Almost every Doctor Who serial of the original series has its own paperback adaptation. I never thought too much about obtaining them all, but then one day, BAM! Instant collection! (Thanks, Tim!) Suddenly, owning a complete collection was an obtainable goal. Since then, although I haven’t gone online to search, I’ve kept my eyes peeled at local used bookstores but have become convinced it’s all a matter of timing. Very few Doctor Who paperback collections are brought it for sale or trade, and when they are it becomes a matter of finding them before someone else does. I have found two bumper crops, though, most recently this past weekend. While updating my checklist I was surprised to discover that I now own all of the Fourth Doctor paperbacks and am very close to owning all of Fifth and Sixth Doctor ones as well. I’m most interested in the paperbacks of the First and Second Doctors, especially those adapting “lost” episodes, but I will buy or trade for anything on this list. Let me now if you have any to sell or trade, and feel free to post your own wants as well.
JEFF’S DOCTOR WHO WANT LIST: Nothing, absolutely nothing.Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Incorrect, I think - I'm not sure that the Davison and C. Baker Dalek stories were never novelized, I'm almost certain that the Douglas Adams Fourth Doctor stories were not..
...OTTOMH , only the Douglas Adams (including one co-written by him , pseudonymously) Who stories , of BBC broadcast episodes , haven't been Target-ed , hah , hah !!!!!!!!!
I think the Who adaptations tend to be generically referred to as " Targets " , after the British company that issued most?? of them originally in the 70s/80s , and , from when I bought DWM , it appears that many of them are still more common than the later reissues on Virgin , though those are what I bought in the 90s , as dealers in DWM still offer a fair amount of Target printings seemingly relatively cheaply , IIRC .
Technically speaking , I guess the Target Whos were never , officially , issued in America , as I suppose the pre-globalization concept of " different companies on either side of the puddle " still applied then...About the time I was becoming a Who fan , the Who paperbacks were still from the Lyle Stuart company in America , though it's possible that by then they just put a LS sticker upon a Target pressing??
John Moret said:
,,,Shada did have a VHS issued , I had it...That played around with the " Is it an official story?? " question by having it introduced by Tom Baker...as himself , not the Doctor !!!!!!!!!
I have read that , in old-school Doctor Who fandom , a version of what was filmed for Shada was shown at some conventions , minus the Baker material filmed for that video . I'm told it would have words on screen againsta color backdrop , telling you what would have been seen there if comething had been filmed !
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