Target Books/1982

Target Books' Doctor Who output in 1982 saw the number of new novelisations rise to levels that had been broadly typical in the late 1970s. The Fifth Doctor debuted, although with The Visitation instead of Castrovalva. The other seven novels went to the Fourth Doctor, making 1982 the first year in which none of the first three Doctors were novelised.

1982 was also a year in which no new non-fiction books were published.

Publishing History

 * REISSUE: Doctor Who and the Crusaders (Issued with a new cover by Andrew Skilleter)
 * REISSUE: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (Issued with a new cover by Andrew Skilleter)
 * REISSUE: Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (Issued with a new cover by Andrew Skilleter)
 * REISSUE: Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars (Issued with a new cover by Andrew Skilleter)
 * REISSUE: Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil (Issued with a new cover by Andrew Skilleter)

January
 * Doctor Who and the State of Decay Writer: Terrance Dicks Cover Artist: Andrew Skilleter

April
 * Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate Writer: John Lydecker Cover Artist: Andrew Skilleter

May
 * Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken Writer: Terrance Dicks Cover Artist: Andrew Skilleter

July
 * Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive Writer: David Fisher Cover Artist: Andrew Skilleter

August
 * Doctor Who and the Visitation Writer: Eric Saward Cover: Photographic

September
 * Full Circle Writer: Andrew Smith Cover Artist: Andrew Skilleter

October
 * Logopolis Writer: Christopher H. Bidmead Cover Artist: Andrew Skilleter

November
 * Doctor Who and the Sunmakers Writer: Terrance Dicks Cover Artist: Andrew Skilleter

Publishing Notes

 * After a tentative start the previous year, the notion of commissioning the original teleplay writers to pen novelisations entered full force this year (ironically, beginning with Target stalwart Terrance Dicks, this time adapting one of his own scripts, State of Decay).
 * An agreement regarding the use of artistic renderings of Peter Davison for cover art could not be reached, resulting in the decision to resort to using photographic covers for the Fifth Doctor novelisations, which begin publishing this year.