Doctor Who: Corpse Marker: A 4th Doctor novel

Chris Boucher

Mar 2015 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by David Collings

About this audiobook

An unabridged reading of an original adventure featuring the Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker, and his companion Leela.

The Doctor and Leela arrive on the planet Kaldor, where they find a society dependent on benign and obedient robots. But they have faced these robots before, on a huge Sandminer in the Kaldor desert, and know they are not always harmless servants...

The only other people who know the truth are the three survivors from that Sandminer – and now they are being picked off one by one. The twisted genius behind that massacre is dead, but someone is developing a new, deadlier breed of robots. This time, unless the Doctor and Leela can stop them, they really will destroy the world...

Ratings and reviews

The reading itself is quite good but unfortunately the story is really fairly dull. It's sad because it has such promise but in trying to be different from the original "robots of death" it simply becomes too talky.

About the author

Chris Boucher is a respected writer of both novels and television drama. He wrote three highly popular Doctor Who scripts for Tom Baker's Fourth incarnation of the Doctor - The Face of Evil, The Robots of Death, and Image of the Fendahl. He continued to explore the Doctor's developing relationship with Leela in his novels for BBC Books. Chris is also well known to genre experts as the Script Editor of every episode of the original TV run of Blake's 7, and wrote many of the most popular episodes of that series. As well as working on BBC drama series including Bergerac, he also created Star Cops.