November Books 9-18) The Doctor Who Novels of Ian Marter

[nwhyte]

9) Doctor Who and the Ark in Space, by Ian Marter (published 1977, based on TV story shown in 1975)
10) Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment, by Ian Marter (published 1978, based on TV story shown in 1975)
11) Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation, by Ian Marter (published 1979, based on TV story shown in 1978)
12) Doctor Who and the Enemy of the

Comments

[blue_condition]

Excellent post, it's decades since I read any of Marter's books but I always felt he was trying to 'reclaim' Harry from being the amiable lummox/buffoon that he was on telly.

[loveandgarbage]

Thanks for posting this which takes me back some years. I remember a hardback version of The Sontaran Experiment in my local library as the first of Marter's that I read. At that time I'd never seen Doctor Who, never seen The Sontarans, and I was hooked. The writing was more visceral than other Who novelisations and fleshing out the two episodes gave a scope that Uncle Tewwance lacked

For that reason it will always remain my favourite of his novels with The Rescue running it a close second.

IIRC The INvasion was subject to a particularly vicious review in DWM by the new DW script editor, Gary Russell and was compared very unfavourably with Uncle Tewwance's novelisation of The Mind of Evil. One passage Russell quoted (and objected to) really sticks in the mind about resentment rising within a character "like pus in a festering boil".