power of Kroll", Duggeen's reaction to Thawns's crack about the Sons of Earth being a crank organisation is more angry than the televised version. |
| 100 | ** In "Warrors' Gate", Romana's farewell to the Doctor is handled differently, with more emotion and is less rushed than the televised version, while K9's fate is presented as a tragedy. |
| 101 | ** In "Earthshock", the Doctor urges Captain Briggs to trust the evidence of the instruments instead of Berger. |
| 102 | ** In "The Twin Dilemma", much of the Doctor's initial dialogue with Azmael is given to Peri. |
| 103 | ** The acid-bath sequence from "Vengeance on Varos" plays out differently in the novelisation - Az attempts to push the Doctor into the acid bath and falls in when he steps aside, then drags Oza in as he tries to pull him out. |
| 104 | ** In "The Two Doctors", Jamie's line "It looks like Chessene's won" is given to the Sixth Doctor. |
| 105 | ** In "Dalek", the Dalek instructs Rose to touch it to ensure that it will not die alone, whereas in the TV story it merely states that it will die alone which encourages Rose to touch it of her own accord. |
| 106 | ** "Night of The Doctor" left the reason Cass' ship was crashing unexplained. The novelisation of "Day of The Doctor" has it being shot down by indiscriminate Time Lord fire, adding slightly more reason for Cass's sheer hatred for Time Lords. |
| 107 | ** 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. |
| 108 | * AdaptationalExplanation: |
| 109 | ** In "The Daleks", the pacifist Thals are under threat of being wiped out by the Daleks but refuse to compromise their ideals, even in self-defence, until Ian proves that they do have things they're willing to fight for by seizing the Thal leader Alydon's fiancée and pretending he's going to trade her to the Daleks for his own safety, which prompts Alydon to punch him in the face. The TV version never explains how a man from a society that has been entirely pacifist for generations came by the idea of punching people, apparently assuming it to be something that all men know instinctively; the novelisation adds a scene in which one of Ian's earlier attempts to bring the Thals around to the idea of constructive violence involved describing and demonstrating the sport of boxing. |
| 110 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]", the blinding flash is qualified to be not the Big Bang, for not even the TARDIS could survive such an event, but instead the birth of the Milky Way Galaxy. |
| 111 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E5TheKeysOfMarinus The Keys of Marinus]]", Yartek is said to have developed a technological immuniser that he distributed amongst his followers rather than the unexplained resistance to the Conscience's pacifying influence of the televised version. |
| 112 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites The Sensorites]]", Maitland's assumption that the travellers come from a century other than the twenty-eighth stems from a commonplace tradition to place astronauts in suspended animation for the long journey between solar systems. |
| 113 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'', the Doctor slices away the web that snares Ian with a slender spar of fallen rock. The trap is noted to be statically charged, explaining the blisters on the schoolteacher's face and arms. |
| 114 | ** "The Time Meddler": |
| 115 | *** Steven making his way through the jungle on Mechanus trying to avoid the fungoids and coming across the TARDIS. (The TV version of "The Chase" and "The Time Meddler" had Steven apparently left behind on Mechanus and then turning up in the TARDIS without a detailed explanation of how he found it.) |
| 116 | *** It's specified that the Monk's anachronistic weaponry was inside his sabotaged TARDIS, making it inaccessible to him. Also, Steven disarmed the Monk's cannons before leaving. |
| 117 | ** In "The Daleks' Masterplan", as the Daleks use taranium to power their time machines, they reveal that they do in fact have some supplies of taranium in their possession, gathered without Mavic Chen's help. However, it is explained that the amount needed to power the Time Destructor is greater than that needed for the time machines, hence why they needed Chen's help in the first place. |
| 118 | ** In the same story, a minor character reflects on having imagined she could work a more glamourous job, specifically imagining herself working with representatives from the planets of Draconia or Alpha Centauri. Neither of these planets would be referenced in the show until the 1970s, in "Frontier in Space" and "The Curse of Peladon" respectively. |
| 119 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]" explains how Monoid One is the leader. He is Monoid One XVII and is a descendant of the original Monoid revolutionary leader, Monoid One I the Great. |
| 120 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]", the Doctor gains access to the Post Office Tower with forged credentials and the fact that he and Brett have a mutual acquaintance in Ian Chesterton. He enters the tower on realising humans are in danger from the War Machine's attack. |
| 121 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E1TheSmugglers The Smugglers]]": |
| 122 | *** It is explained that Kewper contacted Pike because the smugglers' normal boat had been seized by the Revenue men and they were searching for a replacement. |
| 123 | *** Pike learns of Cherub's absence from a pirate named Crow immediately after killing Jamaica and notes they returned to the boat together. |
| 124 | ** In "The Power of the Daleks": |
| 125 | *** The piece of Dalek metal the Doctor has in his possession was given to him by Susan. It is explained that she took it from the Dalek City. |
| 126 | *** The Doctor concludes that the 22nd century Dalek invasion of Earth has not yet taken place, explaining why the colonists are unfamiliar with the threat of the Daleks. |
| 127 | ** "The Underwater Menace": |
| 128 | *** The novelisation gives a deeper motivation for Zaroff's scheme: his wife and daughter died in an accident, and he can't stand the thought of the world going on without them. |
| 129 | *** It is stated by Ara that Zaroff walks through the market place every day to inspect the drill head, thus this is where the Doctor stages his kidnap attempt; in the television story, the only reason he goes through the market is to look for the Doctor. |
| 130 | *** It is explained by Sean that the Atlanteans do not settle on the surface because they consider their ground sacred. |
| 131 | *** It is said that Zaroff saved Thous from a deadly disease thought fatal by the Atlanteans, thus why Thous trusts Zaroff more. |
| 132 | ** In "The Faceless Ones", the Director states that processed humans die and the transference becomes permanent in four weeks, explaining why the originals of the Chameleon Tours staff are left behind at Gatwick. |
| 133 | ** In "The Web of Fear", the Doctor explains his not revealing himself to the soldiers by saying they would arrest or shoot him, giving Jamie further motivation for not revealing his existence to them. |
| 134 | ** In "Fury from the Deep", the Doctor explains that the Weed Creature transported Maggie to the control rig by encasing her in its foam. |
| 135 | ** In "The Seeds of Death", it's explained how Jamie and Phipps save the Doctor from being T-Matted into space. They do so by removing the panels from behind the T-Mat cubicle and replacing them whilst Fewsham distracts the Warrior on guard with adjustments. (Most of this is evident in the televised story, however, and as there Fewsham is unaware of what they are doing.) |
| 136 | ** In "Inferno", it is explained that the Doctor plans to use a power surge from the project's reactor to overload the blocks placed on the TARDIS. |
| 137 | ** In "Terror of the Autons", the Brigadier suggests mass producing the machine the Doctor used to destroy the Autons before but the Doctor points out it has to be used at close range and the Autons may have evolved a defence. |
| 138 | ** In "The Mind of Evil", there are a few extra lines of dialogue and thoughts to cover minor {{plot hole}}s: Summers worries about Barnham being left behind in the infirmary during the attempted break-out and the Brigadier reflects that he cannot involve the army in liberating Stangmoor Prison for political reasons (presumably the secrecy surrounding the Thunderbolt). |
| 139 | ** In "The Time Monster", the lack of casualties in the Roundhead battle is explained by Yates ordering his men to fire above their heads. |
| 140 | ** "Planet of the Spiders": |
| 141 | *** Lupton's spider explains he cannot use the web to stun his pursuers because they are too many and too distant. |
| 142 | *** Lupton offers to take a patrol to search for Sarah, explaining his appearance in the village. |
| 143 | *** The Doctor says he knows Clegg is a psychic because he can sense his vibrations. |
| 144 | *** Barnes states Lupton was strong enough to perform the ceremony on his own, presumably to explain how he transported to Metebelis. |
| 145 | ** A major plot hole is filled in with "Genesis of the Daleks": onscreen Sarah is told she and the other Kaled and Muto prisoners of the Thals will die from distronic toxaemia because of the explosives they are using to fill the Thals' rocket. Onscreen they finish the job, Sarah is rescued, and it's never mentioned again. In the book she only does one shift filling the rocket with explosives before it's done, and she wonders whether her limited exposure will keep her from getting sick (and apparently it does). |
| 146 | ** In "Planet of Evil," it is explained that the liquid that Sorenson is drinking is a special elixir of his own devising to stave off his transformations (which he suspects are happening due to his exposure to anti-matter), and that he can't make any more. We're never told onscreen exactly what it is and why it works. |
| 147 | ** In "Pyramids of Mars", Ernie Clements going to the lodge is explained as him looking for Laurence for help. |
| 148 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]", several {{Plot Hole}}s are filled in, such as what happened to Chedaki (who disappears without explanation about an episode before the end of the televised story). |
| 149 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]": |
| 150 | *** Sarah surviving the blast in the quarry is explained as her finding shelter under an overhang. |
| 151 | *** It is explained that Watson keeps a gun in case of a terrorist attack. |
| 152 | ** In "The Face of Evil," it is explained that the Doctor met the ancestors of the Sevateem and attempted to repair Xoanon after taking a brief trip in the TARDIS not long after his regeneration, during the events of "Robot." Onscreen it is never explained exactly when this visit happened. This also explains why his attempted repair goes so wrong: he's still in post-regenerative shock, so using his own mind as a template for Xoanon is just really bad timing. |
| 153 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock Horror of Fang Rock]]", the reason Vince burns Lord Palmerdale's bribe money following his death is because he is concerned that he may be accused of murder should he be found to have the money. |
| 154 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld Underworld]]", the subject of the Doctor's painting aboard the TARDIS is left ambiguous on television. In the novelisation he mentions that he is repainting a spare control room in aquamarine blue, after the TARDIS's own refusal to redecorate herself. |
| 155 | ** In "The Invasion of Time", it is revealed that the Doctor first learnt of the Vardans' attempted invasion of Gallifrey via a telepathic warning from the Matrix. Also, the hole the Doctor made in the force-field is regenerating itself, explaining the Sontarans' need to shut it down. |
| 156 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon The Horns of Nimon]]" contains an extended prologue that explains how Soldeed first met the Nimon - he's sent inside the Nimon vessel at gunpoint to make First Contact because he's the closest thing they have to a scientist (he's just a technician). After the Nimon give him the power to take over what's left of the Skonnon Empire, he gets delusions of grandeur and tries to act like a real scientist, which throws him for a loop when the Doctor shows up. Also, when Seth shoots at Soldeed, he hits the console, explaining why the controls are jammed. |
| 157 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks Destiny of the Daleks]]", the environment of Skaro is said to be the remains of the old Kaled city with a concrete floor, explaining why the dead prisoners are buried under rocks. |
| 158 | ** "City of Death": |
| 159 | *** Scaroth's uncannily convincing human masks are explained as technology he scavenged from a Nestene invasion in human prehistory (which failed because humans hadn't invented plastic yet). |
| 160 | *** The Doctor's ability to accurately pilot the TARDIS to Florence and then to the site of Scaroth's ship explosion, despite being fitted with a randomiser (and being hard to steer even without the randomiser), is hand-waved as being down to the TARDIS locking on to the time shenanigans that Scarlioni/Scaroth are engaging in. |
| 161 | *** The Doctor gives the remaining Mona Lisa to Duggan at the end; the televised version is vague as to what happened to it. |
| 162 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]]" answers the question of how Meglos' species would be able to advance technologically as immobile cacti by their ability to take over the minds of other beings, implying that, despite what was shown, they are able to do it without technological adjuncts. |
| 163 | ** "Warriors' Gate" reveals the fate of the rogue Gundan and how the slavers ended up in the void. |
| 164 | ** "Four to Doomsday": |
| 165 | *** It is explained that the TARDIS only travelled a short distance because Tegan failed to use the power booster. |
| 166 | ** In "Kinda", it is explained that Hindle turned the monitor off in order to avoid distraction, hence him missing Aris' attack. |
| 167 | ** In "The Visitation", it's explained that the Doctor realizes who the Terileptils are because they left their tag on their escape capsule; this was not explained in the televised story. |
| 168 | ** In "Earthshock", the sudden and unexplained reactivation of the Cyber-Leader's secondary garrison is explained as a side-effect of the secret passageway to the Cybermen's makeshift control centre slamming shut, setting the delicate instrumentation of their equipment into action and reviving the warriors. |
| 169 | ** In "Arc of Infinity", the Matrix Crown on Gallifrey is explained as only to be used in strict emergencies as direct consultation with the "strange combination of group-mind and race-memory" is extremely dangerous and stressful to the wearer. Omega's convulsive cry is clarified to be the result of his servant's disintegration, rather than a side-effect of the ongoing transformation. |
| 170 | ** In "Snakedance", the Doctor explains that "Sumaran Empire" translates to "Empire of the Mara". It is established that Nyssa remembers Tegan read out the co-ordinates for Manussa but keeps quiet to keep her out of trouble. |
| 171 | ** In "Enlightenment", Wrack explains that the drink she gives Turlough is muscatel and she ripped the taste from the mind of a buccaneer captain. |
| 172 | ** In "The King's Demons", it is established that Sir Gilles brought the Iron Maiden to the castle. It is also mentioned that the gaoler, named as Cedric, was Sir Geoffrey's steward until Sir Gilles gave him his new position. Also, Turlough is with Sir Geoffrey when he is wounded and helps him to the barn, making more sense of his later claim that he tried to help him. |
| 173 | ** In "Warriors of the Deep", Tegan's foot is undamaged when trapped under the heavy door "by a kind of freak accident". Also, It is specified that the marine guards normally function as radiation crew, explaining their uniforms. |
| 174 | ** In "The Awakening", Wolsey's sudden appearance to capture Tegan is explained as him stepping out of an alley. |
| 175 | ** In "The Caves of Androzani", the lack of soldiers other than Chellak approaching Jek's base is explained as the survivors having pulled back to avoid the mud burst. Also, the motor sound that leads Morgus and Stotz to Jek's hideout is explained as him turning the extractor fan back on to keep Peri cool. |
| 176 | ** In "Vengeance on Varos", the cannibals are explained as the relatives of those executed in the Punishment Dome, left to fend for themselves when they have nobody to support them. |
| 177 | ** In "The Mark of the Rani", it is explained that the Master instructed Luke to lure Peri and Stephenson to the dell as bait for the Doctor. |
| 178 | ** In "The Two Doctors", it is made clear that Oscar and Anita are on their way to summon help when they first summon the Sixth Doctor. Also, Jamie's attack on Peri causes the Doctor to smash a glass tube in the box he is working on, explaining the gas jet. |
| 179 | ** In "Timelash": |
| 180 | *** The Doctor explains that he "turned the TARDIS' polarity into a field of negative energy" to attract the bendalypse warhead away from Karfel. When it impacted, they simply dematerialised.[[note]]This was actually a case of the writer reinstating something from the original script -- the explanation was inexplicably removed by the script editor and reduced to the Doctor promising to "explain later" in the televised version[[/note]] |
