Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
by Terrance Dicks
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Geoffrey Beevers reads this action-packed novelisation of a Third Doctor television adventure. Seven months after it left Mars there has still been no radio communication with the Probe Seven spacecraft, or the astronauts inside it. Back on Earth concern is mounting, and eventually a recovery capsule is sent up to rescue the astronauts. But when the capsule returns to Earth it is found to be empty. As the Doctor and Liz investigate, they discover that the interior of the capsule is highly show more radioactive: if anyone was inside, they would now surely be dead. Have the astronauts returned to Earth? And if not, who are the sinister space-suited figures who stalk the countryside, and whose very touch means instant death? Duration: 4 hours approx. show lessTags
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This is not particularly good. We lose out on the action scenes which were one of the original story's strong points (along with generally good direction), and Dicks adds little new to the plot which basically exposes its weaknesses rather more mercilessly to the reader. Published in 1987, this was the last of the televised Third Doctor stories to reach print (wording chosen carefully to allow for Barry Letts' novels based on his two audio dramas).
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I think I was a little harsh. Squeezing seven episodes into a Target novelisation is a considerable challenge which the late great Terrance Dicks managed effortlessly, and he also gives us brief show more introductory characterisation paragraphs for all of the significant characters. It's still not my favourite novelisation, not even of Season 7 (Cave Monsters for the win!) but I should have been fairer. show less
This is not particularly good. We lose out on the action scenes which were one of the original story's strong points (along with generally good direction), and Dicks adds little new to the plot which basically exposes its weaknesses rather more mercilessly to the reader. Published in 1987, this was the last of the televised Third Doctor stories to reach print (wording chosen carefully to allow for Barry Letts' novels based on his two audio dramas).
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3792884.html
I think I was a little harsh. Squeezing seven episodes into a Target novelisation is a considerable challenge which the late great Terrance Dicks managed effortlessly, and he also gives us brief show more introductory characterisation paragraphs for all of the significant characters. It's still not my favourite novelisation, not even of Season 7 (Cave Monsters for the win!) but I should have been fairer. show less
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- Canonical title
- Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
- Original publication date
- 1987-10
- People/Characters
- The Doctor (3rd); Liz Shaw; Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Brigadier)
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- Paper, Audiobook
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