List of Doctor Who novelisations

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. Hundreds of novelisations of the series have been published by various publishers, the majority based on the original 1963–1989 run of the series.
The first three Doctor Who serials to be novelised were the 1960s serials The Daleks, The Web Planet, and The Crusade. They were published in hardback by Frederick Muller Ltd; the first was also published in paperback by Armada.
Between 1973 and 1991, Target Books published almost every Doctor Who television story that was originally broadcast from 1963 to 1989 as a novelisation, starting with new editions of the Frederick Muller books. When Target was closed down by Virgin Books in 1991, three further novelisations—two based on the 1960s Dalek serials The Power of the Daleks and The Evil of the Daleks, and one based on the 1993 radio serial The Paradise of Death—were added to the range. Reprints under the Target imprint continued through 1994.
BBC Books published a novelisation of the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. Random House, through its United Kingdom division, acquired a 90% stake in Virgin Books in March 2007. In November 2009, Virgin became an independent imprint within Ebury Publishing, a division of the Random House Group. In 2006, Ebury Publishing acquired a majority shareholding in BBC Books. From 2012 to 2019, BBC Books published novelisations of the 1970s and 1980s serials Target was unable to publish.
Starting in 2018, BBC Books published novelisations of selected 2000s and 2010s episodes as part of the Target range. Paperback editions of City of Death, The Pirate Planet, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks, and the 1996 television movie were also added to the revived Target range. Pearson Education published adaptations of four Eleventh Doctor and six Twelfth Doctor stories for use in schools.
In addition to the television serials, three scripts from the cancelled Season 23—The Nightmare Fair, The Ultimate Evil and Mission to Magnus—were novelised. A short series entitled The Companions of Doctor Who comprised the novelisation of K-9 and Company along with the original works Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma and Harry Sullivan's War.
Besides The Paradise of Death, Target also novelised two additional non-televised stories: the radio play Slipback and the audio story The Pescatons.
A novelisation by Barry Letts of a further radio drama, The Ghosts of N-Space, was published as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures range in 1995, as was the novelisation of the independent spin-off Downtime; in the same year, the Virgin New Adventures range published a novelisation of . The most recent novelisation to be published as of 2019 is Eric Saward's Revelation of the Daleks.
In 2005, BBC Audio released unabridged audiobook versions of the first three Frederick Muller novelisations, read by actor William Russell. Beginning in September 2007, they began releasing further unabridged audiobooks of the Target novelisations at a rate of approximately two every two months; the books themselves remain officially out of print. BBC Books began reprinting selected titles starting in July 2011.

Publication details

Although Target endeavoured to commission the original scriptwriters to novelise their own stories, this was not always possible. As a result, many books in the Target line were written by Terrance Dicks. During the late 1970s to early 1980s, Target, which classified the novelisations as children's fiction, imposed a page limit of 128 pages. Some books even fell short of this limit. By the late 1980s, however, the page cap had been lifted, although John Peel was still required to split his novelisation of the epic 12-episode The Daleks' Master Plan into two volumes because the manuscript was too long.
Target began numbering its novelisations from 1983, with almost all of the first seventy-three books being numbered as reprints came out. The first new book to be numbered was Time-Flight. Target's numbering did not initially reflect original publication order, but rather was conducted in alphabetical order, so that the novelisation of The Abominable Snowmen was numbered "1". The numbering likewise had no connection with production or broadcast order. Due to print delays and last-minute reordering of publication schedules, some of the later books were released out of numeric order. The revived "Target Collection" from BBC Books is not numbered.

Titles

For the first few years of the Target line, it was common practice for the novels to have titles that differed from the adapted serials: for example, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, which was based upon the serial Spearhead from Space. This practice was dropped in the mid-1970s. Another tradition established by the books was to append the words "Doctor Who and..." to the titles, except in a few cases where impractical. This practice continued until the early 1980s. From 1990 onwards reprints of the books generally dropped "Doctor Who and..." from the title and changed titles back to the original television story, although some of the reprints merely rejacketed earlier stock.

Novelisations published by Frederick Muller Ltd

These three books based on First Doctor serials were first published in hardcover by Frederick Muller Ltd.

Title	Author	Published
Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks	David Whitaker	12 November 1964
Doctor Who and the Zarbi	Bill Strutton	16 September 1965
Doctor Who and the Crusaders	David Whitaker	17 February 1966

Reissues

The Frederick Muller books were republished by other companies, including Target and BBC Books.

