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.
Publication history
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 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 Eighth Doctor Adventures began in 1997 with The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005. These novels all feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the 1996 television movie by Paul McGann.
List of Eighth Doctor Adventures
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! # !! Title !! Author !! Featuring !! Published
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|1 || The Eight Doctors||Terrance Dicks || Sam, cameos from many others || June 1997
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|2 || Vampire Science||Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum || rowspan="2" | Sam || July 1997
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|3 || The Bodysnatchers||Mark Morris || August 1997
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|4 || Genocide||Paul Leonard || Sam, Jo Grant, UNIT || September 1997
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|5 || War of the Daleks||John Peel || rowspan="5" | Sam || October 1997
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|6 || Alien Bodies||Lawrence Miles || November 1997
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|7 || Kursaal||Peter Anghelides || January 1998
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|8 || Option Lock||Justin Richards || February 1998
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|9 || Longest Day||Michael Collier || March 1998
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|10 || Legacy of the Daleks||John Peel || Susan || April 1998
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|11 || Dreamstone Moon||Paul Leonard || None || May 1998
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|12 || Seeing I||Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum || Sam || June 1998
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|13 || Placebo Effect||Gary Russell || Sam, Stacy, Ssard || July 1998
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|14 || Vanderdeken's Children||Christopher Bulis || Sam || August 1998
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|15 || The Scarlet Empress||Paul Magrs || Sam, Iris Wildthyme || September 1998
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|16 || The Janus Conjunction||Trevor Baxendale || rowspan="3" | Sam || October 1998
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|17 || Beltempest||Jim Mortimore || November 1998
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|18 || The Face-Eater||Simon Messingham || January 1999
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|19 || The Taint (also called Doctor Who and the Taint)||Michael Collier || rowspan="6" | Sam, Fitz || February 1999
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|20 || Demontage||Justin Richards || March 1999
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|21 || Revolution Man||Paul Leonard || April 1999
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|22 || Dominion||Nick Walters || May 1999
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|23 || Unnatural History||Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum || June 1999
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|24 || Autumn Mist||David A. McIntee || July 1999
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|25 || Interference – Book One: Shock Tactic|| rowspan="2" |Lawrence Miles || Sam, Fitz, Compassion; the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane and K-9 || rowspan="2" | August 1999
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|26 || Interference – Book Two: The Hour of the Geek|| Sam, Fitz, Compassion; the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane and K-9
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|27 || The Blue Angel||Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad || Fitz, Compassion, Iris Wildthyme || September 1999
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|28 || The Taking of Planet 5||Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham || rowspan="3" | Fitz, Compassion || October 1999
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|29 || Frontier Worlds||Peter Anghelides || November 1999
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|30 || Parallel 59||Stephen Cole and Natalie Dallaire || January 2000
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|31 || The Shadows of Avalon||Paul Cornell || Fitz, Compassion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Romana III || February 2000
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|32 || The Fall of Yquatine||Nick Walters || rowspan="4" | Fitz, Compassion || March 2000
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|33 || Coldheart||Trevor Baxendale || April 2000
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|34 || The Space Age||Steve Lyons || May 2000
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|35 || The Banquo Legacy||Andy Lane and Justin Richards || June 2000
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|36 || The Ancestor Cell||Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole || Fitz, Compassion, Romana III || July 2000
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|37 || The Burning||Justin Richards || rowspan="4" | none || August 2000
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|38 || Casualties of War||Steve Emmerson || September 2000
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|39 || The Turing Test||Paul Leonard || October 2000
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|40 || Endgame||Terrance Dicks || November 2000
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|41 || Father Time||Lance Parkin || Debbie Castle, Miranda || January 2001
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|42 || Escape Velocity||Colin Brake || rowspan="6" | Fitz, Anji Kapoor || February 2001
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|43 || EarthWorld||Jacqueline Rayner || March 2001
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|44 || Vanishing Point||Stephen Cole || April 2001
