Roberts' debut in comics was 1994's Plastic Millenium, which was the first appearance of Mel in comics.

Roberts went on to contribute to a wide variety of other Doctor Who ranges and media, including novels for subsequent Doctors and several episodes of the television show.Īs a fan of the Graham Williams/ Douglas Adams era, he used the Fourth Doctor, Romana II, and K9 TARDIS team more than any other Virgin writer years later, he was chosen to be the BBC Wales representative for the documentary about the Graham Williams era included with the UK DVD release of The Ribos Operation, and he would later novelise the unfinished Douglas Adams script Shada. His first contributions to Doctor Who, in the early 1990s, were several novels in Virgin Books' New Adventures and Missing Adventures lines these books were generally well-received by fans, with four of them eventually being adapted by Big Finish in their Novel Adaptations range.

2.6.2 Doctor Who Magazine (special issues).

2.4.1.6 The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations.2.4.1.5 BBC Books Doctor Who novelisations.2.4.1.4 BBC New Series Adventures - Quick Reads.In April 2015, Big Finish released a full cast audio adaptation of the story starring Tom Baker, Lalla Ward and John Leeson. Lungbarrow and The Dying Days are similar in this respect, as they were the two final Virgin New Adventures to be published. This is believed to be due to high demand for the books after Virgin lost their licence to publish original Doctor Who fiction. The novel is one of a number of Virgin Doctor Who novels which sell for far in excess of their cover price, especially on online auction sites such as eBay and Amazon. And what has Galatea, leader of the beautiful Femdroids, got to do with this? K-9 begins a career in politics, Romana reunites with an old friend, and the Doctor discovers a plot to alter the war's friendly nature. The Doctor, Romana and K-9 arrive to find an important election looming.

But instead of fighting, for nearly two hundred years, the two sides are the best of friends. Two factions have laid claim to the planet Barclow: humans from Metralubit, and the Chelonians. This was the final book in the Missing Adventures Range. It features the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9. The Well-Mannered War is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Gareth Roberts based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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