( This scenario is portrayed by The Trial of a Time Lord screenwriters Pip and Jane Baker in their novelisation The Ultimate Foe.

The character has been the focus of varying EastEnders merchandise in other media, which includes the VHS EastEnders-The Mitchells-Naked Truths and EastEnders: Blood Ties-The Life and Loves of Grant Mitchell, a novelisation written by Kate Lock, which chronicles facts about the character, explores his background and attempts to explain the source of his aggression and vulnerability.

Terry Molloy has reprised his role as Davros in the spin-off audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, mostly notably Davros ( taking place during the Sixth Doctor's era ), which, through flashbacks, explored the scientist's life prior to his crippling injury, which is attributed to a Thal nuclear attack ( an idea that first appeared in Terrance Dicks ' novelisation of Genesis of the Daleks ).

Chaos Bleeds prompted prequel comic books published by Dark Horse and a novelisation, which treats it as a " lost " episode of season five.

The novelisation of Doctor Who and the Silurians adds a prologue which features the beginning of the Silurian's hibernation ; the novelisation avoids referring to the reptiles as Silurians.

John le Carré ’ s novelisation of his experiences of the revelations in the 1950s and the 1960s which exposed the Cambridge Five traitors.

* In the novelisation, adapted by Malcolm Hulke from his own scripts, no reference is made to the " Whomobile " ( which was a prop contributed to the production at a late stage by actor Jon Pertwee ).

Davies also penned a novelisation of Dark Season for BBC Books, which was released concurrently with the transmission of the serial and was advertised after each episode.

NB Actually the concept of the Zygon sting originated years earlier in the Target novelisation of the story, Terror of the Zygons which was written by Terrance Dicks and appeared in 1976 under the title Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster.

Also, when Target launched the novelisation line, there was no inkling that ultimately more than 150 of the show's storylines would be adapted ; as a result, there are numerous continuity gaps between early Target books and the scripts and / or later published novelisations ; one example is Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon ( based upon Colony in Space ) which as written depicts Jo Grant's first adventure with the Doctor, even though the television series introduced her several serials earlier in Terror of the Autons ( which was novelised at a later date and ignored the discrepancy ).

These were two Dalek stories from the Troughton era, The Power of the Daleks and The Evil of the Daleks, which — along with another radio novelisation The Paradise of Death — are considered to be the last of the Target run.

In 1981, Dicks also began a series of six children's horror novels with " Cry Vampire ", coinciding with his novelisation of the Doctor Who serial State of Decay in which vampires also featured heavily.

The novelisation contains a substantial prologue giving the history of Sutekh and the Osirians and features an epilogue in which a future Sarah researches the destruction of the Priory and how it was explained.

After the publication of The Man with the Red Tattoo, Benson wrote the novelisation of Die Another Day which was published later in the year.

In Ben Aaronovitch's novelisation of ' Remembrance ' it is stated that the enormous power source required for the Special Weapons Dalek ’ s gun resulted in the release of high levels of radiation which altered the structure of the Dalek creature's brain, causing insanity.

In Ben Aaronovitch's novelisation of Remembrance of the Daleks the Imperial Dalek faction use Scout Daleks which are described as being more powerful and streamlined than standard Daleks.

The novelisation contains an epilogue not included in the televised serial, in which the Doctor visits an older Ace in 1887 Paris.

John Peel's two-book novelisation of Master Plan indicates that some six months elapsed between the seventh and eighth episodes of the serial, during which Sara, Steven and the Doctor travel together and have other adventures ; Peel stated that this was in order to allow future writers to develop stories involving Sara.

This was the last time Target would give a novelisation a substantially different title than that of the serial on which it was based.

The novelisation of the latter by Paul Victor ( Futura, 1978 ) included a preface by Hayles entitled ' The Thinking Behind Atlantis ' in which he explained the origins of the film's central concepts.

In addition to original novels, the Missing Adventures series also incorporated two novelisations: The Ghosts of N-Space, based upon a mid-1990s BBC audio play, and Downtime, which was based upon an independent video production featuring several characters from the Doctor Who series ( the novelisation is one of the few Doctor Who novels in which the Doctor does not appear as a central character ).

Sil also features in the Philip Martin's novelisation of the never-made serial Mission to Magnus, in which he was in league with the Ice Warriors.

A novelisation of the story written by Gareth Roberts and returning the action to the Fourth Doctor and Romana was released in March 2012.

Another name for the species is mentioned in passing by the Doctor as " Homo reptilia " in " The Hungry Earth ", and by his companion Amy Pond in " Dinosaurs on a Spaceship ", taken from the novelisation of their first appearence written by Malcolm Hulke.

Later in 1973 Target Books purchased the rights to the novelisation and issued it under the jacket title Doctor Who and the Daleks.

In 1965, Whitaker wrote his second Doctor Who novelisation, this time based upon his own script, The Crusade.

A novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, was published by Target Books in February 1976 as Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion.

The novelisation features a prologue about the dinosaurs and ends with the Doctor consulting the Book of Ezekiel to determine the final fate of the Golden Age time travellers.

Although not strictly a novelisation of the film, there are some similarities in that the book has Ian joining the TARDIS crew for the first time as he does here ( even though he actually joined the Doctor in a previous serial in the television version ).

Terrance Dicks wrote the Target Books novelisation of this story, initially published as Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child in October 1981.

A French language version of the novelisation with the title Docteur Who entre en scène ( literally, Doctor Who takes the stage ) was published in 1987.

A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in January 1974, entitled Doctor Who and The Auton Invasion.

This was the first novelisation commissioned by Target following the successful republishing of three books originally published in the mid-1960s ; the Target Books novelisation series would run for the next twenty years and see all but a half-dozen Doctor Who serials adapted.

* The Edge of Destruction — the title of the first episode, arbitrarily adopted for the 1976 second edition of The Making of Doctor Who in the absence of any other known title, and subsequently used on the novelisation, VHS and DVD releases of the stories.

A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in October 1976. the novelisation opens with the cliffhanger from Frontier in Space of a comatose Doctor pursuing the Daleks through space, even though this was removed from the Space War novelisation.

Most spin-off media, including the novelisation by the Bakers, have assumed that the Doctor, at the end of the trial, takes Mel back to her proper place in time and eventually travels to her relative past to meet Mel for the first time from her perspective.

The novelisation of Shakedown, however, was expanded to include the Doctor.

A novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, was published by Target Books in January 1974 under the title Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters.

In 1996, BBC Books published a novelisation of the Doctor Who television movie.

The epilogue to the Target Books novelisation of Mindwarp by Philip Martin states that Peri returns to the 20th Century with Yrcanos where the latter becomes a professional wrestler.

The video release Downtime and its novelisation by Marc Platt as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures range, reveals that she struggles to adapt to twentieth century life and eventually returns to the Detsen monastery in Tibet, where she again falls under the influence of the Great Intelligence, now trapped on Earth after the end of The Web of Fear.