Aside from a ritualistic chant in " The Sontaran Strategem "/" The Poison Sky ", they are never seen to engage in any activity that would be considered recreation, though a few offhand comments by Commander Skorr in " The Poison Sky " suggest they do consider hunting a sport ( according to their creator Robert Holmes, Sontarans do have a highly developed artistic culture, but have put it on hold for the duration of the war, while the opening chapter of the novelisation of The Time Warrior, based on Holmes ' incomplete draft, refers to Linx listening to the Sontaran anthem while his spaceship is in flight ).

* The affair with Henry II is also detailed in Sharon Penman's historical novelisation Time and Chance.

Although the televised story made no mention of Rassilon, the 1991 novelisation of the serial ( though again of unclear canonicity ) by the story's writer Ben Aaronovitch, drawing on elements of the so-called " Cartmel Masterplan ", made the connection between the two Time Lords explicit.

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

The novelisation of The Ultimate Foe includes a scene in which the Sixth Doctor returns Mel to his future self at the point she was taken from, with the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Time of Your Life stating this was during an adventure on the planet Oxyveguramosa.

The Other was first explicitly mentioned in the novelisation of Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch as a shadowy figure in Time Lord history, one of the founding Triumvirate of Time Lord society after the overthrow of the cult of the Pythia that had, until then, dominated Gallifrey.

As of the beginning of 2012, the three titles announced are Shada by Gareth Roberts ( a novelisation of the unbroadcast television story by Douglas Adams ), The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter and Harvest of Time by Alastair Reynolds.

In the novelisation written by Pip and Jane Barker, it is revealed that the Rani, and the Master, escaped the growing T-Rex due to the same time spillage that made it mature ; it grew so rapidly that it broke its spine on the ceiling of the Rani's TARDIS.

Script Editor Eric Saward cut from The Mark of the Rani the explanation for the Master's survival provided by writers Pip and Jane Baker but the explanation is in their novelisation of the serial.

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 ).

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

BBC Books published a novelisation of this serial on 15 March 2012, written by Gareth Roberts.

The brief appearance of Skaro in Remembrance of the Daleks is expanded upon in that story's novelisation by original writer Ben Aaronovitch.

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

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.

Both books were originally published by Frederick Muller, with the Dalek story also having a paperback release by Armada ; in 1973 Whitaker's books ( along with a third novelisation by Bill Strutton based upon The Web Planet ) were republished by Target Books, launching its prolific series of novelisations.

Arrow Books also released a novelisation of the 1979 Quatermass serial, written by Kneale.

It was written by Ken Catran and directed by Chris Bailey, with the novelisation written by Marie Stuttard.

A novelisation, written by Marie Stuttard, was released in 1985 ( ISBN 0-340-38490-5 ).

* 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 ).

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

An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actor Martin Jarvis was released on CD in November 2007 by BBC Audiobooks.

The third-season novelisation, adapting " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith ", marked the first appearance of the Doctor in a TV-based novelisation since the 1996 TV movie was adapted.

Large parts of the novelisation are told from the reptiles ' point of view and there is an extensive back-story given to several characters including Quinn and Major Baker ( for some reason, the character is called Major Barker in the novelisation ).

An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actor Tom Baker was released on CD in August 2008 by BBC Audiobooks.

Gareth Roberts has also written a novelisation of Shada, the uncompleted Tom Baker ( Fourth Doctor ) story written by Douglas Adams, that was due to be the finale of season seventeen of Doctor Who in 1979 before it was abandoned due to industrial action.

The novelisation avoids referring to the reptiles as Silurians ( the word turns up as a UNIT password ) but identifies the dinosaur in the caves as a tyrannosaurus rex.

Although neither the first Omen movie nor its novelisation mention what year the story takes place, it can be assumed that its setting was intended to be the year the movie was released ( i. e. 1976 ).

In 1919, H. Dugdale Sykes published a detailed comparison of numerous parallels between the first half of Pericles and four of Wilkins's works, but he thought that Wilkins's novelisation of the play preceded its composition.

A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in November 1983 ; it was the only Target novelisation to be published before its story was aired.

The story has at times been called World's End, most notably in the frontspiece of its novelisation.

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.

Written by David Whitaker as Doctor Who and the Crusaders, it was first published in 1966 and was the last novelisation published until 1973 when Target Books launched its long-running line of episode adaptations, beginning with reprints of this and the preceding two novels.

Further scheduled recordings on 11 July and 1 August of that year were also cancelled, this time due in part to Adams trying to work on the LP re-recordings of the first series, as well as its novelisation.

Based on George Griffith's Stories Of Other Worlds, it contains six stories, the illustrations from their original publication, a worldbook taking the story forward to 1920, a spaceship design spreadsheet, five adventures, plus the novelisation A Honeymoon In Space.

The name " chameleon circuit " was first used in the 1975 Target Books novelisation of " The Terror Of The Autons ," and eventually mentioned on screen in " Logopolis " ( 1981 ).

In 2001, author Melvin Burgess was commissioned to write the novelisation of the film based on Lee Hall's screenplay.

The novelisation also mentions other creatures living on Skaro: yellow and black beetles, as well as mountainous " rock leopards ".

In the story's novelisation, Aaronvitch states that the Daleks split into different factions across the universe as a countermeasure to the Movellan virus that attacks their casings in Resurrection of the Daleks and that the Imperial faction have since resettled on Skaro, but does not reveal how Davros became their emperor.

* 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 Nigel Robinson, was published by Target Books on 20 October 1988 under the title The Edge of Destruction.

An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actress Caroline John was released on CD in September 2007 by BBC Audiobooks.

The novelisation features numerous deleted scenes that subsequently turned up on the Special Edition of this story.

The novelisation expanded on the backgrounds of many of the characters seen in the story and added a deeper, more physical, relationship between Quatermass and Annie Morgan.

Most of the background information on Jaws comes from Christopher Wood's novelisation of the film The Spy Who Loved Me ; published as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me to differentiate from Ian Fleming's novel.

A novelization or novelisation ( US spelling ) is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work.

In the novelisation, he is depicted as a classicist and intends to spend his wages on an encyclopedia of classical biography.

An unabridged reading by Katy Manning of the novelisation was released on CD in September 2008 by BBC Audiobooks.