The Pescatons

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The Pescatons is an audio play in two episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by Victor Pemberton, and starred Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and Bill Mitchell as Zor.

It was released on LP and cassette by Argo Records (a division of Decca) in July 1976, re-released on CD in 1991 by Silva Screen Records, and re-released again by BBC Audio on CD on 3 January 2005. The 2005 CD release includes the complete original programme on disc one, and a new interview with Elisabeth Sladen recorded on 21 May 2004 on disc two.

The Pescatons was the very first audio drama based upon Doctor Who, and not counting radio plays would be the last until the late 1990s when Big Finish Productions would revive the idea for a prolific series of audio productions based upon the series. Like The Pescatons, original cast members from the series would be included. However, as of 2007, The Pescatons remains the only original Doctor Who audio production to feature Tom Baker.

Doctor Who - The Pescatons
Doctor Who book

Series	Target novelisations
Release number	153
Writer	Victor Pemberton
Publisher	Target Books
Cover artist	Pete Wallbank
ISBN	0 426 20353 4
Release date	15 September 1991
Preceded by	Battlefield

1 In print
2 External links
- 2.1 Reviews
- 2.2 Target novelisation

[edit] In print

The Pescatons was novelised in 1991 by Victor Pemberton as Doctor Who - The Pescatons and published by Target Books. Although not the final Target release (that would come in 1994 with The Paradise of Death), this was the final release in Target's traditional format which had been in place since 1973; subsequent releases would be longer and in a differently presented book format. Discounting radio plays, it is to date the only Doctor Who audio drama to be novelised.