| 181 | *** The small population of the planet is explained by most of them being wiped out by a famine. The Doctor showed them how to produce food artificially and, along with Maylin Makrif, negotiated the deal with the Bandrils to supply them with grain in exchange for power cells. |
| 182 | *** The Doctor explains how he and Herbert survived the Bendalypse warhead hitting the TARDIS: They time-shifted an hour into the future, with the warhead only destroying living matter. |
| 183 | ** "Time and the Rani" opens with a prologue explaining how the Sixth Doctor regenerated -- he banged his head on the TARDIS console. |
| 184 | *** It is explained that Sarn escapes because she is worried of being punished for helping the Doctor. |
| 185 | *** An explanation is given for how the Rani escaped her plight at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E3TheMarkOfTheRani The Mark of the Rani]]": As the tyrannosaur grew to full size, its spine snapped against the roof of her TARDIS. |
| 186 | ** In "Dragonfire", the ridiculous cliffhanger for part one is elaborated on -- the Doctor is using his umbrella to try and reach a ledge lower down the cliff, but slips and loses his footing.[[note]]This was the intention, but it is not clear onscreen since the ledge is not visible, meaning in the televised version it looks like the Doctor is lowering himself down a cliff for no reason[[/note]] |
| 187 | *** Stellar's mother is dragged away by the fleeing crowd, explaining why she is left behind. |
| 188 | ** In "Battlefield", Excalibur's signal causes a storm, which is what grounds the convoy. Plus, Ancelyn is specified as the one who killed the Knight Commander. |
| 189 | ** "Ghost Light": |
| 190 | *** It is established that Matthews saw Josiah and Gwendoline in London and has come to Gabriel Chase partly because he wants to save her innocence. |
| 191 | *** It is explained that Josiah has ''The Times'' delivered to Control as a taunt since he knows she won't understand it. |
| 192 | *** It is explained that Mrs Pritchard tricked Redvers into wandering into Light's spaceship, causing his insanity. |
| 193 | ** In "The Curse of Fenric": |
| 194 | *** Miss Hardaker, the prudish old woman who is billeting the evacuees, states that as a younger woman she got pregnant after a reckless visit to Maiden's Point with a boy she knew, hence her bitterness about the subject in the present day. |
| 195 | *** The refugees are said to have arrived that day, explaining why Bates mistakes Ace for one. |
| 196 | ** The final cut of the TV Movie never quite explains how Chang Lee knows the ambulance driver's name is Bruce, nor why he would have been allowed to travel in the ambulance with the Doctor. The novel features a scene in which the police who arrive at the scene of the shooting interrogate Lee and determine that he might be of help to the paramedics. A policeman introduces Lee to the paramedic, who introduces himself as Bruce Gerhardt. Bruce's last name is never revealed on-screen. |
| 197 | ** "Rose": |
| 198 | *** The Doctor blows up Henrik's because the building is infested with plastic. |
| 199 | *** Clive tells Rose that his researches into the Doctor's activities began with his own father's involvement in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the Shoreditch Incident]]. |
| 200 | *** The Doctor tells Rose that the Time War rewrote the Nestene's history so it is now made of plastic instead of just controlling it. |
| 201 | *** 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. |
| 202 | ** In "Twice Upon a Time", the First Doctor’s uncharacteristic behaviour is explained as a ploy to get on the nerves of the Twelfth Doctor, as he didn’t like him. |
| 203 | ** "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]]. |
| 204 | ** "The Church on Ruby Road": |
| 205 | *** The Doctor explains the Goblins are a result of the Toymaker's incursion in "The Giggle". |
| 206 | *** 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. |
| 207 | * AdaptationalHeroism: |
| 208 | ** In the TV version of "Shada", Salyavin is a reformed villain; in the novelisation, he was never actually a villain at all, but just misunderstood. |
| 209 | ** In "Rose", Clive deliberately slows the Autons down so his family can escape. |
| 210 | * AdaptationalJerkass: |
| 211 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion'', Whitaker is portrayed as much more selfish and arrogant, and as having a far more hostile relationship with Butler, than on television, with his main priority being proving his theories work. |
| 212 | ** In the novelisation of "The King's Demons", the relationship between the Doctor and Tegan is more antagonistic than it is portrayed on screen. In turn, the Doctor is patronising, condescending and treats Tegan like a child. |
| 213 | ** In the novelisation of "The Twin Dilemma", Hugo Lang is a less sympathetic character than on screen, dreaming of becoming a celebrity by rescuing the twins without any real personal risk, considering abandoning the Doctor and Peri on Jaconda and staying behind because he thinks Slarn will pay him highly to be his bodyguard. |
| 214 | ** In the novelisation of "Mindwarp", the Doctor is more obviously bloodthirsty after being exposed to the mindwarp machine, even encouraging Yrcanos to hurt Peri. |
| 215 | * AdaptationalJobChange: |
| 216 | ** In the novelisation of "Death to the Daleks", Railton is said to be a scientist rather than a marine captain, although he is still specified as being senior to Galloway. |
| 217 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Giant Robot'', Jellicoe is said to be Thinktank's Public Relations Officer rather than Hilda Winters' assistant. |
| 218 | ** In "The Curse of Fenric", the marines that Jean and Phyllis tease and who are later killed by the Russians are replaced with a group of Home Guard, who Miss Hardaker asked to look for the pair. |
| 219 | ** In the novelisation of "Survival", Paterson is a police sergeant as opposed to being a Territorial Army sergeant, as originally intended in the TV story. (The TV version had an ExecutiveVeto against the negative depiction of a police officer -- in the past even scenes with villains '''impersonating''' police officers had got the show in trouble with MoralGuardians, in "Terror of the Autons" and "Resurrection of the Daleks".) |
| 220 | ** In the novelisation of "Rose", Wilson's position at Henrik's is Senior Caretaker instead of Chief Electrical Officer. |
| 221 | * AdaptationalKarma: In "The Daleks' Masterplan", both Chen and Karlton are exposed as traitors when Marc Cory's recorded message is found to have been in Bret Vyon's possession. Karlton is arrested by Senator Diksen and put on trial for high treason. |
| 222 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: The novelisation of "Rose" tones down Rose's flightiness. She speaks to Jackie on the phone after the massacre instead of hanging up when she answers and is less dismissive of Mickey at the end, with their conversation ending after her "Thank you". |
| 223 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The Moment's character is altered slightly in "The Day of the Doctor", and brought into more morally grey territory; it expresses that it would enjoy destroying the Time Lords and Daleks, but refrains due to its conscience. In the original episode, it is never expressed by the Moment that it has any desire to activate. |
| 224 | * AdaptationalSexuality: |
| 225 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Power of the Daleks]]" goes out of its way to give Lesterson, who in the serial was MarriedToTheJob and [[AdmiringTheAbomination seems to display a mild sexual fascination with the Daleks if anything]], a crush on Janley that he tries to ignore. It seems to be mostly there so Janley's beauty can be described through Lesterson's internal monologue. |
| 226 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" makes Professor Whitaker into a giggling SissyVillain implied very heavily to be gay (such as gushing over how when he masters time travel he will collect Creator/OscarWilde and Creator/NoelCoward from history to keep to himself, and saying admiring things about the physique of the tied-up Doctor). His onscreen portrayal was not at all like this. |
| 227 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" also gives NamedByTheAdaptation VictimOfTheWeek David an internal monologue where he thinks about going to a gay club and worries that being a Cilla Black fan is a bit stereotypical. Part of the reason he gives the VillainOfTheWeek a lift is because he finds him attractive. |
| 228 | * AdaptationalTimespanChange: |
| 229 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Giant Robot'', the Fourth Doctor spends several days in sick bay, rather than a few minutes. |
| 230 | ** In "Pyramids of Mars", Sarah and Laurence hide the Doctor in the priest hole overnight after he is knocked out, with Scarman's confrontation with Warlock taking place the following morning. |
| 231 | ** In "Black Orchid", it is specified that three days pass between George's death and the TARDIS departing, and there is no mention of the crew keeping their costumes. |
| 232 | * AdaptationalUgliness: The book adaptation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" gives Butler (played by an unblemished Martin Jarvis on TV) a [[RedRightHand disfiguring facial scar]] for the purpose of a scene which called for the Doctor to observe him setting a bomb -- the audience had to know the character was Butler, but the Doctor hadn't met him yet and didn't know who he was. Giving him a scar gave him something striking that the Doctor could describe him by. |
| 233 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 234 | ** In "The Massacre", the Abbot is considerably more antagonistic and a direct threat to both the Doctor and Steven, believing them to be agents of either the Huguenots or Satanic powers. |
| 235 | ** In "Mindwarp", the Doctor is more obviously bloodthirsty after being exposed to the mindwarp machine, even encouraging Yrcanos to hurt Peri. |
| 236 | ** In "The Curse of Fenric", Nurse Crane is implied to be a Soviet agent. |
| 237 | * AdaptationDyeJob: |
| 238 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen The Tomb of the Cybermen]]" makes Victoria blonde. |
| 239 | ** In "The Daleks' Master Plan", Karlton was bald. In the novelisation, he has grey hair. |
| 240 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]" describes Liz as having red hair. |
| 241 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]", Anat has long hair. In the novelisation, she is described and illustrated as having short hair here. However, her hair on television is at most shoulder length and, while not accurately depicting her bouffant, the hair in the illustrations is not much longer. |
| 242 | ** In the novelisation of "Death to the Daleks", Jill is stated to be blonde. On screen, she has red hair. |
| 243 | ** In "The Pirate Planet", the Captain has a beard, half of which is robotic. |
| 244 | ** In "Warriors of the Deep", Vorshak is described as dark-haired. On screen, he was greying. |
| 245 | ** In "Frontios", Plantagenet is described as having white hair, rather than being dark haired as on screen. |
| 246 | ** In the novelisation of "The Curse of Fenric", Jean is described as blonde. On screen, she has dark hair. |
| 247 | ** In the TV movie, the Eighth Doctor has brown hair instead of black and Grace notices his left eye to be a darker shade of blue than the right. Lee also notices his eyes to be two shades. The Second Doctor is described as having grey green eyes while he usually is described as blue-eyed. |
| 248 | * AdaptationInducedPlotHole: |
| 249 | ** ''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. |
| 250 | ** ''Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion'' omits nearly all the material of the Doctor on the run from the authorities, meaning there is no explanation for why Finch turns up at UNIT headquarters believing the Doctor to have been captured and returned there. (On television, the Doctor sends a fake radio message to that effect.) Also, Whitaker and Butler have extra dialogue after their first meeting with Yates implying he does not know the full extent of their plan; despite this, he is fully aware of it when confronting the Doctor, the Brigadier and Benton, as on television. |
| 251 | ** The adaptation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" has an utter howler when a character shows up to watch the Doctor being tortured, who was last encountered having been strangled to death. |
| 252 | * AdaptationNameChange: |
| 253 | ** Susan Foreman becomes Susan English in "Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks" |
| 254 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]", Carl Tyler is renamed Jim Tyler, while Jack Craddock is renamed Bill Craddock. |
| 255 | ** David Campbell is called UsefulNotes/DavidCameron at the start of "Doctor Who and the Crusaders", predating the birth of the British prime minister of the same name. |
| 256 | ** In the novelisation of "The Gunfighters", Kate Fisher is renamed Kate Elder. |
| 257 | ** Several novelisations present Telos as the Cybermen homeworld, and Mondas as a later colony, instead of the other way around. (The TV series eventually decided to go with the Cybermen originating independently on multiple worlds, including Mondas and Telos, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls"]].) |
| 258 | ** When Creator/TerranceDicks novelised "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen The Abominable Snowmen]]", he made slight changes to the names of characters - Padmasambhava became Padmasambvha, Songsten became Songtsen, Thonmi became Thomni and so on - apparently on the advice of Creator/BarryLetts who, as a follower of Buddhism, considered what Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln had done was unnecessary and risked offence (the names were real historical figures). |
| 259 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld The Enemy of the World]]", two of the gunmen in the hovercraft are renamed; Anton is named Tony and Curly is named Tibor. |
| 260 | ** In the novelisation of "The Web of Fear", Julius Silverstein is renamed "Emil Julius" in order to remove the offensive Jewish stereotype. |
| 261 | ** In the novelisation of "The Invasion", International Electromatics is renamed International Electromatix. The logo is also changed from a representation of the letters to a lightning bolt insignia and the company has a private commune. Planet 14 is referred to as Planet Sigma Gamma 14. The missile base is renamed from Henlow Downs to Henlow Flats. Major Branwell becomes Squadron Leader Bradwell and Sergeant Peters becomes a flight lieutenant. (These are RAF ranks rather than the army ones given on screen.) |
| 262 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion'', John Ransome is renamed Harry Ransome. |
| 263 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'', Dr. Quinn's first name is changed from Charles to Matthew, while Major Baker is renamed Major Barker and Masters' first name is changed from Edward to Frederick. The name of the hospital is changed from Wenley Hospital to St Mary's Cottage Hospital. |
| 264 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath The Ambassadors of Death]]", reporter John Wakefield is renamed Michael Wakefield, possibly in tribute to the actor who played him in the televised story, Creator/MichaelWisher. |
| 265 | ** In the novelisation of "Terror of the Autons", Rossini's real name is given in the novelisation as Lew Ross, instead of Lew Russell. The name of his circus is changed from International Circus to Circus Rossini. |
| 266 | ** In the novelisation of "The Claws of Axos", Pigbin Josh is renamed Old Josh. |
| 267 | ** In the novelisation of "The Daemons", Jim is renamed Josh Wilkins and Tom Girton is renamed Tom Wilkins. |
| 268 | ** In the novelisation of "Day of the Daleks", Auderly House is named Austerly House, to avoid confusion with the real life Auderly House. Monia is renamed Moni. |
| 269 | ** "Planet of the Spiders" included references to Dr. Sullivan, but in the book this becomes Dr. Sweetman. Also, Land is renamed Lands. |
| 270 | ** In the novelisation of "Pyramids of Mars", the Osirans are renamed Osirians. |
| 271 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl Image of the Fendahl]]", David Mitchell's first name is changed to Harry. |
| 272 | ** In the novelisation of "The Ribos Operation", Cyrrhenis Minima is renamed Cyrrhenis Minimis. |
| 273 | ** In the novelisation of "Black Orchid", Charles Cranleigh becomes Charles Percival Beauchamp, Tenth Marquess of Cranleigh, with his brother George Beauchamp having been the ninth marquess. Charles' friend Smutty Thomas is renamed Smutty Handicombe. |
| 274 | ** In the novelisation of "Earthshock", Carson is renamed Buchanan. |
| 275 | ** In the novelisation of "Planet of Fire", Curt is renamed Carl. |
| 276 | ** In the novelisation of "Attack of the Cybermen", Threst is renamed Thrust. |
| 277 | ** In the novelisation of "The Two Doctors", the name of Oscar's restaurant is changed from Las Cadenas to La Piranella. |
| 278 | ** In the novelisation of "The Mysterious Planet", the L1 is referred to simply as the Service Robot. |
| 279 | ** In the novelisation of "Mindwarp", the third Mentor is named Marne. |
