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Synopsis


The Great One
The Great One
 In the last and most dangerous adventure of the Pertwee years, what begins as innocuous research into ESP turns into a deadly mind battle, with the terrifying spiders from the planet Metebelis Three pitted against The Doctor, his friends and Time Lord K'anpo.

 At a Tibetan-style spiritual retreat deep in rural England, a clandestine circle of chanting brethren unknowingly call upon the evil powers of the Metebelis Spiders, whose quest for the perfect blue crystal leads them straight to The Doctor. He must travel to the alien planet to meet the Great One, merciless ruler of her spiders and human slaves, who plans to take over Earth.

 The future of the entire universe is in The Doctor's hands, but if he is to face the fear the Great One sees in his mind, then he must face the certainty of total destruction. Could this be the Time Lord's final death?

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General Information

Season: Eleven
Production Code: ZZZ
Story Number: 74
Episode Numbers:376 - 381
Number of Episodes: 6
Percentage of Episodes Held:100%
Working Titles:"The Planet of the Spiders"
Production Dates: February - May 1974
Broadcast Started: 04 May 1974
Broadcast Finished: 08 June 1974
Colour Status: Colour
Studio: BBC Television Centre (TC1, TC6 and TC8)
Location: Berkshire: Tidmarsh Manor (Tidmarsh) and Mortimer Railway Station, Mereoak Lane, Bloomfieldhatch Lane (Stratfield Mortimer).
Wiltshire: Membury Airfield (Membury) and Le Marchant Barracks (Devizes).
Gloucestershire: River Severn (Westbury-on-Severn).
Writer:Robert Sloman
Director:Barry Letts
Producer:Barry Letts (Uncredited)
Script Editor:Terrance Dicks
Editor:Bob Rymer
Production Assistant:Marion McDougall
Production Unit Manager:George Gallacio
Assistant Floor Manager:Graeme Harper
Designer:Rochelle Selwyn
Costume Designer:L Rowland Warne
Make-Up Designer:Deanne Turner
Cameraman:Fred Hamilton
Lighting:Ralph Walton
Visual Effects:Bernard Wilkie
Fights Arranged By:Terry Walsh
Incidental Music:Dudley Simpson
Special Sounds (SFX Editor):Dick Mills
Studio Sounds:John Holmes
Title Sequence:Bernard Lodge
Title Music:Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Number of Doctors: 2
The Doctors: Jon Pertwee (The Third Doctor) (Regenerates) and Tom Baker (The Fourth Doctor) (Newly Regenerated)
Number of Companions: 4The Companions: Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) (Departs) and Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Guest Cast: Gareth Hunt (Arak) Additional Cast: John Dearth (Lupton), Cyril Shaps (Professor Clegg), John Kane (Tommy), Christopher Burgess (Barnes), Terence Lodge (Moss), Carl Forgione (Land), Andrew Staines (Keaver), Kevin Lindsay (Cho-je), George Cormack (K Anpo), Chubby Oates (Policeman), Pat Gorman (Soldier), Terry Walsh (Man with boat), Michael Pinder (Hopkins), Stuart Fell (Tramp), Geoffrey Morris (Sabor), Jenny Laird (Neska), Joanna Monro (Rega), Ralph Arliss (Tuar), Ysanne Churchman (Spider Voice), Kismet Delgado (Spider Voice), Maureen Morris (Spider Voice), Walter Randall (Guard Captain), Max Faulkner (Guard Captain)Setting: Earth (1970s) and Planet Metebelis 3 Villains: Giant Spiders and Lupton

The Episodes

No. Episodes Broadcast
(UK)
Duration Viewers
(Millions)
In Archive
376Part 104 May 197424'40"10.1PAL 2" colour videotape
377Part 211 May 197425'02"8.9PAL 2" colour videotape
378Part 318 May 197424'58"8.8PAL 2" colour videotape
379Part 425 May 197423'53"8.2PAL 2" colour videotape
380Part 501 June 197424'01"9.2PAL 2" colour videotape
381Part 608 June 197424'43"8.9PAL 2" colour videotape

Total Duration 2 Hours 27 Minutes


Audience Appreciation

Average Viewers (Millions) 9.0
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (1998)70.31%  (Position = 68 out of 159)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2009)71.65% Higher (Position = 89 out of 200)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2014)74.99% Higher (Position = 81 out of 241)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2023) Position = 16 out of 24


Archives


 All six episodes exist as PAL 2" colour videotapes.



