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Review: Doctor Who Target Books: Empire of Death / The Robot Rebellion / Lux / The Well

Another batch of four novelisations of recent Doctor Who adventures in the revived Target range, and these seem to be doing well for the BBC as there are more in the pipeline. I do wonder if doing them in batches is the best marketing approach though? I suppose it reduces the need to try and promote a book every month doing it this way, and it also means they're not working to such a schedule on

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	Manitou Man by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Matt Williams, Ray Clark 3.99 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor: The William Hartnell Years: 1963-1966 by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker 4.12 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Target Book: A History of the Target Doctor Who Books by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Terrance Dicks (Foreword) 4.49 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor: The Colin Baker Years: 1984-1986 by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker 4.09 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Handbook - The Fourth Doctor by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker 3.98 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Sixties by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker 4.33 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Seventies by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker 4.25 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Third Doctor: The Jon Pertwee Years: 1970-1974 by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author), Stephen James Walker 4.06 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Timeframe: The Illustrated History 3.95 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Handbook - The Seventh Doctor 4.11 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Doctor Who: The Handbook (7 books)
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Doctor Who: Decades (3 books)
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Stephen James Walker

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Doctor Who: The Television Companion (1 book)
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Stephen James Walker

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Howe's Transcendental Toybox (5 books)
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Then and Now: Doctor Who in Review (2 books)
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“The first episode of the story was remade between the third and the fourth as there was electronic interference on the tape of the original recording. (The episode was indeed remade, but the real reason was that talkback – i.e. the sound of instructions relayed to the studio floor from the control gallery – was picked up and clearly audible on the soundtrack of the original recording.)”
― David J. Howe, The Television Companion: Volume 1: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who

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