Doctor Who_ The Romans - Donald Cotton [0]
But in the gory grandeur that is Rome, things don’t stay quiet for long. If the time-travellers can save themselves from being sold as slaves, assassinated by classical hit-men, poisoned by the evil Locusta, thrown to the lions, maimed in the arena and drowned in a shipwreck, they still have to face the diabolical might of the mad Emperor Nero.
As if that isn’t enough, they also discover that, although Rome wasn’t built in a day, it was burnt down in considerably less time . . .
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Science Fiction/TV Tie-in
DOCTOR WHO
THE ROMANS
Based on the BBC television serial by Dennis Spooner by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation DONALD COTTON
Number 120 in the
Doctor Who Library
A TARGET BOOK
published by
the Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. PLC
A Target Book
Published in 1987
by the Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd.
44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB
First published in Great Britain by
W. H. Allen & Co. PLC 1987
Novelisation copyright © Donald Cotton, 1987
Original script copyright © Dennis Spooner, 1965
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1965, 1987
The BBC producers of The Romans were Verity Lambert and Mervyn Pinfield,
the director was Christopher Barry
The role of the Doctor was played by William Hartnell Printed and bound in Great Britain by Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex
ISBN 0426 20288 0
For Ann Wood,
With Love and Patience
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
CONTENTS
Prologue
I First Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton
II First Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
III First Letter from Legionary (Second Class) Ascaris
IV Second Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
V Second Extract from the journal of Ian Chesterton
VI Second Letter from Legionary (Second Class)
Ascaris
VII Third Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
VIII Third Letter from Legionary (Second Class)
Ascaris
IX Third Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton
X Fourth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
XI First Extract from the Commonplace Book of
Poppea Sabina
XII Fourth Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton
XIII First Selection of jottings from Nero’s Scrapbook
XIV Fourth Letter from Legionary (Second Class)
Ascaris
XV Fifth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
XVI Fifth Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton
XVII Second Extract from the Commonplace Book of
Poppea Sabina
XVIII A Poisoner Remembers
XIX Letter from Barbara Wright
XX Second Selection of Jottings from Nero’s Scrapbook
XXI Sixth Extract from the Journal of Ian Chesterton
XXII Third Extract from the Commonplace Book of
Poppea Sabina
XXIII Fifth Letter from Legionary (Second Class)
Ascaris
XXIV Sixth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
XXV Seventh Extract from the Journal of Ian
Chesterton
XXVI Seventh Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
XXVII Sixth Letter from Legionary (Second Class)
Ascaris
XXVIII Third Selection of Jottings from Nero’s
Scrapbook
XXIX Eighth Extract from the Doctor’s Diary
Epilogue
Prologue
Epistle to the Keeper of the Imperial Archives, Rome
Dear Sir,
I am in reluctant receipt of your insufferable scroll –
written, I must