Is it just me or does the cover give away who's under the influence of the Great Intelligence? Mind you, that assumes you can recognise him from the single description of him as 'a tough old sweat', so maybe not.
In a release that sees the the proto-DVD approach adopt Programme Guide-style chunks, like internalised DVD extras, its probably sparing a moment for how the novelisations are effectively preparing the ground for the video range that'll emerge in the 1980s.
Alongside the repeats, these are the only glimpses into the shows past until that happens. And, like the repeats, which were often cut-down and omnibussed, these deserialise the show and present it as a series of stories rather than episodes.
Those repeats eventually led to The Five Faces of Doctor Who repeat season, which presumably banished any suggestion there might be no market for old Doctor Who. But only the Target range, with its random release schedule (which can only have been emphasised by the utterly random numbering they brought in in 1983, the same year as the first VHS release) can have suggested the market would be ready for utterly unrelated stories released in whatever order BBC Enterprises could manage.
Anyway, that's all I've got in the way of leftover thoughts from Doctor Who and the Web of Fear so click here for a decent into outright pendantry...
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