The universe is at war. Action takes courage…
The TARDIS is ensnared in a time corridor, catapulting it into derelict docklands on 20th century Earth.
The Doctor and his companions, Tegan and Turlough, stumble on a warehouse harbouring fugitives from the future at the far end of the corridor – and are soon under attack from a Dalek assault force.
The Doctor’s oldest enemies have set in motion an intricate and sinister plot to resurrect their race from the ashes of an interstellar war.
For The Daleks’ plans to succeed, they must set free their creator, Davros, from a galactic prison – and force The Doctor to help them achieve total control over time and space.
But the embittered Davros has ideas of his own.
Published: 18 July 2019
Length: 208 pages
ISBN: 1785944339
BBC Books is to publish novelisations of the only two classic Doctor Who stories never to have been released.
The fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks and the sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks will both be released later this year priced £12.99.
The release comes after the success of the new-era Target novelisations in 2018, which included books by Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat.
The two Doctor Who adventures will be novelised by the original scriptwriter Eric Saward, one of the series longest-serving script editors. These novels are the only two classic-era Doctor Who adventures yet to be novelised, and their publication more than three decades after their first TV transmission will fill a long-held gap in fans’ collections the world over.
Albert DePetrillo, Publishing Director at BBC Books, acquired world rights in both titles from the author directly. Each book will be published as a £12.99 hardback in 2019, with paperback editions, as part of the Target range, to follow in 2020.
of the two novelisations, Eric Saward says “’Resurrecting’ these tales may turn out to be a greater ‘Revelation’ than you’d expect!”
Eric Saward has written for both radio and television, script editor Doctor Who for five years and also written four original stories for the show. During this time he also novelised four scripts and wrote the first ever Doctor Who radio serial. Recently he has completed a graphic novel based around the adventures of Lytton.
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks will publish on 18 July 2019 in hardback priced £12.99
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks will publish on 14 November 2019 in hardback priced £12.99
Deviations from televised story
Many characters are given expanded backstories, personalities, and first names.
The Prison Station is a ship called the Vipod Mor. It has a cat named Sir Runcible that escapes with the Fifth Doctor through the time corridor.
Gustave Lytton’s first name is spelled “Gustav.” No first name is given on screen.
The Dalek battlecruiser is said to be crewed by Tellurians, implying the duplicates and Troopers are humans. Lytton being a Charnel, as established in the Attack of the Cybermen novelisation, is never mentioned.
“Howie Kellim” is the formal Star Fleet greeting, with “Howie Kellim Bi” as the reply.
The computers controlling the time corridor attack the TARDIS using Ciskinady coding, which alerts The Doctor and Turlough that The Daleks are involved.
The starfighters mentioned in the serial are depicted in a brief space battle.
Styles is accompanied by an android nurse called Monda, who is destroyed during The Dalek attack on the airlock.
The crewmember that accompanies Osborn is given the name Senior Ensign ‘Baz’ Seaton. He sabotaged Airlock Three so The Daleks could enter because they pay well.
Seaton kills Osborn only to be killed by Lytton moments later, a reversal of their fates in the televised version.
The grenade takes out 15 Daleks, instead of the obvious two on screen.
The crew also destroy several Daleks in their defence of the station. It is explained most of the crew didn’t bring gas masks because they thought it was a drill.
The gas Lytton uses is called ZP gas.
Lytton explaining the Movellan virus to Davros is omitted, meaning the virus is suddenly mentioned without introduction during Davros‘ experiments.
Mercer is left in command of the prison station’s defence because the captain is drunk.
Calder being attacked by a Dalek prior to duplication is omitted, with Tegan and Laird simply noting he has disappeared.
A scene of The Doctor and Stien entering the TARDIS, which was edited out of the broadcast version, is included.
The novelisation shows the army personnel being duplicated in a van outside the warehouse.
The Doctor previously met Lytton in Soho, running a high-class jazz club in Old Compton Street at a time of heightened murder rates. This is a forward reference to the Lytton comics.
Much detail is given about the interior of The Doctor’s TARDIS, including that all the meals are prepared by an unseen robot chef named Ooba-Doa.
Many Daleks from the serial are given specific titles, such as “Alpha Dalek,” which The Doctor notes is one he’s never heard of.
Tegan is guarded by a Trooper after her arrival on the Dalek space ship, with the Trooper being killed by Mercer.
It is Mercer, rather than Turlough, who deduces Davros is still on the station and comes up with the idea of killing him.
There is no mention of Lytton killing his last Trooper at the warehouse, making it appear the Trooper has survived.
More focus is placed on Tegan’s growing discomfort, with her expressing disgust on finding the bodies of the bomb disposal squad and disagreeing with The Doctor’s plan to execute Davros.
The Doctor and Turlough intend to pursue Lytton instead of warning Earth authorities about the Dalek duplicates.
In the “Coda,” Tegan is briefly pursued by Lytton’s policemen after leaving the TARDIS, and jumps off a bridge onto a boat to escape.
Tegan isn’t much of a tea drinker.
