Acquire Today Doctor Who And The Planet Of The Daleks Articulated By Terrance Dicks Disseminated As Paperbound

well written novel by Terrance Dicks, I am Thankful for these Target books as they fill in so many stories I haven't seen on the small screen.
However as good as this one was , I found it needed just a little bit more, which can be the drawback sometimes of episodic novelizations they don't always have everything you're looking for.
Listened to the audiobook with my son cos he was interested, Very good narration, big improvement on the tv version, あらすじ

　マスターとの戦いで瀕死の重傷を負わされたドクター脈も心音も感じ取ることができず意識を失ったままだターディスの中でジョーは途方に暮れるがこのままドクターを死なせまいと助けを呼んでくる覚悟でターディスが着地した見知らぬ惑星に一人出て行くしかしジョーが外に出た途端ターディスは自生の植物に巻きつかれ埋もれてしまうジョーが出かけてほどなくしてドクターが意識を取り戻すがターディスの通気口が植物の放つ胞子によって塞がれてしまい予備の酸素タンクにも穴があいて一本しか残っておらずドクターはターディスの外に出ようとするが植物のせいで扉が開かないこのままでは酸素が底をつき窒息するしかないというところでドクターは二人の男に助けられる彼らはジョーに頼まれてドクターを助けにきたというドクターは二人がスカロ出身のサール族であることを知りかつてスカロを訪ねたことだあると打ち明けるジョーを待たせているという二人の宇宙船の元に赴く途中ドクターは二人から透明になる能力をもったダーレクの存在を見せられるダーレクがこの星を侵略したのはこの星の住人スピリドンの透明になる能力を手にいれることでサール族の二人ははそれを阻止するためにこの星に来たのだという命を救われたお礼にドクターは手伝いを申し出る

 

感想

絶対絶命としか思えない緊張感が全編にわたって続くダーレクとサール族ドクターの戦いは熾烈さを増す目的のためなら全生物を滅ぼすことも厭わない加えて負けたことを認識しないのでやられたからといってやられたとも思わないし目的を止めることはない戦っても戦っても終わりが見えないこの時点でダーレクとの戦いはすでにあまりにも不毛で悲しくなってくる This scifi novel features the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and his companion Jo Grant.
The book takes the Doctor and his companion to the planet of Spiridon, A dangerous tropical jungle, a deadly fungus, and the invisible Spiridons all pale when the Doctor and Jo realize that the Daleks are using the planet as a base for revenge.


This rather typical Doctor Who novel is short and filled with action, The audiobook comes complete with soundeffects although sometimes distracting to the narration, the effects add to the adventure, If you are a Whovian, you will most likely enjoy the book, If you are not familiar with the time lord and his TARDIS, this novel might leave you scratching your head in a state of puzzlement.

Planet of the Daleks was a six part story featuring the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and companion Jo Grant.
It was first shown in April to Mayand it's one I remember well, though I suspect because I may have seen a repeat showing of it later.


The story starts with a dramatic cold open, as the Doctor seemingly lies in the Tardis dying you would have to known that this was a cliffhanger from the previous story Frontier in Space which ends with the Master shooting the Doctor.
Landing on a planet, Jo goes to finds help, while the Doctor finds himself trapped inside the Tardis and running out of air.
Don't worry though, because all of this buildup is seemingly forgotten within five pages to make way for the plot.


It's an exciting story, with an army of Daleks, a group of Thals the Daleks ancient enemy seeking to sabotage them

and invisible monsters that live on the planet.
All this translates rather better on the page than it did on the screen with a six part story you get a lot of running around.
The Dalek army, if I recall, consisted of the production team going out and buying as many Dalek toys as they could find and setting them up on a flat surface! Similarly the idea of an invisible monster might have sounded like a good way of saving money technicians waving fronds to simulate movement, for example, but it just doesn't work.
The less said about the "jungle" the better, as this was done all on set and so it looks totally fake.


Back to the story though, The Doctor and Jo are portrayed well here, as are the Thals and Spiridons the invisible inhabitants of the planet.
The Daleks fare less well, having far too many emotions being shown at times can they really show things such as amazement and astonishment Anger I can understand though, as the motley crew successfully destroys the waiting Dalek army.


An entertainingI like Doctor Who,
The new TV series are a treat, the older ones are sometimes great,
Now I just discovered I had one of the novels in my early youth, I dimly remember to have liked this one, even if I didn't remember a thing about it, So I read it again, just to discover: it was okay, But I know now why I didn't remember anything of it, It's standard SciFi with some severe plotholes or, to be exact, characterweaknesses,
I suppose most of the bad writing has to be atributed to the German translation from the earlys, though, so I guess it'd be a "" if I had read it as English original.