| 280 | ** In the novelisation of "Dragonfire", Anderson is renamed Eisenstein. |
| 281 | ** In the novelisation of "Silver Nemesis", Mrs. Remington is called Lavinia P. Hackensack and is said to be from Connecticut instead of Virginia. |
| 282 | ** In the novelisation of "The Curse of Fenric", Prozorov is renamed Trofimov. |
| 283 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: |
| 284 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs The Aztecs]]", Ixta is said to be Topau's grandson, instead of his son. |
| 285 | ** In "The Robots of Death", Uvanov has feelings for Zilda, adding "we could be friends" to their conversation, and stroking her hair after she is found dead. |
| 286 | ** "Remembrance of the Daleks" talks of a blossoming romance between Group Captain Gilmore and Rachel Johnson. |
| 287 | ** In the TV movie novelisation, Grace is just engaged instead of married. Similarly, Shelly Curtis only has a construction worker as a fiancé instead of husband. Dr. Salinger is depicted as at least somewhat romantically attracted to Grace, offering to take Brian's place in her life. |
| 288 | ** In "Dalek", Bywater and Diana Goddard were in a relationship. |
| 289 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: |
| 290 | ** In "Planet of Giants", the cat is described as "ginger" rather than tortoiseshell. |
| 291 | ** In "Arc of Infinity", the Ergon is described as a "giant walking lizard". On telrvision, it infamously resembled a large chicken. |
| 292 | * AdaptationTitleChange: |
| 293 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" was renamed ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks''. |
| 294 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi''. |
| 295 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Cybermen''. |
| 296 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead from Space]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion''. |
| 297 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters''. |
| 298 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon''. |
| 299 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Space War''. |
| 300 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion''. |
| 301 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Giant Robot''. |
| 302 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster''. |
| 303 | * AdaptedOut: |
| 304 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'', Hrhoonda is replaced by Challis. |
| 305 | ** Steven's stuffed panda mascot, [=HiFi=], does not appear in the novelisation of "The Chase", but confusingly features in the following book, "The Time Meddler". |
| 306 | ** Professor Webster is omitted from the novelisation of "The Daleks' Master Plan". |
| 307 | ** Charles de Teligny is omitted from the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre The Massacre]]". |
| 308 | ** The sonic screwdriver doesn't appear in the novelisation of "Fury from the Deep", ironically the story it debuted in. |
| 309 | ** Jimmy, one of the reporters from "Spearhead from Space" is absent from the novelisation. |
| 310 | ** ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'' omits Sergeant Hart, Private Wright, Private Upton and Corporal Nutting. |
| 311 | ** Browrose is omitted from the "Terror of the Autons" novelisation, with most of his role going to the Brigadier. |
| 312 | ** The Whomobile does not appear at all in ''Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion''; the Doctor instead uses a borrowed army motorbike, which was to have been his mode of transport in the original scripts for the televised version. |
| 313 | ** Phillips is omitted from ''Doctor Who and the Giant Robot''. |
| 314 | ** Amelia Ducat's plot from "The Seeds of Doom" is largely excised due to Creator/PhilipHinchcliffe disliking the character. Some fans objected vocally to this decision. |
| 315 | ** Paroli is omitted entirely from "Warriors of the Deep", with some of his role being given to various unnamed guards. |
| 316 | ** Zuko is effectively omitted from "Planet of Fire", with his role given to various unnamed Unbelievers. |
| 317 | ** In "Delta and the Bannermen", Burton has a dog. However there is no mention of this dog in the novelisation. |
| 318 | * AgeLift: |
| 319 | ** Keith Perry is described as being in his mid-twenties in the novelisation of "The Evil of the Daleks", but onscreen he looks older. |
| 320 | ** The middle-aged policeman in "The Invasion" is described as young in the novelisation. |
| 321 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'', Meredith is descirbed as a good-looking young man, while in the televised serial he is older. |
| 322 | ** In the novelisation of "Planet of Fire", Sorasta is described as young, rather than middle-aged as on screen. |
| 323 | ** In "Delta and the Bannermen", Burton has a dog. There is no mention of this dog in the novelisation. |
| 324 | ** In the novelisation of "The Curse of Fenric", Wainwright is described as "young", rather than middle-aged. |
| 325 | ** In the Novel of the Film, Nurses Angela Wheeler and Curtis are described somewhat in opposition to how they were actually cast. In the movie, Curtis is obviously older and she has more lines in the final cut. In the book, Russell describes Wheeler as the "senior" nurse. |
| 326 | * AliceAllusion: |
| 327 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen The Tomb of the Cybermen]]" makes Victoria blonde, to resemble the Tenniel version of Alice. |
| 328 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]", the Master of the Land dresses Zoe as Alice, so that the narrative sends her tumbling down a deep hole. |
| 329 | * AllThereInTheManual: Some stories, particularly "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warriors' Gate]]" and about half of the Seventh Doctor's later adventures, are much easier to follow in the novelisations than they were on screen. One particularly notorious example is the novelisation to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]", which in the TV version had a scene wherein the Doctor hangs off a cliff by his umbrella for what appears to be absolutely no reason whatsoever; the novel explains that the Doctor is using it to try and reach a ledge lower down, but slips and loses his footing. |
| 330 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars The Pyramids of Mars]]" makes it clear that Sutekh is so powerful, that if he gets loose, not even the full power of the Time Lords will be able to stop him. It took the combined efforts of seven hundred and forty one of his fellow Phaester Osirians to imprison him the first time - Sutekh is ''that'' powerful. |
| 331 | * AmbiguousGender: In the novelisation of "Rose", Clive has a picture of a presumably future Doctor who's a wheelchair bound child of unknown gender. |
| 332 | * AMFMCharacterization: In "Shada", one of the undergraduate students is wearing a Music/JethroTull shirt, David Taylor's car radio plays "Love of the Loved" by Music/CillaBlack and Professor Chronotis owns a Music/BonnieTyler cassette tape. |
| 333 | * AnachronismStew: The novelisation of "The Time Warrior" includes a reference to Irongron's kitchen staff peeling potatoes, centuries before potatoes were introduced to Europe. |
| 334 | * AndIMustScream: Kerensky's death in the novelisation of "City of Death". He's aged to death in the episode but in the novel the process is told from his point of view. He watches years go by as the room around him stays the same. He even writes the formula for a field interface stabilizer which could get him out, but he's powerless to use it. It's said that he's eventually killed by sheer boredom. |
| 335 | * AndThisIsFor: In "The Two Doctors", the Sixth Doctor's dispatch of Shockeye is altered in emphasis. Rather than a postmortem quip of "Your just desserts," he mutters the less ambiguous: "That was for Oscar." |
| 336 | * AntagonistInMourning: In "The Daemons", the Master is upset when he thinks he killed the Doctor. |
| 337 | * AppealToObscurity: In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians The Silurians]]", a scientist uses this excuse to keep quiet about the Silurians, rather than go public and find his place in history obscured by journalists and politicians, by mentioning the controversy over who invented the radio (it wasn't Marconi). |
| 338 | * ArcWords: In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", Mickey's in a band with his flatmates, which they decide to call "Bad Wolf". |
| 339 | ** ''The Star Beast'' has "[[CallBack Binary]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Binary]] [[BrokenRecord Binary]]" |
| 340 | * ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The back cover of ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'' boasts that the story contains "a 40 ft. high Tyrannosaurus rex, the biggest, most savage mammal which ever trod the earth!" No T. rex fossil ever found has been that big; the largest one is 40 feet ''long'' from nose to tail. And then there's that other bit — while most of us aren't experts on the subject, we could probably tell you that T. rex was not a mammal... |
| 341 | * AscendedExtra: |
| 342 | ** Ascaris, the mute assassin in "The Romans", continues to appear in the second half of the story, accidentally killing the Centurion, being pursued into the arena by lions unwittingly unleashed by the Doctor during Ian and Delos' gladiatorial fight, and fleeing Rome during the Great Fire, with the epilogue stating he is currently working on Hadrian's Wall and could be blamed for the fire. The novelisation also makes him a legionary first class and Locusta's son. |
| 343 | ** The novelisation of "The Myth Makers" elevates Cyclops, Odysseus's servant, to narrator and a much more omnipresent character. Not only does he survive, but he's blinded by the blow that killed him in the TV show, and goes on to become the blind poet Homer. |
| 344 | ** Haines is given some lines in the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]". In the televised episode, Haines is no more than a non-speaking extra. |
| 345 | ** Forester, Bruce's deputy, has more lines in the novelisation of "The Enemy of the World", as opposed to none in the televised story. |
| 346 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'', Travis, a minor technichan, gets a bigger part. She is key to stopping the facility's nuclear reactor from overloading; in the original TV story, the Doctor figures it out on his own. |
| 347 | ** The army photographer in ''Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion'' is given some lines. On-screen, he is a non-speaking extra. |
| 348 | ** In "The Horns of Nimon", an unnamed Anethan girl is given a small role, explaining to the Nimon what happened to the missing hymetusite. |
| 349 | * 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. |
| 350 | * TheAtoner: The novelisation of "The Daleks' Master Plan" plays up this aspect for Sara and makes it a big part of her character. She is haunted by nightmares of her brother's final moments and continually beats herself up over the fact that she blindly believed Mavic Chen when he said that Bret was a traitor. While she does genuinely want to stop the Daleks and Mavic Chen from destroying the universe, a major secondary reason is that she doesn't want the death of Bret to be in vain. |
| 351 | * AuthorCatchPhrase: |
| 352 | ** Terrance Dicks had many stock phrases that were repeatedly deployed in his novelisations; for instance, the Fifth Doctor was always "a young man with a pleasant open face", and that noise the TARDIS makes was invariably "a wheezing, groaning sound". |
| 353 | ** In Creator/ChristopherHBidmead's novelisations, the TARDIS makes "a whirring, chuffing sound". |
| 354 | ** In two of Nigel Robinson's contributions to the series, he refers to Susan as looking "Oriental" or "Asiatic," which can be fairly jarring to readers several decades on. |
| 355 | * BackportedDevelopment: Novelisations released after 2006 have Doctors faced with or coming out of regeneration mentioning the RunningGag of the Doctor wanting to be ginger, something only established with 2005's "The Christmas Invasion". |
| 356 | * BatmanGambit: According to the "Warriors' Gate" novelisation, Biroc set up the events of the entire story, simply by causing the TARDIS and the privateer to land at the gateway and then letting events take their natural course. |
| 357 | * BeigeProse: Many of the less inspired novelisations. |
| 358 | * BelatedHappyEnding: "The Mind Robber" novelisation has an aside about Zoe joking about her adventures 'long afterwards' -- implying she was eventually cured of the LaserGuidedAmnesia inflicted on her when she parted from the Doctor. |
| 359 | * BloodierAndGorier: |
| 360 | ** In "The Reign of Terror", Barbara's rebuke of the gaoler's advances leaves a livid gash in his cheek from where her ring caught the skin. Also, Robespierre's maiming is depicted with "blood, teeth and fragments of jawbone [spurting] out between his clawing fingers." His pistol is flung from his hands into the ceiling where it discharges, creating a downpour of glass fragments from the chandelier to the delight of the jeering mob. |
| 361 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders'', El Akir manages to inflict several strokes of his lash on Barbara before Ian rescues her. |
| 362 | ** Fariah's death in "The Enemy of the World" novelisation is considerably more graphic than the televised version. |
| 363 | ** The novelisation of "The Invasion" adds a scene where Packer strikes Jamie across the face upon recapturing him at IE, causing him to bleed. |
| 364 | ** In the novelisation of "Day of the Daleks", the Doctor's wrists are said to be bleeding after he cuts the ropes tying his hands together in Styles' wine cellar. |
| 365 | ** Lupton's fate in "Planet of the Spiders" is depicted more gruesomely in the novel. |
| 366 | ** In "The Ark in Space", Noah's transformation into a Wirnn is considerably more grotesque, with a hideous "crack like a gigantic seed pod bursting, his whole head [splitting] open [as] a fountain of green froth erupted and ran sizzling down the radiation suit." |
| 367 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]", Davros explodes upon being exterminated. |
| 368 | ** In "Earthshock", the Cyber-Leader emits a "desperate choking sound [as] sticky black bubbles [start] frothing out of the grille," as the gold from Adric's badge clogs his ventilator unit during his final confrontation with the Doctor. Rather than being shredded, a portion of Adric's badge is impaled in the Cyberleader's chest unit. |
| 369 | ** Much of the violence and gore of "The Two Doctors" has been exacerbated in the novelisation, featuring grisly details of the duty officer's acidulous murder, the bullet-ridden corpses of massacred scientists, the sanguineous method in which Chessene reads the Dona Arana's mind, the Sontarans' merciless deaths, etc. |
| 370 | ** In the novelisation of "Rose", the Auton invasion is more gruesome, and includes decapitations, where the Autons form their hands into sharp blades. |
| 371 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: |
| 372 | ** In "The Invasion", the Second Doctor addresses Turner as "young man", a phrase more likely to come from his first incarnation. |
| 373 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Giant Robot'', the Doctor addresses Harry as "my boy", a phrase not normally associated with his fourth incarnation. |
| 374 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: |
| 375 | ** ''Doctor Who and the Sunmakers'', novelised by Terrance Dicks, depicts the rebellious citizens as immediately feeling guilty and regretful after they throw Hade off the roof (as opposed to joyous cheering in the original "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]") because Dicks felt that an all-ages show shouldn't condone the casual murder of helpless prisoners, no matter how villainous. %%Note that the difference in title is deliberate: the TV story has "Sun Makers" as two words, the novelisation as one. |
| 376 | ** Dicks' ''Doctor Who and the Web of Fear'' removes the anti-Semitic undertones of the first episode, mainly by changing the name of the avaricious Silverstein to something less obviously Jewish. |
| 377 | * BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: ''Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon'', the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]", adds extra details about life on Overindustrialised Future Earth; one of the mining ship's officers recalls how the faceless megacorporation he works for "takes care" of its employees, arranging their accommodation, education, and, if the Company considers it necessary, marriages. They do try to arrange compatible matches, but probably only because unhappy employees are bad for productivity, and the matching process involves a stack of employee profiles and a computer in the personnel department, as opposed to, say, people getting to meet people. In his case, he agreed to be married as a condition of his next promotion, and then heard no more about it until he returned from a voyage to find his new wife waiting for him in the kitchen. |
| 378 | * 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. |
| 379 | * TheCameo: Per the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent]] really does exist somewhere out there, along with Ford Prefect; every time they've met so far, the Doctor beats Arthur at Scrabble while simultaneously reminiscing with Ford about their wild nights out together in college. |
