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Eighth Doctor Adventures


The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and published under the BBC Books imprint. 73 books were published overall. Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing had been producing a successful series of spin off novels under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures ranges. However, following the "Doctor Who" television movie which introduced the Eighth Doctor in 1996, the BBC did not renew
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Past Doctor Adventures


The Past Doctor Adventures (sometimes known by the abbreviation PDA or PDAs) were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and published under the BBC Books imprint. For most of their existence, they were published side-by-side with the "Eighth Doctor Adventures". The novels regularly featured the First through Seventh Doctors. "The Infinity Doctors" had an ambiguous place in continuity and featured an unidentified incarnation of the Doctor. The Eighth Doctor co
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Miranda (Doctor Who)


Miranda is a fictional character from the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel series published by BBC Books; based upon the British science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". She was, for a time, the adopted daughter and companion of the Eighth Doctor. Although her last name is never mentioned, some stories imply that Miranda's surname might indeed be "Who" (see also "Doctor who?"). When Miranda first appeared in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "Father Time" by Lance Parkin, she was about
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Fear Itself (Wallace novel)


Fear Itself is a BBC Books original novel written by Nick Wallace and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji. It is the twenty-second century and Earth is caught in a war with powerful alien forces. Paranoia runs rampant and the Doctor is in danger from all directions. This was the only Past Doctor Adventure to feature the Eighth Doctor, as the original novels featuring that incarnation formed their own series, the Eighth Doctor Adventures
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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.
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-starred with the Fourth Doctor in one novel ("Wolfsbane") and, after the Eighth Doctor Adventures had ceased publication, a novel ("Fear Itself") featuring the Eighth Doctor and set between two earlier Eighth Doctor Adventures ("EarthWorld" and "Vanishing Point") was published within the Past Doctor series. Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing produced successful spin-off novels under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures ranges. However, following the "Doctor Who" television movie in 1996, the BBC
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The Eight Doctors


The Eight Doctors is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was the first of the Eighth Doctor Adventures range and features the Eighth Doctor and introduces his new companion, Sam Jones. The novel takes place immediately after the 1996 television movie. Immediately after the events of the TV film, the Eighth Doctor finishes reading "The Time Machine" (a book written by his old friend H.G. Wells). After he checks the
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Anji Kapoor


Anji Kapoor, or simply Anji, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures, a novel series based upon the British science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel "Escape Velocity" by Colin Brake, and she went on to become one of his companions. She is the first significant Asian recurring character in "Doctor Who". Anji was born in 1973 and was 28 years old when she first met the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner in 2001. She
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Sam Jones (Doctor Who)


Samantha Angeline "Sam" Jones is a fictional character in the "Eighth Doctor Adventures" novels based upon the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel "The Eight Doctors" by Terrance Dicks, and she went on to become one of his companions. Sam is born on 15 April 1980, making her 16 years old when she first meets the Eighth Doctor in 1997. She attends Coal Hill School, the same school the First Doctor's granddaughter Susan attended in
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The Gallifrey Chronicles (Parkin novel)


The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was the last of the Eighth Doctor Adventures range and features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, and Trix MacMillan. The Eighth Doctor, accompanied by Fitz Kreiner and Trix MacMillan, overthrows the tyrant Mondova on an alien world, prevents a time-travelling alien from interfering in Ancient Roman history, and stops a Dalek (never named as such, but heavily implied
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Virgin Missing Adventures


Doctor Who" series (the novelisation is one of the few "Doctor Who" novels in which the Doctor does not appear as a central character). When the BBC decided in 1996 to do their own line of novels with the Eighth Doctor, they withdrew the license from Virgin to publish the Eighth Doctor Adventures. The adventures of the previous Doctors were taken up by the BBC in the Past Doctor Adventures line of books. In 2014, both "The Scales of Injustice" and "The Sands of Time" were
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Virgin Publishing's license to continue publishing "Doctor Who" material, instead opting to publish their own range. Virgin's last New Adventures novel, "The Dying Days" by Lance Parkin, featured the Eighth Doctor. The first BBC Books release was a novelisation of the television movie (considered a standalone work by some), but the run of original Eighth Doctor Adventures began in 1997 with "The Eight Doctors" by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005. It is unclear if the BBC line was originally intended to be
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List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs


companion of the Eighth Doctor, appearing in the Eighth Doctor Adventures series of novels. She is the first significant Asian recurring character in "Doctor Who", although the books are contradictory regarding whether her parents are Indian or Pakistani. Fitzgerald (Fitz) Kreiner is a companion of the Eighth Doctor and appears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures series of Doctor Who novels. The character also appears in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio drama "The Company of Friends", played by Matt Di Angelo. Elizabeth Klein (voiced by
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series has yet to be chronicled. 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. The Doctor has a series of new companions, who never
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The Ancestor Cell


The Ancestor Cell is a novel by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, based on the science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion, and Romana III, as well as a brief appearance of the Third Doctor in a ghost-like state due to the Faction's manipulation of the Doctor's timeline, and features the last appearance of Faction Paradox in the Eighth Doctor Adventures. In 2000, "The Ancestor Cell" was placed ninth in the Top 10 of SFX magazine
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Trix MacMillan