Title	Author	Format	Company	Published
Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks	David Whitaker	Paperback	Armada	4 October 1965
Doctor Who and the Crusaders	Whitaker, DavidDavid Whitaker	Paperback	Green Dragon	1967
Doctor Who and the Daleks	David Whitaker	Hardcover	White Lion	23 June 1975
Doctor Who and the Zarbi	Bill Strutton	Hardcover	White Lion	18 September 1975
Doctor Who and the Crusaders	Whitaker, DavidDavid Whitaker	Hardcover	White Lion	16 October 1975

Novelisations published by Target

This list of novelisations published by Target, or its successors, is sortable by TV story number, its number in the "Doctor Who Library", title, Doctor, author, and Hardcover or paperback publication dates. Hardcover editions were published by Target's parent companies. The Audiobook column indicates whether an abridged or unabridged audiobook has been released. See List of Doctor Who audiobooks.

TV no.	Library No.	Title	Doctor	Author	Hardcover Publication	Paperback Publication	Audiobook
002	16	Doctor Who and the Daleks	1st	David Whitaker		2 May 1973	Unabridged
013	73	Doctor Who and the Zarbi	1st	Bill Strutton		2 May 1973	Unabridged
014	12	Doctor Who and the Crusaders	1st	David Whitaker	17 January 1985	2 May 1973	Unabridged
051	6	Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion	3rd	Terrance Dicks	17 January 1974	17 January 1974	Unabridged
052	9	Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters	3rd	Malcolm Hulke	17 January 1974	17 January 1974	Unabridged
058	23	Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon	3rd	Malcolm Hulke	18 March 1982	18 March 1974	Unabridged
060	18	Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks	3rd	Terrance Dicks	20 August 1981	18 March 1974	Unabridged
059	15	Doctor Who and the Dæmons	3rd	Barry Letts	14 January 1982	17 October 1974	Unabridged
062	54	Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils	3rd	Malcolm Hulke	18 June 1981	17 October 1974	Unabridged
038	1	Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen	2nd	Terrance Dicks	17 January 1985	21 November 1974	Unabridged
061	13	Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon	3rd	Brian Hayles	17 July 1980	16 January 1975	Abridged & Unabridged
033	14	Doctor Who and the Cybermen	2nd	Gerry Davis	16 July 1981	20 February 1975	Unabridged
075	28	Doctor Who and the Giant Robot	4th	Terrance Dicks	17 April 1986	13 March 1975	Unabridged
055	63	Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons	3rd	Terrance Dicks	19 February 1981	15 May 1975	Unabridged
069	29	Doctor Who and the Green Death	3rd	Malcolm Hulke	16 April 1981	21 August 1975	Unabridged
074	48	Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders	3rd	Terrance Dicks	20 November 1975	16 October 1975	Unabridged
065	64	The Three Doctors	3rd	Terrance Dicks	20 November 1975	20 November 1975	Unabridged
080	40	Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster	4th	Terrance Dicks	15 January 1976	15 January 1976	Unabridged
071	22	Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion	3rd	Malcolm Hulke	19 February 1976	19 February 1976	Unabridged
029	62	Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet	1st	Gerry Davis	19 February 1976	19 February 1976	Unabridged
039	33	Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors	2nd	Brian Hayles	18 March 1976	18 March 1976	Unabridged
079	51	Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen	4th	Terrance Dicks	20 May 1976	20 May 1976
078	27	Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks	4th	Terrance Dicks	22 July 1976	22 July 1976	Unabridged
041	72	Doctor Who and the Web of Fear	2nd	Terrance Dicks	19 August 1976	19 August 1976	Unabridged
067	57	Doctor Who and the Space War	3rd	Malcolm Hulke	23 September 1976	23 September 1976	Unabridged
068	46	Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks	3rd	Terrance Dicks	21 October 1976	21 October 1976	Abridged & Unabridged
082	50	Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars	4th	Terrance Dicks	16 December 1976	16 December 1976	Unabridged
066	8	Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters	3rd	Terrance Dicks	20 January 1977	20 January 1977	Unabridged
085	55	Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom	4th	Philip Hinchcliffe	17 February 1977	17 February 1977	Unabridged
