Have you quite finished being strange

1978-79: Season 16 of Dr Who airs, made up of 6 stories depitcting the quest for the Key to Time.

Late 1979: The novelisation of The Ribos Operation is published by Target Books, written by Ian Marter.

1980: The Target novelisations of the last four Key to Time stories are published, all written by Terrance Dicks. They aren't even all the Target books written by Dicks in 1980, he wrote five others. Man was a machine that turned TV into books.

2011 & 2012: David Fisher, the original TV author of The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara, writes 'novelisations' which are only published as audiobooks by AudioGo.

2017: BBC Books publish a novelisation of The Pirate Planet, written by James Goss. It was the last Key to Time story to be novelised due to various legal reasons connected to original author Douglas Adams, and the 2010s saw a bunch of Adams' Dr Who scripts novelised. This version was based more on the story's first drafts than its finished version.

2021: As part of the recently revived Target novelisation line, The Pirate Planet is rereleased. This edition is rewritten to be closer to the TV story.

2022: The previously audiobook-only Stones of Blood and Androids of Tara are publised as Target novelisations, a few years after David Fisher passed away.

anonymous request: "can u do Porrim"