The Eye of the Giant

by Christopher Bulis

Series: Doctor Who: Missing Adventures (21), Doctor Who {non-TV} (MA Novel)

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The third Doctor (John Pertwee) and Liz Shaw, investigating a mysterious artifact, find themselves transported back in time to Salutua, a legendary lost island in the Pacific. Meanwhile, the Brigadier is left to cope with an epidemic of UFO sightings.

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Great adventure tale highly reminiscent of the early 3rd Doctor epics of his first season. Tale serves as an intro for Yates. Draws heavily from early sci-fi especially Metropolis & Jules Verne's Mysterious Island. (

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excellent pastiche of King Kong: the Doctor and Liz, and eventually UNIT as well, are dragged back to the Pacific in 1934 where an alien presence is threatening to destroy the world as we know it, and at the same time must deal with leakage from a parallel timeline. Very entertaining, with an ingeniously imagined alien which finds our planet too cold for it to function, and a villain who is not so much evil as just vain and not very bright; I think this is the best of Bulis's Who books that I have read (and I have read seven others). (

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The Eye of the Giant

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1996-04-18

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The Doctor (3rd)

Liz Shaw

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Brigadier)

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Salutua, Pacific Ocean

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The third Doctor (John Pertwee) and Liz Shaw, investigating a mysterious artifact, find themselves transported back in time to Salutua, a legendary lost island in the Pacific. Meanwhile, the Brigadier is left to cope with an epidemic of UFO sightings.

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1934: Salutua, a legendary lost island in the Pacific. Millionaire Marshal J Grover's expedition arrives to uncover and exploit its secrets. But the task is complicated by a film star's fears and ambitions and a scientist's lethal obsession. Nearly forty years later: UNIT headquarters, London. The Doctor and Liz Shaw are asked to identify a mysterious artifact and trace its origin. The trail leads them back in time to Salutua and a gigantic discovery. Meanwhile, the Brigadier faces an epidemic of UFO sightings and supernatural occurrences that threaten to bring about global panic. Only the Doctor can help him – but he's trapped on a mythical island four decades in the past.

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