Funny though: the changes, the Daleks went through in those centuries in between,
A separate levitation disc as their only means to move through the air, . . the Daleks truly have evolved since, This is a novelization of a sixpart Doctor Who adventure that aired in the tenth season of the series, with the third iteration of The Doctor when his companion was the pleasantly competent Jo Grant.
The script was written by Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, and features many of their most popular and best known features and peculiarities.
Dicks compressed the script into a good, short novel, and it's a good adventure read whether or not you're familiar with the subjects beforehand.
The beginning is a little awkward since it opens with The Doctor in a coma, recovering from being shot by The Master in the previous adventure, but Jo soon wanders out to explore Spiridon, the jungle planet upon which they're landed, and is infected by deadly poisonous plants, runs afoul of the invisible Spiridons, is rescued by the Thuls, and they get back to the TARDIS just in time to rescue the The Doctor, who's recovered only to find himself imprisoned by the deadly plants.
Meanwhile, there's this army of Daleks just waiting to get back into action, . . It's a very fastpaced story, and Dicks did an excellent job of adapting it for readers, Like a lot of these novelisations by Terrance Dicks it feels just like watching the serial, Not much is added, but it's got all the characters and the conversations and the action sequences people will remember from the TV episodes.
Very much your average Target Novelisation,

As for the story itself, I liked seeing Jo doing things independently, The invisible daleks could have been more of a threat, as they introduced the idea but then stayed visible most of the time.
There were a few too many Thal names to remember and I couldn't tell most of them apart, So overall not the strongest story, but it has some good moments and there's nothing terribly wrong with it, Jo peered through the panel and saw nothing, Yet someone had entered the cabin, She could hear hoarse breathing and stealthy padding footsteps, A beaker rose in the air of its own accord, then dropped to the floor, . . The Invisible Enemy

After pursuing the Daleks through Space, Doctor Who lands on the Planet of Spiridon, in the midst of a tropical jungle.
. . and finds more than Daleks, Vicious plants spitting deadly poison, invisible Spiridons attacking from all sides and, in hiding, a vast army waits, . . for the moment to mobilise and conquer, Dicks great condensed novelisation hits all the right spots even through it does highlight Terry Nations formula of Dalek stories he clearly loves a deadly plague!.


But its quite fitting for a Tenth season story to hark back to the shows roots, not only the Thals make a return but the original TARDIS team gets referenced.

The Doctors legacy is something that the modern series explores, it fits well here,

A nice throwback that improves on the original televised serial, This is the first Doctor Who book I've read as an adult, I enjoyed it almost as much as I would an episode of the show, I thought it had just the right amount of lightheartedness while putting the characters in peril at the same time.
The one thing I didn't like was the amount of sidecharacters, Without a face to go with a name,extra people who are not the Doctor and his companion are hard to get to know and care about inpages.


Wellwritten and fun, It's not great, but it's a hell of a lot of fun, Besides, Planet of the Daleks was the first Who serial I ever saw back in thes, it's always going to be special.
No less than modernday Dalek maestro Nicholas Briggs has observed that Terry Nation'sstory The Planet of the Daleks was "the Daleks greatest hits.
" That Nation, returning to the series for the first time in nearly a decade, reworked his earlier scripts to a large extent, creating a sixpart story that feels incredibly derivative.
Derivative and a little on the dull side at times, That is, onscreen at least,

Because Terrance Dicks' novelization, published three years later, is a very different animal, Dicks fixes the major pacing issues the TV version had with its series of escapes and captures having more flow in prose.
Elsewhere, he's also able to fill in some of the plot holes Nation left in his TV version and even offers up the odd bit of expanded exposition.
Perhaps above all else, Dicks also can paint in words those things that the BBC Special Effects Department sometimes struggled to realize visually back in.
Reading this is like getting a director's cut version of the story, what it would have been like if circumstances were a tad bit different.


It's also a tribute to Dicks, whose passing was announced a short time before I picked the book up to read, that it reads so well.
It feels like a quintessential Target novelization, It may not have the depth of one of the better Malcolm Hulke or Ian Marter books or say Marc Platt's superb expansion of Ghost Light.
It is, all the same, an immensely satisfying and pacey tale and one that should satisfy fans new and old.
.