Doctor Who: The Rescue
By (author): "Ian Marter"
Publish Date:
1987
ISBN0426203089
ISBN139780426203087
AsinDoctor Who: The Rescue
CharactersThe First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Vicki Pallister, The
Original titleDoctor Who: The Rescue (Target Doctor Who Library, No. 124)
SeriesDoctor Who Library (Target) #124, Doctor Who Novelisations #11, Adventures of the 1st Doctor #35 ,
Novelization of the Doctor Who TV episodes/story of the same name.Having left Susan on Earth, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara land the TARDIS on the planet Dido in the year 2493. There they discover two humans, Bennett and Vicki, trapped in their spaceship, the only crew to survive death at the hands of the hostile Didonians.But the Doctor is baffled: the Didonians are a peaceful nation. What has happened to change them? Why have they murdered the crew of the spaceship? Why, apart from the mysterious Koquillion, are they strangely absent?The Doctor must find the answers - and quickly. For a rescue ship is on its way from Earth intent on revenge and time is running out for the planet...