Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius

In 1977, The Brain of Morbius was released as a novelisation by Target Books under the title Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius.

Cover blurb
Why do so many spaceships crashland on Karn, a bleak, lonely and seemingly deserted planet?

Are they doomed by the mysterious powers of the strange, black-robed Sisterhood, jealously guarding their secret of eternal life? Or does the mad Dr Solon, for some evil purpose of his own, need the bodies of the victims? And more especially, the body of DOCTOR WHO...

Cover blurb
Why do so many spaceships crashland on Karn, a bleak, lonely and seemingly deserted planet?

Are they doomed by the mysterious powers of the strange, black-robed Sisterhood, jealously guarding their secret of eternal life? Or does the mad Dr Solon, for some evil purpose of his own, need the bodies of the victims? And more especially the body of DOCTOR WHO...

Cover blurb
MAREN LEANED FORWARD AND GAZED INTO THE CRYSTAL. 'NOW IS THE MOMENT, SISTER. THE TIME LORD SLEEPS, HE CANNOT PROTECT HIMSELF AGAINST US...'

On the bleak and lonely planet of Karn, the mysterious Sisterhood guards the Sacred Flame, from which the Elixir of Life comes. But the Flame is dying...

Elsewhere on the planet, the renegade Time Lord Morbius awaits the creation of a monstrous new body which will give him the power to rule the Galaxy.

This is a novelization by Terrance Dicks of his own script which he wrote under the pseudonym Robin Bland. The author of over sixty Doctor Who novelizations, Terrance Dicks was script editor of the series for five years.

Doctor Who - The Brain of Morbius is available on BBC video and has recently been broadcast on BSB television.