130 - Doctor Who - The Wheel in Space

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When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the
Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile
Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in
the orbit of a giant space station—the Wheel in Space.
Once inside this magnificent space ship they are
bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The
technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who
are they working for?
Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find
the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they
plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor
trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it
spins relentlessly through space?
ISBN 0 426 20321 6
DOCTOR WHO
THE WHEEL IN SPACE
Based on the BBC television serial by David Whitaker by
arrangement with BBC Books, a division of BBC Enterprises
Ltd
TERRANCE DICKS
Number 130 in the
Doctor Who Library
A TARGET BOOK
published by
The Paperback Division of
W. H. ALLEN & Co. Plc
A Target Book
Published in 1988
by the Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. Plc
44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB
First Published in Great Britain by
W. H. Allen & Co. Plc 1988
Novelisation copyright © Terrance Dicks, 1988
Original script copyright © David Whitaker, 1968
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting
Corporation 1968, 1988
The BBC producer of The Wheel in Space was Peter Bryant
The director was Tristian de Vere Cole
The role of the Doctor was played by Patrick Troughton
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex
ISBN 0426 20321 6
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by
way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or
otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in
any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is
published and without a similar condition including this
condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
CONTENTS
1 Goodbye to Victoria
2 The Unseen Enemy
3 Hunted
4 Command Decision
5 Under Suspicion
6 Birth of Terror
7 Menace
8 The First Death
9 The Trap
10 Trojan Horse
11 Takeover
12 Into Danger
13 Cybermat Attack
14 Meteor Storm
15 Poison in the Air
16 Perilous Journey
17 The Invasion
18 An End and a Beginning
1
Goodbye to Victoria
Victoria was waving goodbye.
She looked very small on the TARDIS’s monitor screen,
lost and alone on the wide stretch of empty beach.
Two very different figures stood gazing sadly at the
monitor screen. One was that wandering Time Lord known as
the Doctor, a rather shabby little figure in frock coat and
baggy check trousers. His deeply lined face, which could look
young or old, wise or foolish, was crowned with a mop of
untidy black hair. Beside him stood a brawny young man in
the kilt of a Scottish Highlander. This was James Robert
McCrimmon - Jamie for short. Like Victoria, Jamie had been
the Doctor’s companion through a number of dangerous and
terrifying adventures.
Now Victoria was leaving them and Jamie was taking it
hard. Somehow it didn’t make things any better that Victoria
was leaving them of her own accord. She had had all the
adventure and excitement she could take and she had
decided to stay behind on Earth with a family who would be
glad to adopt her as their daughter.
Somehow Jamie just couldn’t accept it. ‘We can’t just -
leave her, Doctor.’
‘We’re not leaving her, Jamie. It was her decision to
stay,’ the Doctor said reassuringly. ‘She’ll be happy with the
Harrises, don’t worry.’ .
Jamie hated showing his feelings. ‘I’m no’ worrying, I’m
just - och, get us away from here, will ye?’
‘All right,’ said the Doctor obligingly. He moved over to
the many-sided central control column. ‘Where would you
like to go?’
Theoretically, all space and time were available to them.
Theoretically.
In practice, as Jamie well knew, the combination of the
TARDIS’s erratic navigational circuitry and the Doctor’s even
more erratic steering, meant they were liable to fetch up
almost anywhere - and anywhen, come to that.
But for once this suited Jamie fine. ‘I couldna care less!’
The Doctor gave him a sympathetic look. ‘I was fond of her
too, you know, Jamie.’
His hands moved over the controls and moments later
the central column of the control panel began its rise and fall.
The TARDIS was about to take off.
On the beach, the incongruous square blue shape of the
police box gave out a strange wheezing, groaning sound and
faded slowly away.
Victoria looked on sadly, her eyes filling with tears...
On the monitor screen her figure grew even smaller,
receding into the distance.
The Doctor switched off the monitor and turned away.
