sentences:  With the release of "Star Wars", it also seemed futile for a movie of this kind to even try to compete.In late January 2019, BBC Books released a novelization of the screenplay by Tom Baker himself, co-written with James Goss, coming a year after Goss had adapted "Krikkitmen" (see below).As the original "Doctor Who" series was nearing its end and continuing during the first interregnum (1989–1996), numerous attempts were made to adapt the series for the big screen for the first time since the Peter Cushing films of the 1960s.