Doctor
Who
in
an
Exciting
Adventure
with
the
Daleks
(Frederick Muller, 1964), based on the first Dalek story (1963-64).
Art by Arnold Schwartzman.
Doctor
Who
and
the
Crusaders
(Frederick Muller, 1966), based on The Crusade (1965).
Art by Henry Fox.
For decades, novelisations of screen stories represented publishing at its most commercial. Fittingly, one of the earliest TV tie-ins was an adaptation of 1956’s Flight into Danger. This, the Canadian teleplay later spoofed in Airplane!, had been successful enough for its producer Sydney Newman to be headhunted by British television, eventually spearheading Doctor Who.