Eighth Doctor Adventures
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Author | Various |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Discipline | Science fiction |
Publisher | BBC Books |
Published | 1997–2005 |
Media type | |
No. of books | 73 |
The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of
Publication history
Between 1991 and 1997,
The Eighth Doctor Adventures began in 1997 with The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005.[3] These novels all feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the 1996 television movie by Paul McGann.[3] It is unclear if the BBC line was originally intended to be a continuation of the continuity established in the New Adventures. However, as many of the writers for the Eighth Doctor Adventures had also written for the Virgin series, many elements from the New Adventures began to appear in both the EDAs and the Past Doctor Adventures (which replaced the Missing Adventures), and such continuity has been broadly maintained.
Virgin had distinguished the New and Missing Adventures with different cover designs. BBC Books, however, did not differentiate their novels featuring the current and past Doctors in this way, although they were listed separately within the books. Fans continued to distinguish the ongoing story of the Eighth Doctor from the more stand-alone adventures of past Doctors, although some plot elements did cross over both ranges.
With the revival of the television series, BBC Books ceased the regular Eighth Doctor Adventures in favour of a new range (the New Series Adventures), featuring characters from the new series. One further novel featuring the Eighth Doctor (Fear Itself) was published under the Past Doctor Adventures line before it too ceased publication.
In addition to the Eighth Doctor Adventures and the Past Doctor Adventures, the BBC also published three short story collections under the title of Short Trips which feature all eight (at the time of publication) Doctors. These were also inherited from Virgin, a version of their Decalog short story collections, and when the BBC ceased publishing them, a licence to continue was sought by Big Finish Productions, who published some for a while. They now continue to publish their own range of Short Trips collections as audios.
Crossover
In 2018, elements of the series were used in an officially licensed crossover story with the 10,000 Dawns series, titled White Canvas, alongside elements of Faction Paradox. This was later published in print form in the anthology, 10,000 Dawns: The Outer Universe Collection.[4][5]
List of Eighth Doctor Adventures
# | Title | Author | Featuring | Published |
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1 | The Eight Doctors | Terrance Dicks | Sam , cameos from many others |
June 1997 |
2 | Vampire Science | Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum | Sam | July 1997 |
3 | The Bodysnatchers | Mark Morris |
August 1997 | |
4 | Genocide | Paul Leonard | Sam, UNIT |
September 1997 |
5 | War of the Daleks | John Peel | Sam | October 1997 |
6 | Alien Bodies | Lawrence Miles | November 1997 | |
7 | Kursaal | Peter Anghelides | January 1998 | |
8 | Option Lock | Justin Richards | February 1998 | |
9 | Longest Day | Michael Collier |
March 1998 | |
10 | Legacy of the Daleks | John Peel | Susan | April 1998 |
11 | Dreamstone Moon | Paul Leonard | None | May 1998 |
12 | Seeing I | Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum | Sam | June 1998 |
13 | Placebo Effect | Gary Russell | Sam, Ssard |
July 1998 |
14 | Vanderdeken's Children | Christopher Bulis | Sam | August 1998 |
15 | The Scarlet Empress | Paul Magrs | Sam, Iris Wildthyme | September 1998 |
16 | The Janus Conjunction | Trevor Baxendale | Sam | October 1998 |
17 | Beltempest | Jim Mortimore | November 1998 | |
18 | The Face-Eater | Simon Messingham | January 1999 | |
19 | The Taint (also called Doctor Who and the Taint) | Michael Collier | Sam, Fitz |
February 1999 |
20 | Demontage | Justin Richards | March 1999 | |
21 | Revolution Man | Paul Leonard | April 1999 | |
22 | Dominion | Nick Walters |
May 1999 | |
23 | Unnatural History | Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum | June 1999 | |
24 | Autumn Mist | David A. McIntee | July 1999 | |
25 | Interference – Book One: Shock Tactic | Lawrence Miles | Sam, Fitz, K-9 |
August 1999 |
26 | Interference – Book Two: The Hour of the Geek | Sam, Fitz, Compassion; the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane and K-9 | ||
27 | The Blue Angel | Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad | Fitz, Compassion, Iris Wildthyme | September 1999 |
28 | The Taking of Planet 5 | Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham | Fitz, Compassion | October 1999 |
29 | Frontier Worlds | Peter Anghelides | November 1999 | |
30 | Parallel 59 | Stephen Cole and Natalie Dallaire | January 2000 | |
31 | The Shadows of Avalon | Paul Cornell | Fitz, Compassion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Romana III | February 2000 |
32 | The Fall of Yquatine | Nick Walters | Fitz, Compassion | March 2000 |
33 | Coldheart | Trevor Baxendale | April 2000 | |
34 | The Space Age | Steve Lyons | May 2000 | |
35 | The Banquo Legacy | Andy Lane and Justin Richards | June 2000 | |
36 | The Ancestor Cell | Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole | Fitz, Compassion, Romana III | July 2000 |
37 | The Burning | Justin Richards | none | August 2000 |
38 | Casualties of War | Steve Emmerson | September 2000 | |
39 | The Turing Test | Paul Leonard | October 2000 | |
40 | Endgame | Terrance Dicks | November 2000 | |
41 | Father Time | Lance Parkin | Debbie Castle, Miranda |
