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Luigi Ferrigo, meanwhile, has a much larger role in the novelisation – as well as his meeting with Ben Daheer in Chapter Two, his meeting with El Akir in Chapter Four is extended to include a bottle of strong wine overcoming the Emir, and the merchant himself is treated to a lengthy dinner with the Sultan, rather than the very brief confrontation shown in the second episode. His fate, too, is very different on television: rather than being killed by a palace guard, Ferrigo is reported to have successfully talked his way out of his
predicament by alleging that Barbara had ‘conceived a passion for El Akir’.

Ian Chesterton has no meeting with Saladin in the TV story; after his encounter with des Preaux, he sets out for Lydda and is attacked by a Turkish bandit. The bandit is helped by his unseen brother Ibrahim in Episode 3; by the next episode the bandit has made off with Ian’s horse, so Ibrahim and Ian have to walk to Lydda. At Lydda, Barbara manages a second escape from El Akir and takes refuge in the Emir’s harem, where she is betrayed by one of his other captives.

Although the novel is structured to allow two chapters for each of the four televised episodes, events are resequenced. El Akir’s humiliation by Barbara and des Preaux took place on television during the first episode, immediately before the Doctor, Ian and Vicki reach Richard’s palace. Ian’s search for Barbara is picked up in the last couple of chapters, while the third TV episode had included the attack on him by Ibrahim’s brother.

In common with the television scripts at the time, the name of the Doctor’s time machine is given here as ‘
Tardis
’ or ‘the
Tardis
’; only in the 1970s did the series’ ‘house style’ establish ‘TARDIS’ as the standard usage, still used in 2011. As on television, and in almost every novel, the Doctor himself is generally called ‘the Doctor’, although the narration refers to him as ‘Doctor Who’ twice.

A significant difference between David Whitaker’s novelisations and their televised sources is the portrayal of a romantic relationship between Ian and Barbara. This is something that was barely hinted at on screen. In other respects, though, the novels are very faithful to the TV characterisations. And, despite the effort to make the books accessible in their own right, Whitaker acknowledges the ongoing popularity of the series, by retaining Barbara’s
references to their adventures on the planet Vortis, in Nero’s Rome and in a future London conquered by the Daleks. The prologue similarly refers to events seen in ‘An Unearthly Child’, ‘The Rescue’ and ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’.

That last one, though, explaining the absence of the Doctor’s granddaughter Susan, makes a couple of small errors. Susan did indeed leave the TARDIS after the Dalek invasion of Earth, but it was in the 22nd century, not the 21st, settling in London and marrying one of the resistance leaders, David Campbell. Or, as
Doctor Who and the Crusaders
’ premier mistake would have it… David Cameron.

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