Delta and the Bannermen


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Delta and the Bannermen

BOOK DETAILS

Pages 144
ISBN 0-426-20333-X
Publication Date 19 January 1989

SYNOPSIS

1989 Target Books edition

As the billionth customers at a space tollport The Doctor and Mel win the Grand Prize – a place on the Fabulous Fifties Coach Tour to Disneyland, Planet Earth.

Unfortunately, they don’t quite make it there…Knocked off-course by a wayward satellite the coach party arrives instead at Shangri-la, a remote Welsh holiday camp.

But the peace and quiet of the countryside are soon shattered by the arrival of an army of marauding Bannermen soldiers, led by the ruthless Gavrok. They are tracking down Delta, the last of the Chimeron, with only one thought in mind – her destruction…

1991 Target Books edition

‘YOU ARE THE LAST SURVIVOR, ‘ HISSED GAVROK. ‘BUT NOT FOR LONG…’

As the billionth customers at a space tollport The Doctor and Mel win the Grand Prize – a place on the Fabulous Fifties Coach Tour to Disneyland, Planet Earth.

Unfortunately, they don’t quite make it there…Knocked off-course by a wayward satellite the coach party arrives instead at Shangri-la, a remote Welsh holiday camp.

But the peace and quiet of the countryside are soon shattered by the arrival of an army of marauding Bannermen soldiers, led by the ruthless Gavrok. They are tracking down Delta, the last of the Chimeron, with only one thought in mind.

Her destruction.

This is a novelisation by Malcolm Kohll of his own story, first broadcast in 1987.

2017 BBC Audio edition

The Doctor and Mel win a place on a Fabulous Fifties intergalactic coach tour to Disneyland, Florida, Earth. When they’re knocked off course by a wayward satellite, however the coach party arrives instead at Shangri-La, a remote Welsh holiday camp.

The peace and quiet of the countryside are soon shattered by the arrival of an army of marauding Bannermen soldiers, led by the ruthless Gavrok. They are tracking down Delta, the Chimeron Queen, with only one thought in mind: her destruction.

The Doctor and Mel unite with aliens and locals alike in a frantic bid to save Delta, her Chimeron child, and the entire Chimeron race from extinction. Can they possibly succeed?

NOTES

CHAPTER TITLES


  • Prologue
  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter Eight
  • Chapter Nine
  • Chapter Ten
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Chapter Twelve
  • Chapter Thirteen
  • Chapter Fourteen
  • Chapter Fifteen
  • Chapter Sixteen
  • Chapter Seventeen
  • Chapter Eighteen
  • Chapter Nineteen
  • Chapter Twenty
  • Chapter Twenty-One
  • Chapter Twenty-Two
  • Chapter Twenty-Three
  • Chapter Twenty-Four
  • Chapter Twenty-Five
  • Chapter Twenty-Six
  • Chapter Twenty-Seven
  • Chapter Twenty-Eight
  • Chapter Twenty-Nine
  • Chapter Thirty
  • Chapter Thirty-One
  • Chapter Thirty-Two
  • Epilogue

DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED STORY

  • The Production Notes commentary on the 2009 DVD release of Delta and the Bannermen revealed that the first edition of the novelisation contains an unfortunate typographical error: during the scene in which The Doctor and Ray are caught snooping on Gavrok, The Doctor is described as “peeing over” instead of “peering over” a shelf. This is unfortunate as “peeing” is common slang for the act of bodily urination. The typographical error also exists in the 1991 reissue. The error can be found in both editions on page 54.
  • On,Burtonhas a dog. However there is no mention of this dog in the novelisation.
  • On, Hawk burns his hand when he enters the ray of the sonic cone, but in the book, he injures his head.
  • The epilogue of the book shows Billy, Delta and her daughter arriving on the brood planet, which is said to be covered in hexagonal chambers as far as the eye can see. Delta and her daughter stay on the brood planet and Billy takes the Bannermen to a galactic court before returning to the brood planet.

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