It was some time later before the rising and falling of the
centre column began slowing down.
The Doctor looked up from the controls. ‘We’re
landing, Jamie!’
There was no reply.
The Doctor turned and saw Jamie fast asleep in his
chair. Like the good fighting man he was, Jamie took every
opportunity for a nap.
‘Jamie! We’re landing!’
Jamie blinked. ‘Mmm? What?’
‘Let’s see what’s on the scanner shall we?’
The Doctor switched on the screen, but it remained
blank. He frowned and jiggled the switch.
Still nothing.
‘I thought you said we’d landed,’ said Jamie grumpily.
‘We have - but we seem to have lost the picture.’ The
Doctor flicked another switch. ‘Let’s try a bit of extra power,
shall we?’
Nothing happened.
‘You’re sure you’re using the right one?’ asked Jamie
sceptically.
The Doctor was indignant. ‘Of course I am! Just take a
look at the fault indicator, will you? Just there to your right.’
Jamie opened the lid of a small black box built into the
console. Inside he saw an oscillation meter, its glowing lines
pulsing in a regular pattern. It meant absolutely nothing to
him. ‘Seems right enough,’ he said hopefully.
The Doctor glanced at the meter. ‘Yes, no abnormal
movement at all. I don’t understand it.’ He checked the other
dials. ‘Air normal, temperature normal... seems to be quite an
amount of metal all around us...’
‘What’s that, Doctor? I canna hear ye when you mumble
to yourself.’
Suddenly the Doctor caught sight of the monitor screen.
‘Look, the picture’s coming through again.’
There on the monitor was a beautiful lake and as they
watched a flock of cranes rose lazily from its surface and flew
gracefully away.
Jamie cheered up. ‘Och, that looks all right.’
The picture changed and now they were looking at a
waterfall, its cascading waters gleaming in the moonlight.,
The Doctor frowned. ‘That’s funny, it’s changed to night
now.’
‘That’s a wee bit quick, surely?’ muttered Jamie. The
picture changed again. Now they saw a tropical island, white
sands, waving palms, all set in a bright blue sea.
‘Och, now the whole place is different. What’s going on?’
‘Oh dear, I know what it is,’ said the Doctor suddenly.
‘Those pictures aren’t of the outside world at all, I’m certain
of it!’
‘Then why are they appearing?’
‘Temptations, Jamie. The TARDIS is telling us to leave
wherever we are and go to somewhere more pleasant. I must
have connected the automatic defence network by mistake.’
‘And what’s that?’
‘One of the optional extras built into this particular
model. I don’t often use it; it’s a perfect nuisance to be
honest.’
‘What does it do?’
‘Well, if there’s danger outside it tries to warn us - or as
in this case, to tempt us - into going somewhere else.’
‘That’s guid enough,’ said Jamie. ‘Let’s go!’
The Doctor sighed. ‘Jamie, if I took any notice of that
silly gadget, we’d never even leave the TARDIS. It’s so fussy.
That’s why I usually disconnect it.’
‘No wonder we always end up in trouble!’
The Doctor was struggling with the switch that would
turn the automatic defence network off, but it refused to
budge. ‘Oh dear, now I can’t seem to move it. Where’s my
spanner...?’
Jamie glanced casually at the fault indicator - its lid was
still open - and his eyes widened. ‘Hey! There’s a light
flashing...’ The Doctor looked. Sure enough an alarm-light
was flashing wildly, and the lines on the oscillation meter were
pulsing furiously. ‘Something’s gone wrong,’ said Jamie
worriedly.
The Doctor wrinkled his nose and sniffed. Tracing the
acrid reek to its source, he saw wisps of smoke coming from
the control console. ‘There’s too much power...’ He rushed to
the main power switch and tried to thrust it back. It refused to
budge, and Jamie came to help him. Suddenly there was a
bang and a flash and a cloud of smoke and the Doctor and
Jamie were hurled across the control room. They struggled to
their feet. By now it was obvious that something was badly
wrong.
The central column was rising and falling rapidly, and
lights were blinking on and off all over the console. The
TARDIS’s usually inaudible electronic hum had turned into a
steadily rising shriek.
‘The fluid links must have gone,’ muttered the Doctor.
Jamie pointed to the base of the central column. ‘Look,
Doctor!’
The Doctor saw a silvery fluid leaking from the base of
the column. ‘The mercury’s vaporising!’ As if to confirm his
theory, Jamie coughed and clutched at his throat. ‘Doctor!’ he
gasped.
摘要：

WhentheTARDISrematerialisesinsidearockettheDoctorandJamiearealarmedbythepresenceofahostileServo-Robot.Theydiscoverthattherocketisdriftingintheorbitofagiantspacestation—theWheelinSpace.Onceinsidethismagnificentspaceshiptheyarebewilderedbyitscomplexityandsheersize.Thetechniciansandprogrammersarehighly...

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