010	17	Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth	1st	Terrance Dicks	24 March 1977	24 March 1977	Unabridged
057	10	Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos	3rd	Terrance Dicks	21 April 1977	21 April 1977	Unabridged
076	4	Doctor Who and the Ark in Space	4th	Ian Marter	21 April 1977	10 May 1977	Unabridged
084	7	Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius	4th	Terrance Dicks	19 May 1977	23 June 1977	Unabridged
081	47	Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil	4th	Terrance Dicks	21 July 1977	18 August 1977
063	44	Doctor Who and the Mutants	3rd	Terrance Dicks	29 September 1977	29 September 1977	Unabridged
088	19	Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin	4th	Terrance Dicks	20 October 1977	20 October 1977	Unabridged
091	61	Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang	4th	Terrance Dicks	17 November 1977	17 November 1977	Unabridged
086	42	Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora	4th	Philip Hinchcliffe	19 January 1978	8 December 1977	Unabridged
089	25	Doctor Who and the Face of Evil	4th	Terrance Dicks	19 January 1978	19 January 1978	Unabridged
092	32	Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock	4th	Terrance Dicks	30 March 1978	30 March 1978	Unabridged
037	66	Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen	2nd	Gerry Davis	18 May 1978	18 May 1978	Unabridged
070	65	Doctor Who and the Time Warrior	3rd	Terrance Dicks	18 May 1978	29 June 1978	Unabridged
072	20	Death to the Daleks	3rd	Terrance Dicks	20 July 1978	20 July 1978	Unabridged
083	2	Doctor Who and the Android Invasion	4th	Terrance Dicks	16 November 1978	16 November 1978
077	56	Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment	4th	Ian Marter	7 December 1978	7 December 1978	Unabridged
087	30	Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear	4th	Terrance Dicks	18 January 1979	18 January 1979
093	36	Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy	4th	Terrance Dicks	29 March 1979	29 March 1979	Unabridged
090	53	Doctor Who and the Robots of Death	4th	Terrance Dicks	24 May 1979	24 May 1979	Unabridged
075		Junior Doctor Who and the Giant Robot	4th	Terrance Dicks	24 May 1979	1980
094	34	Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl	4th	Terrance Dicks	26 July 1979	26 July 1979	Unabridged
050	70	Doctor Who and the War Games	2nd	Malcolm Hulke	25 October 1979	25 September 1979	Unabridged
104	21	Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks	4th	Terrance Dicks	22 November 1979	22 November 1979
098	52	Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation	4th	Ian Marter	13 December 1979	13 December 1979	Unabridged
096	67	Doctor Who and the Underworld	4th	Terrance Dicks	24 January 1980	24 January 1980
097	35	Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time	4th	Terrance Dicks	21 February 1980	21 February 1980	Unabridged
100	59	Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood	4th	Terrance Dicks	20 March 1980	20 March 1980
101	3	Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara	4th	Terrance Dicks	24 April 1980	24 April 1980
102	49	Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll	4th	Terrance Dicks	29 May 1980	29 May 1980
103	5	Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor	4th	Terrance Dicks	26 June 1980	26 June 1980	Unabridged
005	38	Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus	1st	Philip Hinchcliffe	21 August 1980	21 August 1980
107	45	Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden	4th	Terrance Dicks	18 September 1980	21 August 1980
108	31	Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon	4th	Terrance Dicks	16 October 1980	16 October 1980
084		Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius	4th	Terrance Dicks	27 June 1980	13 November 1980
073	43	Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon	3rd	Terrance Dicks	20 November 1980	4 December 1980	Unabridged
106	11	Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit	4th	David Fisher	15 January 1981	15 January 1981	Unabridged
040	24	Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World	2nd	Ian Marter	16 April 1981	16 April 1981	Unabridged
001	68	Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child	1st	Terrance Dicks	15 October 1981	15 October 1981
