In the days before mass availability of VHS tapes, Target novelisations were how I “knew” the doctors I hadn’t been old enough to watch on TV, and Dicks was by far my favourite of the authors.
I don’t care what anyone says, the only way to describe our favourite Time Lord is “that mysterious traveller in time and space known as the Doctor” - and the Tardis’ arrival is marked by a wheezing, groaning sound.
