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The Eight Doctors was the first novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It explored the amnesia theme of the Doctor Who TV movie by having the Eighth Doctor encounter his predecessors.

Publisher's summary

Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Eighth Doctor falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, the Master.

When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS, and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.

The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill School.

But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...

Plot

to be added

Characters

Baz's gang

Coal Hill police

References

Foods and beverages

Gallifreyan culture

Individuals

Individual Time Lords

  • Flavia is president.
  • The Eighth Doctor loses his memory from a trap left by the Master.

Locations

Species

Technology

Notes

  • The title of chapter eleven, The Vampire Mutation, was a working title for State of Decay.
  • There are several discontinuities within The Eight Doctors, owing perhaps to Dicks's tendency to insert continuity links everywhere.
  • Flavia is president. However according to continuity so far, Romana is President (Dicks' own novel NA: Blood Harvest established it).
  • Borusa's time scoop was previously destroyed in MA: Goth Opera is now eaten.
  • In this novel the Seventh Doctor has a "mid life crisis" while trying to deal with his approaching death, which was more or less addressed in NA: The Room With No Doors and Lungbarrow.
  • There is an explanation of how the Master became worm-like in DW: Doctor Who.
  • By the end of the novel:
  • All eight of the Doctors have appeared.
  • Three versions of the Master (The Master (UNIT years), an unknown incarnation and the Master (Bruce)) have appeared.
  • At one point there are two Sixth Doctors.
  • Borusa testifies in a future where he's still locked in the Dark Tower.
  • It has long been acknowledged by some fans (according to the Doctor Who Reference Guide) that the Eighth Doctor audio dramas and comic strips are set in the gap between The Eight Doctors and Vampire Science.

Continuity

  • From the Eighth Doctor perspective, it follows on from DW: Doctor Who.
  • This novel also makes for one of the more continuity-heavy novels, with Terrance Dicks referencing: DW: State of Decay (which he had previous written a sequel to as NA: Blood Harvest). Also DW: The Five Doctors (also by Dicks) is references heavily here.
  • AG: Bounty follows on directly from this story.
  • The Eighth Doctor would later meet the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors again in BFA: The Four Doctors.

Timeline

For the First Doctor

For the Second Doctor

For the Third Doctor

For the Fourth Doctor

For the Fifth Doctor

For the Sixth Doctor

For the Seventh Doctor

For the Eighth Doctor

External links