112	58	Doctor Who and the State of Decay	4th	Terrance Dicks	17 September 1981	14 January 1982	Unabridged
113	71	Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate	4th	Stephen Gallagher as John Lydecker	15 April 1982	15 April 1982	Expanded
114	37	Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken	4th	Terrance Dicks	20 May 1982	20 May 1982
109	39	Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive	4th	David Fisher	22 July 1982	22 July 1982	Unabridged
119	69	Doctor Who and the Visitation	5th	Eric Saward	19 August 1982	19 August 1982	Unabridged
111	26	Full Circle	4th	Andrew Smith	16 September 1982	16 September 1982	Unabridged
115	41	Logopolis	4th	Christopher H. Bidmead	21 October 1982	21 October 1982	Unabridged
095	60	Doctor Who and the Sunmakers	4th	Terrance Dicks	18 November 1982	18 November 1982	Unabridged
122	74	Time-Flight	5th	Peter Grimwade	20 January 1983	14 April 1983
110	75	Meglos	4th	Terrance Dicks	17 February 1983	19 May 1983
116	76	Castrovalva	5th	Christopher H. Bidmead	17 March 1983	16 June 1983	Unabridged
117	77	Four to Doomsday	5th	Terrance Dicks	14 April 1983	21 July 1983
121	78	Earthshock	5th	Ian Marter	19 May 1983	18 August 1983	Unabridged
126	79	Terminus	5th	Stephen Gallagher as John Lydecker	16 June 1983	15 September 1983	Unabridged
123	80	Arc of Infinity	5th	Terrance Dicks	21 July 1983	20 October 1983
125	82	Mawdryn Undead	5th	Peter Grimwade	18 August 1983	12 January 1984	Unabridged
129	81	The Five Doctors	5th	Terrance Dicks	24 November 1983	24 November 1983	Unabridged
118	84	Kinda	5th	Terrance Dicks	8 December 1983	15 March 1984	Abridged
124	83	Snakedance	5th	Terrance Dicks	21 January 1984	19 April 1984
127	85	Enlightenment	5th	Barbara Clegg	16 February 1984	24 May 1984
044	86	The Dominators	2nd	Ian Marter	19 April 1984	19 July 1984	Unabridged
130	87	Warriors of the Deep	5th	Terrance Dicks	24 May 1984	16 August 1984	Abridged
006	88	The Aztecs	1st	John Lucarotti	21 June 1984	20 September 1984	Unabridged
054	89	Inferno	3rd	Terrance Dicks	19 July 1984	18 October 1984	Unabridged
031	90	The Highlanders	2nd	Gerry Davis	16 August 1984	15 November 1984	Unabridged
132	91	Frontios	5th	Christopher H. Bidmead	20 September 1984	10 December 1984	Unabridged
134	93	Planet of Fire	5th	Peter Grimwade	18 October 1984	17 January 1985
135	92	The Caves of Androzani	5th	Terrance Dicks	15 November 1984	14 February 1985	Unabridged
004	94	Marco Polo	1st	John Lucarotti	13 December 1984	11 April 1985	Unabridged
131	95	The Awakening	5th	Eric Pringle	14 February 1985	13 June 1985	Unabridged
056	96	The Mind of Evil	3rd	Terrance Dicks	21 March 1985	11 July 1985	Unabridged
020	97	The Myth Makers	1st	Donald Cotton	11 April 1985	12 September 1985	Unabridged
046	98	The Invasion	2nd	Ian Marter	16 May 1985	10 October 1985	Unabridged
047	99	The Krotons	2nd	Terrance Dicks	13 June 1985	14 November 1985	Unabridged
140	100	The Two Doctors	6th	Robert Holmes	15 August 1985	5 December 1985	Unabridged
025	101	The Gunfighters	1st	Donald Cotton	11 July 1985	9 January 1986	Unabridged
064	102	The Time Monster	3rd	Terrance Dicks	12 September 1985	13 February 1986
136	103	The Twin Dilemma	6th	Eric Saward	10 October 1985	13 March 1986	Unabridged
018	104	Galaxy Four	1st	William Emms	14 November 1985	10 April 1986
141	105	Timelash	6th	Glen McCoy	12 December 1985	15 May 1986
		Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma		Tony Attwood		15 May 1986
139	107	The Mark of the Rani	6th	Pip and Jane Baker	16 January 1986	12 June 1986	Unabridged
128	108	The King's Demons	5th	Terence Dudley	20 February 1986	10 July 1986
026	109	The Savages	1st	Ian Stuart Black	20 March 1986	11 September 1986
042	110	Fury from the Deep	2nd	Victor Pemberton	22 May 1986	16 October 1986	Unabridged
		Harry Sullivan's War		Ian Marter		16 October 1986
024	111	The Celestial Toymaker	1st	Gerry Davis and Alison Bingeman	19 June 1986	20 November 1986
048	112	The Seeds of Death	2nd	Terrance Dicks	17 July 1986	4 December 1986
		Slipback	6th	Eric Saward	14 August 1986	15 January 1987
120	113	Black Orchid	5th	Terence Dudley	18 September 1986	19 February 1987	Unabridged
023	114	The Ark	1st	Paul Erickson	16 October 1986	19 March 1987	Unabridged
