A review by nwhyte
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders by Terrance Dicks

http://nhw.livejournal.com/896496.html[return][return]Dicks has taken a Third Doctor TV story which by all accounts (I haven t seen it) was decidedly average and turned it into a cracking good read. It was one of the first of his many many Doctor Who books (and he s still at it), and for those of us (like me) who occasionally mock the by-the-numbers approach of his later efforts, it s very much worth re-reading the earlier ones to remind ourselves of how good he was at turning dodgy special effects and occasionally wooden acting into a novel that caught the spirit of what he, as script editor, had no doubt hoped and intended the original TV version to be.