Cover of Search for the Doctor (1986)

[purplecat]

Given how studiously Doctor Who, the show, has avoided giving us child companions, it is always a little jarring when a piece of spin-off media chooses to do so. Though, in the case of a choose your own adventure book, you can see why it might have been tempting, even if it does make your assumptions about your audience pretty explicit.

Comments

[nwhyte]

I reviewed all six books in this series here, and the FASA ones here. The FASA ones are much better!

[purplecat]

On the whole I'd agree with you about quality. I've not read either range since the 1980s, but I find it surprising that I recall more odd details about the Severn House range than the FASA one (I recall nothing about the Vortex Crystal at all) which is odd though maybe its the random oddness of several of the stories that makes them more memorable in retrospect. Mind you there were a lot of pretty rubbish choose-your-own-adventure books being published in the 1980s attempting, one assumes, to cash in on the success of the Jackson and Livingstone books.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

...leading to the eventual publication of the superb 'The Regional Accounts Director of Firetop Mountain', surely the best gamebook ever written. http://www.shopontheborderlands.co.uk/cat/gamebooks/