045	115	The Mind Robber	2nd	Peter Ling	20 November 1986	16 April 1987	Unabridged
035	116	The Faceless Ones	2nd	Terrance Dicks	11 December 1986	21 May 1987	Unabridged
015	117	The Space Museum	1st	Glyn Jones	15 January 1987	18 June 1987	Unabridged
007	118	The Sensorites	1st	Nigel Robinson	19 February 1987	16 July 1987	Unabridged
008	119	The Reign of Terror	1st	Ian Marter	19 March 1987	20 August 1987
012	120	The Romans	1st	Donald Cotton	16 April 1987	17 September 1987
053	121	The Ambassadors of Death	3rd	Terrance Dicks	21 May 1987	15 October 1987	Unabridged
		K-9 and Company		Terence Dudley		15 October 1987	Unabridged
022	122	The Massacre	1st	John Lucarotti	18 June 1987	19 November 1987	Unabridged
034	123	The Macra Terror	2nd	Ian Stuart Black	16 July 1987	10 December 1987	Unabridged
011	124	The Rescue	1st	Ian Marter	20 August 1987	21 January 1988	Unabridged
143c	125	Terror of the Vervoids	6th	Pip and Jane Baker	17 September 1987	18 February 1988	Unabridged
017	126	The Time Meddler	1st	Nigel Robinson	15 October 1987	17 March 1988	Unabridged
143a	127	The Mysterious Planet	6th	Terrance Dicks	19 November 1987	21 April 1988	Unabridged
144	128	Time and the Rani	7th	Pip and Jane Baker	17 December 1987	5 May 1988
138	106	Vengeance on Varos	6th	Philip Martin	21 January 1988	16 June 1988	Abridged & Unabridged
032	129	The Underwater Menace	2nd	Nigel Robinson	18 February 1988	21 July 1988
043	130	The Wheel in Space	2nd	Terrance Dicks	17 March 1988	18 August 1988
143d	131	The Ultimate Foe	6th	Pip and Jane Baker	21 April 1988	15 September 1988	Unabridged
003	132	The Edge of Destruction	1st	Nigel Robinson	19 May 1988	20 October 1988	Unabridged
028	133	The Smugglers	1st	Terrance Dicks	16 June 1988	17 November 1988
145	134	Paradise Towers	7th	Stephen Wyatt		1 December 1988	Unabridged
146	135	Delta and the Bannermen	7th	Malcolm Kohll		19 January 1989	Unabridged
027	136	The War Machines	1st	Ian Stuart Black		16 February 1989	Unabridged
147	137	Dragonfire	7th	Ian Briggs		16 March 1989	Unabridged
137	138	Attack of the Cybermen	6th	Eric Saward		20 April 1989	Abridged
		The Nightmare Fair	6th	Graham Williams		18 May 1989
143b	139	Mindwarp	6th	Philip Martin		15 June 1989	Unabridged
016	140	The Chase	1st	John Peel		20 July 1989	Unabridged
		The Ultimate Evil	6th	Wally K. Daly		17 August 1989	Unabridged
019 021	141	The Daleks' Master Plan Part I: Mission to the Unknown	1st	John Peel		21 September 1989	Unabridged
021	142	The Daleks' Master Plan Part II: The Mutation of Time	1st	John Peel		19 October 1989	Unabridged
150	143	Silver Nemesis	7th	Kevin Clarke		16 November 1989
151	144	The Greatest Show in the Galaxy	7th	Stephen Wyatt		21 December 1989	Unabridged
009	145	Planet of Giants	1st	Terrance Dicks		18 January 1990	Unabridged
149	146	The Happiness Patrol	7th	Graeme Curry		15 February 1990	Unabridged
049	147	The Space Pirates	2nd	Terrance Dicks		15 March 1990	Unabridged
148	148	Remembrance of the Daleks	7th	Ben Aaronovitch		21 June 1990	Unabridged
		Mission to Magnus	6th	Philip Martin		19 July 1990
153	149	Ghost Light	7th	Marc Platt		20 September 1990	Unabridged
155	150	Survival	7th	Rona Munro		18 October 1990	Unabridged
154	151	The Curse of Fenric	7th	Ian Briggs		15 November 1990	Unabridged
152	152	Battlefield	7th	Marc Platt		18 July 1991
	153	The Pescatons	4th	Victor Pemberton		15 September 1991
030	154	The Power of the Daleks	2nd	John Peel		15 July 1993
036	155	The Evil of the Daleks	2nd	John Peel		19 August 1993
	156	The Paradise of Death	3rd	Barry Letts		21 April 1994
105		City of Death	4th	James Goss		5 April 2018
157		Rose	9th	Russell T Davies		5 April 2018	Unabridged
167		The Christmas Invasion	10th	Jenny T. Colgan		5 April 2018	Unabridged
240		The Day of the Doctor	11th	Steven Moffat		5 April 2018	Unabridged
276		Twice Upon a Time	12th	Paul Cornell		5 April 2018	Unabridged
133		Resurrection of the Daleks	5th	Eric Saward	18 July 2019	11 March 2021	Unabridged
142		Revelation of the Daleks	6th	Eric Saward	14 November 2019	11 March 2021	Unabridged
099		The Pirate Planet	4th	James Goss		11 March 2021
156		The TV Movie	8th	Gary Russell		11 March 2021
161		Dalek	9th	Robert Shearman		11 March 2021
237		The Crimson Horror	11th	Mark Gatiss		11 March 2021
284		The Witchfinders	13th	Joy Wilkinson		11 March 2021

