The Nightmare Fair is the first of a series of novelisations based on cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of Doctor Who. It was written by former series producer Graham Williams, and would have been directed by Matthew Robinson had it gone to air. It was published by Target Books in 1989 as the first volume of its Missing Episodes series. It is the first novel-length text featuring The Doctor not to be based upon a previously transmitted produ...
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The Nightmare Fair is the first of a series of novelisations based on cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of Doctor Who. It was written by former series producer Graham Williams, and would have been directed by Matthew Robinson had it gone to air. It was published by Target Books in 1989 as the first volume of its Missing Episodes series. It is the first novel-length text featuring The Doctor not to be based upon a previously transmitted production, although being a novelization it is not strictly speaking an "original" novel; the first such book appeared in 1991.
An audio play closely based on Williams' script was released in May 2003, with profits going to the charity Sense. For this adaptation, the Sixth Doctor was played by Steve Hill, and Peri by Jennifer Adams Kelley.
The Sixth Doctor and his companion Peri are lured in the TARDIS to Blackpool, where they discover something wrong in the local videogame arcade. The Doctor's adversary the Celestial Toymaker is behind it, and...
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