Planet of the Ood (novelisation)

Planet of the Ood was a novelisation based on the 2008 television episode Planet of the Ood. It was written by the original writer Keith Temple and released by Target Books on 13 July 2023.

Publisher's summary
"The Ood came from a distant world, they voyaged across the stars, all for one purpose... to serve."

The TARDIS lands on the Ood-Sphere in the year 4126. Here, human profiteers have subjugated the Ood: the gentle creatures are forced into servitude and sold across the galaxy as the perfect slaves. But now, some are fighting back. Their eyes turn red as they throw off their chains and kill their oppressors...

The Doctor and Donna soon learn that the planet of the Ood holds cruel and awesome secrets. As they battle for justice and survival, the fate of the entire Ood race hangs in the balance. Will the outcome be salvation - or extinction?

Chapter titles

 * Prologue
 * 1. 'Have a Nice Day'
 * 2. Controls Set to Random
 * 3. An Ood Dies, Singing
 * 4. The Man with the Ferrari
 * 5. The Noble Corporation PLC Limited - Intergalactic
 * 6. The Rabid Ood
 * 7. In the Year 4126
 * 8. Nice Coat, Nice Rocket
 * 9. In Out of Bounds
 * 10. Warehouse Fifteen
 * 11. The Claw
 * 12. Song of Captivity
 * 13. Just Like in Ancient Times
 * 14. Revolution
 * 15. Ood Conversion
 * 16. The Creature in Warehouse Fifteen
 * 17. The Song of Freedom

Deviations from televised story

 * There is an extra opening sequence involving Delta Fifty and Kappa Three Hundred (the Ood Kess later discovers rabid) starting to hear the song.
 * It is mentioned that Ood Operations filled the gap in the market caused by the collapse of the Voc Corporation but sales of servo robots are now rising.
 * The novel adds a viewpoint character for the reps, Darson Bookbinder, an older rep who tries to keep the others in line, and is killed by the Ood after escaping the initial massacre.
 * The deleted scene of Halpen ordering Bartle's pension cancelled in restored.
 * Kess is given a first name, Atol, and said to be a former mercenary.
 * The novel restores a deleted scene of the Doctor publicly questioning Halpen about Delta Fifty's death, with added interjections from Bookbinder about the alternative of using robot servants.
 * The Ood leave upper level containers by taking off their gloves and boots and using suckers to walk down the sides.
 * A number of reps are killed after they take refuge in a swimming pool only for the Ood to electrify the water.
 * Solana doesn't give the order to shoot the Ood, instead spending her last moments wishing she'd gone with the Doctor.
 * There is an extra sequence of the Doctor and Donna freeing a group of natural-born Ood from the processing centre and then blowing it up.

Writing and publishing notes
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Continuity
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Audiobook
This Target Book was released as an audiobook on 13 July 2023 complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Silas Carson.