Doctor Who and the Android Invasion (novelisation)

 was a novelisation based on the 1975 television serial The Android Invasion.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor and Sarah arrive safely back on Earth – or do they?

Why does the mysterious soldier march straight over a cliff – and then reappear unharmed?

Why are they attacked by the sinister mechanics with built-in guns for hands?

Why is a picturesque country village at first deserted – then filled with mindless zombies?

And why are their best friends suddenly trying to kill them?

The Doctor has stumbled on a cunning alien plan to take over the Earth. Will he be in time to defeat the deadly Kraals and their terrifying android invasion?

Chapter titles

 * 1) Strange Arrival
 * 2) Village of Terror
 * 3) The Watcher
 * 4) Hunted
 * 5) Captured
 * 6) The Test
 * 7) The Countdown
 * 8) Braindrain
 * 9) Blastoff
 * 10) Hero's Return
 * 11) Takeover
 * 12) Death of a Doctor

Deviations from televised story

 * An army truck transports the android villagers to and from the village simulation instead of the large tradesman's pickup truck used in the televised version.

Writing and publishing notes

 * When the first seventy-three Target novelisations were retroactively numbered in 1983, this book was assigned #2; however no edition bearing the number was ever printed.

British publication history
First publication:
 * Hardback
 * W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK


 * Paperback
 * Target

Editions published outside Britain

 * Published in the USA by Pinnacle Books in 1980 as a paperback edition, it was one of ten American novelisations; an introduction by Harlan Ellison features in all the editions.
 * Published again in the USA by Aeonian Press in 1984 as a hardback edition; it was one of seven novelisations published in the mid-1980's.