<Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Episode Four" </Td> <Td> 25: 16 </Td> <Td> 3 April 1971 (1971 - 04 - 03) </Td> <Td> 7.8 </Td> <Td> PAL 2" colour videotape </Td> </Tr> <P> David J Howe and Stephen James Walker, in their 1998 book Doctor Who: The Television Companion, described The Claws of Axos as "a story that manages to combine an effective alien menace with some excellent location work to present a seamless tale of invasion by stealth". Despite noting that some aspects were unoriginal, they felt that the story was overall "highly imaginative and inventive", with the Axons well - realised in production . In 2009, Mark Braxton of Radio Times praised the action, production values, and Delgado's Master, though he noted that there were some "lapses of judgement and quality", and that he was not a fan of Dudley Simpson's electronic score . The A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn wrote that the serial was "entertaining and far from terrible" and the Axons worked in terms of "conceptual horror", but the story suffered from "the badly mishandled subplot about Chinn" and Filer was a "superfluous" character who would have been better if a character who was already established was used in his place . DVD Talk's John Sinnott gave the serial four out of five stars, highlighting the "tight" four - part structure and the rapport between Pertwee and Delgado . He noted that the choice to make the villains "more subtle and devious" was a good departure and the Axons looked "great". Russell Lewin of SFX gave The Claws of Axos three out of five stars, describing the script as "choppy" and with production that struggled to realise its ideas . However, he noted that it would have looked modern when first broadcast and the last episode went in "some interesting directions". In 2010, the magazine named the comedic tramp stumbling upon the Axons as one of the silliest moments in Doctor Who's history . </P> <Table> Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Author </Th> <Td> Terrance Dicks </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Cover artist </Th> <Td> Chris Achilleos </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Series </Th> <Td> Doctor Who book: Target novelisations </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Release number </Th> <Td> 10 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Target Books </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 21 April 1977 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 426 - 11703 - 4 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Author </Th> <Td> Terrance Dicks </Td> </Tr>

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