Beatrix MacMillan, or simply Trix, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". The Eighth Doctor first met her in "Time Zero", but it was not until "Timeless" that she went on to become one of his companions. Trix's name may be a reference to Tricia McMillan, a character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams, who was a script editor on "Doctor Who"
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of the Eighth Doctor's Big Finish audio dramas were also broadcast on BBC7 radio in an edited form. The trailers for these broadcasts explained that these adventures took place before the destruction of Gallifrey, the Doctor's homeworld, as described in the revived TV series. In 2007, BBC7 aired a new series of Eighth Doctor audio adventures, created specifically for radio broadcast. Paul McGann has continued to portray the Eighth Doctor in the various audio spinoffs. The continuity of the spin-off media with respect to the television series and
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List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs


Doctor recognises them before they can introduce themselves. No mention is ever made of their parents and in their final adventure, by which time they are teenagers, the Doctor enrols them in the Galactic University on the planet Zebadee rather than returning them to 20th Century Earth. Samantha (Sam) Jones is a companion of the Eighth Doctor in the "Eighth Doctor Adventures" Doctor Who novels. Josephine "Josie" Day appears in "Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor", a mini-series published by Titan Publishing. She
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serial "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", on which the film is based. The character also appears in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story "Daleks Versus the Martians". Beatrix (Trix) Macmillan is a companion of the Eighth Doctor, appearing in the Eighth Doctor Adventures series of Doctor Who novels. In various stories it is implies that she may have been a confidence trickster at some point, and she is portrayed as materialistic, deceptive and skilled in using disguises. Grant Markham is a companion of the Sixth
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Colin Brake


" published by BBC Books in February 2001 as part of their Eighth Doctor Adventures range based on the television series "Doctor Who". At the time, Brake was quoted as saying how appropriate it was that he was now writing for "Doctor Who", as he was briefly considered as Eric Saward's replacement as script editor on the show - a job that eventually went to Andrew Cartmel instead. Brake followed "Escape Velocity" with the Past Doctor Adventure "The Colony of Lies" in July 2003, and then
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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 PDAs (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
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Eighth Doctor


spark a new television series, the Eighth Doctor's adventures continued in various licensed spin-off media, notably BBC Books' "Eighth Doctor Adventures" novels, audio plays from Big Finish Productions, and the "Doctor Who Magazine" comic strip. These stories spanned the nine years between 1996 and the debut of the new television series in 2005. He is the longest-serving Doctor in the "Doctor Who Magazine" comic strip. In the wake of the positive reaction to the revived television series in 2005, several
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Compassion (Doctor Who)


Compassion (or Laura Tobin) is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". Compassion was originally from a people known as the Remote, a splinter group of the time travelling voodoo cult Faction Paradox. The Eighth Doctor met her in the novel "" by Lawrence Miles, and she went on to become one of his companions. Laura Tobin was born on Earth in the 26th century; her name was first mentioned by her sister Alison in the
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Virgin New Adventures


The Virgin New Adventures (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series "Doctor Who". They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the television programme went into hiatus from television in 1989. From 1991 to 1997, all the books except the final one involved the Seventh Doctor, who was portrayed on television by Sylvester McCoy; the final book, "The Dying Days", involved the Eighth Doctor, who was portrayed
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, one featuring the ongoing adventures of the Eighth Doctor and the other an "untold" story of an earlier Doctor, referred to as the Eighth Doctor Adventures (EDAs) and Past Doctor Adventures (PDAs) respectively. Although many authors who wrote for the Virgin line returned to write for the BBC series, direct continuity between the two sets of books was discouraged, at least initially. Later, the editors loosened their policy on links between the Virgin and BBC novels, even publishing direct sequels to novels by the other publisher
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War of the Daleks


War of the Daleks is an original novel written by John Peel, published in 1997, based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor and Sam. This novel was the first appearance of the Daleks in an original "Doctor Who" novel; they had not appeared at all in either the Virgin New Adventures or the Virgin Missing Adventures. This story chronicles the demise of Davros once and for all and the rising of the supreme Dalek force. This also conflicts
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feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the 1996 television movie by Paul McGann. Following the events of the 1996 "Doctor Who" television movie, the Eighth Doctor picks up a British teenager from 1997, Samantha "Sam" Jones, and later a disaffected drifter in his late twenties named Fitz Kreiner from 1963. During their adventures, the threesome tangle with the Faction Paradox, a renegade voodoo cult of time travellers who believed in creating time paradoxes and altering history. They also meet the Doctor's old friend Iris Wildthyme
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. Twenty-five volumes have been printed so far: two featuring the comics adventures of the Fourth Doctor, one with the adventures of the Fifth Doctor, two featuring the Sixth Doctor, five with the adventures of the Seventh Doctor, four focusing on the Eighth Doctor, one with the adventures of the Ninth Doctor, three featuring the Tenth Doctor, four collecting the adventures of the Eleventh Doctor and three with the adventures of the Twelfth Doctor. Panini also published a one-shot magazine-format reprinting of the complete Ninth
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List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish


companions Charley Pollard and C'rizz, but these were ended due to the simultaneously-running "Eighth Doctor Adventures", which ran from 2006 to 2011 and featured companion Lucie Miller. From 2008 to late 2011, only one Eighth Doctor release was produced for the main range: "The Company of Friends", featuring companions from other media to the audio plays, and the historical figure Mary Shelley. The Eighth Doctor returned to the main range in a trilogy of adventures with Mary Shelley in October 2011. In 2006 Big Finish
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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. These novels all
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Fitz Kreiner


