Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion Of Earth is a novelisation of one of the Hartnell First Doctor stories. This is one is just average in whichever media in particular.

Something of a Terminator type story - the machines (or mutant housing machines) are basically in control and a dirty, desperate human resistance does what they can to oppose them, with the Doctor and company thrown into the mix.

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Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth was the first Dicks novelisation of a Hartnell story. It leans a bit on the Peter Cushing film as well as on the originally broadcast version. Its most remarkable innovation, and improvement on the screen, is the Daleks’ pet monster, the Slyther, which is much more terrifying on the page. But unfortunately a lot of the good bits of the TV story – the desperate chase across a deserted London in episode 3, and even the Doctor’s farewell to Susan at the end – are truncated and lose their effect. It’s still a good story but this comes across rather in spite of than because of Dicks’ efforts. ( )