Doctor Who; Tales from the Tardis Volume 2 Plus Novel of 1996 Film - Various

Written by Various
Read by Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Paul McGann
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Tracks all properly arranged and merged into each story.
Volume normalized and hollow/tininess fixed along with sharp highs. The Volume on The Planet of the Daleks Read by Jon Pertwee is now no longer wild all over the place. Each story is partly dramatized with sound effects.

INCLUDES The Novel of the Film Read by Paul McGann

The Planet of the Daleks Read by Jon Pertwee
The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Jo to Spiridon, where they meet old allies — and old enemies.

Warriors of the Deep Read by Peter Davison
In 2084, Earth’s superpowers inhabit the far corners of the ocean bed. But they are not alone!

Vengeance on Varos Read by Colin Baker
The Doctor and Peri encounter the reptilian Sil, and a populace entertained by video sadism.

The Novel of the Film Read by Paul McGann
The Time Lord’s eighth incarnation is born in this novelisation of the 1996 TV movie Doctor Who.

Earth and Beyond Read by Paul McGann
Travel broadens the mind for the Eighth Doctor and Sam in this trio of original short stories.

The Novel of the Film was a novelisation of the 1996 TV movie, Doctor Who. It was written by Gary Russell published by BBC Books in conjunction with the film’s broadcast in the United States, Canada and Great Britain on 16 May 1996. Though for copyright purposes known as simply Doctor Who, the book has a cover which sends ambiguous signals about its title. On the front cover it is entitled Doctor Who, but on the spine, it is Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film.

An altered version of the novelisation was published again by Target Books on 11 March 2021 under the new title of The TV Movie.

The book was significant for a number of reasons. It was the premiere release of a Doctor Who novel by BBC Books, which would completely take over the Doctor Who publishing license from Virgin by late 1997. It was also the first novelisation not appearing under the Target or Virgin labels and the first novelisation to be completed before the filmed version was. Its tight publication schedule meant that Russell wrote it with, as he put it in his foreword, “precious little visual reference”. For this reason, the novel contains, as Russell predicted, things which “differ from what we all see on screen”. This is especially true of some of the descriptions of the minor characters.

The BBC Books edition was released an abridged audiobook on audio cassette in 1997, read by Paul McGann. This release is notable for being McGann’s first appearance on a Doctor Who audio, predating his work with Big Finish Productions by several years.
Gary Russell did the abridging for the audio version, taking out 25,000 words of his 50,000 word novel in one weekend. Some dialogue was reworded to gain more consistency with the filmed version.
In 2005 the audiobook was re-released as MP3 files on CD-ROM, as part of Tales from the TARDIS: Volume Two audio anthology.