The Official Doctor Who and the Daleks Book

by John Peel, Terry Nation

"The Daleks" first appeared on British television in 1963, catapulting the offbeat new series Doctor Who to international fame. Here is a complete story of the Daleks with an episode guide, history, never-before-published story, and trivia.

Genres: Doctor Who, Nonfiction

212 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1989

About the author

John Peel is the author of Doctor Who books and comic strips. Notably, he wrote the first original Doctor Who novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, to launch the Virgin New Adventures line. In the early 1990s he was commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations of several key Terry Nation Dalek stories of the 1960s after the rights were finally worked out. He later wrote several more original Daleks novels.

He has the distinction of being one of only three authors credited on a Target novelisation who had not either written a story for the TV series or been a part of the production team (the others were Nigel Robinson and Alison Bingeman).

Outside of Doctor Who, Peel has also written novels for the Star Trek franchise. Under the pseudonym "John Vincent", he wrote novelisations based upon episodes of the 1990s TV series James Bond Jr..

Reviews

[Stephen Robert Collins · Rating 2 out of 5]

The biggest problem with this is that is completely out of date . My copy is signed .
It also has Tom Baker on the cover & not William Hartnell .
But no true Who fan cares . As a book on Doctor Who it isn't up to much, but as part of Doctor Who fan collection its rare .

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

John Peel -- in partnership with his mentor, Terry Nation -- produces a fun Dalek history book, but one that complies with their own cheer-leading (and slightly anti-Doctor-Who-fan) agenda. Informative for what it is, but it PALES in comparison to Steve Tribe's recent (and FAR superior) "The Dalek Handbook". Chalk this one up as a well-packed curiosity, and move on...

[Lisa]

The Official Doctor Who and the Daleks Book by John Peel (1988)