BOOK DETAILS

SYNOPSIS

In a final bid to regain control of the TARDIS‘ faulty control system the First Doctor is driven to experiment with a dangerous untried combination. With a violent explosion, the TARDIS blacks out and the crew find themselves trapped inside. A simple technical fault? Sabotage? Or something even more sinister?

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
  

1. Aftershock
   
2. The Seeds of Suspicion
   
3. Inside the Machine
   
4. Trapped
   
5. ‘Like a Person Possessed’
   
6. The End of Time
   
7. The Haunting
   
8. Accusations
   
9. The Brink of Disaster
   
10. 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.