Eighth Doctor Adventures
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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.
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Publication history
Between 1992 and 1997, Virgin Publishing had been producing a successful spin off novels under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures ranges. However following the Doctor Who television movie in 1996 the BBC did not renew Virgin Publishing's license to continue publishing Doctor Who material. Instead, they opted to publish their own range which began in 1997 with The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005. Despite moving to the BBC, the writers (many who wrote for the Virgin series) have broadly attempted to maintain continuity with the New Adventures and many elements from this series have appeared in both the EDAs and the Past Doctor Adventures (which replaced the Missing Adventures).
With the revival of the television series, BBC Books will cease the regular Eight Doctor adventures in favour of a new range (the Ninth Doctor Adventures) featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose. Future novels featuring the Eighth Doctor will be published under the Past Doctor Adventures line.
These novels all feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the 1996 television movie by Paul McGann. Some purists do not consider the Eighth Doctor Adventures, or other spin offs, as canon.
List of Eighth Doctor Adventures
| Title | Author |
| The Eight Doctors | Terrance Dicks |
| Vampire Science | Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum |
| The Bodysnatchers | Mark Morris |
| Genocide | Paul Leonard |
| War of the Daleks | John Peel |
| Alien Bodies | Lawrence Miles |
| Kursaal | Peter Angelhides |
| Option Lock | Justin Richards |
| Longest Day | Michael Collier |
| Legacy of the Daleks | John Peel |
| Dreamstone Moon | Paul Leonard |
| Seeing I | Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum |
| Placebo Effect | Gary Russell |
| Vanderdeken’s Children | Christopher Bulis |
| The Scarlet Empress | Paul Magrs |
| The Janus Conjunction | Trevor Baxendale |
| Beltempest | Jim Mortimore |
| The Face Eater | Simon Messingham |
| The Taint | Michael Collier |
| Demontage | Justin Richards |
| Revolution Man | Paul Leonard |
| Dominion | Nick Walters |
| Unnatural History | Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum |
| Autumn Mist | David A. Mcintee |
| Interference: Book One (Shock Tactic) | Lawrence Miles |
| Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek) | Lawrence Miles |
| The Blue Angel | Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad |
| The Taking of Planet 5 | Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham |
| Frontier Worlds | Peter Angelhides |
| Parallel 59 | Stephen Cole and Natalie Dallaire |
| The Shadows of Avalon | Paul Cornell |
| The Fall of Yquatine | Nick Walters |
| Coldheart | Trevor Baxendale |
| The Space Age | Steve Lyons |
| The Banquo Legacy | Andy Lane and Justin Richards |
| The Ancestor Cell | Stephen Cole and Peter Angelhides |
| The Burning | Justin Richards |
| Casualties of War | Steve Emmerson |
| The Turing Test | Paul Leonard |
| Endgame | Terrance Dicks |
| Father Time | Lance Parkin |
| Escape Velocity | Colin Brake |
| EarthWorld | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Vanishing Point | Stephen Cole |
| Eater of Wasps | Trevor Baxendale |
| The Year of Intelligent Tigers | Kate Orman |
| The Slow Empire | Dave Stone |
| Dark Progeny | Steve Emmerson |
| The City of the Dead | Lloyd Rose |
| Grimm Reality | Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale |
| The Adventuress of Henrietta Street | Lawrence Miles |
| Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Paul Magrs |
| Hope | Mark Clapham |
| Anachrophobia | Jonathan Morris |
| Trading Futures | Lance Parkin |
| The Book of the Still | Paul Ebbs |
| The Crooked World | Steve Lyons |
| History 101 | Maggs L. Halliday |
| Camera Obscura | Lloyd Rose |
| Time Zero | Justin Richards |
| The Infinity Race | Simon Messingham |
| The Domino Effect | David Bishop |
| Reckless Engineering | Nick Walters |
| The Last Resort | Paul Leonard |
| Timeless | Stephen Cole |
| Emotional Chemistry | Simon A. Forward |
| Sometime Never | Justin Richards |
| Half-Life | Mark Michalowski |
| The Tomorrow Windows | Jonathan Morris |
| The Sleep of Reason | Martin Day |
| The Deadstone Memorial | Trevor Baxendale |
| To The Slaughter | Stephen Cole |
| The Gallifrey Chronicles | Lance Parkin |
Companions
The Doctor has a series of new companions, who never appeared in the television programme. They are:
- 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
- Anji Kapoor - Escape Velocity to Timeless
- Beatrix "Trix" MacMillan - Timeless to The Gallifrey Chronicles
Recurring characters
- Miranda, the Doctor's adopted daughter from Father Time
- Sabbath first appears in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
- Iris Wildthyme, a Time Lady appears in The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel and 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)
