Slipback

Slipback
Author	Eric Saward
Cover artist	Paul Mark Tams
Series	Doctor Who book:; Target novelisations
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	21 August 1986 (Hardback) 15 January 1987 (Paperback)
Pages	144
ISBN	0-426-20263-5

*Slipback*
Slipback
Doctor Who radio play
	Cover of the CD release
Cast
	Doctor Colin Baker (Sixth Doctor);
	Companion Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown);
	Others Computer/Inner Voice — Jane Carr; Shellingbourne Grant — Jon Glover; Bates/Snatch — Nick Revell; Mutant/Stewart — Alan Thompson; Slarn — Valentine Dyall; Seedle — Ron Pember;
Production
Written by	Paul Spencer
Executive producer(s)	Jonathan James-Moore
Production code	N/A
Series	N/A (aired between Series 22 and 23)
Running time	6 episodes, 10 minutes each
First broadcast	25 July–8 August 1985

Slipback is a

BBC Audio and free with the 27 April 2010 edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper via WHSmith

.

Synopsis

The Sixth Doctor and Peri arrive on a mysterious space liner, where intergalactic policemen are investigating art thefts, a computer is suffering from a split personality and the Captain's disease threatens every living thing on the ship…

Production

Slipback was broadcast on

record). No further radio productions were mounted until the mid-1990s when Jon Pertwee reprised his role as the Third Doctor in two productions, The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space

.

Writing

The story was written by series script writer Eric Saward, whose writing credits include The Visitation, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks.

Cast note

Valentine Dyall played the

Black Guardian

in the television series. Dyall died on 24 June 1985, just 14 days after Slipback was recorded, and a month before Slipback aired.

In print

A novelisation by Eric Saward was published by Target Books in April 1986, the first novelisation of a non-televised Doctor Who story. Saward's novelisation expands on the radio play greatly, with an extensive prologue running about a third of the book before the Doctor appears and the adaptation of the radio play storyline begins.

Audio releases

Slipback was released on 7 November 1988 on a double

audio cassette along with the 1978 LP version of Genesis of the Daleks.^[1] It was subsequently released as a standalone CD on 8 January 2001.^[2]

References

^ "Genesis of the Daleks & Slipback". Timelash - The TARDIS Library. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
^ "Slipback". Timelash - The TARDIS Library. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

External links

Target novelisation

[1] "Genesis of the Daleks & Slipback". Timelash - The TARDIS Library. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

[2] "Slipback". Timelash - The TARDIS Library. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

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