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Notes


This story was a replacement for an initial proposal called "The Final Game" by Robert Sloman. If "The Final Game" had gone ahead as planned then it would have written out the character of The Master - with the villainous Time Lord sacrificing his life to save The Doctor's thus achieve a kind of redemption. However, due to the untimely death of actor Roger Delgado, in a car crash in Turkey, Script Editor Terrance Dicks abandoned this original project in favour of a new story, which eventually evolved into "Planet of the Spiders".

This story is mainly remembered for bringing Jon Pertwee's successful five-year stint as the Third Doctor to its end. Jon Pertwee continued to make appearances in film, on stage and on radio, including regular roles as the host of the game show Whodunnit? and as the title character in the children's programme Worzel Gummidge. His involvement with Doctor Who never flagged, as Jon Pertwee became a fixture on the convention scene in the Eighties and early Nineties. He also returned to the programme, as the Third Doctor, on multiple occasions: in the Twentieth Anniversary Special "The Five Doctors", in 1983, the Thirtieth-Anniversary Children In Need special "Dimensions in Time", in 1993, the stage show "Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure", and two BBC Radio dramas "The Paradise of Death" and "The Ghosts of N-Space". Recordings of Jon Pertwee were even used posthumously in the Big Finish Productions audio story "Zagreus". Sadly, Jon Pertwee died of a heart attack in May 1996.

Richard Franklin returned to the role of Mike Yates, who redeems himself in this story after his involvement in Operation Golden Age that occurred in "Invasion of the Dinosaurs". Mike Yates is heard referring to this earlier story.

This was Richard Franklin’s final regular appearance in the show, though he later made a cameo appearance in the Twentieth Anniversary Special "The Five Doctors", in 1983, and the Thirtieth-Anniversary Children In Need special "Dimensions in Time", in 1993. Richard Franklin's subsequent work was mainly directing both stage and television productions. He also wrote the comedic stage play Recall UNIT: The Great Tea Bag Mystery, and penned a novel about Mike Yates entitled "The Killing Stone" which did not see publication.

Kismet Delgado, the widow of Roger Delgado, who had played The Master during the Third Doctor's era, provided one of the voices for the Spiders.

Gareth Hunt, who played human rebel Arak, would go on to play Mike Gambit in The New Avengers as well as starring in a popular series of coffee commercials.

John Kane, who played Tommy in this story, also worked as a television writer, including on the sitcom Terry and June.

This was the final story written by Robert Sloman, although he submitted one further Doctor Who storyline the following November which was not accepted.

This story heralded Terrance Dicks' final credit as Script Editor – handing over the script editing duties to Robert Holmes. Terrance Dicks thereafter returned to freelance writing but he maintained a very close connection with the show, providing several scripts for the programme. Additionally, Terrance Dicks became the primary contributor to Target Books' range of Doctor Who novelisations. Following the cessation of that line, he continued to write original Doctor Who novels for both Virgin Books and BBC Books, including "Timewyrm: Exodus", "Blood Harvest", "Shakedown", "The Eight Doctors", "Endgame", "Catastrophea", "Players", "Warmonger", "Deadly Reunion" (co-written with Barry Letts), "World Game", "Made of Steel" and "Revenge of the Judoon". Terrance Dicks also wrote the stage play "Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure", and was a candidate to script what would eventually become the 1996 television movie "Doctor Who: The Movie".

Even though Barry Letts' was still the show’s producer he elected to direct this story – in accordance with an agreement he had with the BBC which permitted him to direct one story every recording block if he so chose. The last story he directed was "Carnival of Monsters" from the previous season. However, as BBC regulations at the time prevented any person from being credited for more than one production role, Barry Letts was credited as directing this story and not as its producer.

Unfortunately, Barry Letts faced several difficulties in editing this story. Firstly it was found that the original cut of episode three was too short, and so material was inserted which had originally been intended for part four. This and other cuts created a domino effect, with Barry Letts having to pull material back from episodes five and six. In addition the cliffhanger for episode five was artificially created by taking a scene from part-way into episode six and placing it at the end of episode five; this explains why there are several additional scenes at the start of episode six before episode five's cliffhanger is reached. This also forced Barry Letts to include the ‘Cave of Crystal’ flashback in episode six in order to ensure the final episode had a sufficient running time.

