Doctor Who: Two Doctors

by Robert Holmes

Book Overview

An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation of a Sixth Doctor TV adventure. Disturbed by the time travel experiments of the evil Dastari and Chessene, the Time Lords send the Second Doctor and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0426202015
• ISBN13: 9780426202011
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Doctor's new diet is... human flesh?

The Second Doctor and Jamie are sent on a mission to investigate time travel experiments on Station J7, where the Doctor's old friend Dastari is in charge. During their investigations, the base is attacked by Sontarans and the Doctor is captured, leaving Jamie behind. Sometime later, the Doctor returns to the base, but this time in his sixth incarnation with Peri in tow. He is looking into a strange illness that has swept over him, and finds eveidence that his earlier sef maay be dead...One of the best stories from the Sixth Doxtor's era, it is sadly filled with inaccuracies about the second incarnation - to put it bluntly, wrong on almost every count! The novelisation suffers from the absence of the acting skills of Pat Troughton and Frazer Hines, who breathe real and substantial life into their roles once more, so this leaves those familiar with the Doctor's history somewhat puzzled as to exactly who this earlier Doctor is. (In fact, this stroy has led to first a theory and now a fact that the Second Doctor had some travels between his sentence at the end of 'The War Games' and his exile in his third incarnation...)This story being set in the era of the Sixth Doctor, it is a bit overly concerned with some gruesome matters, in this case cannibalism. While the wide-ranging dietary habits of the Androgums are played as a somewhat humorous matter, the desire of Shockeye to catch and eat both Jamie and Peri are a little beyond the norm of threats to companions.The plotting at cross-purposes of the Sontarans, Dastari and Chessene does breathe some life into the villains of the piece - so often, the bad guys all seem to be of the one mind, so it is good to see some differentiation in plans and methods as is shown here.Overall, a worthwhile book, but a bit nastier than the average Who fare.