Target Novelisation
From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.
Novelisations of Doctor Who television stories were published by Target Books from 1973 to 1994. The first three books, published in 1973, were reissues of novelisations first published in 1964 and 1965; new adaptations appeared starting in 1974.
The list below shows the first publication only (in the UK) of each television based novelisation.
Release numbers are based on later editions for most of the early releases.
The first three novelisations were all reprints. No. 4, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, was the first original Target novelisation.
The final standard Target release was The Pescatons in 1991, after which several more volumes were issued by Virgin Publishing under the same format as their New Adventures/Missing Adventures lines. Inside, however, they were still identified as Target novelisations.
Ultimately, the range adapted the complete "canon" of the First, Second, Third and Seventh Doctors. Target was unable to come to an agreement to publish adaptations of three Fourth Doctor, one Fifth Doctor and one Sixth Doctor serials, leaving those eras incomplete (although fan-written novelisations for these last stories have been circulated).
After Target was retired in 1994, there have only been a handful of novelisations published by other imprints, usually based upon spinoff productions. No novelisations have been commissioned based upon the 2005 revival series, but several have been published based upon episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
In July 2008, backstock of 27 Target novelisations were distributed at random with copies of Doctor Who Magazine #397.
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