The train station Sarah Jane Smith arrives at in the first episode is Mortimer railway station, near Reading.

A clip from "Carnival of Monsters", containing the Drashigs, was used when Professor Clegg holds The Doctor's sonic screwdriver.

Jo Grant, The Doctor’s former companion, sends the Metebelis crystal, back from the Amazon as the natives are fearful of it. In her accompanying letter she states that she and her husband, Clifford Jones, have yet to find the fungus they're looking for. In "The Green Death" The Doctor picked up the blue crystal during his previous visit to Metebelis 3 and subsequently gave it to Jo as a wedding present.

A variety of technical props were used, including a hovercraft, a gyroplane and the second (and final) appearance of the ‘Whomobile’ craft – now modified so that it can fly. The Whomobile was last seen in "Invasion of the Dinosaurs".

The spiders' method of taking over humans is by leaping on their backs and remaining there, invisibly, while they exert telepathic control. The Time Beetle featured in the 2008 Tenth Doctor story "Turn Left" shares some similarities with the Eight Legs; It too is a giant-sized insectoid that can latch onto a victim's back, disguising it's presence at the same time.

The Spiders of Metebelis 3 make further appearances in the short story "Return of the Spiders" by Gareth Roberts (in the collection More Short Trips) and a brief appearance in The Eighth Doctor Stories novel "The Eight Doctors" by Terrance Dicks. They also have a full encounter with the Eighth Doctor in the Big Finish Productions audio stories "The Eight Truths" and "Worldwide Web" by Eddie Robson.

The Fifth Doctor, in "Light at the End of the Tunnel" (published in the Big Finish Productions book "Short Trips 5: Steel Skies"), tries to fight of his phobia of spiders when he goes inside a large pipe making this story as a reference. It is also revealed that the Eighth Doctor still has a phobia of spiders in the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Stories novel "The Scarlet Empress".

Interestingly the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Stories novels "Interference: Book One" and "Interference: Book Two", both written by Lawrence Miles, has the time-travelling voodoo cult Faction Paradox changing history so that the events of this story never happen and instead having the Third Doctor regenerating on a planet named Dust after being shot. A later novel in the series, "The Ancestor Cell" (co-written by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole), resolves this paradox and restores The Doctor's timeline to its previous state.

The term ‘regeneration’ is used for the first time, to describe the process of how the Time Lords take on a new body when their old one wears out. Since no regeneration was shown at the end of "The War Games" (although we do see the apparent beginning of it), this marked the first time since William Hartnell changed into Patrick Troughton in the 1966 story "The Tenth Planet" that an on-screen hand-over of the role had occurred. End-of-episode changeovers would become the norm for the next few regenerations until the regeneration from the Sixth Doctor to the Seventh Doctor at the beginning of "Time and The Rani" (and both played by the same actor) broke the pattern.

This is the first story also to feature a Time Lord (other than The Doctor) regenerating on screen. To date, only two other Time Lords have had a regeneration take place in a television story. The first is Romana in the 1979 Fourth Doctor story "Destiny of the Daleks", although even in her case, the regeneration was actually not seen, as she was in a different room when it transpired. Although The Master was also shown changing appearance on two occasions (in the 1981 story "The Keeper of Traken" and the 1996 television movie "Doctor Who: The Movie"), neither was an actual regeneration. The Master was finally seen to regenerate in the 2007 Tenth Doctor story "Utopia".

This story introduces the character of K'anpo Rimpoche, the previously unnamed Time Lord hermit from The Doctor's childhood, first mentioned in "The Time Monster". K'anpo has the power to travel through time without the use of a TARDIS, to make a corporeal projection of a potential future incarnation (Cho-Je) of himself, and to stimulate the regeneration process of another Time Lord. Whereas a Time Lord was seen to travel without a TARDIS in the 1971 story "Terror of the Autons" and The Doctor has met two future potential incarnations of himself: the Watcher in the 1981 Fourth Doctor story "Logopolis" and The Valeyard in the 1986 The Trial of a Time Lord season of stories. However, no other Time Lord has been shown to stimulate the regeneration process (although it can be argued that the Time Lords stimulated The Doctor's regeneration in "The War Games"; and that The Doctor's companion Romana may have stimulated her own regeneration or projected possible future incarnations for The Doctor to choose from in "Destiny of the Daleks"). K'anpo was referenced again in the 1980 Fourth Doctor story "State of Decay" as the man who told The Doctor about the legends of the Great Vampires.