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|45 || Eater of Wasps||Trevor Baxendale || May 2001
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|46 || The Year of Intelligent Tigers||Kate Orman || June 2001
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|47 || The Slow Empire||Dave Stone || July 2001
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|48 || Dark Progeny||Steve Emmerson || Fitz, Anji, Sabbath (cameo) || August 2001
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|49 || The City of the Dead||Lloyd Rose || rowspan="2" | Fitz, Anji || September 2001
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|50 || Grimm Reality||Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale || October 2001
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|51 || The Adventuress of Henrietta Street||Lawrence Miles || Fitz, Anji, Sabbath || November 2001
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|52 || Mad Dogs and Englishmen||Paul Magrs || Fitz, Anji, Iris Wildthyme || January 2002
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|53 || Hope||Mark Clapham || Fitz, Anji || February 2002
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|54 || Anachrophobia||Jonathan Morris || Fitz, Anji, Sabbath || March 2002
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|55 || Trading Futures||Lance Parkin || rowspan="3" | Fitz, Anji || April 2002
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|56 || The Book of the Still||Paul Ebbs || May 2002
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|57 || The Crooked World||Steve Lyons || June 2002
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|58 || History 101||Mags L Halliday || Fitz, Anji, Sabbath || July 2002
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|59 || Camera Obscura||Lloyd Rose || Fitz, Anji, Sabbath, George Williamson || August 2002
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|60 || Time Zero||Justin Richards || Fitz, Anji, Trix, Sabbath, George Williamson || September 2002
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|61 || The Infinity Race||Simon Messingham || Fitz, Anji, Sabbath || November 2002
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|62 || The Domino Effect||David Bishop || rowspan="4" | Fitz, Anji, Trix, Sabbath || February 2003
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|63 || Reckless Engineering||Nick Walters || April 2003
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|64 || The Last Resort||Paul Leonard || June 2003
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|65 || Timeless||Stephen Cole || August 2003
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|66 || Emotional Chemistry||Simon A. Forward || Fitz, Trix || October 2003
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|67 || Sometime Never...||Justin Richards || Fitz, Trix, Miranda, Sabbath || January 2004
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|68 || Halflife||Mark Michalowski || rowspan="5" | Fitz, Trix || April 2004
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|69 || The Tomorrow Windows||Jonathan Morris || June 2004
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|70 || The Sleep of Reason||Martin Day || August 2004
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|71 || The Deadstone Memorial||Trevor Baxendale || October 2004
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|72 || To the Slaughter||Stephen Cole || January 2005
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|73 || The Gallifrey Chronicles||Lance Parkin || Fitz and Trix with cameos by Compassion, Anji, Miranda, Romana III and K-9|| June 2005
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Plot overview
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, a Time Lady from Gallifrey who travels in a TARDIS shaped like a London double-decker bus.
When Sam leaves the TARDIS, the Doctor and Fitz are joined by Compassion, a member of a once-human race called the Remote who slowly begins a conversion process into a living TARDIS. The Time Lords, led by his old companion Romana, now President of the High Council, anxious to get their hands on this new TARDIS technology, pursue the Doctor, who loses his own TARDIS and continues to travel using Compassion. The conflict with Faction Paradox comes to a climax on Gallifrey, where the Doctor discovers his TARDIS in orbit around the planet, transformed into a giant structure of living bone by the Faction. The Doctor, faced with an impossible decision, destroys the Faction and causes major damage to the timeline by apparently wiping his homeworld and his people from history.
Much later, it is revealed that four Time Lords had survived the catastrophe: The Doctor, the Master, Iris Wildthyme and Marnal.
Meanwhile, having rescued the Doctor from near-death, Compassion leaves the now-amnesiac Doctor on Earth in the late 19th century while she drops Fitz off in 2001 to await the long process of the Doctor's — and the now-embryonic TARDIS's — recovery. She then departs for parts unknown.
Much later, while on Earth in the eighteenth century, the Doctor, Fitz and Anji encounter Sabbath, a Secret Service operative who is aware of time travel and becomes the Doctor's personal nemesis. The Doctor loses his second heart, which was slowly killing him as it was his only link to his now-forgotten homeworld. Sabbath takes the heart and implants it in his own body, tying him and the Doctor together.
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 multiverse into one, manageable timeline. To them, the Doctor is a rogue element that needs to be controlled or eliminated. They also begin to eliminate his previous companions from time. Trix comes out of hiding, joining the crew, and Anji leaves the TARDIS. Sabbath eventually realises that the council is not human and turns on his masters. Miranda, now a grown woman with a daughter, also returns to help her adopted father defeat the council, but both she and Sabbath die in the process.
Eventually, the Doctor returns to Earth in 2005 and discovers that another Time Lord, Marnal, has also survived the destruction of Gallifrey.