Target Books' Doctor Who output in 1991 was the lowest in the range's history. With just the one new Seventh Doctor television novelisation, Battlefield, the series effectively ended, although in September they produced a new novelisation of a 1978 audio drama with the Fourth Doctor, The Pescatons. Though a few more novelisations would be forthcoming in the next couple of years, these novelisations did not follow the Target format in that they had a much higher word count and were intended for a higher reading level. Battlefield was also the last television novelisation to go out under the Target logo.
1991 was, however, a big year for reprints. Nineteen novelisations were reprinted, including some reprints of Fourth Doctor stories. The inclusion of the Fourth Doctor was significant, as he had been all but ignored by Target for a decade.
Stories[]
| Month | Title | Writer | Cover Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | Reissue: Doctor Who - The Web Planet | Bill Strutton | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| January | Reissue: Doctor Who - The Brain of Morbius | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| February | Reissue: Doctor Who - The Five Doctors | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| February | Reissue: Doctor Who - The Dominators | Ian Marter | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| March | Reissue: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| March | Reissue: Doctor Who - The Ambassadors of Death | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| April | Reissue: Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| April | Reissue: Doctor Who Death to the Daleks | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| May | Reissue: Doctor Who and the Ark in Space | Ian Marter | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| May | Reissue: Doctor Who - Revenge of the Cybermen | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| June | Reissue: Doctor Who - Castrovalva | Christopher H. Bidmead | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| June | Reissue: Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| July | Reissue: Doctor Who - The Krotons | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| July | Battlefield | Marc Platt | Alister Pearson |
| July | Reissue: Doctor Who - The Chase | John Peel | Original Cover Art |
| August | Reissue: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| August | Reissue: Doctor Who and the Three Doctors | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| September | Reissue: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks | Terrance Dicks | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| September | Reissue: Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora | Philip Hinchcliffe | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| September | The Pescatons | Victor Pemberton | Pete Wallbank |
| October | Reissue: Doctor Who - Time and the Rani | Pip and Jane Baker | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| November | Reissue: Doctor Who – Delta and the Bannermen | Malcolm Kohll | Original Cover Art |
| November | Reissue: Doctor Who – Dragonfire | Ian Briggs | Original Cover Art |
| December | Reissue: Doctor Who - Logopolis | Christopher H. Bidmead | New cover: Alister Pearson |
| December | Reissue: Doctor Who – The Greatest Show in the Galaxy | Stephen Wyatt | Original Cover Art |
Publishing notes[]
- The publication of Battlefield marked the last release of a new television novelisation in the "standard" Target Books format. The remaining three books published in 1993 and 1994 would feature a much expanded word count and would not include the Target logo on their covers.
