BBC Re-issue 7 Clasic Targets & the 1st 3 Ever Novelizations

That Whittaker Dalek one has been released as much as Spearhead has on home video!

I've got a lovely full set of mostly first-edition Targets (and the three 60s pre-Targets) so the reprints are of little interest to me. I do keep my eyes open second-hand though as I like to upgrade when I find better condition ones. You can pick them up really cheaply most of the time -  lower than the asking price of these reprints for most of them

I just need someone to reprint Evil of the Daleks. That's my favorite.

The BBC 8DAs books can be found, in the UK anyway, mostly very cheaply online and at book fairs.No idea how easy it it in the rest of the world. Mine are still in good condition from buying them at the time (they were bound much better than the Virgin ones). The VNAs and Missing Adventures I did have to spend a wee bit on upgrading and re-buying over the years as I wasn't old enough to be in from the beginning like I was with the BBC Books 5 years on. For ages I had a yellow-paged, dog-eared So Vile A Sin untill I found a better copy and my copy of The Dark Path to this day has a sun-bleached spine.

It would be nice - if rights weren't an issue - to just put the lot, Virgin, BBC, Telos (the most underrated Who book range) and BF back in print, even digitally but thats a pipe dream. There's some cracking stuff that new fans should know about. I don't think anyone who wasn't a wildnerness years fan, a book reader in particular, knows how much some of us hung on Lawrence Miles' every printed word.

And the idea that stories like Moffat's Continuity Errors and Rob Shearman's Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing are hard to find, obscure pieces really breaks my heart as they're some of the finest Doctor Who stories in any medium. I cry every time I read Ballroom.

A potential theme could be other countries as the main setting. The TV show almost always has the Doctor land in Britain (and invariably London), but the novels don't have a budget to worry about so writer can set they stories wherever they want. The Eleventh Tiger with the First Doctor in China, The Shadow of Wen-Chiang in Shanghai.

The Target novels are also becoming more accessible as BBC Audio or whatever they call themselves now release the readings. At this point there the majority of the range must have been covered by now, and the titles yet to to done a more manageable list.

Agreed. I'd rather see some re-prints of the Virgin New Adventures and the Eight Doctor Adventures. And some of the Missing Adventures, as well.

I see all kinds of Target novelisations in a handful of used bookstores but the ones I'm really interested in are the longer John Peel Second Doc Dalek books. And Battlefield but that's mostly just to own the first appearance of the Merlin Doctor.

Oh, I dunno... Shakedown has a man decapitated, bodied vivisected, topless waitresses and other generally adult things. I think it's more a case of tracking down authors and getting them to sign a copyright waver that allows the BBC to reprint the novels; it's the same issue that Big Finish have with some of their older Bernice Summerfield releases.

However, for those looking at the recently re-released Target novelisations I can highly recommend Doctor Who and the Crusaders by David Whitaker. It's a beautifully written story that does justice to the original tale and then some. The imagery is marvellous, the prose stunning and the characters just as you remember them.

Excellent point, I have absolutely no idea. As far as I was aware the reprints were intact from their first publishing.