Fitzgerald Michael Kreiner, or simply Fitz, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". The Eighth Doctor first met him in the novel "The Taint" by Michael Collier and he went on to become one of his companions. Fitz was born in 1936 to Otto Kreiner and Muriel Tarr Kreiner at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. His father died when Fitz was young, and his mother fell ill, forcing Fitz into foster care. During
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Borusa


the Seventh Doctor, Rassilon and Romana in defeating them. In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "The Eight Doctors", Borusa's noblest incarnation is released from Rassilon's tomb thanks to the appeal of the Eighth Doctor to help resolve the political conflict inspired by the Sixth Doctor's trial in "The Trial of a Time Lord". Borusa then deposes the corrupt High Council and arranges honest elections. After this he returns to his Tomb, not feeling redeemed. Borusa appears in the Past Doctor Adventures novel "Warmonger" as
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Eighth Doctor comic stories


Eighth Doctor comic stories are two ranges of comic series that featured the adventures of the eighth incarnation of the The Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who. Two separate series of original comic strips featuring the Eighth Doctor (and thus the likeness of actor Paul McGann) were published during the character's original tenure. The Radio Times published a weekly comic strip for a time. There was also the standard Doctor Who Magazine strip. The two series introduced brand-new companions, although the Eighth
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instead, it was published as a Past Doctor Adventure. This means that whilst Wallace's novel was the last book to feature the Eighth Doctor, it is set at an earlier point in the Doctor's life than Lance Parkin's "The Gallifrey Chronicles", which is the last Eighth Doctor Adventure. He is the editor of the 2006 short story collection "Collected Works", another in the Bernice Summerfield range produced by Big Finish. His first audio play, "The Judas Gift", was released in 2007.
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to distinguish the ongoing story of the Eighth Doctor from the more stand-alone adventures of past Doctors. Despite moving to the BBC, the writers (many of whom wrote for the Virgin series) have broadly attempted to maintain continuity with the New and Missing Adventures and many elements from these series have appeared in the Past Doctor Adventures (which replaced the Missing Adventures). Indeed, one of the novels — "Millennium Shock" by Justin Richards — was a direct sequel to "System Shock", a Missing Adventure published
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Fear Itself (Wallace novel)


. However, with the 2005 revival of the television series, and the BBC's New Series Adventures being published, the Eighth Doctor Adventures came to an end. By the time "Fear Itself" was released, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant had made their debuts as the Ninth and Tenth incarnations of the Doctor, thus making the Eighth a "Past Doctor". "Fear Itself" won Best Book in the 2005 Jade Pagoda awards, voted on by members of a "Doctor Who" book mailing list. In the
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The Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio drama series)


In 2006 Big Finish Productions began a standalone range of audio plays featuring the Eighth Doctor. These stories were set after his travels with Charley Pollard and C'rizz in the monthly range. The first series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures began with "Blood of the Daleks", a two part story spread across two separate releases and showcasing a more violent approach. section begin=series1 /section end=series1 / section begin=series2 /section end=series2 / section begin=series3 /section end=series3 / section begin=series4 /section end
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List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish


Izzy Sinclair, companions from the "Doctor Who Magazine" comic strip, Travis Oliver and Yasmin Bannerman have portrayed companions Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej from the Virgin New Adventures, and Matt Di Angelo has played Fitz Kreiner, a companion from the BBC "Eighth Doctor Adventures". Charley, C'rizz, Lucie, Tamsin and Molly were all referenced by name in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor". In 2005, six of the audio dramas featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor were broadcast on the digital
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List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish


Eighth Doctor audio adventures was broadcast on BBC7. These starred McGann alongside Sheridan Smith as the aforementioned new companion Lucie Miller. There were eight 50-minute episodes in total; the first and last stories were two-parters, and the rest were single episodes. These adventures have since been released on CD. In 2008, BBC7 broadcast the second series of "The New Eighth Doctor Adventures" (which Big Finish had already released on CD) bar the final two-part story. All fourteen episodes were then repeated in 2009,
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by Virgin. Another notable release was "Scream of the Shalka", a novelisation of the webcast of the same title and the only release in the Past Doctor range that did not feature an "official" incarnation of the Doctor. "The Infinity Doctors", written by Lance Parkin, featured an unidentified Doctor. In addition to the Past Doctor Adventures and the Eighth 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)
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Stacy Townsend


Gary Russell, the Eighth Doctor was invited to attend their wedding, which takes place on Micawber’s World in 3999. In "Vampire Science", part of the "Eighth Doctor Adventures" novel range, the Doctor's companion Sam Jones recalls how the Doctor once left her for three years, but returned to collect her from a Greenpeace rally only an hour after he had left her (from her perspective). "Placebo Effect" would later establish that his adventures with Stacy took place during those three years. The
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Lungbarrow


