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Doctor Who and the Pescatons Doctor Who audio play 
Original LP cover.Cast Production Writer Victor Pemberton Producer Don Norman Length 2 episodes, 46 minutes total Originally broadcast 1976 (LP Release) Doctor Who and the Pescatons (commonly shortened to The Pescatons in a similar manner to Doctor Who and the Silurians) is an audio play in two episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is written by Victor Pemberton, and stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and Bill Mitchell as Zor.
It was released on LP and cassette by Argo (a division of Decca) in July 1976, re-released on CD in 1991 by Silva Screen Records, and re-released again by BBC Audio on CD on 3 January 2005. The 2005 CD release includes the complete original programme on disc one, and a new interview with Elisabeth Sladen recorded on 21 May 2004 on disc two.
Doctor Who and the Pescatons was the very first audio drama based upon Doctor Who, and not counting radio plays would be the last until the late 1990s when Big Finish Productions would revive the idea for a prolific series of audio productions based upon the series. Like Doctor Who and the Pescatons, original cast members from the series would be included. Doctor Who and the Pescatons remained the only original Doctor Who audio production to feature Tom Baker (apart from the educational Exploration Earth: The Time Machine) until the Hornets' Nest series of audios released in 2009.
Contents
In print
Doctor Who book 
Doctor Who – The Pescatons Series Target novelisations Release number 153 Writer Victor Pemberton Publisher Target Books Cover artist Pete Wallbank ISBN 0 426 20353 4 Release date 15 September 1991 Preceded by Battlefield Followed by The Power of the Daleks Doctor Who and the Pescatons was novelised in 1991 by Victor Pemberton as Doctor Who – The Pescatons and published by Target Books. Although not the final Target release (that would come in 1994 with The Paradise of Death), this was the final new release in Target's traditional format which had been in place since 1973; subsequent new releases would be longer and in a differently presented book format. Discounting radio plays, it is to date the only Doctor Who audio drama to be novelised.
External links
- Doctor Who and the Pescatons on TARDIS Index File, an external wiki
- The Pescatons at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Reviews
- The Pescatons reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
Target novelisation
Fourth Doctor audio dramas Sarah Jane Doctor Who and the Pescatons • Exploration Earth: The Time MachineLeela The Catalyst • Empathy Games • The Time Vampire • The Foe From The Future/The Valley of Death • Destination Nerva • The Renaissance Man • The Wrath of the Iceni • Energy of the Daleks • Trail of the White WormMrs Wibbsey Hornets' Nest • Demon Quest • Serpent CrestRomana I and K-9 The Stealers from Saiph • Ferril's Folly • Tales from the VaultRomana II and K-9 The Beautiful People • The Pyralis EffectRomana II, K-9 and Adric The Invasion of E-SpaceOther Categories:- Doctor Who stubs
- BBC stubs
- 1976 audio plays
- Fourth Doctor audio plays
- Fourth Doctor novels
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