The character of Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan, the UNIT medical officer, is referred to by The Brigadier who calls for him when The Doctor falls into a daze after staring into the crystal. Sullivan would not actually appear on screen until the next story "Robot", where he was played by Ian Marter.

It has been revealed that Nicholas Courtney ad-libbed The Brigadier's classic closing line ‘Well, here we go again’.

It is unclear how long it takes The Doctor to return to Earth in the TARDIS from Metabelis 3, although three weeks have passed for Sarah and The Brigadier. Paul Cornell in the Virgin Books' The New Adventures novel "Love and War" established that the TARDIS was lost in the time vortex for the equivalent of ten years. This is revealed during a sequence in cyberspace where agents of the alien race called the Hoothi are attempting to trap the Seventh Doctor in a virtual recreation of the worst moments of his life, of which this regeneration is the most painful for The Doctor to re-live.

Tom Baker's first day on set, for the regeneration scene, was on 2nd April 1974. Despite Tom Baker taking part in this story his involvement in it went uncredited.

Although "Planet of the Spiders" completed Season Eleven, the production block continued with Tom Baker's first story, "Robot" that would be used to kick-off Season Twelve, and parts of this story were recorded at the same time as parts of "Robot". This not only meant that Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker were literally playing The Doctor at the same time, but also that Elisabeth Sladen - and to a lesser extent, Nicholas Courtney and John Levene - were having to rush back and forth between the two productions.

Planet of the Spiders was repeated on BBC One as a 75 minute omnibus during Christmas 1974.



First and Last

The Firsts:

 The first story where the term 'regeneration' is used to explain The Doctor's ability to transform into another body.

 Tom Baker's first (albeit uncredited) appearance as the Fourth Doctor.

 The first story to feature a Time Lord (other than The Doctor) regenerating on screen.


The Lasts (Subject to Future Stories):

 The last story of Season Eleven.

 Jon Pertwee's last regular appearance as the Third Doctor.

 Richard Franklin's last story as semi-regular companion Captain Mike Yates.

 The last appearance of the Whomobile - The Doctor's futuristic car.

 Terrance Dicks' last involvement in the show as Script Editor.

 The last Doctor Who story written by Robert Sloman.


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The Plot

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The Doctor anf Sarah
The Doctor anf Sarah

After retiring from UNIT, under medical grounds, Captain Mike Yates is attending a meditation centre where he becomes suspicious of the activities of Lupton, Barnes, Land, Keaver and Moss, who seem to be summoning powers through their chanting. He arranges for Sarah Jane Smith to come along, in her capacity as a journalist for the Metropolitan magazine, to try and uncover what is happening.

On arriving at the centre, after a hair-raising journey from the station, Sarah talks with Cho-je, the centre's Tibetan guide, and meets Lupton. After giving the impression they have left Mike Yates and Sarah return to the centre and hide in the cellar before Lupton's group arrive and start chanting. To Sarah's horror, a giant spider appears before them and jumps on Lupton's back and then vanishes.

At UNIT’s HQ a Professor Clegg, a stage magician who seems to possess genuine powers, demonstrates telekinesis to The Doctor and The Brigadier. When given The Doctor's sonic screwdriver he 'sees' Drashigs and when Sergeant Benton arrives with a package from the Amazon, Professor Clegg correctly identifies its contents as the blue Metebelis crystal given to The Doctor’s former companion Jo Grant as a wedding present. However, while the others are distracted, Professor Clegg is killed when he looks into the crystal.

The Doctor
The Doctor

When Sarah returns to the UNIT HQ and tells The Doctor what happened and mentions the giant spider, The Doctor is immediately interested as spiders were the last thing seen by Professor Clegg before he died. Unknown to The Doctor because of Professor Clegg’s actions Lupton has become aware of the Metebelis crystal and so he arrives at UNIT HQ in search of the crystal, as instructed by the invisible spider still on his back. He knocks out a soldier with powers given to him by the spider and, on seeing the crystal in the UNIT laboratory, he transports it to his hands. Witnessing this The Doctor, Sarah, The Brigadier and Sergeant Benton chase after him. But after a chase involving The Doctor's new space-car, Bessie, an autogyro, a speedboat and a hovercraft, The Doctor catches up with Lupton only to then watch him vanish.

