New Companion Rumour

[Steve Roby]

The Target novelization line was never complete. For quite a few years, the only original series stories that hadn't been novelized were a couple of Eric Saward stories and the ones written by Douglas Adams. Then it finally occurred to someone that getting someone else to write the Adams stories (Gareth Roberts or James Goss) and putting Adams's name on the cover in big letters would probably sell a lot more books than the average Doctor Who novel, and it seems to have worked out that way. We've got Shada, The City of Death, and The Pirate Planet, all released in hardcover, with plans for an unfilmed and unfinished Adams Who story to get similar treatment, even though Adams cannibalized it for his own books already. Unfortunately, Saward isn't quite as big a draw, so Revelation of the Daleks and Resurrection of the Daleks probably won't get official novelizations any time soon.

 

[The Wormhole]

with plans for an unfilmed and unfinished Adams Who story to get similar treatment, even though Adams cannibalized it for his own books already.

The Kricketman, who were used in the Hitchhiker's series.

 

[Steve Roby]

The Kricketman, who were used in the Hitchhiker's series.

Yeah, I'm mildly curious, but I wonder what big Douglas Adams fans who aren't all that interested in Doctor Who will think of getting recycled material rewritten by a substitute for Adams.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah, I'm mildly curious, but I wonder what big Douglas Adams fans who aren't all that interested in Doctor Who will think of getting recycled material rewritten by a substitute for Adams.

Meh, Professor Chronotis from Shada was incorporated into the Dirk Gently series, and then we got the Shada novelization by Gareth Roberts.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, I'm mildly curious, but I wonder what big Douglas Adams fans who aren't all that interested in Doctor Who [...]

Those people exist?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Those people exist?

Believe it or not, yes. I know such people. There are Douglas Adams fans who have no idea he worked on Doctor Who. If their only experience are the H2G2 and Dirk Gently trilogies and they think of Adams solely as a novelist, they may not realize he had other work.

It's like the Monty Python fans who have no idea about the albums.

 

[Mr Soak]

Although they were unofficial, The Pirate Planet, City of Death, Resurrection and Revelation of the Daleks got limited-release novelisations for charity, by the New Zealand Fan Club. I can't remember if Shada was done, as well.

The first couple of seasons of The Sarah Jane Adventures were novelised, weren't they?

 

[Steve Roby]

Although they were unofficial, The Pirate Planet, City of Death, Resurrection and Revelation of the Daleks got limited-release novelisations for charity, by the New Zealand Fan Club. I can't remember if Shada was done, as well.

Yes, they did Shada too.

The first couple of seasons of The Sarah Jane Adventures were novelised, weren't they?

Yes. I think I have just the first one, myself.