Lungbarrow is an original novel written by Marc Platt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". Published in Virgin Books' "New Adventures" range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor. When all stories of any media under any banner are listed chronologically, this is the last which features the Seventh Doctor as the "current" Doctor, although Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor had already made his televised appearance by the time the novel was published. His
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Jonathan Blum (writer, born 1972)


Who range—his first credited professional work was the BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventure "Vampire Science" (BBC Books, 1997) written with his soon-to-be wife Kate Orman, who had already made her name with several popular "New Adventures". (He had contributed scenes to a couple of those books, "Return of the Living Dad" and "The Room With No Doors", and been credited internally but not on the cover.) He has since written two further Eighth Doctor Adventures
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into the year 500,002, whence she is rescued by the Sixth Doctor ("The Condemned"). Believing that the Eighth Doctor died before their parting, Charley thus spends some time travelling with the Sixth Doctor, but their time together ends when an alien race called the Viyrans replace his memories of Charley with another woman, Mila, to preserve the timeline. Starting New Year's Eve 2006, a new audio series titled "The Eighth Doctor Adventures" featuring the Doctor and new companion Lucie Miller (played by Sheridan Smith
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Mary Shelley (Doctor Who)


of a nearly decade-long running gag in the Eighth Doctor's audio adventures. Since his first audio adventure, "Storm Warning", the Eighth Doctor had been dropping hints of a friendship with Shelley; in "Storm Warning", he had a copy of Shelley's "Frankenstein" in his TARDIS library, inscribed to him by her, and after he read the preface aloud, he mentioned that what Mary wrote wasn't the entire truth about what happened. Mary's first appearance is in "Mary's Story
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Human Nature (Doctor Who)


companions die. All ten incarnations of the Doctor are also illustrated (albeit not all are shown on-screen), with the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth clearly visible. The pocket watch from the episode is also sketched. "Human Nature" was Paul Cornell's fifth original novel, all having been "Doctor Who" stories for Virgin Publishing, and the thirty-eighth New Adventure. The plot was developed with fellow New Adventure novelist Kate Orman and the book was well received on its publication
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Eighth Doctor


The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He is portrayed by Paul McGann. The character was introduced in the 1996 TV film "Doctor Who", a back-door pilot produced in an unsuccessful attempt to relaunch the series following its 1989 cancellation. While the Eighth Doctor initially had only one on-screen appearance, his adventures were portrayed extensively in subsequent spin-off media, including more than 70 audio dramas starring McGann. In 2013
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Christmas on a Rational Planet


Christmas on a Rational Planet is an original novel written by Lawrence Miles and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz. It also contains the first casual reference to the Faction Paradox, which become an important element in the BBC books Eighth Doctor Adventures and subsequent spin-off series, and an explicit explanation that the mark carried by the Third Doctor during his exile on Earth was a branding used to distinguish criminals by the Time Lords (
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Jacqueline Pearce


Big Finish Productions, and as Admiral Mettna in the webcast story "Death Comes to Time". Pearce returned once again to "Doctor Who" from 2015, this time opposite John Hurt, as a regular in the Big Finish audio series based on the adventures of the War Doctor, portraying Cardinal Ollistra, a leader of the Time Lords in the Time War who often clashes with the Eighth Doctor and the War Doctor over how far the Time Lords should be willing to go to achieve victory. She remains best known for
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Ssard


Ssard is a fictional character in the "Radio Times" comic strips based upon the British science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". The Eighth Doctor and Stacy Townsend first met the Ice Warrior in the comic strip "Descendance" by Gary Russell, and he went on to become one of his companions. Ssard first met the Doctor and Stacy on Mars in 3998. After the Doctor resolved a conflict between two rival families of Ice Warriors, Ssard joined them as a companion in the TARDIS. Their further adventures included
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Doctor Who – Main Range


the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Doctors, starting with The Sirens of Time in July 1999. This continued through to 2000, and from 2001 to 2007, the main range also included releases featuring the Eighth Doctor with his companions Charley Pollard and C'rizz, but these were ended due to the simultaneously-running "Eighth Doctor Adventures", which ran from 2006 to 2011 and featured companion Lucie Miller. From 2008 to late 2011, only one Eighth Doctor release was produced for the main range: "The Company of Friends
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to each other is open to interpretation. (The "Beginner's Guide to Doctor Who" on the BBC's classic "Doctor Who" website suggests this may be due to the Time War.) It has been suggested that the Eighth Doctor's adventures in three different forms (novels, audio, and comics) take place in three separate continuities. The discontinuities were made explicit in the audio drama "Zagreus". In response, it has become increasingly common to consider the three ranges separately. The final "Eighth
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The Room with No Doors


The Room With No Doors is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Seventh Doctor and Chris. A missing scene, "Room With No Doors - Cutaway" appears in the charity anthology "Shelf Life". The novel features a Victorian Time Traveller, Penelope Gate. Latter books in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, such as "Unnatural History" (which Orman co-wrote) and "The Gallifrey Chronicles",
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The Dying Days


