Things I have learnt from Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion

[hhertzof]

I picked up a copy of the Pinnacle (American) version of the Target novel at the booksale today. Given that it's a Doctor/Sarah novel, I thought people would get a kick out of this

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[doyle_sb4]

I love that the Brig's moustache is a vital aspect of his characterisation :p

[hhertzof]

But it is, donchaknow. D:

[justspies]

First off, I smile every time they call him the 'Doctor Who'. It's just, you know, the Doctor. And also? Mature Time Lord? Hah! Okay, I'm still laughing. Because...so not Four, in any case. Also, the fact that it wasn't the Fourth Doctor in this ep at all adds to its beauty.

Priceless.

[hhertzof]

But it's "his desperate desire to bring law and order to the galaxy" that makes it art. ;)

[paranoidangel42]

I didn't know the Americans did their own novelizations. Or possibly I did know and had forgotten.

and his mustache is very neat

I'm still laughing over that line - the whole thing is funny, but that in particular.

[hhertzof]

They were repackaged Target novelisations, and they didn't last long. Most of the ones I found in the bookstores were the original Targets so at some point they stopped bothering with the repackaging.

;)

[amilyn]

I've owned the ten black-cover American releases, and I thought for YEARS that I'd missed a Four ep because I'd read "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" over and over and hadn't seen it (our PBS hadn't aired any of Three, only Four).

And then I didn't get to see part 1 until this summer...and a bit of new Sarah was such a treat.

I loved the novelisations because I had them in 1980 and on, years before I had any way to video tape the show (I was audio-taping the episodes and had boxes of carefully labeled tapes made with a little square recorder with a one centimeter square microphone propped up against the television), so there were no reruns except the books.

I was lucky enough that my local PBS (in southern Illinois) had Doctor Who on every weekday afternoon at 5:30 for half an hour. It was a gorgeous time...

[hhertzof]

Lucky you. When I discovered the books, I had no access to the episodes (except for at SF cons). I don't remember what I thought about Invasion of the Dinosaurs, though I was reading DW Magazine for a while, so I might have picked up that it was a Third Doctor story.

I remember audio taping other shows. My mum bought a tape recorder which picked up channels 2-13 just for that purpose.

Oddly enough, my mum remembers watching Doctor Who on tv in NYC and I think I've got her hooked again.

[ipsissimus_clay]

But... if they were just repackaged Targets, didn't the discrepency between the descriptions within and the character description confuse people?

Then again, even though it's been a while since I've cracked a Target [as it were] I can remember them not being too descriptive at the best of times...

[hhertzof]

Having read through it, the only description I remember about the Doctor's appearence was a reference to curly hair (which they both have).