April Books 20) Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks

[nwhyte]

20) Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks, by John Peel

John Peel continues his run of excellent Who books with this, the first story of Patrick Troughton's incarnation of Doctor Who. It is a favourite of mine anyway - I cannot understand why fannish opinion generally prefers the later Evil of the Daleks - but Peel, equipped with David Whitaker's

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[robshearman]

And, in all honesty, my own ninth Doctor episode was massively influenced by this - in my opinion, the greatest and subtlest Dalek story of all.

[robshearman]

Oh, thank you very much! That was fun, writing that. I saw it recently, for the first time in a couple of years, and it seemed very slow compared to New Who now - but I still felt rather proud of the old thing.

[parrot_knight]

No problems with the pace of Dalek over here! I think it was the best way to introduce the Daleks to the new audience.