4.9, 4.2, 4.6 and 6.4 million viewers respectively. Working titles for this story included The Planet That Slept. At the time of writing this story, Andrew Smith was a seventeen-year-old who achieved his lifelong ambition to write for the show. The exterior locations for Alzarius were filmed at Black Park in Buckinghamshire. Commercial releases In print A novelisation of this serial, written by Andrew Smith, was published by Target Books in September 1982. The novelisation opens with the Starliner crashing on Alzarius. An audiobook of the Target novelisation was released on 29 January 2015 read by Matthew Waterhouse and John Leeson. Home media Full Circle was released on VHS in October 1997. The DVD was released in January 2009 as part of a boxed set called The E-Space Trilogy. This serial was also released as part of the Doctor Who DVD Files (issue 85) in April 2012. Paddy Kingsland's incidental music for the serial was released as part of the compilation album Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle in 2002. In 2019, the story was released on Blu-ray as part of the Doctor Who Collection Season 18 box set. Academic Studies A book on the serial, written by New Zealand academic John Toon, was released by Obverse Books in January 2018 as part of its Black Archive series. It won the Sir Julius Vogel Award in the category of Best Professional Production/Publication in 2019. References External links Target novelisation Fourth Doctor serials 1980 British television episodes