| 380 | * CanonForeigner: |
| 381 | ** ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks'' adds new Thal characters - Gurna, Alydon's cousin, who accompanies the Doctor's group into the Dalek city, and Salthyana, a female who says Kristas will propose to her the next day. |
| 382 | ** There is a Young Time Lord in "The Three Doctors" who was not present in the TV story. |
| 383 | ** There is an extra speaking Golden Age colonist in ''Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion'' named Polly Anderson. |
| 384 | ** In "Resurrection of the Daleks", Styles is accompnaied by an android nurse called Monda. |
| 385 | ** The novelisation of "Mindwarp" adds an extra trial room character, Zon, who operates the matrix link. |
| 386 | ** Ace's dog Wayne is added to the "Dragonfire" novelisation. |
| 387 | ** In "Battlefield", Walmsley is given an Irish wolfhound, Cerebrus. The dog is summoned by the Doctor with K9's old dog whistle to join the evacuation. |
| 388 | ** "The Crimson Horror" novelisation introduces a mysterious associate of Mrs. Gillyflower's named Dr. Fetch who has a mechanical arm. |
| 389 | * 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. |
| 390 | * CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: With occasional exceptions ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks Death to the Daleks]]"), every novelisation until 1982 was titled ''Doctor Who and the X''. Disappointingly, the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]", the only TV story with that kind of title, was ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'', not ''Doctor Who and the Doctor Who and the Silurians''. And, of course, [[IAmNotShazam the Doctor's name isn't actually "Doctor Who"]]. |
| 391 | ** Oddly enough, it was the novelisations' constant references to the character as "the Doctor" that cemented the IAmNotShazam viewpoint in fandom. |
| 392 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "Day of the Doctor", Clara notes something's off with Kate Stewart, who has been replaced by a Zygon. She comes to the conclusion that Kate is hitting on her. For an added bonus, rather than being at all concerned by this, she recounts to the Doctors she was considering asking her to go out some time (for the record, Kate is married and has kids). |
| 393 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 394 | ** In the novelisation of "The Silurians", the Silurian that is wounded and forced to the surface is also the younger Silurian who kills the leader, a distinction which is not made clear in the television story (where the two are played by different actors). |
| 395 | ** In "The Green Death", Elgin is reinstated into the events where he was replaced in the televised version by James. |
| 396 | ** In the novelisation of "Planet of the Spiders", the characters of Hopkins and the man with the boat are split, renamed and redistributed. It is a customer, Mr Pemberthy, who tries out the hovercraft, whereas the owner of the boat yard, Bob Armitage, is watching from the shore. However, it is still the hovercraft pilot, Hopkins in the television story or Pemberthy in the novelisation, who gets blasted by Lupton. And it is the man mooring the boat, unnamed in the TV version or Armitage in the novelisation, who gets pushed into the water. |
| 397 | ** In "Genesis of the Daleks", one of the members of the Elite who sided with Davros objects to the executions and is thrown in with the other victims; he effectively takes on the dialogue of Kravos, who is only mentioned in passing as one of those Davros tries to get to change sides. |
| 398 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]" combines the characters of Jasko and Ablif into a single character. The character in the book is named, appropriately enough, "Jablif". |
| 399 | * CompressedAdaptation: Any of the novelisations that tried to cram six or more episodes into less than 150 pages. |
| 400 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 401 | ** The novelisation of "City of Death" adds continuity nods including Romana noting that she prefers Count Scarlioni as a villain over Davros, and the Doctor using the fast return switch to return to Paris from Florence. |
| 402 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'', there is a reference made to the events of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", concerning the Doctor and Ian's imprisonment on the Dalek saucer. |
| 403 | ** The newly-regenerated Second Doctor finds [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs Cameca's brooch]] in the trunk. |
| 404 | ** In "Remembrance of the Daleks", while summarising the Daleks' history to Ace, the Doctor recalls his own first encounter with them. In an interesting display of continuity, his recollection of Temmosus, begging for peace while the Daleks gunned him down, bears a striking resemblance to Creator/DavidWhitaker's depiction of events in ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks''. |
| 405 | ** 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. |
| 406 | ** 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. |
| 407 | ** Among those checking in on Rose is Howard from the market, who will provide a timely satsuma during the events of "The Christmas Invasion". |
| 408 | ** 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") |
| 409 | * CoveredInMud: Sara in "The Daleks' Master Plan", after a struggle with one of the invisible monsters on Mira. This gives the Doctor the inspiration for using the mud to SeeTheInvisible. |
| 410 | * CoversAlwaysLie: |
| 411 | ** The US Pinnacle covers featured more impressive versions of the sometimes feeble monsters in the actual stories (Target Books made sure not to do this). ''Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks'' depicts a ''very'' badass UNIT spaceship, which never appeared in the show or anywhere else! |
| 412 | ** The early Target covers sometimes featured elements taken from another story; for example, the picture of the First Doctor on Target's first ''Doctor Who and the Daleks'' cover was taken from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker The Celestial Toymaker]]", while the Cyberman picture on the first ''Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen'' cover was that of an "Invasion" Cyberman, not a "Tomb" Cyberman. |
| 413 | * DarkerAndEdgier: |
| 414 | ** The novelisation of "The Enemy of the World" was infamous for containing swear words and bloody violence. |
| 415 | ** 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. |
| 416 | ** 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. |
| 417 | * DeathByAdaptation: |
| 418 | ** Luigi Ferrigo is killed by Saladin's soldiers while trying to flee the palace in ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders''. |
| 419 | ** Bors and Garge are eaten by the Screamers in "The Daleks' Master Plan". Also, Beaus is shot and killed by Mavic Chen at the final meeting. |
| 420 | ** Simone Duval is killed by Gaston Lerans in a swordfight in "The Massacre". |
| 421 | ** Lolem in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace The Underwater Menace]]" (he probably dies off-screen in the TV story but the novelisation makes sure). |
| 422 | ** In the novelisation of "The Invasion", Tobias Vaughn convinces Rutlidge to shoot himself. |
| 423 | ** In "The Silurians", Roberts was knocked out by the Brigadier. In the novelisation, he tries to strangle Liz and is killed when Major Baker hits him with his revolver. Also, the Silurian Morka controls U.N.I.T. soldier Steve Robins' mind and forces him to leap off a chasm to his death. The rest of the Brigadier's team in the caves is out of range, and only Robins—the weakest—could be controlled by him. |
| 424 | ** In "Terror of the Autons", during the battle with the Auton policemen, one of them is blown apart by a UNIT soldier. On-screen, both Autons survive. |
| 425 | ** Ahmed and the other workers in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Pyramids of Mars]]". In the TV series, they're assumed to survive after the action moves to England, but the novelisation states that they were killed off-screen by cultist henchmen. |
| 426 | ** In the novelisation of "Dragonfire", all of Glitz's crew attack his party and are killed by the Creature rather than just Pudovkin; one is identified as a woman named Winterbottom. |
| 427 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]", Zbrigniev is killed when Morgaine and Mordred capture the missile. |
| 428 | ** Vershinin and Bates in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]". |
| 429 | ** Harvey, Len and Derek in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]". |
| 430 | ** In "Rose", Mickey's mother committed suicide when he was 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. |
| 431 | ** Atkins, the guard at the Black Archive in "The Day of the Doctor", is killed by Zygon-Kate in the novelisation. |
| 432 | * DecompositeCharacter: |
| 433 | ** In the novelisation of "Mindwarp", the rebel Verne is divided into two characters, Ger and Sorn. |
| 434 | ** In "Dalek", despite being referred to by name in the TV story, [=De Maggio=] is replaced by a new character called Klein. |
| 435 | * DemotedToExtra: |
| 436 | ** In the novelisation of "The Romans", several characters have their parts reduced: Sevcheria disappears after recapturing Ian and Delos in Rome, Locusta's death is omitted, Delos departs after the gladiatorial fight and Tavius only meets the Doctor briefly, with his status as a Christian and conspirator against Nero only established in the epilogue. |
| 437 | ** Neska in "Planet of the Spiders" has her role greatly reduced, not being seen after she is stunned by the guard. |
| 438 | * DerelictGraveyard: The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet The Mysterious Planet]]" sets the Time Lords' space station in one (following the original script). |
| 439 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: |
| 440 | ** In "Marco Polo", rather than being bested in a sword fight with Marco Polo and committing suicide in a final act of defiance, Tegana is slain with an arrow from Ling-Tau through a secret Judas-eye in the Khan's gaming room. |
| 441 | ** In "The Aztecs", there is no fight between Ixta and Ian on the pyramid, but instead Ian shines the Doctor's torch in Ixta's face, stunning him, causing him to fall off the pyramid. |
| 442 | ** In "Dalek Invasion of Earth", Dortmun's death sees him buried under falling rubble, taking a Dalek with him, rather than just being shot by them. Also, instead of the two brothers killing each other in a struggle, Larry kills the robotised Phil by knocking his helmet off, then a Dalek arrives on the scene and kills Larry in his grief. |
| 443 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders'', El Akir is strangled and then thrown against a wall so a blow on the head kills him, rather than being stabbed, by Haroun. |
| 444 | ** In "The Ark", rather than being killed outright, the Monoid Leader flees from the rebels across Refusis's surface, trying to scale a cliff and reach a cave. A stray shot causes him to fall. He's swept up in the river below and plunges over the edge of a waterfall where he presumably drowns. |
| 445 | ** In "The Power of the Daleks", Bragan's death is more graphic than it is in the original version. In the TV story, he is simply shot dead; in the novelisation, Valmar shoots first to wound him and save Quinn before shooting Bragan through the head. |
| 446 | ** In "The Invasion", Gregory is shot and killed by Benton during the rescue of Watkins instead of being killed by a Cyberman in the sewers. |
| 447 | ** In "The War Games", Von Weich is accidentally shot by a guard during Jamie and Russell's attempted attack on the War Lords' base rather than in the barn. |
| 448 | ** In "Spearhead from Space", Corporal Forbes is one of the sentries at the TARDIS and is later killed when an Auton causes his jeep to crash. In the novelisation, Forbes is not at the TARDIS and his patrol discovers the Doctor's body after the sentry shoots him. Forbes' jeep is later driven off the road by the Auton, but he is not killed in the jeep crash. Instead, he gets out and tries to shoot the Auton. The Auton then kills Forbes by breaking his neck. |
| 449 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'', Morka kills Squire by breaking his neck, rather than Squire dying of fright as in televised serial. Also, Dr Lawrence is killed by the Silurians while in the Cyclotron room, instead of being killed by the virus as in the televised serial. |
| 450 | ** In "The Claws of Axos", Winser is killed by the Axonite sucking him into the accelerator and absorbing him rather than being flung to the ground and disintegrating. |
| 451 | ** In "Day of the Daleks", instead of being killed outright by the Ogron, Moni says the manager was killed by a firing squad. |
| 452 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]", Zake dies when the Scavenger stops him short with a lasso and causes him to break his neck, rather than falling down a crevice. Styr kills Vural by knocking him over a cliff edge rather than stabbing him. |
| 453 | ** In "Genesis of the Daleks", the Kaled Leader is killed by Thals firing on the group on the ground; on television, he is shot while trying to help Sarah climb the scaffolding. |
| 454 | ** In "City of Death", Scaroth is not killed in the chateau explosion but left trapped in the time bubble. |
| 455 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden Nightmare of Eden]]", Secker's addiction killed him, rather than the wounds caused by the Mandrels in the televised story. |
| 456 | ** In "Four to Doomsday", Monarch is killed by Adric rather than the Doctor at the story's conclusion. |
| 457 | ** "Earthshock": |
| 458 | *** The unlucky trooper ambushed by a Cyberman outside the TARDIS is instead killed when halfway through the interior main doors. A silver fist swings down from the darkness and shatters their skull "like an egg". |
| 459 | *** Professor Kyle is killed instantaneously rather than picking up the dead Cyberman's weapon. |
| 460 | *** Rather than simply being shot by Nyssa, the Cyber Deputy is weakened by Tegan shoving the remains of Adric's badge into his chest plate and then shot repeatedly by the Doctor. |
| 461 | ** In "The King's Demons", Sir Geoffory is killed by the assassin employed by the Master dying back in the castle. In the novelisation, Sir Geoffory is mortally wounded and his injuries are treated to by the Doctor, allowing him to part company with Ranulf and Isabella on good terms. |
| 462 | ** In "The Caves of Androzani", instead of forcing Morgus' head into a laser beam, Jek strangles him and then hurls him into a console which explodes. |
| 463 | ** In "The Two Doctors", Shockeye kills the lorry driver with a neck snap rather than hitting him across the back with a log. |
| 464 | ** In "Revelation of the Daleks", instead of being killed by a single levitating Dalek, Gigory and Natasha are attacked by three Daleks. Gigory is killed and Natasha destroys the Daleks, but worried about being converted herself, commits suicide with her last shot. |
| 465 | ** In "The Mysterious Planet", Broken Tooth attacks Drathro and is killed after he has killed Katryca, rather than after intervening to try and save her. |
| 466 | ** In "Mindwarp", Dorf is killed taking a blast meant for Yrcanos rather than being shot in the back. |
| 467 | ** In "Dragonfire", Belazs and Kracauer die in different ways: Kane strangles Kracauer rather than using his ice touch, then kills Belazs by shaking her hand without her realising he has removed his glove. (The latter action was scripted but filmed differently.) |
| 468 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: |
| 469 | ** In "The Aztecs", Tlotoxl is given a limp that he didn't have in the television version. |
| 470 | ** In "Vengeance on Varos", Quillam is described as walking with a limp, which is not the case on screen. |
| 471 | * DiscoDan: In the novelisation of "Shada", Chris is a mild example. His [[SeventiesHair long hair]] and flared trousers are just starting to be very out of fashion in 1978, and he feels alienated by how all the young undergrads are dressed in tight jeans and short hair. He also gives preferential treatment to a student wearing a Music/JethroTull t-shirt because he feels like he looks more normal. Skagra unintentionally comes off as this because his ceremonial alien overlord gear looks to humans like a ridiculous disco costume, leading passers-by to mock him in the street. He considers this to be awe. |
| 472 | * DividedForPublication: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" was split into two books. "The Trial of a Time Lord" was split into four books, but it had been originally produced as four separate TV stories and comes across more as a season with an unusually strong StoryArc than as a single story. |
| 473 | * DoesntLikeBeingTouched: Harrison Chase in the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]". |
| 474 | * DreamSequence: In "The Sontaran Experiment", the Doctor falls down a hole and has a dream about rats chewing their way through the TARDIS. |
| 475 | * 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. |
| 476 | * DueToTheDead: ''Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon'' adds a scene where the Doctor organises a funeral for the Leesons. |
