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In 1969 and 1970 three original novels based upon the television series The Prisoner were published by Ace Books. Since there is some ambig...

The Time Tunnel is a TV tie-in novel written by Murray Leinster. Quite a few well-known very good authors ended up writing such books as th...

The Blazing Affair was the second original novel based on the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. TV series. The first two novels were both written by Mi...

Peter Leslie’s The Cornish Pixie Affair , published in 1967, was the fifth of the original novels based on the TV spy series The Girl from U...

E.C. Tubb’s Rogue Planet , published in 1977, was the ninth of the Space: 1999 TV tie-in novels. It is an original novel, not a novelisatio...

Callan Uncovered is a collection of the Callan short stories written by James Mitchell. Mitchell was the creator and main scriptwriter for ...

Dead Duck is an original novel inspired by the TV series The Avengers . It was published in 1966 and written by Patrick Macnee. At least Ma...

Published in 1969, Mediterranean Caper was the second TV tie-in novel based on the very successful 1968-1970 American TV spy series It Take...

UFO-1 Flesh Hunters was the first of two novelisations of Gerry Anderson’s 1970 sci-fi TV series UFO . Both were written by John Burke unde...

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was the first of three TV tie-novels accompanying Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s TV series of the same name....

Considering how successful the series was it’s a little surprising that Mission: Impossible spawned only four TV tie-in novels (all of whic...

Rafe Bernard’s The Halo Highway is a 1967 TV tie-in novel based on the classic 1967-68 science fiction TV series The Invaders . The Halo Hi...

One of my more recent enthusiasms has been chasing down the various tie-in novels that were produced to accompany TV series. My latest find ...

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. , a 1966-67 spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , was not a huge commercial success but it did spawn five TV tie-...

The Copenhagen Affair is an original 1965 novel by Welsh writer John Oram based on the hit 1960s television spy series The Man from U.N...

Like so many TV series of its era The Sweeney spawned a series of TV tie-in novels. Regan and the Deal of the Century was the third of T...

A for Andromeda , broadcast by the BBC in 1961, was one of the most famous science fiction television series of all time (and is now tragi...