Five narrated TV soundtrack adventures starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor - plus bonus features.
Absent from the TV archives, these stories survive in their entirety only as soundtrack recordings. Now remastered, with additional linking narration, you can enjoy them again: plus bonus interviews with Anneke Wills and Frazer Hines.
In The Macra Terror the TARDIS visits a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, but has in fact been infiltrated and taken over by a race of giant crab-like creatures - the Macra.
The Faceless Ones sees the TARDIS make a hazardous return to 1960s Earth, materialising on a runway at Gatwick Airport!
In The Evil of the Daleks the TARDIS has been stolen by antiques dealer Edward Waterfield, who...
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David Ellis is a judge and a #1 New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author of eleven novels of crime fiction, as well as ten books coauthored with James Patterson. He has served as a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court since 2014. Ellis lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children.
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Frazer Hines is a British actor with numerous credits to his name. In Doctor Who he played the Second Doctor’s companion, Jamie McCrimmon, from 1966 to 1969, reprising the role in The Five Doctors (1983) and The Two Doctors (1985).
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Malcolm Hulke was a prolific and respected television writer from the 1950s until the 1970s. His writing credits included the early science fiction Pathfinders
series, as well as The Avengers
. Hulke was first approached to write for Doctor Who
when the series first started, but his idea for The Hidden Planet
was not pursued.In 1967 he wrote The Faceless Ones
(with David Ellis) for the Second Doctor.By 1969, Hulke's friend and occasional writing partner Terrance Dicks was Script Editor for Doctor Who
and needed a ten part story to replace other scripts and write out Patrick Troughton's Doctor.Together, they wrote The War Games
, which for the first time explained the Doctor's origins and introduced his people, the Time Lords. Hulke continued to write for Doctor Who
, providing a story for each of the Third Doctor's series. Malcolm Hulke died in 1979, soon after completing his novelisation of The War Games
.
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David Whitaker was a British writer and the first ever story editor for Doctor Who in the 1960s.
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