Doctor Who Books to Release Lost Douglas Adams Story "The Krikkitmen"

Doctor Who Books will yet again be releasing a Douglas Adams story.  This time a rejected screen play from 1976 that he eventualy retooled for his third Hitchhikers novel "Life, the Universe and Everything".  The book will again be adapted by James Goss who also novelized "The Pirate Planet" which came out earlier this year.  The book will be released in January of 2018.

Intergalactic war? That’s just not cricket … or is it? 

The Doctor promised Romana the end of the universe, so she’s less than impressed when what she gets is a cricket match. But then the award ceremony is interrupted by eleven figures in white uniforms and peaked skull helmets, wielding bat-shaped weapons that fire lethal bolts of light into the screaming crowd. The Krikkitmen are back. 

Millions of years ago, the people of Krikkit learned they were not alone in the universe, and promptly launched a xenophobic crusade to wipe out all other life-forms. After a long and bloody conflict, the Time Lords imprisoned Krikkit within an envelope of Slow Time, a prison that could only be opened with the Wicket Gate key, a device that resembles – to human eyes, at least – an oversized set of cricket stumps…

From Earth to Gallifrey, from Bethselamin to Devalin, from Krikkit to Mareeve II to the far edge of infinity, the Doctor and Romana are tugged into a pan-galactic conga with fate as they rush to stop the Krikkitmen gaining all five pieces of the key. If they fail, the entire cosmos faces a fiery retribution that will leave nothing but ashes…

Doctor Who - City of Death Book Cover and Synopsis

Out now in the UK is the Douglas Adams 4th Doctor story City of Death.  First aired in September and October 1979 the City of Death starred Tom Baker and Lalla Ward and is the next Douglas Adams story to be novelized as The Pirate Planet is due next.  So for those who want to complete their Doctor Who Television Novelizations  this one is a long time coming and sure to look good in your collection.  Now if they can get the rights to do Eric Saward's Dalek stories.

City of Death
Written by James Goss, based on the story by Douglas Adams
Published in hardback 21st May 2015 

The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris - a city which, like a fine wine, had a bouquet all of its own. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks - not in their wine glasses but in the very fabric of time itself.

Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme which encompasses home-made time machines, the theft of the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth.

Aided by British private detective Duggan, whose speciality is thumping people, the Doctor and Romana must thwart the machinations of the suave, mysterious Count Scarlioni - all twelve of him - if the human race has any chance of survival.

But then, the Doctor's holidays tend to turn out a bit like this.

City of Death is one of the best-loved serials in the show's 50-year history and was watched by over 16 million viewers when first broadcast.

Unpublished Douglas Adams' Material to be Published

A rough draft of a proposed second television season of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other material from his books will see the light of day in a biography called The Frood.  Jem Roberts is publishing the material which also includes information about alien sex.


More information is available here - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/29/unseen-hitchikers-guide-new-douglas-adams-biography

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Pirate Planet

Doctor Who: 

The Pirate Planet 

By Douglas Adams

“Appreciate it? Appreciate it? What, you commit mass destruction and murder on a scale that's almost inconceivable and you ask me to appreciate it? Just because you happen to have made a brilliantly conceived toy out of the mummified remains of planets.”

The Doctor and Romana are off to find the second segment to the Key to Time.  They find out that it is on the planet Calufrax but when The Doctor and Romana arrive they find themselves on Zanak.  Now The Doctor is confused and blames it on the disturbance they felt while trying to materialize.  What has the pair of time travelers confused even more is that the locator is picking up strong traces for the second segment. 

Up on the mountain is the Captain.  He is a cyborg type pirate captain who rules by installing fear with the aid of his killer robotic parrot. There with the aid of Mr Fibuli they have come up with a way of materlizing their planet among other planets and stealing the minerals of that world for themselves.  This process has killed billions of species and must be stopped.  With the help of the telepathic Mentiads The Doctor and Romana must return the destroyed planets stop the Pirate Captain and his weird nurse and recover the next segment to the Key to Time.

30-year-old Dr. Who story, written by Douglas Adams, finally completed, but will we ever see it?

Shada: Lost planet and lost story.

A Dr. Who episode, written by Douglas Adams ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), has awesome potential, right? And it may yet see the light of day, despite the fact that the legendary Adams died in 2001.

"Shada," a story penned by Adams with Tom Baker as The Doctor, was meant to be broadcast in 1980. Filming was never completed, however, because of a strike at the BBC.