Mission to Magnus is the third and final in a series of novelisations based on a number of cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of Doctor Who. It was written by Philip Martin, who had previously written the television stories Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp. It was first published by Target Books in 1990 as the third volume of its Missing Episodes series.
The Sixth Doctor and Peri find themselves being threatened by Anzor, an old school bully f...
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Mission to Magnus is the third and final in a series of novelisations based on a number of cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of Doctor Who. It was written by Philip Martin, who had previously written the television stories Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp. It was first published by Target Books in 1990 as the third volume of its Missing Episodes series.
The Sixth Doctor and Peri find themselves being threatened by Anzor, an old school bully from the Doctor's time on Gallifrey, who locks the TARDIS in orbit above the planet of Magnus. On this planet, Anzor has been working with the female upper caste to his own ends, alongside the Doctor's old enemy Sil. When the Doctor investigates further, he discovers that the polar icecaps of the planet hide an even darker foe — the Ice Warriors.
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