Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin (novelisation)

 was a novelisation based on the 1976 television serial The Deadly Assassin.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor is suddenly summoned to Gallifrey, the home of the Time Lords, where his ghastly hallucination of the President's assassination seems to turn into reality. When the Doctor is arrested for the murder, there is a hideous, dark, cowled figure gleefully watching in the shadows.

Faced with his old enemy, the Master, Doctor Who approaches defeat in a battle of minds in a nightmare world created by the Master's imagination. But the Master's evil intentions go much further – he has a Doomsday Plan. It is up to the Doctor to prevent him from destroying Gallifrey and taking over the universe!

DOCTOR WHO scripts – awarded The Writers' Guild Award for the best British children's original drama script.

Chapter titles

 * 1) Vision of Death
 * 2) The Secret Enemy
 * 3) Death of a Time Lord
 * 4) Trapped
 * 5) The Horror in the Gallery
 * 6) Into the Matrix
 * 7) Death by Terror
 * 8) Duel to the Death
 * 9) The End of Evil
 * 10) The Doomsday Plan
 * 11) The Final Battle
 * 12) An End—and a Beginning

Deviations from televised story

 * The Doctor's opening monologue is excised.
 * The Doctor played hide and seek in the capitol when he grew up.
 * The Master lost his ability to regenerate after using a couple of bodies as a disguise.
 * The Doctor takes part in the trial, instead of drawing cartoons as he does in the televised story.
 * Hilred's name is spelled Hildred.
 * Gallifrey has poor lighting so people have to use lanterns at night.

Writing and publishing notes

 * to be added

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


 * Paperback
 * Target

Editions published outside Britain
to be added