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Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 Doctor Who and the Zarbi
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Novelised by Strutton from his own television script for Doctor Who, screened as 'The Web Planet' early in the same year.

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Universal-Tandem ,       1973 .
      Extent: 174p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1973 , 1974 , 1974 , 1975 , 1975 , 1975 , 1975
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       W. H. Allen ,       1976 .
      Extent: 174p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1978 , 1978 , 1979 , 1981 , 1982 , 1983 , 1984
      ISBN: 0426113241, 0426101294, 0426113675
    • London,
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      England,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Virgin Books ,       1990 .
      Extent: 174p.
      Reprinted: 1991
Alternative title: Doctor Who en de Zarbi's
Language: Dutch
    • Bussum,
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      Netherlands,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Uniboek ,       1974 .
      Extent: 175p.
      Reprinted: 1978
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form y separately published work icon The Web Planet Bill Strutton , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1965 Z1796698 1965 series - publisher film/TV science fiction

Drawn into the orbit of the planet Vortis, the Doctor and his companions (Barbara, Ian, and Vicki) encounter three sets of non-humanoid inhabitants: the Zarbi, the Menoptra, and the Optera. The Zarbi are under the control of a sinister, spider-like central force, the Animus, which uses gold as a conductor for its mesmerising power. After a disastrous ambush of the spearhead Menoptra force attacking the Animus, Barbara manages to destroy it with an act of concentrated willpower. With the Zarbi freed from the Animus's malevolent control, they, the Menoptra, and the Optera are free to live on Vortis, while the Doctor and his companions leave in the TARDIS.
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