I do love a world in which Crusaders get a bigger billing than Daleks, even pushing poor old William Hartnell off the cover. Maybe the cover designer scented something big coming in the air in November. I find the term 'successful BBC television series' interesting. Doctor Who didn't bother with an adjective at all whereas Target go with the, I think, rather more obvious 'popular'. Did Frederick Muller think that popularity might be a disincentive to book-buying children or parents? Was it considered vulgar in the 60s? There's something underwhelming about successful without any modifiers, like it's just a cagey way of saying 'we're surprised it's not a failure'. No wonder Frederick Muller were insufficiently excited to ever publish more than one novelisation a year. Which is a shame because this is the last Muller and the last Whitaker novelisation and you've got to suspect the next one would have been a Whitaker adaptation of The Power of the Daleks. I'd have been happy with any more Whitaker at all but just imagine that probably-never-at-all-ever-actually-having-been-going-to-have-happened magnificence. Anyway, click here for more of a look at the book.
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