Novelisations published by BBC Books and affiliated companies

In 1996 BBC Books took over the Doctor Who licence and have published a number of novelisations based on TV stories and webcasts, a few being written exclusively for audiobook publication by their audio company. Books published under the Target Collection banner are listed [|above].

TV No.	Title	Doctor	Author	Published	Publisher	Notes
156	Doctor Who: The Novel of the Film	8th	Gary Russell		BBC Books	An abridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
	Scream of the Shalka	Shalka	Paul Cornell		BBC Books	Published as part of the Past Doctor Adventures range. An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
100	The Stones of Blood	4th	David Fisher		BBC Audio	New novelisation exclusive to audio.
	Shada	4th	Gareth Roberts		BBC Books	An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
101	The Androids of Tara	4th	David Fisher		AudioGo	New novelisation exclusive to audio.
105	City of Death	4th	James Goss		BBC Books	An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
099	The Pirate Planet	4th	James Goss		BBC Books	An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
	Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen	4th	James Goss		BBC Books	Novelisation of the unmade Douglas Adams story. An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
	Scratchman	4th	Tom Baker		BBC Books	Novelisation of the unmade film written by Tom Baker and Ian Marter. An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
133	Resurrection of the Daleks	5th	Eric Saward		BBC Books	An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
142	Revelation of the Daleks	6th	Eric Saward		BBC Books	An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
001	An Unearthly Child	1st	Nigel Robinson	TBA	BBC Physical Audio	New novelisation exclusive to audio. Originally scheduled for release 7 November 2013 by AudioGo, this was suspended due to AudioGo suspending operations in October 2013.,

Reissues

BBC Books has also republished select novelisations in paperback, unless otherwise noted.

Title	Doctor	Author	Published
Doctor Who and the Daleks	1st	David Whitaker
Doctor Who and the Crusaders	1st	David Whitaker
Doctor Who and the Cybermen	2nd	Gerry Davis
Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen	2nd	Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion	3rd	Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters	3rd	Malcolm Hulke
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks	3rd	Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Ark in Space	4th	Ian Marter
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster	4th	Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet	1st	Gerry Davis
Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors	2nd	Brian Hayles
The Three Doctors	3rd	Terrance Dicks
Remembrance of the Daleks	7th	Ben Aaronovitch
Shakedown	7th	Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Zarbi	1st	Bill Strutton
Doctor Who and the Web of Fear	2nd	Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion	3rd	Malcolm Hulke
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks	4th	Terrance Dicks
The Visitation	5th	Eric Saward
Vengeance on Varos	6th	Philip Martin
Battlefield	7th	Marc Platt
Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks	1st	David Whitaker
Doctor Who and the Crusaders	1st	David Whitaker
Doctor Who and the Zarbi	1st	Bill Strutton

Novelisations published by Pearson Education

has published novelisations for those learning to read the English language.

