The Nightmare Fair

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The Nightmare Fair

Author	Graham Williams
Series	Doctor Who book: Doctor Who Missing Episodes
Release number	1
Subject	Featuring: Sixth Doctor Peri
Set in	Period between Revelation of the Daleks and Mission to Magnus
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	May 1989
ISBN	0-426-20334-8
Preceded by	Attack of the Cybermen
Followed by	The Ultimate Evil Mindwarp

The Nightmare Fair is a story originally written for the 1986 season of Doctor Who, but never filmed. A novelisation based on the script was published in 1989 by Target Books, as the first volume of its Missing Episodes series. The script and novelisation were written by former series producer Graham Williams, and would have been directed by Matthew Robinson had it gone to air. It is the first novel-length text featuring The Doctor not to be based upon a previously transmitted production, although being a novelisation it is not strictly speaking an "original" novel.

An audio play closely based on Williams' script was released in May 2003, with profits going to the charity Sense. For this adaptation, the Sixth Doctor was played by Steve Hill, and Peri by Jennifer Adams Kelley.^[1]

A second audio adaptation, done by Big Finish, was released in 2009. Adapted by John Ainsworth, it featured both Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant reprising their television roles of the Sixth Doctor and Peri respectively.