He started his final season fighting a future foe in Earth's past, now the Third Doctor must fight monsters from Earth's past arrived in present day London, as the Invasion of the Dinosaurs makes its mark in this legendary Chris Achilleos art for the classic Target Book adaptation of the story, as told by its original TV writer, Malcolm Hulke.
Despite the wonky Dinosuars created for the story, Invasion is up there amongst the Jon Pertwee era's best stories (one of the very first complete Who stories I remember watching as a child), and a great UNIT showcase. Producer Barry Letts' dream of a CGI fully updated version of the story hasn't come to fruition yet, but the opening three episodes were nonetheless updated for a potential DVD release idea five or six years back, from the talented CGI people who would do such great work with The Time Warrior and Destiny of the Daleks, but ultimately shelved due to colourizing costs. Let's hope the idea of an update is resurrected and completed for Season 11's eventual collection release on Blu-ray.
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