The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith meet for the first time and, after some manuevering, work together to solve the puzzle of scientists disappearing into the Medieval Ages. ( )

This one's a bit of fun. For the most part, it's a typical late '70s novelization from Terrance Dicks. Seeing as it's based on a standard four-part story from his own time on the show, though, Dicks has more opportunity to inject extra character into the book, which helps keeps it ticking along in an entertaining way. Better still, the book opens with a long prologue from Robert Holmes himself (the remnant of his own failed attempt to write the book); it's fun, it's detailed, and it provides the story with a real shot in the arm.

Jeremy Bulloch is a spirited narrator, so the audiobook trips along very pleasantly for its brief running time. It wouldn't be my first choice from the Target "Classic Novels" audiobook range, but you could certainly do a lot worse than The Time Warrior. ( )

http://nhw.livejournal.com/1038662.html#cutid1

Somehow despite the apparently favourable conjunction of DW's most prolific TV script writer (Robert Holmes) and the most prolific novelisation writer (Dicks), it rarely seems to gel, and this is a typical example: an unexceptional Dicks novelisation of a decent Holmes script. The Sontaran commander Linx (rather than Lynx) and the myopic Professor Rubeish both get a little more characterisation, but it's otherwise standard stuff.

It is interesting that both this and the next story are about the bad guys shunting people between the present and the past.

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-time-warrior-by-matthew-kilburn-and-terrance...

this was unfair of me. There are a lot of nice little moments in the novelisation that were missed from the TV show, including Mary, Hal the archer’s girlfriend, whose lines were completely cut from the screen. After a marathon of Pertwee novelisations in 2008, I think I may have been getting a bit fed up with Dicks’ prose, but in isolation it reads much better. ( )