Editing The Pirate Planet (section)

==Commercial releases==

===In print===
{{Infobox book
|name = Doctor Who – The Pirate Planet
|image =
|caption =
| exclude_cover     = yes
|author = James Goss
|series = [[List of Doctor Who novelisations|''Doctor Who'' novelisations]]
|release_date = 5 January 2017
|publisher = [[BBC Books]]
|pages = 416
|isbn = 978-1-849-90677-7
}}

This is one of five ''Doctor Who'' serials that were never novelised by [[Target Books]] (the others being ''[[City of Death]]'', ''[[Shada (Doctor Who)|Shada]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', and ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]''), in this case because they were unable to come to an agreement with Douglas Adams that would have allowed him or another writer to adapt the script. BBC Books published a novelised version of the serial, written by [[James Goss (producer)|James Goss]], on 5 January 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KWKAJS0/|title=Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet|first1=Douglas|last1=Adams|first2=James|last2=Goss|date=5 January 2017|publisher=BBC Digital|access-date=25 August 2016|via=Amazon|archive-date=29 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229003413/https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KWKAJS0/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gallifrey Guardian |journal=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |issue=486 |page=7 |location=[[Tunbridge Wells]] |publisher=Panini UK Ltd |date=April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesradar.com/pirate-planet-novelisation-announced/|title=Doctor Who Pirate Planet Novelisation Announced|first=Dave|last=Golder|date=30 April 2015|work=GamesRadar+|access-date=2 May 2015|archive-date=29 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229003454/https://www.gamesradar.com/pirate-planet-novelisation-announced/|url-status=live}}</ref> An abridged [[Target Books]] edition titled ''Doctor Who and the Pirate Planet'' was published in paperback 11 March 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=five-adventures-new-doctor-who-target-book|title=New Target novel collection in July 2020|website=Doctor Who.tv|access-date=11 December 2019|archive-date=22 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322143408/https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=five-adventures-new-doctor-who-target-book|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (Target Collection): Amazon.co.uk: Douglas Adams, James Goss: 9781785945304: Books|id={{ASIN|1785945300|country=uk}}}}</ref>

===Home media===
It was released on VHS on 3 April 1995. Along with the rest of season sixteen, it was released in North America as part of the ''Key to Time'' box set, and as an individually available title, on 1 October 2002; the remastered Key To Time Boxset was released in Region 1 on 3 March 2009. A Limited Edition of the ''Key to Time'' box set (with additional clean-up and extras over the North American release) containing this serial, was released in Region 2 on 24 September 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/05/18/44552.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524094900/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/05/18/44552.shtml|archive-date=24 May 2007|title = DVD News|publisher=BBC|date=18 May 2007|access-date=20 March 2013}}</ref> The same set, though not in Limited Edition guise was released in Region 4 on 7 November 2007. The serial is not available separately on DVD in Regions 2 or 4. This serial was also released as part of the [[Doctor Who DVD Files]] in Issue 112 on 17 April 2013.