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Since Dicks wrote the screenplay as well, this is basically the screenplay with a bit more descriptive material to cover for the fact that you're not looking at images on the screen.

That was always a good character combination because of the personality mix and byplay. Mostly of interest because of the setting and the start of the Doctor/Adric/Romana combination in the stories. This is a very unusual take on the concept of vampires, and has some interesting bits.

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There's not much (if anything) new in the book, but I just love the original serial so I really enjoyed this too.more

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It also marks the beginning of Adric's TARDIS travels as he stowed away at the end of the previous story, so he starts to form a relationship with the Doctor and Romana as well, although this is developed more in later stories as he doesn't spend much time with them in this one.Īs usual with a Terrance Dicks book, reading this novelisation feels just like rewatching the TV episodes, which in this case is a very good thing! He also wrote the script for this story.

The Doctor and Romana have some lovely scenes together in this story, particularly when they are both imprisoned where there is a nod to The Time Monster (an underrated classic (fight me) from season 9). The futuristic technology elements are reminiscent of The Face of Evil from season 14 of the show, but in my opinion they are put to even better use here. The novelisation retains the beautiful atmosphere of the original televised version, with human sacrifices and vats of blood and vicious bats and everything else you'd hope for from a vampire story but be worried wouldn't fit with Doctor Who. The futuristic technology elements are reminiscent of The Face of Evil from season 14 of the show, but in my opinion they are put to even be This story blends Doctor Who's sci-fi with the gothic horror of old vampire movies, and it's such a fun combination. This story blends Doctor Who's sci-fi with the gothic horror of old vampire movies, and it's such a fun combination. (The conclusion is certainly one of the most imaginative and big-scale vampire stakings of all time neither Buffy nor Anita Blake ever dreamed this big!) It's a clever story, told simply and clearly. It's a very Gothic story of a society kept in a feudal state by a trio of overlords who rule with an iron fist and withhold technology from the citizenry. It's the middle piece of the E-space trilogy, a loose arc that doesn't really affect the story, and stars the fourth regeneration of The Doctor, the second regeneration of Time Lady Romana (or Romanadvoratrelundar if we're being formal), stowaway Adric (the U.K.'s forerunner of Wesley Crusher), and the inimitable robotic canine, K9. It's the middle piece of the E-space trilogy, a loose arc that doesn't really affect the story, and stars the fourth regeneration of The Doctor, the second regeneration of Time Lady Romana (or Romanadvoratrelundar if we're being formal), stowaway Adric (the U.K.'s forerunner of Wesley Crusher), and the inimitable robotic This is a novelization by Terrance Dicks of his own teleplay of the fourth serial from the eighteenth season of Doctor Who, which was broadcast in November and December of 1980. This is a novelization by Terrance Dicks of his own teleplay of the fourth serial from the eighteenth season of Doctor Who, which was broadcast in November and December of 1980.

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