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( 1981 ) ( 1984 ) ( 1991 )	Doctor Who Target Novelization. Title: #4 Doctor Who and the Ark In Space Author: Ian Marter Originally Published: May 10, 1977 Publisher: Target Books Doctor: Fourth Publication Years In Preserve Collection: 1981 1984 1991 Back Cover (1981): At a time in the far-off future, Earth has become uninhabitable. A selection of Humanity is placed, deep-frozen, in a fully automated space station, to await the day of their return to Earth... Thousands of years later, DOCTOR WHO arrives. He finds things going suspiciously wrong, and the station under attack from the giant WIRRN, deadly creatures who, in their lust for power, now threaten the future of the whole Human Race... Back Cover (1984): At a time in the far-off future, Earth has become uninhabitable. A selection of Humanity is placed, deep-frozen, in a fully automated space station, to await the day of their return to Earth... Thousands of years later, DOCTOR WHO arrives. He finds things going suspiciously wrong, and the station under attack from the giant WIRRN, deadly creatures who, in their lust for power, now threaten the future of the whole Human Race... Back Cover (1991): Far, far into the future, the Earth has become uninhabitable. Mankind has been frozen and placed on board a space station to await the time when the planet can support life again. The TARDIS materializes on board the deserted space station to find the body of one of the humans has been infested with the eggs of the hideous Wirrn, who plan to take over Earth. The humans have not woken on schedule and the future of mankind depends only on Noah and the Doctor... Doctor Who - The Ark in Space, featuring Tom Baker in the role of the Doctor, was written by Robert Holmes. This novelization is by the late Ian Marter who played the part of the Doctor's companion Harry Sullivan from 1974-75. Doctor Who is currently being reshown on BSB television. Price: (1981) 90p, (1984) £1.35, (1991) £2.50 Pages: 140 ISBN: 0-426-11631-3 Bar Code: (1991) 9 780426 116318 (1981) A Target Book Published in 1977 by Wyndham Publications Ltd A Howard & Wyndham Company 44 Hill St, London WIX 8LB Reprinted 1981 Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Allan Wingate (Publishers) Ltd, 1977 Text of book copyright © 1977 by Ian Marter, Robert Holmes 'Doctor Who' series copyright © 1977 by the British Broadcasting Corporation This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. (1984) A Target Book Published in 1977 by Wyndham Publications Ltd A Howard & Wyndham Company 44 Hill St, London W1X 8LB Reprinted 1981, 1982, 1984 Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Allan Wingate (Publishers) Ltd, 1977 Text of book copyright © 1977 by Ian Marter Original script copyright © Robert Holmes 1975 'Doctor Who' series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1975, 1977 Printed in Great Britain by Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. (1991) A Target Book Published in 1991 by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Plc 26 Grand Union Center 338 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5AH Novelization copyright © Ian Marter Original script copyright © Robert Holmes 1974 'Doctor Who' series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1975 The BBC producer of The Ark in space was Philip Hinchcliffe The director was Rodned Bennett The role of the Doctor was played by Tom Baker This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.