Lupton materialises back at the meditation centre but is unaware that he is being watched by a resident, the naïve Tommy, who, on seeing the crystal, is compelled to steal it. When Lupton and Barnes become distracted, with their discussion on what to do next, Tommy takes it without either of them noticing. The Doctor then arrives, with Sarah, to see Cho-je. Tommy tries to give Sarah the crystal as a present but she is more interested in listening into Lupton planning to perform another ceremony in the cellar on his own. After sending Tommy to alert The Doctor she follows Lupton to the cellar and then watches as he vanishes. Just as The Doctor rushes into the cellar she vanishes as well and reappears on Metebelis 3.

The Metebelis Crystal
The Metebelis Crystal

There, in a human village, she meets Nesca and Sabor who help her to hide in a hut when the Queen of the eight legs arrives, with her guards, to take Arak away as he had earlier killed a guard. But Sarah is spotted and is held by the Queen's guards. The Doctor then arrives in the TARDIS and fights with the guards. In the confusion, Sarah manages to escape and is again hidden by Nesca. The Doctor is knocked out and, when the Queen has gone, he is taken into Nesca's hut. He is very weak and is only just able to instruct Sarah to fetch a machine from the TARDIS which will help him. She gets the machine, but is captured by guards and taken away. When Sarah does not return, and with The Doctor becoming worse, Arak retrieves the machine from by the TARDIS, where Sarah had left it when she was taken away, and The Doctor uses it to save his own life.

When The Doctor recovers Arak explains to him that the spiders came to Metebelis 3 with the humans on a spaceship 433 years ago. The spiders were blown onto the mountains where the blue crystals enlarged their minds and bodies until they were powerful enough to enslave the human population. The Doctor goes to the spiders' city but is captured and placed in their 'larder' with Sarah. Sarah is released and taken before the Queen spider. She tells Sarah that she disagrees with the spider’s plan to invade Earth and wants Sarah to help her. This Sarah agrees to do. Meanwhile The Doctor manages to free himself from the 'larder' and, on hearing Sarah calling to him, he follows her voice to a cave of blue crystal. There he discovers the Great One, the ruler of all the spiders, who has lured him to her because she wants The Doctor to return to Earth and fetch the blue crystal for her.

Back on Earth, Mike Yates manages to persuade Barnes to reopen the link in case Lupton is waiting for this to return to Earth. They meet in the cellar and start chanting. However, they are unaware of the Scout spiders appearing in the shadows behind them. Suddenly Cho-je, having been told by Tommy of what has been happening, enters the cellar but a spider blasts him and Mike Yates before the other spiders attach themselves to Barnes, Moss, Land and Keaver. Tommy though is able to hurry away and sets off to warn the Abbot, K'anpo Rimpoche.

A Spider of Metebelis Three
A Spider of Metebelis Three

Meanwhile back on Metebelis 3, The Doctor finds Sarah and she transports him back to the village where they enter the TARDIS and return to Earth. On arriving back at the meditation centre they are attacked by the spider controlled humans but The Doctor has a Metebelis stone, which he discovered earlier can be used against the spiders, which deflects the blasts. They then meet Tommy who takes them to see the Abbot. As soon as The Doctor enters the Abbot’s room he recognises him as his old Time Lord tutor. With Tommy holding the others off at the door, K'anpo brings out the crystal. As soon as Sarah sees it she demands he hand it over to her – making The Doctor realise that she is being controlled by the Queen spider. The Doctor uses the crystal to free Sarah from the spider's influence and it falls from her back and dies. K'anpo then reveals that Cho-je is a projection of himself. He also makes The Doctor realise that all the recent events are the results of taking the crystal from Metebelis 3 in the first place, and that he must now face his fear, and probable death, by returning to the cave of the Great One to give back the crystal.

Outside the Abbot’s room the spiders summon up more power and blast Tommy again just as Mike Yates arrives - who also takes a blast. This allows Barnes and the others to finally enter K'anpo's room and to attack the Abbot who then regenerates into the form of Cho-je. At the same time The Doctor vanishes and reappears in the cellar where he enters the TARDIS which takes him back to Metebelis 3. There he meets Arak and Tuar, now are under the spiders' influence, who take him to the spider's council chamber. The Doctor tells the giant spiders that he is going to return the crystal to the Great One. But as The Doctor goes to leave Lupton tries to stop him but is killed by a blast from the spiders.

