Ken's Reviews > Doctor Who: World Game

I’m really benefiting on revisiting these Past Doctor Adventures having now seen the whole of the classic era on DVD, there was only three of Troughton’s adventures available when this novel was first published!

Slotting in between The War Games and Spearhead From Space, this adventure is a wonderful nod to the Second Doctor era whilst helping to explain the inaccuracies of Troughton’s appearance during The Two Doctors in the 1980’s.

It’s a fun historical story focusing on an attempt to change the events of Waterloo, not only explain what happened during ‘Season 6b’ but this adventure serves as a sequel to another Dicks PDA ‘Players’.
It’s no wonder I didn’t fully appreciate it first time around!

Dicks has a nice fun writing style which sweeps you along whilst all the references landed perfectly.
It really felt like an extension to one of he’s many Target novelisations, the fact that it had a footnote mentioning Players was a nice touch.

It’s very continuity heavy romp that long term fans will lap up!