| 477 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Those novelisations that were published some years after the TV story was broadcast sometimes added in references to later stories. |
| 478 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" specifies that the Daleks' time machine is powered by taranium, a detail not established on screen until "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]", the following Dalek story. Also, Steven lists the conflict fought against the Draconian Empire and the Third Dalek War as factors which put an end to Earth's expansionist phase; the Draconians were not introduced on TV until "Frontier in Space" during the Third Doctor's era. |
| 479 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler The Time Meddler]]" has a notorious line where the Doctor refers to the Monk as a Gallifreyan, leading fans who relied on the novelisations to believe that the Doctor's home planet had been named eight years earlier than it was on TV. |
| 480 | ** In the novelisation of "The Daleks' Master Plan", the purpose of the molecular dissemination experiment, worked on by the scientists Rhynaml and Froyn, is intended to improve the T-Mat system, a concept not introduced on television until "The Seeds of Death". |
| 481 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Power of the Daleks]]" mentions UNIT and Sarah Jane in the prologue, and describes the space colony on Vulcan as being part of the Interplanetary Mining Corporation, the evil company in the later story "Colony In Space". |
| 482 | ** The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver in the novelisation of 1967's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E8TheFacelessOnes The Faceless Ones]]"; on TV, the sonic wasn't introduced until "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep Fury from the Deep]]", a year later. The novelisation of the following story, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]", also mentions the sonic screwdriver, this time with an excuse as to why the Doctor doesn't use it. |
| 483 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]" reveals that the Dalek Emperor was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks the Dalek that shot Davros]]. |
| 484 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]", Col. Lethbridge-Stewart says that he plans to set up [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion an organisation to deal with things such as these]]. He muses that he might send the government a memo... |
| 485 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]" makes reference to the Master, to clear up the oddity of that story also having an unrelated villain called the Master (or the Master of the Land). (This contradicts TV continuity, though, in that, when the Master first appeared onscreen, he had only recently adopted that name.) |
| 486 | ** The omniscient narrator of "The Seeds of Death" refers to the Doctor as a Time Lord. This wouldn't be revealed in the series for another two stories. |
| 487 | ** In the novelisation of "The War Games", backstory is added to the sentry in the Crimean War Zone, a Russian soldier named Petrov Ilavich. The Confederate Soldier in the American Civil War Zone is named Private Cornelius Lanier of the 2nd Virginia Battalion. |
| 488 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]", the bomb that the hypnotised Professor Philips uses to try to kill the Doctor and Jo was retconned into a Sontaran hand grenade. |
| 489 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]", the Brigadier is mentioned as dreaming of his time as a subaltern with Doris, who was not mentioned on screen until "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]". |
| 490 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", the device with which the Master pulls soldiers and weapons out of the past to attack UNIT is compared to the Time Scoop from "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]". |
| 491 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]", it is mentioned that the Jagaroth came to Earth tracking a [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride Racnoss energy signal]], and that the Doctor and Romana have previously visited [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the Medusa Cascade]]. |
| 492 | ** The novelisation of "Shada" nods to [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]] (temporal orbit), "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]" (Carrionites), "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]" (time locks), "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]" (Visionaries), "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]" (the Corsair), etc. |
| 493 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]", there are numerous mentions of Sil's superior, Lord Kiv - a character who would not appear until "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp Mindwarp]]". Also, Sil's bearers are armed with CD phasers, which appeared in that story. |
| 494 | ** 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. |
| 495 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" novelisation ends with Chapter 13, told from the perspective of a female Doctor; given how the book plays with chapter numbers, it's probably Thirteen. It also has a cameo for Twelve, but slightly different from the televised one. |
| 496 | * EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: Quite a lot of this. The three novels originally published in the 1960s weren't subject to the familiar Target rules; in particular, they're all well over 150 pages. While ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'' is pitched at about the same reading level as Target aimed for, Creator/DavidWhitaker's two are aimed at adult readers, with developed characters, polished prose, and, it has to be said, a certain amount of child-unfriendly violence. The first one takes the form of a first person account by Ian Chesterton. Additionally, they sometimes refer to the Doctor (in description, not dialogue) as "Doctor Who". (The very first ''Doctor Who'' novelisation does not, though). |
| 497 | * ElementalBaggage: The novelisation of "City of Death" mentions that the Nestene Consciousness had tried to invade Earth once thousands of years ago but had to abandon the attempt because there was no plastic yet for it to work with. |
| 498 | * TheEndOrIsIt: |
| 499 | ** 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. |
| 500 | ** "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]]]]. |
| 501 | * EntertaininglyWrong: The 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. |
| 502 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Charles Griffiths in "Attack of the Cybermen" is utterly devoted to his mother. He started his criminal career shoplifting just to support her. |
| 503 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 504 | ** In the novelisation of "Remembrance of the Daleks", the Daleks, {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s one and all, really aren't comfortable with the Special Weapons Dalek, because they think that, by Dalek standards, it's a dangerous insane killer. |
| 505 | ** 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. |
| 506 | ** In the novelisation of "Day of the Doctor", the Zygon imitating Kate Stewart is disgusted by UNIT's policy of mind-wiping the Black Archive guard each day. Doesn't stop it killing him, mind. |
| 507 | * EverybodyLives: Unlike in the original story, Gareth Roberts' "Shada" rewrites the ending of the story to achieve this. |
| 508 | * EvilPaysBetter: In "Resurrection of the Daleks", the Crewmember that accompanies Osborn (Senior Ensign 'Baz' Seaton) sabotaged Airlock Three so the Daleks could enter because they pay well. |
| 509 | * ExactWords: In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]", the door to the armoury is linked to a LieDetector and only opens when someone can truthfully answer to a series of questions about their identity, authorisation, and purpose. Unlike in the TV version, no reprogramming is required to bypass it, only the realisation that it's programmed to assess the truthfulness of the answers but not their meaning -- Vicki tells it exactly who they are, that they have no authorisation to remove weapons from the armoury, and that they're taking the weapons for the purpose of "Revolution!", and the machine promptly lets her in. |
| 510 | * ExtyYearsFromPublication: The novelisation of "The Enemy of the World", written in 1980, is set fifty years in the future, in 2030. (This is a deliberate change from the television version, which was set in 2018, fifty years after the story aired.) |
| 511 | * FamousFamousFictional: In the novelisation of "Time and the Rani", Za Panato and Ari Centos are listed as two of the scientists kidnapped by the Rani in addition to the familiar Earth names. |
| 512 | * FanGirl: In the novelisation of "Shada", the Ship is fascinated by the Doctor and starts seeking out and watching old holographic video footage of his adventures, which are strongly implied to just be ''Doctor Who'' episodes. She becomes a serious fan, and eventually forces Skagra to watch them all with her in the hope that he'll learn some good moral lessons from the stories. (The script has elements of this, but the novel really plays them up.) |
| 513 | * FlamingSword: In the novelisation of "Rose", Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who's a black bald woman with a flaming sword. |
| 514 | * FloatingHeadSyndrome: The novelisations often have the Doctor's floating head on the cover, especially on covers by Chris Achilleos, who traditionally did the heads in monochrome and the rest of the picture in colour. See some examples [[http://chrisachilleos.co.uk/book-covers/dr-who-original-target.html here]]. |
| 515 | * TheFogOfAges: The novelisation of "City of Death" states that the different Scaroths have different levels of awareness that they're alien and connected to each other. Count Scarlioni is the weakest and thinks himself human for most of his life. |
| 516 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 517 | ** "The Crusaders" opens with the Doctor and his companions having a conversation about the mutability of history while playing 'Martian chess'. The outcome of the chess game foreshadows the political manoeuvrings later in the story. |
| 518 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]" gives an early clue as to who the Watcher is. When the Doctor sends Adric and Nyssa away from Logopolis, he entrusts them to the Watcher. Aboard the TARDIS, the Watcher silently summons Adric alone and apparently has a dialogue with him. Afterward, Adric claims that although he remembers the Watcher's instructions, he can't quite remember what the Watcher's voice sounded like except that it sounded familiar. |
| 519 | ** In "Rose", Clive tells Rose a theory that people's memories of alien encounters have been wiped by cracks in time, presaging the revelations in Series 5. |
| 520 | ** In the novelisation of "The Day of the Doctor", Kate frequently calls Osgood "Petronella", predating the name being revealed in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]". |
| 521 | * FourthWall: Played with in the novelisation of "The Mind Robber", the adventure in which the Doctor and his companions visit the Land of Fiction. The novelisation is set entirely within the Land: it begins with the scene where the Doctor wakes up there (filling in earlier events through flashback), and ends when the Doctor and his companions leave. |
| 522 | * TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The narrative of "The Day of the Doctor" says there's a Chapter 9 despite it being absent if you look through the book. [[spoiler:Apparently, it involves an encounter with the Silence, famous for their LaserGuidedAmnesia abilities... and from the marks at the end, it appears you've read and forgotten Chapter 9 a ''lot'' of times...]] |
| 523 | * FramingDevice: |
| 524 | ** Each of Donald Cotton's three Hartnell-historical novelisations: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E3TheMythMakers The Myth Makers]]" has Creator/{{Homer}} deciding to tell, just this once, the story of what ''really'' happened at the Siege of Troy; "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]]" has Doc Holliday on his deathbed telling a journalist the story of what ''really'' happened at the OK Corral; and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]" is presented as a collection of contemporary documents telling the story of what ''really'' happened in the lead-up to the Great Fire of Rome. |
| 525 | ** Steven Moffat's "The Day of the Doctor" novelisation is presented as a collection of documents (mostly) written by the Doctor(s) called ''The Doctor Papers''. |
| 526 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 527 | ** The novelisation of "Dalek" [[AdaptationalBackstoryChange gives Van Statten a backstory]] that explains why he is such a contemptible asshole. |
| 528 | ** 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. |
| 529 | * FunctionalGenreSavvy: In the novelisation of "Shada", the Doctor appears to project this into people around him, as a kind of force-of-personality-transmitted TheoryOfNarrativeCausality, railroading his accomplices into the role of TheWatson regardless of how they might feel about it. |
| 530 | ** Clare gets a [[MetaGuy whole scene where she realises that she is like this]] and, as a result, is incapable of reacting sensibly towards the huge RummageSaleReject eccentric who claims to be an alien looking through her stuff -- instead describing that she feels an inexplicable love and generosity towards him as if he was a [[FandomNod nostalgic fixture of her childhood]], and a strong desire for him to ''take her with him''. She knows she should be intimidated and trying to get rid of him, but instead feels that she has no choice but to find him charming, [[TheWatson ask helpful questions and do whatever he asks her to]]. |
| 531 | ** The book's version of Chris is somewhat less like this, as he's mainly concerned with the long-term scientific implications of everything that happens to him, but he also has his moments -- as he hangs around the Doctor, despite becoming braver and more curious, he also sinks further into being a NonActionGuy, commenting in his internal monologue that helping out the Doctor just makes you feel all "girly", sweetly curious and dependent on him for protection. |
| 532 | * {{Gamebooks}}: "The Giggle" is a partial example, with one sequence being in a Choose Your Own Adventure format. |
| 533 | * GenderFlip: |
| 534 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E3TheRescue The Rescue]]", the natives who surprise Bennett are a male and a female (they both appeared to be male on screen). They are killed by the crew of the rescue ship. |
| 535 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'', the Menoptera Vrestin and the Optera Nemini were changed from female to male. |
| 536 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters'', Travis is now a female technician. |
| 537 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster'', the Prime Minister is referred to as being male, rather than female. |
| 538 | ** In the novelisation of "Destiny of the Daleks", the genders of Veldan and Jall are reversed with Veldan being female and Jall male. The two prisoners exterminated by the Daleks to force the Doctor's hand are both male (on screen, one is female). The Movellan Guard deactivated by the Doctor and Tyssan is male rather than female. |
| 539 | ** In the TV Movie novelisation, the scene where the Doctor is shot shows that one of Lee's fellow gang members is explicitly female. |
| 540 | * GodGuise: The novelisation of "City of Death" says Scaroth was worshipped as a god by cavemen and the Egyptians. |
| 541 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: In "Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion" (based on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]"), the AntiVillain Butler has a distinctive scar on his face (which he didn't have in the TV version; it was added because he shows up in several different scenes before being named, and Malcolm Hulke needed a way to signal to the reader that it was the same character each time). The trope is played with: Butler is a WellIntentionedExtremist, and when Sarah Jane remarks on his Evil Scar he reveals that he got it as a firefighter while saving a little girl's life. |
| 542 | * GrandFinale: The novelisation of "The Evil of the Daleks" can have this feel. It was the final TV story to be novelised under Target and makes references to earlier Dalek stories. The way it is presented can make it seem like this is the finale to the Daleks. |
| 543 | * GreatOffscreenWar: |
| 544 | ** In "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", the Doctor explains that a malfunction with the Peking Homonculus, which was only supposed to be a toy, "nearly" caused World War VI. The novelisation claims that World War VI ''did'' happen and that Magnus Greel created the Homonculus himself with the intention of triggering a World War. |
| 545 | ** The "Remembrance of the Daleks" novelisation mentions the conflicts the Special Weapons Daleks fought in - Pa Jass-Gutrik, the War of Vengeance against the Movellans, Pa Jaski-Thal, the Liquidation War against the Thals, and Pas Jass-Vortan, the Time Campaign — the War to End All Wars. |