January 2001 |
42 | Escape Velocity | Colin Brake | Fitz, Anji Kapoor |
February 2001 |
43 | EarthWorld | Jacqueline Rayner | March 2001 | |
44 | Vanishing Point | Stephen Cole | April 2001 | |
45 | Eater of Wasps |
Trevor Baxendale | May 2001 | |
46 | The Year of Intelligent Tigers | Kate Orman | June 2001 | |
47 | The Slow Empire | Dave Stone | July 2001 | |
48 | Dark Progeny | Steve Emmerson | Fitz, Anji, Sabbath (cameo) |
August 2001 |
49 | The City of the Dead | Lloyd Rose | Fitz, Anji | September 2001 |
50 | Grimm Reality | Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale | October 2001 | |
51 | The Adventuress of Henrietta Street | Lawrence Miles | Fitz, Anji, Sabbath |
November 2001 |
52 | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Paul Magrs | Fitz, Anji, Iris Wildthyme | January 2002 |
53 | Hope | Mark Clapham | Fitz, Anji | February 2002 |
54 | Anachrophobia | Jonathan Morris | Fitz, Anji, Sabbath | March 2002 |
55 | Trading Futures | Lance Parkin | Fitz, Anji | April 2002 |
56 | The Book of the Still | Paul Ebbs | May 2002 | |
57 | The Crooked World | Steve Lyons | June 2002 | |
58 | History 101 | Mags L Halliday |
Fitz, Anji, Sabbath | July 2002 |
59 | Camera Obscura | Lloyd Rose | Fitz, Anji, Sabbath, George Williamson | August 2002 |
60 | Time Zero | Justin Richards | Fitz, Anji, Trix , Sabbath, George Williamson |
September 2002 |
61 | The Infinity Race | Simon Messingham | Fitz, Anji, Sabbath | November 2002 |
62 | The Domino Effect | David Bishop | Fitz, Anji, Trix, Sabbath | February 2003 |
63 | Reckless Engineering | Nick Walters | April 2003 | |
64 | The Last Resort | Paul Leonard | June 2003 | |
65 | Timeless | Stephen Cole | August 2003 | |
66 | Emotional Chemistry | Simon A. Forward |
Fitz, Trix | October 2003 |
67 | Sometime Never... | Justin Richards | Fitz, Trix, Miranda, Sabbath | January 2004 |
68 | Halflife | Mark Michalowski | Fitz, Trix | April 2004 |
69 | The Tomorrow Windows | Jonathan Morris | June 2004 | |
70 | The Sleep of Reason | Martin Day | August 2004 | |
71 | The Deadstone Memorial | Trevor Baxendale | October 2004 | |
72 | To the Slaughter | Stephen Cole | January 2005 | |
73 | The Gallifrey Chronicles | Lance Parkin | Fitz and Trix with cameos by Compassion, Anji, Miranda, Romana III and K-9 | June 2005 |
Plot overview
Following the events of the 1996
When Sam leaves the TARDIS, the Doctor and Fitz are joined by
Much later, it is revealed that four
Meanwhile, having rescued the Doctor from near-death, Compassion leaves the now-amnesiac Doctor on
Much later, while on Earth in the eighteenth century, the Doctor, Fitz and Anji encounter
Sabbath subsequently loses the Doctor's time-sensitive heart and the Doctor grows a new one.
Eventually, the Doctor returns to Earth in 2005 and discovers that another Time Lord, Marnal, has also survived the destruction of Gallifrey.
Just prior to destroying Gallifrey, the Doctor (with Compassion's help) downloaded the contents of the Gallifreyan
At novel's end, the Doctor, Trix and Fitz are set to confront the Vore invasion force. The restoration of Gallifrey, in time for its second destruction in the
The Eighth Doctor Adventures line ends with The Gallifrey Chronicles. Although one further novel featuring the Eighth Doctor (Fear Itself by Nick Wallace) was published under the Past Doctor Adventures line before BBC Books decided to retire the PDAs as well, that book takes place prior to Timeless. It remains to be seen if the events of The Gallifrey Chronicles will be followed up by any future novel.
Companions
- Samantha "Sam" Jones– from The Eight Doctors to Interference.
- Fitzgerald Michael "Fitz" Kreiner – from The Taint to The Gallifrey Chronicles.
- Compassion – Interference to The Ancestor Cell.
- Miranda – Father Time and The Gallifrey Chronicles.
- Anji Kapoor – Escape Velocity to Timeless.
- Beatrix "Trix" MacMillan – Timeless to The Gallifrey Chronicles.
Recurring characters
- Sabbathfirst appears in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
- Members of Faction Paradox, a time-travelling voodoo cult founded by renegade Time Lords (no individual members of the cult appear more than once).
See also
- List of Doctor Who novelists
Further reading
- Britton, Piers D. (2011). TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who. ISBN 9780857720092.
References
- ^ "The Eighth Doctor". BBC. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ISBN 9781843441571. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ a b Jeffery, Morgan (12 February 2019). "What happened in the Doctor Who-verse between the TV movie and 'Rose'?". Digital Spy. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "10,000 Dawns Winter Special: White Canvas, By James Wylder". www.jameswylder.com/.
- ^ Wylder, James (2020). 10,000 Dawns: The Outer Universe Collection.
- ^ The Taint
- Interference: Book Two
- ^ The Shadows of Avalon
- ^ a b The Ancestor Cell
- ^ a b The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
- ^ a b Father Time
- ^ Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- ^ a b The Gallifrey Chronicles
- ^ Escape Velocity
- ^ Time Zero
- ^ Camera Obscura
- ^ Timeless
- ^ Sometime Never...
External links
- The Doctor Who Bewildering Reference Guide – a guide to continuity references in selected Doctor Who original novels.
- The Discontinuity Guide at the Wayback Machine (archived February 11, 2011) – a guide to Doctor Who original novels, named and modeled after The Discontinuity Guide by Cornell, Day and Topping
- The TARDIS Library's listing of BBC Eighth Doctor books
- Eighth Doctor Adventures on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki