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Doctor Who and the Android Invasion 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
- Strange Arrival
- Village of Terror
- The Watcher
- Hunted
- Captured
- The Test
- The Countdown
- Braindrain
- Blastoff
- Hero's Return
- Takeover
- Death of a Doctor
Deviations from televised story
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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.
Additional cover images
1978 Hardback edition
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.
1979 US Pinnacle Books edition.
Cover by David Mann
Cover by David Mann
1984 Hardback edition
