Varos is a cruel world where the descendants of a prison planet are fed a diet plan of endless video nasties… where execution is spectacle and torture high entertainment. The TARDIS is desperately short of Zeiton 7 ore to power its engines, and the physician and Peri understand Varos is the only place they may think it is. But quickly they become involved in the dangerous politics of the earth, as well as the machinations of the sinister Sil, a slug-like alien who would like the price tag on Zeiton 7 lowered, and the physician – along with the governor of Varos – taken care of for good. Fighting for the independence of Varos as well as for the ore he must continue his journeys, the physician faces death many times – whilst getting continuously fiilmed for the pleasures of the viewers at home… Colin Baker, who performed the 6th Doctor in Doctor Who, reads Philip Martin’s full and unabridged novelisation, initial published by Target Books in 1988.