The Nightmare Fair

Book Details

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Author(s):

Graham Williams

First Pub:

1989

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

9 chapters

Internal ID:

991

Series:

The Ultimate Evil ->

Doctor Who - Missing Episodes*

#1 of 3

Doctor Who - Missing Episodes*

A short series of novels released of stories that were slated to be made before Doctor Who was placed on haitus.

View this series in the book list

1) The Nightmare Fair
2) The Ultimate Evil
3) Mission to Magnus

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

None on file

Last Sentence:

None on file

Comments:

No comments on file

Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

Added: 01-Jan-2001

Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

Publications

18-May-1989

Target

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

18-May-1989

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

£1.99

Pages*:

143

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

908

Publisher:

Target

ISBN:

0-426-20334-8

ISBN-13:

978-0-426-20334-6

Printing:

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Alister Pearson - Cover Artist
Graeme Way - Cover Artist

On Wednesday 27 February 1985 the BBC announced that their longest running sci-fi series, Doctor Who, was to be suspended. Anxious fans worldwide, worried that this might mean an end to the Time Lord's travels, flooded the BBC with letters of protest. Eighteen months later the show returned to the TV screens.

But missing from the Doctor's adventures was the series that would have been made and shown during those lost eighteen months. Now, available for the first time as a book, is one of those stories:

THE NIGHTMARE FAIR

Drawn into 'the nexus of the primeval cauldron of Space-Time itself,' the Doctor and Peri are somewhat surprised to find themselves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Is it really just chance that has brought them to the funfair? Or is their arrival somehow connected with the sinister presence of a rather familiar Chinese Mandarin?

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Other prices: USA: $3.95, Canada: $4.95, New Zealand: $8.99, Australia: $5.95

All Covers for this edition of the series

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

16-Jan-1992

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Pages*:

143

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

907

Publisher:

Doctor Who Books

ISBN:

0-426-20334-8

ISBN-13:

978-0-426-20334-6

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Alister Pearson - Cover Artist
Graeme Way - Cover Artist

'HOW OFTEN DO I HAVE TO WIN BEFORE YOU GIVE UP?' THE DOCTOR DEMANDED WITH A SIGH. 'OH LOTS,' REPLIED THE MANDARIN...

In February 1985 the BBC announced that their longest-running SF series, Doctor Who, was to be suspended. Anxious fans worldwide, worried that this might put an end to the Time Lord's travels, flooded the BBC with letters of protest. Eighteen months later the show returned to the TV screen.
But missing from the Doctor's adventures was the series that would have been made and shown during those eighteen months, and contained in this volume is one of those stories:
THE NIGHTMARE FAIR
Drawn into the nexus of the primeval cauldron itself, the Doctor and Peri are somewhat surprised to find themselves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
Is it really just chance that has brought them to the funfair? Or is their arrival somehow connected with the sinister presence of a rather familiar Chinese Mandarin?

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Author(s)

Graham Williams
Birth: 24 May 1945 Tiverton, Devon, England, UK
Death: 17 Aug 1990 Tiverton, Devon, England, UK

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