TV No.	Title	Doctor	Author	Published	Notes
203	The Eleventh Hour	11th	Trevor Baxendale
205	Victory of the Daleks	11th	Peter Gutiérrez		Photo novelisation
206	The Time of Angels	11th	Trevor Baxendale		Adaptation of "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone"
211	The Lodger	11th	Peter Gutiérrez		Photo novelisation
244	Robot of Sherwood	12th	David Maule		An audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
249	Mummy on the Orient Express	12th	Jane Rollason		An audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
250	Flatline	12th	Nancy Taylor		An audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
256	The Girl Who Died	12th	Jane Rollason		Also available with an MP3 audiobook reading.
257	The Woman Who Lived	12th	Chris Rice		Also available with an MP3 audiobook reading.
260	Face the Raven	12th	Nancy Taylor		Also available with an MP3 audiobook reading.

Other novelisations

TV No.	Title	Doctor	Author	Published	Publisher	Notes
112	State of Decay	4th	Terrance Dicks		Pickwick	Audiobook with different text from the Target novelisation.
	The Ghosts of N-Space	3rd	Barry Letts		Doctor Who Books	Published as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures range

Unofficial novelisations

A number of fan-run publications have published unofficial novelisations of stories Target was not able to secure rights to. Obverse Books has also published unofficial novelisations to raise money for charity. Obverse also published "novelisations" of fictional Peter Cushing Dr. Who films.

TV No.	Title	Doctor	Author	Published	Publisher	Notes
	Doctor Who and Shada	4th	Paul Scoones		TSV	Unlicensed fan club publication.
099	Doctor Who and the Pirate Planet	4th	David Bishop		TSV	Unlicensed fan club publication.
142	Revelation of the Daleks	6th	Jon Preddle		TSV	Unlicensed fan club publication.
105	Doctor Who and the City of Death	4th	David Lawrence		TSV	Unlicensed fan club publication.
	Doctor Who – Shada	4th	Jonathan Way		Doctor Who Appreciation Society	Unlicensed fan club publication published across six issues of Cosmic Masque, the Society's fan fiction publication.
133	Resurrection of the Daleks	5th	Paul Scoones		TSV	Unlicensed fan club publication.
167	The Invasion of Christmas	10th	The Midnight Folk		Obverse Books	Unlicensed novelisation strictly limited to 40 copies. "The Midnight Folk" is a pseudonym for Paul Magrs, Andrew Hickey, Stuart Douglas, Nick Campbell, James Gent, Ira Lightman, Ian Potter, Phil Craggs, and Matthew Bright. Proceeds went to aid the Cystic Foundation Trust.
	Dr. Who and the Daleks	Dr. Who	Alan Smithee		Obverse Books	Unlicensed novelisation of the 1965 film
	Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD	Dr. Who	Alan Smithee		Obverse Books	Unlicensed novelisation of the 1966 film
	Journey into Time	Dr. Who	David Agnew		Obverse Books	Includes an unlicensed novelisation of the late 1960s radio pilot as well as original stories written as if the radio series had been produced.

Omnibus and two in one releases

A number of novelisations were released in omnibus editions, mostly by book clubs.

Title	Novelisations included	Author	Publisher	Published
Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus	Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks	Terrance Dicks	Artus Books	September 1976
Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus	Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks	Terrance Dicks	Artus Books	September 1976
The Doctor Who Omnibus	Doctor Who and the Space War	Malcolm Hulke	Book Club Associates	1977
The Doctor Who Omnibus	Doctor Who and the Web of Fear	Terrance Dicks	Book Club Associates	1977
The Doctor Who Omnibus	Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen	Terrance Dicks	Book Club Associates	1977
The Adventures of Doctor Who	Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks	Terrance Dicks	Nelson Doubleday	October 1979
The Adventures of Doctor Who	Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen	Terrance Dicks	Nelson Doubleday	October 1979
The Adventures of Doctor Who	Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster	Terrance Dicks	Nelson Doubleday	October 1979
Dalek Omnibus	The Dalek Invasion of Earth	Terrance Dicks	W. H. Allen	23 June 1983
Dalek Omnibus	The Planet of the Daleks	Terrance Dicks	-	-
Dalek Omnibus	The Day of the Daleks	Terrance Dicks	-	-
The Further Adventures of Doctor Who	Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin	Terrance Dicks	Nelson Doubleday	January 1986
The Further Adventures of Doctor Who	Doctor Who and the Face of Evil	Terrance Dicks	Nelson Doubleday	January 1986
The Further Adventures of Doctor Who	Doctor Who and the Robots of Death	Terrance Dicks	Nelson Doubleday	January 1986
Remembrance of the Daleks/Prisoner of the Daleks	Remembrance of the Daleks	Ben Aaronovitch	BBC Books	15 July 2016
Remembrance of the Daleks/Prisoner of the Daleks	Prisoner of the Daleks	Trevor Baxendale	BBC Books	15 July 2016

