Long
before I saw this story I read the Target novel upon which it is based, `Doctor
Who and the Zarbi`. That book’s strange Chris Achellios cover and descriptive Bill
Strutton prose conjured up a totally alien world for young me. For ages I
imagined that the televised episodes were as elegant and bizarre and
imaginative as that book. So inevitably when I eventually saw it on a grainy
video it was hugely disappointing. I wanted those descriptions; I wanted it to
look like that book cover and it just didn’t. So, I sort of left it to one
side.
