Virgin Missing Adventures

Virgin Missing Adventures
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Type:	Book series
Release date:	21 July 1994 - 17 April 1997

You may be looking for Missing Adventures, the anthology.

The Missing Adventures series of novels by Virgin Books was launched in 1994 following the success of its New Adventures line. Much as the NA series featured Seventh Doctor adventures with more detail and mature content than previously seen on TV and in the Target Books novelisations, the MA series focused on the first six Doctors. There were occasional multi-Doctor stories and crossovers with the NA line. One book, Downtime, didn't feature the Doctor but was an adaptation of an independent film production featuring several former companions. Another MA release, The Ghosts of N-Space, was an adaptation of a Third Doctor radio play and was published under the MA line as the Target Books brand, under which its prequel The Paradise of Death was published, had been retired by that point.

One release, Who Killed Kennedy, is generally considered a Missing Adventures release as it features several past Doctors, but it was in fact published as a standalone work.

The Missing Adventures line was discontinued in 1997 after BBC Books took back the franchise licence from Virgin (it is speculated that had Virgin kept the licence it would have begun publishing Seventh Doctor adventures under the MA line, and indeed that incarnation does appear in one post-TV movie release, Cold Fusion); BBC subsequently launched its own version, the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line.

Related to the MA line, but considered separate, was the Virgin Decalogs series of books.

Stories

#	Title	Author	Doctor	Companions	Published
1	Goth Opera	Paul Cornell	5th	Nyssa, Tegan	21 July 1994
2	Evolution	John Peel	4th	Sarah	15 September 1994
3	Venusian Lullaby	Paul Leonard	1st	Barbara, Ian	20 October 1994
4	The Crystal Bucephalus	Craig Hinton	5th	Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion	17 November 1994
5	State of Change	Christopher Bulis	6th	Peri	1 December 1994
6	The Romance of Crime	Gareth Roberts	4th	Romana II, K9	19 January 1995
7	The Ghosts of N-Space	Barry Letts	3rd	Sarah	16 February 1995
8	Time of Your Life	Steve Lyons	6th	Grant	16 April 1995
9	Dancing the Code	Paul Leonard	3rd	Jo	20 April 1995
10	The Menagerie	Martin Day	2nd	Jamie, Zoe	18 May 1995
11	System Shock	Justin Richards	4th	Sarah, Harry	15 June 1995
12	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	Christopher Bulis	1st	Susan, Barbara, Ian	20 July 1995
13	Invasion of the Cat-People	Gary Russell	2nd	Ben, Polly	17 August 1995
14	Managra	Stephen Marley	4th	Sarah	21 September 1995
15	Millennial Rites	Craig Hinton	6th	Mel	19 October 1995
16	The Empire of Glass	Andy Lane	1st	Vicki, Steven	16 November 1995
17	Lords of the Storm	David A. McIntee	5th	Turlough	7 December 1995
18	Downtime	Marc Platt	none	Victoria, Sarah	18 January 1996
19	The Man in the Velvet Mask	Daniel O'Mahony	1st	Dodo	15 February 1996
20	The English Way of Death	Gareth Roberts	4th	Romana II, K9	21 March 1996
21	The Eye of the Giant	Christopher Bulis	3rd	Liz	18 April 1996
22	The Sands of Time	Justin Richards	5th	Nyssa, Tegan	16 May 1996
23	Killing Ground	Steve Lyons	6th	Grant	20 June 1996
24	The Scales of Injustice	Gary Russell	3rd	Liz	18 July 1996
25	The Shadow of Weng-Chiang	David A. McIntee	4th	Romana I, K9	15 August 1996
26	Twilight of the Gods	Christopher Bulis	2nd	Jamie, Victoria	19 September 1996
27	Speed of Flight	Paul Leonard	3rd	Jo, Mike Yates	24 October 1996
28	The Plotters	Gareth Roberts	1st	Barbara, Ian, Vicki	21 November 1996
29	Cold Fusion	Lance Parkin	5th, 7th	Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Chris, Roz	5 December 1996
30	Burning Heart	Dave Stone	6th	Peri	16 January 1997
31	A Device of Death	Christopher Bulis	4th	Sarah, Harry	20 February 1997
32	The Dark Path	David A. McIntee	2nd	Jamie, Victoria	20 March 1997
33	The Well-Mannered War	Gareth Roberts	4th	Romana II, K9	17 April 1997

Notes

• The first Missing Adventure Goth Opera was a sequel (and also prequel, from the Doctor's point of view) to the New Adventure novel Blood Harvest. This was done in order to launch the new series of books.
• The books introduced a new companion for the Sixth Doctor, Grant Markham. He never had a departure scene.
• Lords of the Storm tied in with the New Adventure novel Shakedown. Both novels featured the Sontarans and the Rutans and they came out in the same month.
• Downtime novelised the direct-to-video story of the same name. It did not feature the Doctor prominently but did feature a cameo by one of his future incarnations.
• Who Killed Kennedy, although it focuses on the Third Doctor, was published as a standalone novel, not a Missing Adventure, but is listed here for the sake of convenience. Co-credited with its fictional protagonist, James Stevens, the book took the form of a mock "nonfiction exposé" of UNIT and its activities. It re-visited the events of the Third Doctor's time with UNIT from Stevens' perspective and gave an Earth-bound view of events, with the Doctor put in short appearances in various incarnations. It came out in the same month as The Eye of the Giant.
• Cold Fusion featured both the Fifth and Seventh Doctors in the same novel together. The Seventh Doctor's companions Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej also appeared.
• Three novels were sequels to classic serials and one a prequel; they were as follows:
  • The Sands of Time is a sequel to TV: Pyramids of Mars.
  • The Shadow of Weng-Chiang is a sequel to TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
  • Twilight of the Gods is a sequel to TV: The Web Planet.
  • Speed of Flight is a prequel to TV: Timelash
• Many novels of the Virgin Missing Adventures featured old foes of the TV series, including:
  • Twilight of the Gods - Animus and Zarbi.
  • The Shadow of Weng-Chiang - Mr Sin
  • Downtime - Great Intelligence and Robot Yeti.
  • Lords of the Storm - Sontarans and Rutans
  • Millennial Rites - The Valeyard (but only in mental manifestation)
  • The Well-Mannered War - The Black Guardian
  • Killing Ground - Cybermen
  • State of Change - The Rani
  • The Romance of Crime - Ogrons
  • The Scales of Injustice - The Silurians and Myrka
  • The Dark Path - the Master

External links

• The Doctor Who Online Merchandise Guide - Virgin Books - The Missing Adventures