The Dying Days is an original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was last of the New Adventures range to feature the Doctor and the only one of that range to feature Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor. Thereafter the series centred on the character of Bernice Summerfield. "The Dying Days" features the classic series monsters, the Ice Warriors and is strongly influenced by "The War of the Worlds". The Conservative MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale
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BBC Books


" lines that were exclusively paperback releases). The Eighth Doctor line was discontinued during the summer of 2005, followed by the final Past Doctor Adventure in November. Beginning in 2006, BBC Books continued the New Series Adventures, now featuring the Tenth Doctor, with no word (as of September 2009) whether any more Past Doctor Adventures are planned. The books continue to be published in hardback, with the exception of four novellas, "I Am a Dalek", "Made of Steel", "Revenge of the
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Vampire Science


Vampire Science is the second novel in the BBC Books series, the Eighth Doctor Adventures, based upon the BBC's long-running science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". It was written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman. An ancient Time Lord enemy, 'vampires', have been spotted on earth. Some of these creatures want to co-exist with humanity, but others want to cause destruction. The book was originally intended to feature the character of Grace Holloway from the 1996 "Doctor Who" television
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Thal (Doctor Who)


perish. Thals are featured in the film "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965), which is based upon the BBC "Doctor Who" television programme serial "The Daleks", and the film's 1966 comic book adaptation. The Thals appear in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "War of the Daleks" (1997) by John Peel, which depicts them as having once again become a warlike society, willing to destroy an inhabited planet simply as part of a trap to defeat a Dalek attack fleet. In
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television until 2005. After this, footage and stills from the TV film would be used in later episodes "The Next Doctor" (2008), "The Eleventh Hour", "The Lodger" (both 2010) and "Nightmare in Silver" (2013). Edited archive footage in "The Name of the Doctor" very briefly shows the Eighth Doctor sharing an adventure with the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton). McGann reprised the role for a webcast mini-episode, "The Night of the Doctor"
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Mark Morris (author)


remains unpublished. A fan of "Doctor Who" since being terrified by the show as a child, Morris has so far written several books for the BBC Books Doctor Who ranges. For the Eighth Doctor Adventures he wrote "The Body Snatchers", for the Past Doctor Adventures the novel "Deep Blue", then "Forever Autumn" and "Ghosts of India" as part of the New Series Adventures, with the "Torchwood" novel "Bay of the Dead" being released on 29 May 2009. He has
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List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (Q–Z)


caused by it. In 1988, the Doctor was able to recover all the pieces and have the statue explode in the middle of a Cyberman fleet. A number of different types of vampire have appeared in televised Doctor Who: Vampires have also appeared in "Doctor Who" stories in other media. Vampires related to the Great Vampires seen in "State of Decay" are featured prominently in the Virgin New Adventures novel "Blood Harvest", the Missing Adventure "Goth Opera", the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "Vampire
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The Doctor (Doctor Who)


same place. Later Eighth Doctor novel "Interference – Book One" sees the Eighth Doctor briefly meeting the Third, although this occasion results in the Doctor unwittingly changing his own history so that the Third Doctor will regenerate ahead of schedule (A change that is later 'reset' in the novel "The Ancestor Cell" thanks to the TARDIS taking action to preserve the original history). In the Past Doctor Adventures, the novel "Heart of TARDIS" features the Second and Fourth Doctors dealing with two different ends of the
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Sabbath (Doctor Who)


Sabbath is the name of a recurring villain from the Eighth Doctor Adventures — spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The character was created by Lawrence Miles and first appeared in "The Adventuress of Henrietta Street". Originally, Miles had intended Sabbath to be a one-off character, but BBC Books editor Justin Richards asked to use the character in a continuing story arc. Sabbath was born in 1740. He was educated at Cambridge before being initiated into the Secret Service in
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List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs


whom da Costa based on Paul McGann's performance as the Doctor. Claudia is said in "Father Time" to be a widow. Compassion (Laura Tobin) is a character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures and Faction Paradox series of novels and audio dramas. In the audios she is voiced by Jackie Skarvellis. She is a human from 26th Century Earth who becomes a member of a Faction Paradox splinter group called ‘the Remote’, a time travelling voodoo cult. Rachel, played by Lenora Crichlow was a companion of the
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Eighth Doctor


, the actor reprised the role in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor", which depicts the Eighth Doctor's final adventure and his regeneration into the War Doctor (played by John Hurt). Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien (a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey) who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor's body can regenerate, but in doing so gains a new physical appearance
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The Doctor (Doctor Who)


's adventures before he meets the Seventh, where normal stories treat the later Doctor as 'the' Doctor. The BBC novel "The Eight Doctors" was written by respected Doctor Who writer Terrance Dicks, the same author who wrote "The Five Doctors". In it, he tries to reconcile the continuity errors of the 1996 movie, while having the Eighth Doctor meet and interact with each of his previous selves, although the Eighth Doctor visited each incarnation one at a time rather than all eight of them appearing in the
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; he is also fleetingly seen running past companion Clara Oswald in the following episode, "The Name of the Doctor", though his face is not shown. Later that year, McGann reprised the role for the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor", a prelude to the show's 50th anniversary special. This appearance marked the Eighth Doctor's final adventure and his regeneration. "The Night of the Doctor" proved popular with fans of the series, some of whom petitioned the BBC to make a spin
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is possible that after "Boom Town", the Doctor, Rose and Jack went somewhere else before returning the egg to Raxacoricofallapatorius. The first books in the series were popular in the UK. In Canada, the books were not carried by the same distributor as the BBC Books paperbacks, and were initially available only through comic book shops and online retailers when Diamond Comic Distributors took up the contract. During 2005, the New Series Adventures featuring the Ninth Doctor were published concurrently with the paperback Eighth Doctor and Past Doctor Adventures series
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The Scarlet Empress (novel)


