October 11th, 2024
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Doctor Who The Celestial Toymaker 1st Doctor Audio CD
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
“Slick and polished…immersive productions of much-loved novelisations…long may we enjoy them.” – Doctor Who Magazine
A thrilling novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the First Doctor.
Somewhere outside space and time there waits the Celestial Toymaker, an enigmatic being who ensnares unwary travellers into his domain to play out his dark and deadly games.
Separated from the security of the TARDIS, the Doctor is forced to play the complex trilogic game with the evil magician. Meanwhile, Dodo and Steven must enter into a series of tests with, among others, the schoolboy Cyril and the King and Queen of Hearts.
If the travellers lose, they are condemned to become the Toymaker’s playthings for all eternity. For in the malevolent wonderland that is the Celestial Toyroom, nothing is just for fun…
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Amypondfan
October 11th, 2024 - 7:06pmRead this earlier this year. Not as bad as I remembered it but not a particularly good book either. Definitely one of the weaker target books.
SV7
October 11th, 2024 - 5:40pmJust four Target Books not yet adapted into audiobooks yet:
An Unearthly Child
The Evil of the Daleks (John Peel version)
The Loch Ness Monster
Planet of Fire
R Watson
October 12th, 2024 - 11:15pmThree. “An Unearthly Child” will sadly never be released.
SV7
October 14th, 2024 - 3:40pmI know, but I thought I’d better include it.
Another two that have a very very small chance of being released and recorded are Terrance Dicks’ versions of The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara.
Paul
October 15th, 2024 - 6:34pmIs there anything to definitively state that An Unearthly Child is completely off the table?
The original 2013 release fell through because of AudioGo’s bankruptcy, and this was a brand new adaptation by the brilliant Nigel Robinson. It’s heartbreaking that this title was prepped for release and stopped due to circumstances, and that it’s now laid for 11 years in limbo.
But maybe the current audio producers have been waiting this long until the end of the range to see if things resolve themselves legally. And if they don’t, *could* it be that they may revert to producing the original Terrance Dicks novelisation on audio? It’s certainly going to be thin compared to the version Nigel Robinson would’ve written, but who knows? I adore William Russell’s narrations, and not getting the opportunity to hear his take on An Unearthly Child makes me feel sad, but if Terrance Dicks’s version was to be adapted then maybe Carole Ann Ford would do it perhaps?
This is just an out-there guess. But unless anyone knows of a solid reason why this story can’t go ahead in audio form I think it’s release is still very much a possibility.
Duncan
November 16th, 2024 - 2:24pmHave the two Mara stories been announced ? I must have missed those
Duncan
November 16th, 2024 - 2:26pmI see I have missed these two !!! Im usually on the ball with things like this. The shame …. !
Rex F
November 16th, 2024 - 3:17pmPaul: You must have missed all the stuff about Coburn jr… AudioGo closing down was never the problem, the death of Mrs Coburn was.
Nick
October 11th, 2024 - 4:19pmExcellent, at last. Loch Ness Monster please!