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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
- Author
- Terrance Dicks
- Narrator
- Terry Molloy
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 1 December 2016
- Run Time
- 2 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
What to expect
An unabridged reading of this novelisation of a classic 1960s TV serial, featuring the Second Doctor. When space beacon Alpha One disintegrates into lumps of metal, General Hermack of the Space Corps realises that space pirates have discovered a new source of precious argonite. After witnessing further destruction, the General leaves a squad of guards on beacon Alpha Four - just as the TARDIS materialises.
Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, then pursued as spies by the pirates themselves, the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie attempt to unmask the mastermind behind the thefts of argonite. In doing so they risk execution, explosion, and asphyxiation in the vacuum of space. Duration: 4 hours approx.
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Details
- Author
- Terrance Dicks
- Narrator
- Terry Molloy
- Duration
- 2 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 December 2016
- ISBN
- 9781785293245
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Science fiction
Synopsis
An unabridged reading of this novelisation of a classic 1960s TV serial, featuring the Second Doctor. When space beacon Alpha One disintegrates into lumps of metal, General Hermack of the Space Corps realises that space pirates have discovered a new source of precious argonite. After witnessing further destruction, the General leaves a squad of guards on beacon Alpha Four - just as the TARDIS materialises. Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, then pursued as spies by the pirates themselves, the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie attempt to unmask the mastermind behind the thefts of argonite. In doing so they risk execution, explosion, and asphyxiation in the vacuum of space. Duration: 4 hours approx.
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