The Scarlet Empress is an original novel written by Paul Magrs and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Iris Wildthyme. On the ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic still exists, the Doctor reads tales from the Aja’ib, a strange book full of peculiar adventure stories, while Sam goes exploring and meets an alligator skinned man, Gila, chained up in a double-decker London bus. Using the bus to come to her
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List of Doctor Who robots


teleport from place to place, only visible when it remains stationary. Its own targeting systems are primarily based on detecting movement. Physically, the robot is very lithe, always moving around to scan its environment for targets, and jumping around almost like a ballet dancer when attacking (the actor portraying the robot wears a silver ballet bodysuit, in contrast to the clunky and slow-moving Cybermen). Its face is smooth with no visible eyes. According to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "The Eight Doctors" by Terrance Dicks
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List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (Q–Z)


Science", and the Big Finish Productions audio dramas "Project: Twilight" and "Project: Lazarus". The Eighth Doctor Adventure "The Eight Doctors" also features them in a flashback to "State of Decay"; in addition, the war between the vampires and the Time Lords is a significant plot element in the New Adventure "Damaged Goods". Other vampires or vampire-like creatures have been featured in the Missing Adventure "Managra", the audio drama "", the BBCi webcast "Death Comes
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Virgin New Adventures


" fiction came to an end at Virgin with "The Dying Days", their only Eighth Doctor novel. However, the final "Doctor Who" book actually published by Virgin was "So Vile a Sin", featuring the Seventh Doctor; it had been scheduled for release several months before "The Dying Days" but was delayed due to difficulties with the manuscript. The New Adventures series continued with Bernice Summerfield, one of the new companions introduced for the New Adventures, as the lead character, starting with her taking
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List of Doctor Who home video releases


-ray in 2019. Starring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. All Fifth Doctor serials were released on DVD from 1999 to 2011. The entire 19th season was released on Blu-ray in 2018. Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor. All Sixth Doctor serials were released on DVD from 2001 to 2012. Starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. All Seventh Doctor serials were released on DVD from 2001 to 2012. Starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. The only Eighth Doctor full television adventure was released on DVD
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now-forgotten homeworld. Sabbath takes the heart and implants it in his own body, tying him and the Doctor together. Through several more adventures, the Doctor and his companions encounter Sabbath again and Trix MacMillan stows away aboard the TARDIS. Sabbath subsequently loses the Doctor's time-sensitive heart and the Doctor grows a new one. The Doctor also begins to recover fragments of his memory, and discovers that Sabbath is working for a group called the Council of Eight. The Council wants to collapse the alternate timelines of the
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Grandfather Paradox (Doctor Who)


Doctor Who" reference book "AHistory", Lance Parkin and Lars Pearson attempt to reconcile the War depicted in the "Eighth Doctor Adventures" novels with the Last Great Time War depicted in the revived series of "Doctor Who". They suggest that Grandfather Paradox is the Doctor who fought in the Last Great Time War, and that his experiences left him scarred and callous, without faith in humanity. After failing to prevent the younger Eighth Doctor from destroying Gallifrey in "The Ancestor Cell", Grandfather Paradox regenerates into Christopher
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List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs


was then able to travel with the Doctor, pretending to be Charley, while the real Charley was left invisible and alone. Eventually Charley was cured by the Viyrans and Mila gave her life to save the Doctor. The Viyrans also altered the Sixth Doctor's memories so that he remembers his adventures with Charley as being with Mila's name and face, thus avoiding the potential temporal paradox of the Sixth Doctor meeting an older Charley before his eighth incarnation would save the younger one. Lucie Miller is a companion of the Eighth Doctor
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paperback for boxed collections that are exclusive to The Book People and Tesco. Some of the reprints amend pictures of the companion of the novel from the cover. Some of the hardback editions have also been reprinted to amend pictures of Rose. With the revival of the television series, BBC Books retired its paperback Eighth Doctor Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures fiction lines in 2005 in favour of a new range of hardback books featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose. These have a reduced word count compared to the EDA and PDA lines, with
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Daniel O'Mahony


for this series and was accepted. The novel, "The Man in the Velvet Mask" was published in February 1996. O'Mahony did not write any novels for BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures and Eighth Doctor Adventures ranges. In fact since 1996 he has written only two traditional "Doctor Who" adventure stories, most prominently the Big Finish audio story Return to the Web Planet (2007). However, he also wrote the short story "Nothing at the End of the Lane" (in "Short Trips and Side
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List of Doctor Who henchmen


