The cover artwork was often another memorable part of the package. The Silver Age runs from the mid 80’s onwards and is particularly enjoyable thanks to the contribution of many Hartnell and Troughton era scriptwriters who, some two decades on, returned to pen novelisations of their original scripts. The late 70’s and early 80’s is the Bronze Age alas, as Terrance ended up as pretty much the last man standing, churning out some fairly nondescript books month after month. For me, there’s three clear ages of Target – the first is the Golden Age, with Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke, Brian Hayles and Gerry Davis all crafting some of the best novelisations in the range.
This meant I had to venture further afield or try my luck with second-hand bookshops (also handy for tracking down first editions with the original covers).īut although the thrill of the chase was part of the fun, the books themselves were also quite important. Naturally enough I snapped it up! But many weeks would end in disappointment as the books I required never seemed to make it to my neck of the woods.
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For example, for some reason I found it very hard to track down The Android Invasion (I was told it was out of print) until suddenly a single copy appeared on the WH Smiths shelves. They tended to have a selection of the more recent books as well as a handful of older reprints – but many remained tantalisingly out of reach. So every Saturday morning I’d head off to my local WH Smiths and peruse their Who titles. I’ve plenty of books of this type in my collection, but for sheer volume the Target Doctor Who range is well out in front.įrom receiving my first ( The Day of the Daleks) as a birthday present in 1979 to finally plugging those remaining gaps in my collection in 1987 ( The Monster of Peladon and The Ribos Operation) following a visit to Forbidden Planet in London, part of the pleasure of the Target range was the time and effort it took to track every last book down.īack in the olden days, you couldn’t simply buy a book online with a few clicks, you had to go out and locate them – one by one.
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In the pre-video age, the tv tie-in novelisation was one of the best ways (along with off-air audio recordings of course) to relive memories of your favourite series. Howe’s history of the Doctor Who Target books just released, the rather nice feature on Target artwork in the current Doctor Who Magazine (DWM 499) as well as the latest wave of reprints, it seems like the ideal time to take a brief look at Target’s Doctor Who imprint. O元76045M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work
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