When The Doctor arrives at the cave of the Great One, and confronts the giant spider, she takes the crystal from him so as to complete her 'web of power' - believing that it will increase her mental powers to infinity. The Doctor though realises that she has created a positive feedback circuit that will eventually destroy the Great One's mind. The Doctor though is getting weaker from the high level of radiation in the cave of the Great One. He staggers from the chamber and just manages to return to the TARDIS as all the spiders die so releasing the humans from the spiders' mental domination. As the TARDIS dematerialises the mountain explodes, destroying the Great One.

Back on Earth three weeks have passed, since The Doctor left, and Sarah is at UNIT HQ with The Brigadier wondering if they will ever see The Doctor again when the TARDIS appears. Apparently The Doctor got lost in the time vortex and the TARDIS has brought him home. As he exits from his time-machine he collapses on the floor and apparently dies. However, Cho-je appears and tells The Brigadier and Sarah that he will assist The Doctor's regeneration and so before their eyes The Doctor's appearance changes.

 
The Whomobile Takes Off
The Whomobile Takes Off
The Doctor
The Doctor
Lupton Under the Control of the Spiders
Lupton Under the Control of the Spiders
Sarah Cocooned
Sarah Cocooned
 
The Great One
The Great One
'Here we go again.' Says The Brigadier…
'Here we go again.' Says The Brigadier…
The Doctor About to Regenerate
The Doctor About to Regenerate
The Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor




Quote of the Story


 'A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don't cry. While there's life, there's…'

The Doctor



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Release Information

FormatTitleRelease Date (UK)Code NumberCover ArtRemarks
Audio
LP
Science-Fiction Sound Effects No. 191978BBC-22316Sound Effects
Audio
Tape
Science-Fiction Sound Effects No. 191978ZCM 316Sound Effects
Video
VHS
Planet of the SpidersApril 1991BBCV 4491Andrew SkilleterDouble cassette release
Audio
CD
Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume Two - New Beginnings 1970-1980May 2005WMSF 6024-2Music and sound effects
Video
DVD
Planet of the SpidersApril 2011BBCDVD 1809Photo-montage
Video
DVD
Planet of the SpidersJune 2013BBCDVD 3801Photo-montagePart of the "Regeneration" Box Set
Audio
CD
The 50th Anniversary CollectionDecember 2013Photo-montageOriginal Television Soundtracks


In Print

FormatTitleRelease Date (UK)PublisherAuthorCover ArtRemarks
Novel
Novel
Doctor Who and the Planet of the SpidersOctober 1975Target No. 48Terrance DicksPeter BrookesISBN: 0-426-10655-5
(1st Edition Target Cover)
Novel
Novel
Doctor Who and the Planet of the SpidersSeptember 1978Target No. 48Terrance DicksAlun HoodISBN: 0-426-10655-5
(Reprinted Target Book Cover)
Novel
Novel
Planet of the SpidersAugust 1991Target No. 48Terrance DicksAlister PearsonVirgin new cover reprint.
ISBN: 0-426-10655-5
CD
CD
Doctor Who and the Planet of the SpidersMay 2009Target No. 48Terrance DicksPeter BrookesAudio version of the Target Novel read by Sarah Jane Smith.
Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time)Issue 74
Doctor Who Monthly - ArchiveIssue 60 (Released: January 1982)
Doctor Who Magazine - ArchiveIssue 314 (Released: March 2002)
Doctor Who Magazine - Time TeamIssue 341 (Released: March 2004)
Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of FictionIssue 457 (Released: March 2013)
Doctor Who DVD FilesVolume 110 (Released: March 2013)

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Audio LP - Sound Effects No. 19

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Audio Tape - Sound Effects No. 19

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Audio - Volume 2: New Beginnings

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Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time): Issue 74
Doctor Who CMS Magazine (An Adventure in Space and Time): Issue 74

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Doctor Who Monthly - Archive: Issue 60

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Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 314
Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 314

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Doctor Who Magazine - Time Team: Issue 341
Doctor Who Magazine - Time Team: Issue 341

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Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of Fiction: Issue 457
Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of Fiction: Issue 457

Marvel Comics
Doctor Who DVD Files: Volume 110
Doctor Who DVD Files: Volume 110

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