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Post by edhipkiss on Mar 25, 2014 8:08:34 GMT
Always liked Curse of Fenric. Ian Briggs did a wonderful job fleshing out what was already a great story.
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Post by Will Weller on Mar 26, 2014 17:43:07 GMT
Started reading Ian Marter's novel of Earthshock this morning, and I'm already half way though!!! I just can't put it down, it's such a good book.  |
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Post by Steven Christopherson on Mar 27, 2014 4:43:08 GMT
Ian Marter is always a great read, he really brings his books to life and they are always engaging and fulfilling.
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Post by Will Weller on Mar 30, 2014 15:21:41 GMT
Managed to get my hands on a target copy of The Underwater Menace!
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Post by andyc on Mar 30, 2014 19:29:03 GMT
Some of my nicest memories as a kid were going to the paperback section in WH Smith, and standing there for 15 minutes or so whilst choosing which Target Dr Who novel to buy. My first was Day of the Daleks in 1975-ish, and I bought them regularly for about 10 years. Along with the Making of Doctor Who paperback from around 1976.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Mar 30, 2014 19:38:34 GMT
Some of my nicest memories as a kid were going to the paperback section in WH Smith, and standing there for 15 minutes or so whilst choosing which Target Dr Who novel to buy. My first was Day of the Daleks in 1975-ish, and I bought them regularly for about 10 years. Along with the Making of Doctor Who paperback from around 1976. I remember the original cover for DOTD.Chris Achilleos's illustration of Pertwee made him look as if he was sporting a moustache and the cover was covered with a thin layer of plastic laminate which after a while started to come away from the book,leaving a B/W illustration beneath! |
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Post by John Green on Mar 30, 2014 20:03:23 GMT
Gad.I bought the first DW adaptation from a paperback-dispensing machine on a platform of (I think) Salisbury station when I was nor but a lad.
I was quite amazed to discover later-think I'm right?-that rehearsal sketches of the actors in mufti were used in the first hardback.Any experts out there?
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Mar 30, 2014 20:50:10 GMT
Gad.I bought the first DW adaptation from a paperback-dispensing machine on a platform of (I think) Salisbury station when I was nor but a lad. I was quite amazed to discover later-think I'm right?-that rehearsal sketches of the actors in mufti were used in the first hardback.Any experts out there? Yes, that's right. The illustrations were reproduced for PC on the MP3 version of Doctor Who and the Daleks and there is one of Hartnell wearing a cardy! |
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Post by Will Weller on Mar 31, 2014 15:19:42 GMT
I've just managed to get a copy of the Doctor Who Program Guide book from 1991 (I think) for £1.99. Really cool find as I've never seen it before!  |
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Mar 31, 2014 16:48:16 GMT
The Doctor Who Monster Book from 1975 was absolutely wonderful I remember.Big format,great illustrations from Chris Achilleos and a big poster in the middle.This book greatly mythologized the re-incarnation and previous lives of the Doctor in an almost off-hand way by Terrance Dicks,whilst at the same time heralding Tom Baker in his first season.I managed to pick up a mint edition a couple of years back and it's still great ( with the poster intact )!The 2nd edition of the Making of Dr Who was a completely different beast to it's Pertwee centric 1st edition,Terrance Dicks making the first mention of episodes being lost forever in 1976!So when the DWM list came out in 1981,it didn't strike me as being anything sensational as I had already read and known of them having been wiped 5 years earlier.Missing episodes for me were already part of Dr Who's history.
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Post by John Green on Mar 31, 2014 17:16:23 GMT
I managed to pick up a mint copy of Marco Polo a while back...
Seriously,why has nobody mentioned the delights of the corner newsagents,with their rickety spinners holding slightly-yellowing copies of the Bunty Picture Library and TV tie-ins of Man About the House and George and Mildred,as well as the Targets?
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Post by shellyharman67 on Mar 31, 2014 17:24:23 GMT
The daemons with original cover back in the 70s was my first book. Got me hooked ! Web was 2nd |
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Mar 31, 2014 18:09:19 GMT
The daemons with original cover back in the 70s was my first book. Got me hooked ! Web was 2nd Great illustration on the cover!The Target book published by Telos Publications a few years back has a wealth of early front and back covers as well as the complete history of the Target imprint.A wonderful volume. |
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Post by Alan Jeffries on Mar 31, 2014 21:27:24 GMT
My first was the first reprint edition in 1974 of Doctor Who and the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Web Planet and Doctor Who and the Crusaders. All for the princely sum of 25p each. All bought in the WH Smiths branch in Notting Hill Gate. The huge book section was upstairs. I was there with my mum.
Funny how some things stick in your mind.
I still have them.
Possibly the first Who merchandise that began that particular collection.
Alan
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Post by Marty Schultz on Mar 31, 2014 23:01:14 GMT
Gad.I bought the first DW adaptation from a paperback-dispensing machine on a platform of (I think) Salisbury station when I was nor but a lad. I was quite amazed to discover later-think I'm right?-that rehearsal sketches of the actors in mufti were used in the first hardback.Any experts out there? You live in the future!!! Us poor Aussie cobbers grew up with no fancy robotic transmat book dispensers. We had to walk twenty miles to a bookstore in the rain. With no shoes. Dodging Kangaroos and koalas. |
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