Doctor knew this was a mistake and tried to reason with Hedin, who was suddenly killed by saving the Doctor's life from a shot fired by one of the Castellan's guards. Karen is a character in Big Finish Productions series of Eighth Doctor New Adventures originally on BBC7 radio. She is played by Louise Fullerton. She first meets the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller in "Human Resources". She and Lucie believed they were working in a simple modern day office in Telford. But in truth, they were partially hypnotised
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Time War (Doctor Who)


twice with Earth's two World Wars. He also said that he was "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands". The future of the Time War which was erased by the Eighth Doctor in the Eighth Doctor Adventures' War, referred to as the "War in Heaven", also appears in the "Faction Paradox" novels conceived by Lawrence Miles (as well as some of the aftermath of
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The Rani (Doctor Who)


before the intervention of the Doctor breaks her control over the entity, at which point she escapes in her repaired TARDIS. The Rani is mentioned in BBC Books' "Eighth Doctor Adventure" novel "The Ancestor Cell" (2000) by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole. The Eighth Doctor's former companion, Fitz, now Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox, claims to have killed the Rani and the Master (during the "Second War in Heaven" described in Lawrence Miles' EDA: ""), and now displays their
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of his "Chronology") and a second novel, "Cold Fusion", for Virgin's Missing Adventures series. Virgin lost the licence to publish "Doctor Who" fiction, and Parkin landed the job of writing the last New Adventure to feature the character of the Doctor, 1997's "The Dying Days". This was also the only Virgin novel to feature the eighth incarnation of the Doctor, played in the 1996 "Doctor Who" television movie by Paul McGann. The Virgin "Who" books went out
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Lance Parkin


re-worked as e-books for the BBC's "Doctor Who" website. He wrote the last in BBC series of eighth Doctor novel adventures, "The Gallifrey Chronicles" (2005). In 2006 he updated "A History of the Universe" for Mad Norwegian with "AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe". In June 2008 it was announced that he would write a New Series Adventures novel, "The Eyeless", starring the Tenth Doctor alone for release on Boxing Day 2008.
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Rutan (Doctor Who)


of Rutan technology is one of the chief differences between them and their Sontaran enemies. The video "Shakedown" is the only occasion in which Sontarans and Rutans have appeared together on screen. An unspecified incarnation of the Doctor (but fitting the description of the Eighth) brokered a peace between the Sontarans and the Rutans in the Lance Parkin Past Doctor Adventures novel "The Infinity Doctors". As with all of the spin-off media, the canonicity of the novels and videos are uncertain. In the New Series Adventures Quick
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Romana (Doctor Who)


-8. The trailer used a clip from "Destiny of the Daleks" to illustrate Romana. Romana's time with the Doctor is also explored in several novels, which include additional adventures for her first incarnation when outside forces divert their efforts to find the Key to Time and general adventures for her second incarnation prior to departing in E-space. In the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, Romana undergoes a second regeneration, and her new incarnation (Romana III, whose appearance was modelled on silent movie actress Louise Brooks
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K9 (Doctor Who)


2003, a webcast adaptation of the never-completed "Shada" serial was produced for the BBC's Doctor Who website, rewritten as an Eighth Doctor adventure and featuring the post-E-Space versions of Romana II and K9 Mk II. According to the official website for "The Sarah Jane Adventures" in 2007, the Doctor stored several presents for Sarah inside K9, including a "sonic lipstick" and a watch that scans for alien life. K9 appears in the "Lego Dimensions" video game. He is
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The Infinity Doctors


Three Doctors" and "Arc of Infinity". It also features a character called Hedin, as in "Arc of Infinity" and the character of Savar is mentioned in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "Seeing I". The story also provides more information about the character of Patience, who may be the Doctor's wife, who Parkin introduced in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel "Cold Fusion". Other continuity references include the character of the Magistrate, who may be the Master, and the subplot featuring the leaders
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BBC Books


fiction to be printed by the company. Their first release related to the series was a novelisation of the 1996 "Doctor Who" telemovie published in the spring of 1996. Then, in 1997, BBC Books launched two concurrent series of books, the Eighth Doctor Adventures (EDA) (featuring the then-current incarnation of the Doctor), and the Past Doctor Adventures (PDA), featuring the seven previous incarnations. Between 1997 and 2005 approximately 150 original novels were published for both lines, combined. BBC Books also
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Faction Paradox


being followed by 14 September 1752). Faction Paradox claimed the missing 11 days as their base (building on the illogicity that only the numbering scheme changed and no days were actually "missing"). After a brief mention of Grandfather Paradox in the Virgin New Adventures novel "Christmas on a Rational Planet", Faction Paradox and the War in Heaven made their debut in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor novels. The most relevant books to the "Faction Paradox" universe are Several other "Doctor Who" novels featured or referenced
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Jonathan Morris (author)


Jonathan Morris (born in Taunton, England), is an author who writes various kinds of "Doctor Who" spin-off material. His path to prominence in writing professional "Doctor Who" fiction was notable in part because he was commissioned to write a novel after only his first attempt under the BBC's "Open Submission" policy. He has written for the Eighth Doctor Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures. He has also written for Big Finish Productions' range of audio and printed material. Among his "Doctor Who
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History of Doctor Who


original books. BBC Books took back the rights to publish original fiction in 1997 and published two series, the Eighth Doctor Adventures and the Past Doctor Adventures as well as some anthologies of short stories, until 2005. Big Finish Productions adapted several NAs, minus the Doctor, into audio plays; on the back of these, they won a license from the BBC to produce original audio plays featuring the Doctors and their companions, and eventually also produced plays featuring other characters and monsters from the TV series and spin-offs;
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Grandfather Paradox (Doctor Who)


