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Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters
 

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By:Terrance Dicks
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Description:  Novelisation of the 1973 Doctor Who TV story Carnival of Monsters. Also available as an audio reading.

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Edition: UK (1st paperback)
Released:  January 1977
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11025-0
Format: paperback
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The Doctor and Jo land on a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean in the year 1926.

Or so they think.

Far away on a planet called Inter Minor, a travelling showman is setting up his live peepshow, watched by an eager audience of space officials...

On board ship, a giant hand suddenly appears, grasps the Tardis and withdraws. Without warning, a prehistoric monster rises from the sea to attack...

What is happening? Where are they? Only the Doctor realises, with horror, that they might be trapped...

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Edition: UK (1st hardback)
Released:  January 1977
Publisher:  Allan Wingate
ISBN:0-85523-151-3
Format: hardback
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The Doctor and Jo land on a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean in the year 1926.
Or so they think.

Far away on a planet called Inter Minor, a travelling showman is setting up his live peepshow, watched by an eager audience of space officials...

On board ship, a giant hand suddenly appears, grasps the Tardis and withdraws. Without warning, a prehistoric monster rises from the sea to attack...

What is happening? Where are they? Only the Doctor realises, with horror, that they might be trapped...

Terrance Dicks was born in 1935 and educated at East Ham Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge.

After a spell in advertising the author became a full-time scriptwriter, first for radio, then television where for five years he was Script Editor of the ‘Doctor Who’ series. He is now a free-lance author and writes many of the highly successful ‘Doctor Who’ books, as well as an adventure series for boys and girls about the Canadian Mounted Police Force.

Terrance Dicks lives in Hampstead, London, is married and has three children. He is an obsessive reader and likes ‘messing about in boats’.

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Edition: UK (2nd hardback)
Released:  March 1978 (Exact date unconfirmed)
Publisher:  WH Allen
ISBN:0-491-02114-3
Format: hardback
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Edition: UK (2nd paperback)
Title:  Carnival of Monsters
Released:  May 1993
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11025-0
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Note:  Same ISBN as previous paperback edition.

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Programming the TARDIS for a visit to the attractive planet of Metebelis 3, the Doctor and Jo are disappointed to find they’ve arrived in a cargo ship bound for Singapore. Or so they think. In fact, they are trapped in a time-loop on the far away planet Inter Minor, where all the life-forms of the Galaxy are miniaturised in the Scope — a peepshow for arch-showman Vorg. These life-forms include the terrifying Drashigs — huge underwater dragons who add to the monumental problems the Doctor and Jo face in trying to escape this nightmare circus.


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