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T.V. SPIN-OFFS (part 1)

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As a genre it's like the film novelisation, but frequently worse...


see also TV Part II: from N to W
from No Excuses to The XYY Man


RAY EVANS
ALBION MARKET: THORNS & ROSES

'Based on the major new Granada TV serial'


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PAULA MILNE & LESLIE DUXBURY
ANGELS

'The story of six student nurses'


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JEREMY LLOYD
ARE YOU BEING SERVED?

'A staggeringly successful series'


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JOHN GARFORTH
THE AVENGERS: HEIL HARRIS!

'Emma Peel - elected dictator of Great Britain!'


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BATMAN vs THE PENGUIN
'The foul bird of banditry challenges America's Number One TV Hero'


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TREVOR HOYLE
BLAKE'S 7

'Now a stunning BBC-TV space adventure'


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KEITH MILES
THE BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF

'Gizza job, go on, gizzit...'


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JACK MATCHA
THE BRADY BUNCH: THE NEW YORK MYSTERY

'TV's most exciting family'


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PAUL DENVER
CANNON: THE GOLDEN BULLET

'They can't kill him ... but they never stop trying'


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JOHN THEYDON
CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS

'We the Mysterons will cause havoc with the world's weather!'


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RICHARD CARPENTER
CATWEAZLE

'The art is true but there be but a few that have skill in it'


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STELLA BINGHAM
CHARTERS & CALDICOTT

'from the BBC TV serial by Keith Waterhouse'


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MICHAEL HARDWICK
THE CHINESE DETECTIVE

'A new blockbuster crime series'


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CHRISTOPHER KENWORTHY
CITIZEN SMITH

'Freedom for Tooting'


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WILLIAM HARRINGTON
COLUMBO: THE HELTER SKELTER MURDERS

'An all-new mystery based on the Universal TV series'


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JOHN KERSHAW
COMPANY & CO.

'More posh than punk...'


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GARRY SHANDLING with David Rensin
CONFESSIONS OF A LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST:
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LARRY SANDERS

'Very, very funny. Compulsory reading.' - Time Out


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GERALD SAVORY
COUNT DRACULA

'A Gothic Romance based on Bram Stoker's Dracula'


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MARTIN CAIDIN
CYBORG

'Half man, half machine - the deadliest secret agent of them all'


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RICHARD CARPENTER
DICK TURPIN

'Your money or your life!'


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HUGH MILLER
TEEN EASTENDERS: HEROES

'Based upon the BBC-TV series'


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TRISHA MARSHALL
A FINE ROMANCE

'When it comes to love, you just never can tell'


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JOHNNIE MORTIMER & BRIAN COOKE
GEORGE AND MILDRED

'Devotees of the hilarious comedy series will much enjoy these adventures of their favourite characters.'


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WILLIAM JOHNSTON
GET SMART!

'An original novel about NBC television's hottest, most hilarious super-spy, Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL'


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ALAN SIMPSON & RAY GALTON
ANTHONY ALOYSISUS ST JOHN HANCOCK


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WILLIAM JOHNSTON
HAPPY DAYS

'When the carnival comes to town, it's Happy Days'


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STAN HEY & ANDREW NICKOLDS
HOLD THE BACK PAGE

'The seamy side of sport and the seedy side of Fleet Street meet in a sardonic, hard-hitting new series'


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PETER TINNISWOOD
THE HOME FRONT

'Now a side-splitting TV series'


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PETER TINNISWOOD
I DIDN'T KNOW YOU CARED

'One of the best comic novels to come out of the Sixties' - Daily Express


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ANTHONY LEBARON
THE INVADERS

'Watch the ATV series'


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GIL BREWER
IT TAKES A THIEF

'An exciting new novel of counter-espionage'


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JOHN BURKE
KING AND CASTLE

'The most diverting duo since Arthur Daley and Terry McCann'


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HOWARD LEE
KUNG FU: The Way of the Tiger, The Sign of the Dragon

'Now! Read the compellng adventures based on the Warner Bros. TV series'


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MURRAY LEINSTER
LAND OF THE GIANTS: The Trap

'Where were they?'


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DAUID WILSON
McCLOUD

'A ruthles killer wreaks vengeance on beautiful women'


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MICHAEL AVALLONE
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

'A gripping new adventure as Napoleon Solo fights a vicious THRUSH bid for world domination'


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LEON GRIFFITHS
MINDER

'A novel'


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EDDIE BRABEN
THE BEST OF MORECAMBE AND WISE

'Hilarious' - Observer


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BILL MEILEN
MOVING ON

'A chilling story of sadism in an army glasshouse'


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TV Part II: from N to W
from No Excuses to Within These Walls


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