Grandfather Paradox, usually referred to as the Grandfather, is a fictional character in the British science fiction franchise "Doctor Who" and its spin-off franchise "Faction Paradox". In the BBC's "Eighth Doctor Adventures" novels, the Grandfather is a corrupt future version of the Eighth Doctor, while in Lawrence Miles's "Faction Paradox" series he is a seemingly incorporeal Time Lord of unknown identity. Both narratives portray him as the founder of Faction Paradox, a time-travelling voodoo cult. In Lawrence Miles
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Matrix (Doctor Who)


influence meant the Ripper murders never stopped. In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "The Ancestor Cell" by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, Gallifrey is destroyed by the Eighth Doctor to prevent the voodoo cult Faction Paradox from starting a time war between the Time Lords and an unspecified Enemy. In "The Gallifrey Chronicles" by Lance Parkin, it is revealed that the Time Lords had survived within the Matrix, which had then been downloaded into the Doctor's mind, although he had to sacrifice much of his memory to make space
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The Beeps


/Ep20 Sep. 19 Bouncy Bouncy Beep Beep S2/Ep21 Sep. 19 Big Beepday Bash S2/Ep22 Sep. 20 Yuk Says No S2/Ep23 Sep. 24 Wheely Helpful S2/Ep24 Sep. 25 Teeny Beep Takes Off S2/Ep25 Sep. 26 Carnival S2/Ep26 Sep. 27 Peas and Beeps S2/Ep27 Apr. 25 Stuck on You! S2/Ep28 Dec. 9 Hole Lot of Trouble S2/Ep29 Dec. 15 A Little Adventure S2/Ep30 Dec. 16 The Lost Houses S2/Ep31 May 1 Bounceberry Pie S2/Ep32 Dec. 23
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Susan Foreman


. In the Big Finish bonus release "An Earthly Child" (2010), Susan is reunited with the Doctor in his eighth incarnation (Paul McGann), and has a son named Alex (Jake McGann). She appears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures audio plays in "Relative Dimensions" (2010) and "Lucie Miller" / "To the Death" (2011). Ford also played an alternate version of Susan in Big Finish's "Doctor Who Unbound" audio plays "Auld Mortality" (2003)
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Christopher Bulis


one novel written for the current incumbent Doctor as part of BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures range, and then all of his other novels published as part of the Past Doctor Adventures range. Bulis' novels for the BBC were "The Ultimate Treasure" (1997), "Vanderdeken's Children" (1998), "City at World's End" (1999), "Imperial Moon" (2000) and "Palace of the Red Sun" (2002). Bulis also wrote the novel "Tempest" as
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Ssard


defeating an alien infiltrator in Victorian era London. The stories featuring the Eighth Doctor, Stacy and Ssard were terminated prematurely due to a change of management at the "Radio Times", resulting in the hurried two-part final story "Coda" being written to tie up the loose ends and terminate the story. At some point after "Coda", Stacy and Ssard left the TARDIS and eventually their friendship turned into something more. In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, "Placebo Effect" by Gary Russell, the Eighth
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Eighth Doctor


go back himself as the TARDIS security protocols would prevent him from going somewhere where he was already). In a trilogy of adventures, released in October through December of 2011 as part of Big Finish's continuing monthly range, The Doctor travels with Mary Shelley (as played by Julie Cox), first acknowledged as a friend of the Eighth Doctor's in "The Company of Friends". The first story, "The Silver Turk", features the early breed of the Cybermen as seen in "The Tenth Planet"
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Pat Mills


Finish Productions, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller. The first audio play was released as the first part of the second season of the Eighth Doctor Adventures and the second as part of the third season. In 2010 Mills adapted a story that had been started by him and Wagner for Doctor Who in the 1980s and was produced by Big Finish as "The Song of Megaptera". In 2017 he wrote, with Kevin O'Neill, and published two novels, "Serial Killer" and "Goodnight, John-Boy"
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Werewolf (Doctor Who)


at the time, having been stranded there when the TARDIS—later implied to have been drawn off-course by its damaged future self— inexplicably left without him; Harry joins forces with the amnesic Eighth Doctor to thwart Hester's plans. The Fourth Doctor and Sarah return for Harry, but not before Neuberger, desiring a mate, bites him. What happens to Harry next is unclear; the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "Sometime Never..." references various manipulations of time enacted by the Council of Eight, especially regarding the
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John Peel (writer)


cancelled TV series had left off. He also wrote the "Evolution" (1994) for their sister range, "Missing Adventures" (featuring previous Doctors and companions), and also "The Gallifrey Chronicles" (1991, not to be confused with the "Eighth Doctor Adventures" book), a compendium of the history of the Doctor's planet, Gallifrey. All published by Western Publishing. The first six books were originally published by Apple. After the cancellation of the series by Apple, they were re-
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