| 546 | * GreekChorus: In "Frontios", the Retrogrades are portrayed as more of a chorus rather than all the dialogue being given to one individual. |
| 547 | * HotterAndSexier: |
| 548 | ** The novelisation of "Shada" plays the Doctor's [[CargoShip relationship with Skagra's Ship]] with copious DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, making it resemble an affair between an open-minded stranger and a sexually-repressed housewife sneaking around behind the back of her JerkAss husband. For instance, when he teaches her how to open a time vortex, this is played as if he's giving her her first orgasm. |
| 549 | ** The book's version of Clare's first visit to Professor Chronotis's study. In the filmed version she's neatly buttoned up with her hair in a prim bun, in the book she's dishevelled in a way that automatically makes Willkins assume she's sneaking out of a male student's digs, or possibly a male don's study (but not Chronotis's. He's such a nice old man.) |
| 550 | ** In the novelisation of "The Gunfighters", the Doctor accidentally walks in on Holliday in bed with his receptionist, in reality Kate. In the televised version, she is merely sitting in his lap. |
| 551 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: |
| 552 | ** "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. |
| 553 | ** "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. |
| 554 | ** 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. |
| 555 | ** David Fisher's novelisations of "The Stones of Blood" and "The Androids of Tara" both use Roman numerals for the chapter numbers. |
| 556 | ** "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. |
| 557 | ** "Warriors' Gate" and "Terminus" have no chapters. |
| 558 | ** "Battlefield" is split into Parts, which in turn are subdivided into Chapters, each Part starting the Chapter count over from one again. |
| 559 | ** "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. |
| 560 | ** 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". |
| 561 | ** Chapter numbers in "The Fires of Pompeii" are in Roman numerals, and its chapter titles are Latin words and phrases. |
| 562 | ** The chapter titles in "The Christmas Invasion" are all taken from the titles of Christmas songs. |
| 563 | ** "The Crimson Horror" gives its chapter numbers as "Chapter the First", "Chapter the Second", etc. |
| 564 | ** All but one of the chapter titles in "The Day of the Doctor" include "The Doctor", the exception being "Dearest Petronella". |
| 565 | ** 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. |
| 566 | ** "Wild Blue Yonder" [[spoiler:uses the alien numbering system from the story for its chapter titles, counting down from ten.]] |
| 567 | ** "The Giggle" calls its chapters "Moves", as in moves in a game. |
| 568 | * ImagineSpot: In "The Claws of Axos", the Brigadier has a daydream where he has Chinn taken out and shot in the head. |
| 569 | * TheImmodestOrgasm: In the novelisation of "Shada", Skagra's ship apparently ''really likes'' time travel. |
| 570 | * ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: The novelisation of "City of Death" says Scaroth stockpiled any alien technology he could find and that his mask was made from material left behind by an alien who was implied to be the Nestene Consciousness. |
| 571 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: In "The Day of the Doctor" novelisation, the War Doctor's internal reaction when he realises who these two 'boys' he's just met are is that he finally understands why people carry hip flasks. |
| 572 | * InNameOnly: The novelisation of "The Massacre" bears little to no resemblance to the originally broadcast episodes, or any other earlier version of the story, at all. John Lucarotti's scripts were completely rewritten by script editor Donald Tosh, and when the time came to do the novelisation Lucarotti was unwilling to novelise the transmitted story, but no longer had copies of his original scripts and couldn't remember what happened in them (it was one of many sixties stories that was only novelised many years later, after all the more popular stories had been done). He therefore wrote a new version based, in part, on his original storyline. |
| 573 | * InternalHomage: According to cover artist Anthony Dry in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'', [[AnachronismStew anachronistic elements]] on the covers of the revival series novelisations (like a Tenth Doctor from the wrong era on the cover of "The Christmas Invasion") are a deliberate homage to the early Targets' habit of featuring anachronistic elements on their covers. |
| 574 | * IronLady: The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]" gives a little of Gia Kelly's backstory: |
| 575 | -->Even now, in the twenty-first century, the equality of women was still more theoretical than practical. It remained as true as ever that, to attain the highest rank, a woman had to be not simply as good as, but measurably better than, her male colleagues.\ |
| 576 | Miss Kelly was as capable as she was ambitious. Her early promotion had been obtained by the stern repression of any softer, more human qualities that might get in the way of her efficiency. The opinion amongst T-Mat technicians was that Gia Kelly was a cold-hearted witch, and you'd better not slip up while she was around. |
| 577 | * JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: The "City of Death" novelisation says that a past version of Scaroth was pope at one point. |
| 578 | * JustifiedCriminal: In "Terminus", Olvir turned to piracy when his sister's medical bills broke his family's wealth. |
| 579 | * LampshadeHanging: In the "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" novelisation, the Twelfth Doctor notes the similarities between his and the First Doctor's situations - both of them having just come off an adventure with the Cybermen, on the verge of regeneration - and says to the TARDIS "Having fun with the parallels, dear?". |
| 580 | * LaterInstalmentWeirdness: In their original versions, the three Douglas Adams novelisations - "Shada", "City of Death", and "The Pirate Planet" - are 300 pages or more, and aimed at adult readers; "City of Death" and "The Pirate Planet" both have Target adaptations that bring them in line with the rest of the range. |
| 581 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The novelisation of "Shada" makes multiple references to how 1970s ''Doctor Who'' was originally broadcast in serial format on Saturday evenings, to the point that it's a RunningGag: |
| 582 | ** |
| 583 | --->For goodness' sakes, thought the Doctor, why weren't all these tourists, roadies and nuns at home watching television on a Saturday evening like normal people. |
| 584 | ** |
| 585 | --->He... permitted himself just a tinge of inward pleasure at the thought of scrambled eggs on toast and the BBC's Saturday serial in a few hours... |
| 586 | ** |
| 587 | --->The Doctor's shoulders slumped. 'And I usually like Saturdays,' he said. |
| 588 | * LemonyNarrator: [[spoiler:The Toymaker]] is revealed to be the narrator of "The Giggle". [[spoiler:Twice. [[BreakingTheFourthWall And he frequently addresses the audience]].]] |
| 589 | * LighterAndSofter: The novelisations by Terrance Dicks often softened more mean-spirited elements of the plots to fit what Dicks considered to be the show's moral code. An obvious example is in his version of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunmakers The Sunmakers]]", where, after murdering the oppressive government official who is driving them to suicide, the rebels feel like they have done something awful and express shame that it was necessary. In the original story, after they kill him, a huge cheer goes up and the people immediately start partying. |
| 590 | * LostCommonKnowledge: ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' is not known to anyone in Zoe's city, according to "The Mind Robber" novelisation. |
| 591 | * MagicFeather: According to the novelisation of "Day of the Doctor", the flask Ohila gave the Eighth Doctor on Karn contained nothing more than some lemon juice. All the stuff the War Doctor did? All him, not some magic potion that made him that way. |
| 592 | * MagneticHero: Lampshaded in the novelisation of "Shada", where Clare, who is [[MetaGuy unusually clever]], notices the magnetic effect that the Doctor has on her mind (depicted as being borderline EmotionControl) and finds it a bit creepy, not to mention a bit sexist as she finds herself acting like a NeutralFemale as a result. Her attempts to ''defy'' her desire to love and trust the Doctor and do everything he says drive her to start solving the mystery herself, leading to her accidentally launching the TARDIS of a retired Time Lord. |
| 593 | * {{Malaproper}}: In "Time and the Rani", the Doctor uses several more garbled sayings, such as "A frowning man will clutch at a straw". |
| 594 | * MarketBasedTitle: According to ''The Target Book'', several of the early Target novelisations had their titles changed from the original TV stories to make them more dynamic and eye-catching: |
| 595 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Cybermen''. |
| 596 | ** "Spearhead from Space" became ''Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion''. |
| 597 | ** "Doctor Who and the Silurians" became ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters''. |
| 598 | ** "Colony in Space" became ''Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon''. |
| 599 | ** "Frontier in Space" became ''Doctor Who and the Space War''. |
| 600 | ** "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" became ''Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion''. |
| 601 | ** "Robot" became ''Doctor Who and the Giant Robot''. |
| 602 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]" became ''Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster'' . |
| 603 | ** Though ''The Target Book'' doesn't say, it's likely this is also why "The Web Planet" became ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'' and "The Crusade" became ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders'' under Frederick Muller. |
| 604 | * TheMole: In "The Curse of Fenric", Judson's nurse is a Soviet spy informing on the ULTIMA project to the Russians. |
| 605 | * MuckingInTheMud: In "The Curse of Fenric", Ace has a harder time helping Kathleen and Audrey to escape from the haemovores than in the televised episode, because the Land Rover they're trying to escape in is stuck in mud and won't move until they put sacks under the wheels. |
| 606 | * MyNaymeIs: The novelisation of "Shada" makes a CallForward out of the fact that Clare is spelt without an "i". |
| 607 | * MythologyGag: |
| 608 | ** 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. |
| 609 | ** In the novelisation of "City of Death", Romana describes Kerensky's computer as a "clever prime", in reference to a series of adverts for Prime Computer produced in 1980 featuring the Doctor and Romana. |
| 610 | ** ''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). |
| 611 | ** Throughout "Shada", ''The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey'' is described as "a small red book, about five inches by seven". The paperback edition of the novelisation is a red book. It's five inches wide and seven (and a half, admittedly) inches tall. (This is also an allusion to a basically identical cover art/book MacGuffin gag being used in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.) |
| 612 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Charles Griffiths in "Attack of the Cybermen" was named after Prince Charles by his mother. |
| 613 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: |
| 614 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]", the father of Za is named Gor. |
| 615 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E1PlanetOfGiants Planet of Giants]]", Forester's first name is Mark. |
| 616 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'', the larvae guns are called Venom Grubs. |
| 617 | ** In the novelisation of "The Space Museum", the Morok commander is named as Ogrek and the Morok that Ian captures is named Pluton. |
| 618 | ** In the novelisation of "The Daleks' Master Plan", the police officers are named Welland, [[Creator/BrianBlessed Blessed]], Ellis and Windsor after the actors from ''Series/ZCars''. This is an in-joke to the fact that the story was supposed to have a crossover with that series. Also, the interviewer is named Jim Grant. |
| 619 | ** The unnamed human initially on trial and subsequently minimised in "The Ark" is called Niash. He's later re-enhanced at the story's conclusion where he is greeted by the Doctor, Steven and Dodo, alongside other restored Guardians and Monoids eager to start their new lives together on Refusis II. |
| 620 | ** In the novelisation of "The Gunfighters", Ike Clanton survives the gunfight, being taken prisoner by Steven and Kate as he is about to shoot the Doctor. |
| 621 | ** In the novelisation of "The War Machines", the second War Machine is named as Valk. It is not armed prior to going rogue, meaning the Doctor has to fit it with an automatic rifle after reprogramming it. |
| 622 | ** In the novelisation of "The Tenth Planet", Barclay is given the first name Tom and Wigner is given the first name Robert. |
| 623 | ** According to the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders The Highlanders]]", the inn is named The Sea Eagle and the sergeant is named Klegg. |
| 624 | ** The novelisation of "The Underwater Menace" gives Professor Zaroff's first name as Hermann. |
| 625 | ** In the novelisation of "The Moonbase", the Cyberleader's name is mentioned as Tarn. |
| 626 | ** In the novelisation of "The Tomb of the Cybermen", the Earth expedition ship is named the Orbiter. |
| 627 | ** The novelisation of "The Abominable Snowmen" expands on Edward Travers' unsuccessful life, and his old rival is named as Professor Walters. |
| 628 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors The Ice Warriors]]", the Brittanicus Base computer is named ''ECCO''. |
| 629 | ** The novelisation of "The Enemy of the World" gives full names to several characters who were given only one name in the TV version. Fedorin is given the first name of Nicholas, Benik is given the first name of Theodore, and Fariah is given the first name of Neguib. Colin has the last name of Redmayne and Mary has the last name of Smith. |
| 630 | ** First names not present in the televised version of "Fury from the Deep" are included in the novelisation: Frank Harris, Mick Carney, Pieter van Lutyens, David Price and Ronald Perkins. |
| 631 | ** In the novelisation of "The Invasion", the Russian shuttle base is named Nykortny, an in-joke referring to Creator/NicholasCourtney. |
| 632 | ** In the novelisation of "The Seeds of Death", Osgood is given the first name Harry. |
| 633 | ** The novelisation of "The War Games" gives the full name of the [=SIDRATs=] as "Sidereal Interdimensional Robot All-purpose Transporters". The unnamed aliens of the original serial are called the War Lords. |
| 634 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion'', the doll Ransome invented is called the Walkie Talkie, and Ransome demonstrates it to Hibbert. Captain Munro is given the first name of Jimmy. |
| 635 | ** The novelisation of "The Silurians" gives the names Okdel, Morka and K'to to the characters who appear in the cast list as Old Silurian, Young Silurian and Silurian Scientist. Miss Dawson is given the first name of Phyllis, while Roberts' first name is George. |
| 636 | ** The novelisation of "Inferno" gives Professor Stahlman's first name as Eric. |
| 637 | ** In the novelisation of "Terror of the Autons", Mrs Farrel is given the first name of Mary, and Goodge is given the first name of Albert. |
| 638 | ** In the novelisation of "The Mind of Evil", The Governor's full name is given as Victor Camford (the television version merely calls him "Victor") and the two warders in the condemned cell are called Johnson and Samuels. |
| 639 | ** In the novelisation of "The Claws of Axos", Chinn is given the first name of Horatio, the technician who takes over from Hardiman is named Ericson and the pond that Josh falls into is named Duckett's Pond. |
| 640 | ** In ''Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon'', the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]", the IMC robot is nick-named Charlie and the real adjudicator that the Master impersonates is named Martin Jurgen instead of Martin Jurgens. |
| 641 | ** The novelisation of "The Daemons" gives some characters first or last names: Bert is given the last name Walker, Thorpe is given the first name Ron and Winstanley's full name is given as Montmorency Vere de Vere Winstanley. |
| 642 | ** In the novelisation of "Day of the Daleks", three guerrillas named Mark, Joab and Zando take part in the attack on Dalek Control to rescue the Doctor. On-screen, only Mark is mentioned. |
| 643 | ** In the novelisation of "The Sea Devils", several characters are given first names: Thomas Robbins, Robert Walker, Robin Ridgeway and Tony Mitchell. Several of the SS Pevensey Castle's crew are given names or nicknames: the radio operator is nicknamed Sharps, the First Officer is named Mason, and several other crew members are nicknamed: the Jamaican, the Scouse and Jock. |
| 644 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]", Varan's son is given a name, Vorn. |
| 645 | ** In the novelisation of "The Three Doctors", Mrs. Ollis has the first name of Mary. |
