BOOK DETAILS
Pages | 120 |
ISBN | 0-426-20327-5 |
Publication Date | 20 October 1988 |
SYNOPSIS
In a final bid to regain control of the TARDIS‘ faulty control system the
Tension mounts as the Doctor and his companions begin to suspect one another. What has happened to the TARDIS?
Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence which is even now haunting the time-machine’s dark and gloomy corridors?
NOTES
CHAPTER TITLES
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Aftershock
- The Seeds of Suspicion
- Inside the Machine
- Trapped
- ‘Like a Person Possessed’
- The End of Time
- The Haunting
- Accusations
- The Brink of Disaster
- A Race Against Time
- Epilogue
- Conclusion
DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED STORY
- Barbara hallucinates that Ian had too much to drink at the Cricketers.
- The sleeping quarters are located a significant distance from the console room in the novelisation.
- An original scene features
The Doctor and Ian in the TARDIS engine rooms.
- Susan and Ian are having breakfast when the TARDIS materialises. The transition into Marco Polo exists, but is vaguer than its televised counterpart and lacks the cliffhanger ending.
- Susan and Ian are having breakfast when the TARDIS materialises. The transition into Marco Polo exists, but is vaguer than its televised counterpart and lacks the cliffhanger ending.