Remember Sea Monkeys?
The loveable looking cartoony pets that were advertised in ancient US comics?
The famed Professor Hermann 'Bunny' Zaroff had an idea for marketing something very similar shortly before disappearing underground.
He was never heard of again...
As many of you probably know already, one of my little rules for the Peter Capaldi novelisation covers is not to include Peter Capaldi on the cover. This is nothing to do with any dislike of the actor - I think he's a great Doctor and have liked him as an actor even before he was cast in the title role of TV's Dr Who. His omission from the designs purely stems from that period in the 1980s when Colin Baker's agent allegedly put the kibosh on using Baker's face on the Target covers back then. Since my covers are supposed to echo that period, I decided quite early on to follow that lead.,,
So we come to the episode Heaven Sent in which only Peter Capaldi appears... This presented a few problems as to what should go on the cover. The paucity of pre-transmission images that didn't feature the Doctor also added to the headache...
I hope you like my solution... with it's handful of spoilerific hints...
Sometimes a hashtag appears on Twitter that is too irresistible not to join in with.
#CelebrityFragrances is one such...
Just discovered another cover for the rather desperate 'Assistants of Doctor Who' that Target tried out in the mid-seventies.
It seems that with a lack of proper novelisations to publish coupled with the fact that adults adored Doctor Who as well (according to Matthew in the Daily Mirror), they thought that it would be a good idea to publish a series of novels that were "too broad and too unfilmable" for television.
This being the mid-seventies the adult themes in the novels turned out to be more Timothy Lea's Confessions series than Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey...
There might be some more but it means getting the steps and a trip into the attic.
Heigh ho.....!
Here's the cover for episode ten of Doctor Who series nine - Face the Raven.
I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by the use of titles that can't be adapted into the traditional Target "Doctor Who and the..." style.
Luckily - despite the production team's best efforts - next week's still can...
Stay tuned for 'Doctor Who and the Hell Bent'
Remember Sea Monkeys? 
As many of you probably know already, one of my little rules for the Peter Capaldi novelisation covers is not to include Peter Capaldi on the cover. This is nothing to do with any dislike of the actor - I think he's a great Doctor and have liked him as an actor even before he was cast in the title role of TV's Dr Who. His omission from the designs purely stems from that period in the 1980s when Colin Baker's agent allegedly put the kibosh on using Baker's face on the Target covers back then. Since my covers are supposed to echo that period, I decided quite early on to follow that lead.,,
Sometimes a hashtag appears on Twitter that is too irresistible not to join in with.
Just discovered another cover for the rather desperate 'Assistants of Doctor Who' that Target tried out in the mid-seventies.
Here's the cover for episode ten of Doctor Who series nine - Face the Raven.