| 646 | ** In the novelisation of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs", the two soldiers who are present when the Doctor and Sarah are arrested are named Smith and Wilkins. |
| 647 | ** In the novelisation of "Planet of the Spiders", a soldier is named as Corporal Hodges. |
| 648 | ** The novelisation of "Robot" gives Professor Kettlewell the first name Jeremiah, expanding on the televised version giving his first initial as J. |
| 649 | ** In the novelisation of "Terror of the Zygons", Monro's first name is Jock and the UNIT Corporal is named Palmer. |
| 650 | ** In the novelisation of "Pyramids of Mars", Collins is given the first name Josiah. |
| 651 | ** The Mutt in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]" is given the name Kriz, and his species - [[SameCharacterButDifferent which had been a mistake]] - is not mentioned. |
| 652 | ** According to the novelisation of "The Hand of Fear", Professor Watson's first name is Owen and Abbott's first name is Tom. |
| 653 | ** In the novelisation of "The Invasion of Time", the bodyguard Kelner assigns to the Doctor is named as Varn, a man "very big, very brave and very stupid" with a singleminded devotion to the Castellan. |
| 654 | ** In the novelisation of "The Ribos Operation", the tracer device is called the Locatormutor Core. Romana graduated from the Academy with a Triple Alpha while the Doctor graduated with Double Gamma on the second attempt (the televised version doesn't name the grades they got). |
| 655 | ** The moon where "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E5ThePowerOfKroll The Power of Kroll]]" takes place is never named on-screen. In his novelisation of the story, Creator/TerranceDicks named the moon Delta III. |
| 656 | ** In the novelisation of "Destiny of the Daleks", the dead Kantrian is named as Del Garrant. |
| 657 | ** In the novelisation of "City of Death", Countess Scarlioni is given the first name Heidi. The sketcher from the café is named Bourget. The tour guide is named Madame Henriette. The art appreciators are named Harrison and Elena. The Jagaroth ship is named the Sephiroth. |
| 658 | ** In the novelisation of "Nightmare of Eden", the thing that attacks Romana out of the Eden projection is specified as a Somno-Moth, an insect that takes a small amount of people's blood. |
| 659 | ** In the novelisation of "The Horns of Nimon", the Pilot is named Sekkoth, whilst the Co-pilot is named Sardor. |
| 660 | ** The novelisation of "Shada" gives a name to the man Skagra murders to steal his knowledge of 1970s Earth - David Taylor. It also expands on his character and gives him a small role in the ending. |
| 661 | ** The novelisation of "Meglos" gives the "abducted earthling" the name George Morris. |
| 662 | ** In the novelisation of "Full Circle", Login's first name is Halrin. |
| 663 | ** In the novelisation of "Logopolis", the policeman using the telephone in the police box in the opening scene of the story is named as P.C. Donald Segrave. |
| 664 | ** The novelisation of "Kinda" identifies Todd as "Doctor Todd". The two unnamed members of the expedition who went missing before Roberts are referred to as Stone and Carter. |
| 665 | ** In the novelisation of "The Visitation", the Squire is named Sir John. |
| 666 | ** The novelisation of "Black Orchid" gives George's first name as Raymond. |
| 667 | ** The Castellan in "Arc of Infinity" is named Jerricho, after his actor, Paul Jerricho. |
| 668 | ** In the novelisation of "Snakedance", the Fortune Teller's name is given as Madame Zara. |
| 669 | ** In "Mawdryn Undead", the Headmaster is named as Mr. Sellick and the Matron as Miss Cassidy. |
| 670 | ** In "The King's Demons", the gaoler is named Cedric. |
| 671 | ** In the novelisation of "Frontios", two of the colonists are called Kernighan and Ritchie. They are named for Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, well known in the computer world for writing the definitive guide to the C programming language. |
| 672 | ** In the novelisation of "Resurrection of the Daleks", the Crewmember that accompanies Osborn is given the name Senior Ensign 'Baz' Seaton. The Prison Station is a ship called the ''Vipod Mor''. The gas Lytton uses is called [=ZP=] gas. Many Daleks are given specific titles, such as "Alpha Dalek," which the Doctor notes is one he's never heard of. Dr. Styles' first name is Elizabeth, Stien's full name is Raymond Arthur Stien, Col. Archer's first name is Patrick, Sgt. Calder's first name is Graham, Lt Mercer's first name is Tyler and Osborn's first name is Fabian. |
| 673 | ** In the novelisation of "The Caves of Androzani", the last surviving gunrunner is named as Stark. |
| 674 | ** In the novelisation of "The Twin Dilemma", the acid in the vials is referred to as Mosten acid, which doesn't burn or corrode, but ages whatever is immersed in it by a unique process of dehydration. Professor Sylvest is given the first name "Archie" and his wife named as Nimo. Azmael's full alias is given as Bernard Edgeworth. The Chamberlain is named as Slarn. |
| 675 | ** In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]", the silvery metal used to make Cybermen bodies is called arnickleton. The novel also adds first names not given on screen: Charles Windsor "Charlie" Griffiths, Vincent Russell, Joe Payne, Eregous Bates and Lintus Stratton. Lytton's full name is given as Gustave Lytton, something the Doctor was already aware of. |
| 676 | ** In the novelisation of "Vengeance on Vars", the guards who fall in the acid bath are named Az and Oza. Sil's bearers are Thoros Alphans. One of them is named Ber. |
| 677 | ** In the novelisation of "The Mark of the Rani", the second guard killed by the Master is named as Harry while the rioter captured with Ward is called Dobbs. |
| 678 | ** In the novelisation of "Revelation of the Daleks", the DJ's real name is Derek Johnson. The Renegade Dalek ship that moves between the Dalek freighter and Tranquil Repose is a Mark Seven Statin shuttle. Kara's food production plant is known as Kara's Kitchen. |
| 679 | ** In the novelisation of "Mindwarp", the third Mentor is named Marne. |
| 680 | ** In the novelisation of "Paradise Towers", the Blue Kang Leader is given the name Drinking Fountain. |
| 681 | ** 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 played him), the girl is named Judith Winters and the vicar is named Reverend Parkinson. These names for the ICMG members would be confirmed in Big Finish's ''Intrusion Counter-Measures'' series. |
| 682 | ** 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. |
| 683 | ** In The Novel of the Film, the Doctor watches a news programme about San Jose. The extended news report includes slightly different dialogue that reveals the names of the news anchors as Mi-Jung Kanaka and Joanna, both sharing their first name with their respective actresses, Mi-Jung Lee and Joanna Piros. |
| 684 | ** 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. |
| 685 | ** The novelisation of "The Christmas Invasion" gives Major Blake's first name as Thomas. |
| 686 | ** The novelisation of "Dalek" identifies the last person to touch the Dalek who "burst into flames" as Dr Yevgeny Kandinsky, while Bywater is revealed to have a first name. It's Owen. |
| 687 | ** When the novelisation of "The Day of the Doctor" covers "Night of the Doctor", it reveals that Cass' last name is Fermazzi. The Tenth Doctor's horse is identified by the name Alison despite the horse being male. |
| 688 | * NewspaperDating: In "Enlightenment", upon reading a "First British Submarine Launched" headline in a newspaper, the Doctor concludes that the year is 1901. |
| 689 | * NoEndorHolocaust: In “Rose”, it’s established that before the Doctor blew up the department store, he arranged for all the staff working that night to be at another location. |
| 690 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 691 | ** In "The Rescue", mention is made of a trip to Tyron. |
| 692 | ** In "The Deadly Assassin", after thinking the Doctor was expelled, Runcible recalls that he was at graduation but there was a scandal later. |
| 693 | ** In "Delta and the Bannermen", the Doctor and Mel mention visiting the planets Zoth and Themlon. |
| 694 | * NoSympathy: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit The Creature from the Pit]]", Erato doesn't have much sympathy for the people of Chloris and says they could have freed him much earlier. |
| 695 | * NotSoStoic: In the novelisation of "Shada", we are repeatedly reminded that Skagra allows himself only two smiles a day and lives only on logic. The Doctor teases him about this, joking that he'll end up getting a 'mad gleam in the eye' and start saying things like "[[IncomingHam The universe belongs to me!]]", since [[WorldOfHam that's what everyone else he deals with does]], but Skagra remains impenetrable, if a little bit more attracted to Romana than he'll even admit to himself. Until his plan suddenly implodes in a way none of them saw coming, after which Chris observes Skagra crying uncontrollably in the arms of his sworn enemy the Doctor, who has bundled him up in his coat [[AllLovingHero like he's trying to console a small child]]. Even though he gets his plan back on the rails after this, the mask has well and truly slipped, and he goes straight into the 'mad gleam' mode that the Doctor told him would happen. |
| 696 | * OfficiallyShortenedTitle: The first-ever ''Doctor Who'' novelisation was titled ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks'' (with ''Doctor Who'' in big letters). This was shortened to ''Doctor Who and the Daleks'' on subsequent editions. |
| 697 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: The novelisation of "City of Death" says that the past versions of Scaroth think Count Scarlioni is an idiot. |
| 698 | * PardonMyKlingon: |
| 699 | ** In the novelisation of "Shada", the Doctor at one point uses an Old High Gallifreyan swear word which is left in the text as symbol form. It is described in the footnote as untranslatable and descriptive of something far more obscene than any of the readers can apparently imagine, although it's first used in the form "___ you" and the first of the symbols looks quite a lot like a linked male-and-female symbol. |
| 700 | ** Parodied in the novelisation of "Shada" when Romana is shocked to discover a note from a criminal depicting the rudest Gallifreyan symbol, "the V of Rassilon". We do eventually get to see the note, and it's just a passable illustration of a hand doing the VSign (set in some interlocking shapes that imitate post-ReTool depictions of Gallifreyan writing). |
| 701 | * 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! |
| 702 | * {{Pastiche}}: |
| 703 | ** Gareth Roberts' novelisation of "Shada" (originally by Creator/DouglasAdams) is written as a pastiche of Adams' ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' as a MythologyGag. |
| 704 | ** In an attempt to salvage the novelisation of the notoriously bad TV story "The Twin Dilemma", Creator/EricSaward wrote the book as a pastiche of Creator/DouglasAdams, complete with irrelevant comic digressions. It still wasn't very popular. |
| 705 | ** On the art side, Anthony Dry's covers for the BBC Target novelisations take after Chris Achilleos's covers for the original range's earliest novelisations, FloatingHeadSyndrome and all. |
| 706 | * PiecesOfGod: In "The Day of the Doctor", the Eleventh Doctor states that the universe is sentient and that all life forms within it act as internal sensors with delusions of individual consciousness. Moffat had hinted to such a concept in his previous work, but it was never explicitly stated until here. |
| 707 | * PieInTheFace: In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]", the farce in the film studio culminates in a pie fight initiated by the Doctor. With the crew on the Charlie Chaplin film unable to come up with a suitable ending, the Doctor slaps a pie in Steven's face. Steven retaliated but the Doctor ducks and the clown on set is hit instead. Arriving in the midst of the chaos, Sara is hit with a pie too. No such fight took place on TV. |
| 708 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In "Remembrance of the Daleks", several subtle hints are given towards Mike's eventual betrayal of the group, mainly in the form of racist, sexist and antisemitic comments to others. |
| 709 | * PragmaticAdaptation: Some of the books broaden the stories and provide insights into the characters' thoughts and evoke wonderful moods not necessarily shown in the televised stories. The novelisations for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade The Crusade]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians The Silurians]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Daemons]]" are particularly good examples. |
| 710 | ** The nature of the original novelisations in general required some level of PragmaticAdaptation; they usually ran from 110 to 160 pages -- which, considering the length of the stories they were adapting ranged from two-to-six (or in some cases ten or twelve) episodes long, meant that they would often either have to compress or add things in order to meet the page requirements. The BBC revival series novelisations up the page count to 150-220 pages. |
| 711 | ** The novelisation of DevelopmentHell story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" is something of an extreme example, incorporating information from what footage was completed, the known script, some WordOfGod, Creator/TomBaker's copy of the script into which he had [[LargeHam handwritten a bunch of extra jokes and stage directions for himself]], two pages of notepaper with an entirely unknown scene handwritten by Creator/DouglasAdams, the Big Finish audio adaptation (which starred the Eighth Doctor) and even some borrowings from ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'', in which a lot of ideas for "Shada" were reused - and that's before the [[HotterAndSexier copious]] [[DenserAndWackier changes]] Gareth Roberts made to update the story to feel more like a modern ''Doctor Who'' story, expand on the characters, add {{Call Forward}}s and fanservice, and fix plotholes. Gareth Roberts wrote in the afterword about how he thought the weaknesses of "Shada" were not down to any weakness of Douglas Adams himself, but a result of the tight deadline the story was written in originally, evidenced by how well-done the groundwork was even where he had to fix things. For instance, the original has a part where Chris figures out TheReveal that Professor Chronotis is secretly the dangerous Time Lord criminal Salyavin, placed just as the Doctor has worked out that the villain needs Salyavin's unique ExpositionBeam {{Psychic Power}} for the plot to work, ''and'' just as the villain thinks Salyavin is lost forever. It seems obvious that Chris is going to announce this to the Doctor and the villain, with the best intentions, at the worst possible time - but Chronotis instead just [[IdiotBall announces his secret identity to everyone for no reason]]. Roberts changes this so that Chris blows it (bursting in on an added funny scene where the villain is in the throes of a VillainousBreakdown over his plan's failure and the Doctor is [[AllLovingHero giving his enemy a cuddle and reassurance]]), saying that this is certainly what Adams wanted to happen anyway, but probably was forced to keep an earlier draft of the scene due to time pressures. Roberts also gives Skagra a proper backstory, which was omitted from the show for time reasons, and deals more with the fallout of EccentricMentor Chronotis actually being a legendary {{Outlaw}} in disguise.[[invoked]] |
| 712 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]" gives "Shada" a run for its money, with James Goss having access to the televised version, a rehearsal script, the very long, very different first draft, the treatments for the story, Adams' notes on the story... and the treatment for a whole other story, "The Perfect Planet", some of which Adams ended up incorporating into "The Pirate Planet". |
| 713 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: |
| 714 | ** ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders'' gives Ian and Barbara a romantic relationship that is much more overt than the heavy hints in the TV stories. |
| 715 | ** In the novelisation of "Shada", the Doctor gets some fun sexual tension with a sentient spaceship. In the original her role is simply to be confused by him with a LogicBomb, but in the book the experience (along with him also teaching her how to time travel in a way suggestively related to him teaching her how to [[TheImmodestOrgasm orgasm]]) makes her curious about the world and eventually fall for the Doctor, who for his part is respectful but not very reciprocal of her feelings -- though it's worth pointing out that when he attempts to guilt Skagra about trying to destroy the Ship, his retort (that 'a machine consciousness is worthless') is the ThisMeansWar moment. |
| 716 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]" adds a wartime romance to the backstories of Group Captain Gilmore and Professor Jensen, which is [[OldFlame renewed]] over the course of the book. |
| 717 | ** The novelisation of "The Christmas Invasion" adds a romantic attraction between Daniel Llewellyn and Sally Jacobs. |
| 718 | ** In the novelisation of "The Day of the Doctor", Osgood and [=McGillop=] have romantic feelings for one another. |
