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Doctor Who: Planet of the Giants (Doctor Who Library (Target) #145)
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
April 18th 1990
by Carol Publishing Corporation
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The quickest read for a Doctor Who book so far. Not bad, for what feels like just a brief interlude. The plot was interesting, but not too exciting. The writing was simple, with little descriptions of the characters or setting. The most to build upon the characters was brief lines to the previous stories.
Coming off a BBC Past Doctor story and the next story is another Past Doctor story, this was just a short side step. However, it is still better written that the Keys of Marinus. Pretty much sta...more
Coming off a BBC Past Doctor story and the next story is another Past Doctor story, this was just a short side step. However, it is still better written that the Keys of Marinus. Pretty much sta...more
This story could be called The Doctor meets Silent Spring. The Doctor and his companions spend an afternoon in an English Country Garden, but in true Doctor Who fashion, they've been shrunk to an inch high, there's a massive moggy, and a man drunk with the dream of avarice who fails to listen to reason when confronted about his company's new insecticide which will wreak ecological havoc upon the world, and at an inch high, The Doctor can do little to prevent it ... or can he?
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http://nhw.livejournal.com/1019617.html[return][return]I� m slightly surprised to report that Doctor Who - Planet of Giants is not bad at all, perhaps because it had only three episodes on TV and therefore Dicks has had to pad rather than summarise; and his own powers of invention, once brought to bear, are helpful. We do miss out on the broadcast story� s key selling point, the visual special effects of the Doctor and company miniaturised to an inch in height, but the plot as a whole does hang...more
A very very quick read; I read 75% of this book while waiting on an oil change. But for an adaptation of what was in essence 45 to 50 minutes of television, I wouldn't have expected more. It is a story that I've never actually seen, so it was nice to read this adaptation.
The First Doctor mis-calculates his co-ordinates and somehow winds up shrinking the TARDIS and all inside. Even though they are an inch high, The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan manage to foil an evil plot to sell a horrible insecticide.
Bit silly in places and we miss out on the effects, which were a major draw of the original TV episode, but generally enjoyable.
A good short story that worked well in book form.
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Terrance Dicks is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s.
His break in television came when his friend Malcolm Hulke asked for his help with the writing of an episode of the popular ABC (ITV) action-adventure series The Avengers, on which Dicks received a co-writer's credit on the broadcast. He als...more
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His break in television came when his friend Malcolm Hulke asked for his help with the writing of an episode of the popular ABC (ITV) action-adventure series The Avengers, on which Dicks received a co-writer's credit on the broadcast. He als...more
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