Doctor Who Discovers Pirates (novel)

Doctor Who Discovers Pirates was the sixth Doctor Who Discovers educational novel. Originally written in 1976 with the intent that it would be published by Target Books, it was shelved as part of the cancellation of the series due to poor sales. The draft was uncovered in 2019, and eventually published by Panini Comics as a companion to Doctor Who Magazine #576, with series illustrator Jeff Cummins commissioned to finally create a sixth Doctor Who Discovers cover.

Publisher's summary
The clash of cutlasses, the roar of cannon and the shouts of pirates as they swarm over the hapless ships that have become their prey… Everyone knows about pirates, but what were these buccaneers really like? In “Dr. Who Discovers Pirates” the Doctor traces their unlawful history from Roman times to the China seas of not more than a hundred years ago, finding out about such infamous characters as Captain Kidd and Blackbeard as the Tardis takes him through the centuries.

“Dr. Who Discovers Pirates” is one of a series of illustrated stories in which the Doctor meets the famous — and infamous — of history and finds himself an eye-witness to great events.

Plot
to be written

Characters

 * Fourth Doctor
 * Julius Caesar
 * Henry Morgan
 * Unnamed seaman

Continuity
to be written

Credits

 * Edited by Fred Newman
 * Cover illustration by Jeff Cummins
 * Designed by Mike Jones
 * Thanks to David J. Howe, Joe McIntyre, Simon Middleton and Sylvia Newman
 * All photographs of Dr Who reproduced by kind permission of the BBC Photographic Library and remain BBC Copyright photographs.