| 719 | * RaceLift: In "Warriors of the Deep", Karina was white. The novelisation describes her as Oriental. |
| 720 | * RacialTransformation: In the novelisation of "Rose", Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who has regenerated black. |
| 721 | * RageAgainstTheReflection: "The Day of the Doctor" reveals that upon regenerating, the Ninth Doctor smashed every mirror in the TARDIS to avoid seeing his new face, and thought of how many children he must save to make up for the ones killed on Gallifrey. |
| 722 | * RandomSmokingScene: Ian lights a cigarette while trying to help Barbara after a car crash in ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks''. He never smoked on the show, let alone in the story the book is an AdaptationExpansion of. |
| 723 | * 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}}''. |
| 724 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: In "The Green Death", after Jo has chosen to remain with Cliff, the Doctor is mentioned to be 725-years-old. |
| 725 | * RecursiveCanon: According to "The Day of the Doctor" ([[DevelopmentGag building off a reference Steven Moffat couldn't get into the TV story]]), the Creator/PeterCushing "Dr. Who" movies exist in the Whoniverse, and are based on the Doctor's adventures. |
| 726 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the novelisation of "An Unearthly Child", the Old Mother is said to be the mother of Za. In the televised story, she was not specified to be related to any other character in particular. |
| 727 | * {{Rewrite}}: The novelisation of "Day of the Doctor" changes the sequence of the Doctors changing Gallifrey. Rather than them running around in their respective [=TARDISes=], they run around on Gallifrey saving folk. Additionally, rather than the number of Doctors being thirteen, it's implied to be a ''lot'' more. Also, one chapter mentions Kate Stewart was with her father when he died (with an additional note from the Curator mentioning he was hiding under the Brig's bed). |
| 728 | * RunningGag: Continuing the TV series' gag about the Doctor wanting to be ginger, Eight privately wonders if the Sisterhood could make him ginger in "The Day of the Doctor", Nine's examination of his face in "Rose" has him wondering why he's never ginger, and Twelve reflects in "Twice Upon a Time" that given his luck his next self's probably not going to be ginger. |
| 729 | * ScrapbookStory: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]" is presented as a collection of contemporary documents that were gathered up and suppressed to avoid embarrassing certain powerful people depicted therein. |
| 730 | * SdrawkcabName: In the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]", the human who became the Kandyman is named as Seivad. |
| 731 | * SecondaryAdaptation: David Fisher's novelisations of "The Stones of Blood" and "The Androids of Tara" are adapted from his audio novelisations. |
| 732 | * SeeTheInvisible: The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" adds a scene where the Doctor and his companions render one of the invisible monsters on Mira visible by throwing it in a swamp. |
| 733 | * SelfPlagiarism: Creator/TerranceDicks tended to recycle stories he wrote for the TV series. In one case (the Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''World Game'') he literally cuts and pastes large sections from a previous novel. |
| 734 | * SequelHook: The novelisation of "Rose" has Clive's widow Caroline vowing to find the Doctor and have her revenge, blaming the Doctor's DoomMagnet nature for her husband's death. |
| 735 | * SeriesContinuityError: The novelisations weren't really intended to be read end-to-end as a series, and attempting to do so will turn up some interesting continuity anomalies. |
| 736 | ** The earliest, and one of the most famous, is that Ian and Barbara meet the Doctor for the first time two novels in a row: ''Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child'' is the novelisation of the first TV story, and includes the scene of their first meeting; ''Doctor Who and the Daleks'', the novelisation of the second TV story, was the first novelisation actually published, and was consequently rewritten to be Ian and Barbara's first adventure, with a new first-meeting scene at the beginning. |
| 737 | ** The second most famous example was that ''Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon'', based on the TV story "Colony in Space", has the Doctor and Jo meeting each other for the first time at the beginning, reusing not their actual first meeting from "Terror of the Autons" but the scene later in that story in which the Master hypnotises her and sends her into [=UNIT=] HQ with a bomb. |
| 738 | ** The novelisation of "The Faceless Ones" has the Doctor use the sonic screwdriver in a scene where he didn't in the TV version. In the novelisation of the following story, "The Evil of the Daleks" -- which follows on immediately, without the Doctor having been back inside the TARDIS in the interim -- the Doctor notes that he hasn't got his sonic screwdriver because he left it in the TARDIS. |
| 739 | ** The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]" faithfully retains the serial's cliffhanger ending, in which the TARDIS is threatened by an erupting volcano on the planet Dulkis. The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]", which immediately follows, relocates the volcano to Earth. In turn, "The Mind Robber" novelisation ends with four people on board the TARDIS; by the start of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]" novelisation, which again should follow without a break, there are only three. |
| 740 | ** ''Doctor Who and the Space War'', the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]", removes the cliffhanger ending of the Doctor being shot... but he's still injured at the start of ''Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks''. |
| 741 | ** The "Twice Upon a Time" novelisation uses the First Doctor's televised regeneration, as did the TV story, rather than the extended version used in the novelisation of "The Power of the Daleks", or the alternate one used in the novelisation of "The Tenth Planet", where Ben and Polly find the Second Doctor in the TARDIS's sleeping compressor. |
| 742 | * SettingUpdate: |
| 743 | ** The television version of "The Tenth Planet" was set in 1986, twenty years after the story aired. The novelisation, published in 1976, moved it so it would remain in the fairly distant future, setting it in 2000. |
| 744 | ** The television version of "The Enemy of the World" was set in 2018, fifty years after the story aired. The novelisation, written in 1980, moved it so it would remain fifty years in the future, setting it in 2030. |
| 745 | * ShoutOut: |
| 746 | ** In the novelisation of "The Daleks' Master Plan", two policemen (who were unnamed in the TV episode) are named Welland and Blessed, after Colin Welland and Creator/BrianBlessed, two of the stars of ''Series/ZCars''. |
| 747 | ** The novelisation of "The Ark" ends with the Doctor attempting to teach Dodo to drop her colloquialisms with a quote from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' as the TARDIS flies on through the universe. |
| 748 | ** The novelisation of "City of Death" mentions that the Doctor once showed Romana an episode of ''Series/BluePeter''. |
| 749 | ** The novelisation of "Shada" includes numerous shout-outs to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Chronotis states that he replaced ''The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey'' with "an Earth classic... something about thumbing a lift, and there were towels in it...". Skagra observes that the human economy seems to be based on moving small pieces of green paper around and that everyone is very excited about digital watches. Chronotis says "Time! Don't talk to me about time!", a paraphrase of Marvin's famous line. Additionally, the whole book is written in a pretty obvious {{pastiche}} of Adams' writing style. |
| 750 | ** In "Logopolis", the newly-regenerated Fifth Doctor says, "Well, that's the end of that...but it's probably the beginning of [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus something completely different]]". |
| 751 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: |
| 752 | ** The bandit Kuiju in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E4MarcoPolo Marco Polo]]". |
| 753 | ** In the novelisation of "The Space Museum", the Morok that Ian captures saves Dako and Gyar's lives by telling his superiors they are dead; in return, the Xerons spare him when they storm the headquarters and he accompanies them when they kill Lobos and Ogrek. |
| 754 | ** Cyclops in the novelisation of "The Myth Makers". |
| 755 | ** In "The Gunfighters", Ike Clanton survives the gunfight, being taken prisoner by Steven and Kate as he is about to shoot the Doctor. |
| 756 | ** In "The Smugglers", Gaptooth's death during the battle is omitted: He is last mentioned when he sends Spaniard and Daniel to guard the boat, making his fate unclear. |
| 757 | ** Medok in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror The Macra Terror]]" survives the Macra attacking him in the mine and makes it to safety in time to see the TARDIS taking off. |
| 758 | ** Von Weich in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]". |
| 759 | ** Captain Hawkins in ''Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters''. |
| 760 | ** There are no casualties in the battle between UNIT and Collinson's men in "The Ambassadors of Death" novelisation. |
| 761 | ** Orum in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival of Monsters]]" (his death is blink-and-you'll-miss-it-being-hinted-at in the TV version) survives, breaks down and confesses everything. |
| 762 | ** Eric in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]". |
| 763 | ** Magrik in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]]". |
| 764 | ** [[spoiler:Every single dead character]] in "Shada". |
| 765 | ** Latoni in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" who appears to die in the televised version, survives the novelisation: George carries him out of the blaze unconscious and he is carried to safety by Muir and the others. |
| 766 | ** In "Arc of Infinity", it's clarified that Nyssa uses her staser to stun the guards outside the Place of Termination. However, she resets the weapon to kill before challenging the High Council. Later, she again uses non-lethal force against an attacking guard en route to the Presidential Chambers. |
| 767 | ** In "The King's Demons", Sir Geoffory is killed by the assassin employed by the Master dying back in the castle. In the novelisation, Sir Geoffory is mortally wounded and his injuries are treated to by the Doctor, allowing him to part company with Ranulf and Isabella on good terms. |
| 768 | ** Timanov in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E5PlanetOfFire Planet of Fire]]". |
| 769 | * SpoilerTitle: The novelisation of "Terror of the Zygons" was originally published under the title ''Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster'', giving away the story's major twist for anyone who hadn't seen it yet. |
| 770 | * 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. |
| 771 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In "The Giggle", [[spoiler:the Toymaker claims he never cried when he was cold and alone and afraid in his void.]] |
| 772 | * SwitchingPOV: |
| 773 | ** In "The Twin Dilemma", the kidnap of the twins is partly told from the point of view of a cat, said to be the most intelligent creature on Earth. |
| 774 | ** The novelisation of "Rose" is told from Rose's perspective. During the Auton attack, we get the perspective of her scummy ex-boyfriend Jimmy Stone. |
| 775 | ** "The Day of the Doctor" novelisation features scenes from the point of view of the Curator. |
| 776 | ** "The Crimson Horror" novelisation is predominantly told from Jenny Flint's perspective, with some sections told through the eyes of other characters such as Jonas Thursday, Strax, and the Doctor. |
| 777 | * TakeItToTheBridge: In the TV movie, the Doctor escapes the Master's ambulance on Golden Gate Bridge instead of near it. This was planned for the actual film, but the fact that it was shot in Vancouver made it impossible. |
| 778 | * TimeSkip: When "The Daleks' Master Plan" was adapted, it was turned into two books due to its length, and a six-month gap was placed between them to allow for possible future stories featuring Sara Kingdom. |
| 779 | * TimeStandsStill: The novelisation of "City of Death" portrays Kerensky's RapidAging from his perspective, in which he is aging normally and everything around him is frozen. |
| 780 | * TomatoInTheMirror: The novelisation of "City of Death" shows that Scarlioni doesn't realise he's an alien for most of the story. |
| 781 | * TorturePorn: The novelisation of "The Sontaran Experiment" has a lot of {{Padding}}, due to the novel having to be around the usual length despite the televised story being much shorter than usual. What it is mostly padded with is lots and lots of torture scenes that are irrelevant to the plot. |
| 782 | * TroubledBackstoryFlashback: In the TV Movie, when the Doctor says to Grace, "It was a child's dream that made you want to be a doctor," the movie leaves the audience to wonder what that dream might have been. The book shows us a flashback to Grace's youth in Sacramento. There, we witness her mother dying young and Grace dreaming of finding a way to prevent other kids having to endure the pain of their parent's premature death. |
| 783 | * {{Tuckerization}}: |
| 784 | ** Two of the colonists in "Frontios" are called Kernighan and Ritchie. They are named for Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, well known in the computer world for writing the definitive guide to the C programming language. |
| 785 | ** In "Rose", Clive has two sons, Ben and Michael, instead of the one unnamed son on screen. This would appear to be a tribute to Creator/MichaelCraze. |
| 786 | * TyopOnTheCover: The novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E3DeltaAndTheBannermen Delta and the Bannermen]]" has a typo on the spine, where there is only one Bannerman. (This is nothing to the typo that occurs within, at a point where one of the characters is supposed to be ''peering'' over a shelf.) |
| 787 | * UnreliableIllustrator: The 1960s and 1970s novelisations were published with illustrations, which, although they didn't contradict the text, had clearly been made by somebody who'd never seen the television versions. (In some cases, not only were the details of the scene different, so were the faces of the characters.) This wasn't all bad, though. Some of the monsters are much more convincing in illustrated form than they were [[SpecialEffectsFailure on the TV]]. |
| 788 | * UnusualChapterNumbers: The novelisation of the multi-Doctor story "The Day of the Doctor" begins with Chapter 8 (adapting the prequel minisode that featured the Eighth Doctor), then Chapter 11 (featuring the Eleventh Doctor), then Chapter 1 (featuring the unnumbered War Doctor), Chapter 10 (featuring the Tenth Doctor), and Chapter 12 (where the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors first meet), followed by Chapters 2 through 7, and finally Chapter 13 (an epilogue featuring the Thirteenth Doctor). There is no Chapter 9, reflecting the Ninth Doctor's absence from the story. |
| 789 | * WartsAndAll: According to "The Day of the Doctor" novelisation, Osgood hero-worships the Doctor, but after she learned how the Doctor (thought he'd) ended the Time War, she accepted he couldn't always be a hero, and decided that meant a few more heroes would be needed. |
| 790 | * WatchThePaintJob: In "Battlefield", it's mentioned that Shou Yuing's 2CV had been repainted only the previous week. As in the TV serial, it gets damaged beyond repair when Morgaine's troops ambush it. |
| 791 | * WeirdnessCensor: There is a RunningGag in the novelisation of "Shada" that everybody, including the Doctor, instantly dismisses any negative or suspicious thought they have about Chronotis by deciding that he is just a "nice old man". This is strongly implied to be the result of a low-key use of his powers. |
| 792 | * WhatTheHellHero: In the novelisation of "The Sea Devils", the Master tells the Doctor off for murdering the Sea Devils and then claiming the moral high ground. |
| 793 | * 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. |
| 794 | * WickedCultured: In "The Gunfighters", Johnny Ringo spends much of his earnings as a hired gun on classic works and delights in conversing with the Doctor in Latin phrases. |
| 795 | * 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. |
| 796 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: In "The Hand of Fear", the Doctor lures Sarah across the chasm by pretending to be in trouble. |
| 797 | * WritingAroundTrademarks: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]", the name of the evil chemical company was changed from the original Global Chemicals to Panorama Chemicals, due to legal threats from a real Global Chemicals. |
| 798 | * WrittenSoundEffect: In the novelisation of "The Mind Robber", the Karkus's more violent actions are accompanied by words like "BAM" and "ZAP" appearing ''in midair''. |
| 799 | * 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. |
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