In 1988–1989, W. H. Allen's Star imprint published a number of the Target novelisations in a format of two novelisations in one book in a range titled Doctor Who Classics. These were produced by fixing together two Target books with a new front page and outer cover. The pairings were:

Title 1	Author	Title 2	Author	Published
The Dalek Invasion of Earth	Terrance Dicks	The Crusade	David Whitaker	August 1988
The Gunfighters	Donald Cotton	The Myth Makers	Donald Cotton	August 1988
The Dominators	Ian Marter	The Krotons	Terrance Dicks	September 1988
The Mind of Evil	Terrance Dicks	The Claws of Axos	Terrance Dicks	March 1989
The Dæmons	Barry Letts	The Time Monster	Terrance Dicks	March 1989
The Seeds of Doom	Philip Hinchliffe	The Deadly Assassin	Terrance Dicks	May 1989
The Face of Evil	Terrance Dicks	The Sun Makers	Terrance Dicks	May 1989

Spin-off novelisations

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Beginning in 2007, Penguin Books under its Penguin Character Books imprint began publishing novelisations based upon the spinoff series The Sarah Jane Adventures.

No.	Title	Author	Published	Publisher
1	Invasion of the Bane	Terrance Dicks		Penguin Character Books
2	Revenge of the Slitheen	Rupert Laight		Penguin
3	Eye of the Gorgon	Phil Ford		Penguin
4	Warriors of Kudlak	Gary Russell		Penguin
5	Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?	Rupert Laight		Penguin
6	The Lost Boy	Gary Russell		Penguin
7	The Last Sontaran	Phil Ford		Penguin
8	The Day of the Clown	Phil Ford		Penguin
9	The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith	Gareth Roberts		Penguin
	Judoon Afternoon	Trevor Baxendale		Pearson Education
	The Haunted House	Trevor Baxendale		Pearson Education
	Painting Peril	Trevor Baxendale		Pearson Education
	Blathereen Dream	Trevor Baxendale		Pearson Education
	The Nightmare Man	Joseph Lidster		ePenguin
	Death of the Doctor	Gary Russell		ePenguin

Direct to video spinoffs

Novelisations of spin off productions that were released direct to video.

Title	Author	Published	Publisher	Notes
	Terrance Dicks		Doctor Who Books	Published as part of the Virgin New Adventures range. An unabridged audiobook recording of this novelisation has been released.
Downtime	Marc Platt		Doctor Who Books	Published as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures range
The Dæmons of Devil's End	Suzanne Barbieri, Debbie Bennett, Raven Dane, Jan Edwards, David J Howe, and Sam Stone		Telos Publishing	Novelisation of the Reeltime drama The White Witch of Devil's End. Special edition titled Olive Hawthorne and the Dæmons of Devil's End.
Dæmos Rising	David J. Howe		Telos Publishing
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor	Philip Martin		Telos Publishing
Mindgame	David J. Howe		Telos Publishing
Cyberon	James Hornby	Autumn 2020	Arcbeatle Press
Wartime			Telos Publishing

Illustrators

The first of the Target reissues featured new cover artwork by Chris Achilleos, who went on to illustrate over 30 of the novelisations throughout the 1970s.
British artist Andrew Skilleter created much of the cover art from 1979 to 1994, along with video covers and other merchandise. His work on Doctor Who was showcased in his 1995 volume Blacklight: The Art of Andrew Skilleter.

Adaptations

Generally, Doctor Who stories that have been broadcast will be adapted into print, rather than vice versa. There have been some occasions where print media has been adapted for the screen or formed inspiration for television episodes.

The 1995 New Adventures novel Human Nature, written by Paul Cornell and featuring the Seventh Doctor, was adapted by the same author for the 2007 series of Doctor Who as a two part story with the episode titles "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.
Steven Moffat based his 2007 episode "Blink" upon a 2005 short story, "What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow", originally published in Doctor Who Annual 2006.
Gareth Roberts reused his concept from a 2006 Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story as the basis for an episode of the same name "The Lodger", which was transmitted as part of Series 5, featuring Matt Smith.

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