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BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
Publisher:	BBC Books
Release date:	2 June 1997 - 2 June 2005

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The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures were a series of original paperback novels featuring the Eighth Doctor published by BBC Books from June 1997 to June 2005, taking over the Doctor Who franchise from the Virgin New Adventures line. The first BBC Book release was in fact Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film, a novelisation of the 1996 telefilm; however, this is not considered part of the EDA series, which launched with a novel featuring all eight incarnations of the Doctor.

Initially, the novels were not linked to Virgin Books' previous Doctor Who New Adventures line (though the accompanying Missing Adventures line was referenced in the very first instalment, as well as throughout the Past Doctor Adventures from The Murder Game onwards), but as the series progressed, the barriers began to come down; as a result, many EDAs contain characters and references to events in the Virgin series.

While the EDA novels did not contain sexual or "adult" content as explicit as the Virgin series, they gained a focus, occasionally more overt than subtle, on representative themes, implications, and even blatant statements that gave major characters a degree of sexual or gender ambiguity and expression outside of heterosexuality and cisgender identity, including Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, and most notably the Doctor himself.

The EDA novels were marked by complex and lengthy story arcs, some lasting over many books, in particular a series of stories relating to a great Time War. The novels also spearheaded the "Post-War universe" utilised by the Faction Paradox series. Elements of and references to various accounts of future incarnations of the Doctor were implemented into the series' lore, most notably The Curse of Fatal Death and Scream of the Shalka.

Although the final EDA release was The Gallifrey Chronicles, published in June 2005, the following September one final Eighth Doctor novel, Fear Itself, was published, albeit under the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line, recognising the coming of the Ninth Doctor to television.

With more than seventy novels published, the Eighth Doctor Adventures is the longest-running series of novels featuring any single incarnation of the Doctor to date.

In 2005 BBC Books retired its EDA and PDA lines, preferring to focus its publishing efforts on novels based upon the revived TV series. Although there was speculation that the Eighth Doctor's adventures might continue in a revived PDA line of books, this did not occur. The literary adventures of the Eighth Doctor continued in the Short Trips short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions (many of which were written by veterans of the EDA and PDA ranges), until that series was also retired in the spring of 2009. BBC Books and Puffin have included the Eighth Doctor in various short story series and collections since.

Stories

#	Title	Author	Featuring	Published
1	The Eight Doctors	Terrance Dicks	Sam, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, the Master	2 June 1997
2	Vampire Science	Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum	Sam, Vampires	7 July 1997
3	The Bodysnatchers	Mark Morris	Sam, Litefoot, Zygons	18 August 1997
4	Genocide	Paul Leonard	Sam, Jo Grant, Sergeant Benton, UNIT	1 September 1997
5	War of the Daleks	John Peel	Sam, Daleks, Davros	6 October 1997
6	Alien Bodies	Lawrence Miles	Sam, Krotons, Faction Paradox, the Shift	24 November 1997
7	Kursaal	Peter Anghelides	Sam	8 January 1998
8	Option Lock	Justin Richards		2 February 1998
9	Longest Day	Michael Collier		2 March 1998
10	Legacy of the Daleks	John Peel	Susan, the Master, Daleks	6 April 1998
11	Dreamstone Moon	Paul Leonard	Sam	5 May 1998
12	Seeing I	Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum	Sam, the I	8 June 1998
13	Placebo Effect	Gary Russell	Sam, Stacy, Ssard, Wirrn, Foamasi, Meep	6 July 1998
14	Vanderdeken's Children	Christopher Bulis	Sam	3 August 1998
15	The Scarlet Empress	Paul Magrs	Sam, Iris Wildthyme	7 September 1998
16	The Janus Conjunction	Trevor Baxendale	Sam	5 October 1998
17	Beltempest	Jim Mortimore		16 November 1998
18	The Face-Eater	Simon Messingham		4 January 1999
19	The Taint	Michael Collier	Sam, Fitz	1 February 1999
20	Demontage	Justin Richards		1 March 1999
21	Revolution Man	Paul Leonard		6 April 1999
22	Dominion	Nick Walters		10 May 1999
23	Unnatural History	Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum		7 June 1999
24	Autumn Mist	David A. McIntee		5 July 1999
25	Interference Book One: Shock Tactic Book Two: The Hour of the Geek	Lawrence Miles	Sam, Fitz, Compassion Third Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith	2 August 1999
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27	The Blue Angel	Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad	Fitz, Compassion, Iris	6 September 1999
28	The Taking of Planet 5	Simon Bucher-Jones, Mark Clapham	Fitz, Compassion	4 October 1999
29	Frontier Worlds	Peter Anghelides		29 November 1999
30	Parallel 59	Stephen Cole, Natalie Dallaire		4 January 2000
31	The Shadows of Avalon	Paul Cornell	Fitz, Compassion, the Brigadier, Romana III	7 February 2000
32	The Fall of Yquatine	Nick Walters	Fitz, Compassion	6 March 2000
33	Coldheart	Trevor Baxendale		3 April 2000
34	The Space Age	Steve Lyons		1 May 2000
35	The Banquo Legacy	Andy Lane, Justin Richards		5 June 2000
36	The Ancestor Cell	Peter Anghelides, Stephen Cole	Fitz, Compassion, Romana III	3 July 2000
37	The Burning	Justin Richards		7 August 2000
38	Casualties of War	Steve Emmerson		4 September 2000
39	The Turing Test	Paul Leonard		2 October 2000
40	Endgame	Terrance Dicks	the Players	6 November 2000
41	Father Time	Lance Parkin	Miranda	8 January 2001
42	Escape Velocity	Colin Brake	Fitz, Anji	5 February 2001
43	EarthWorld	Jacqueline Rayner		5 March 2001
44	Vanishing Point	Stephen Cole		2 April 2001
45	Eater of Wasps	Trevor Baxendale		7 May 2001
46	The Year of Intelligent Tigers	Kate Orman		4 June 2001
47	The Slow Empire	Dave Stone		2 July 2001
48	Dark Progeny	Steve Emmerson		6 August 2001
49	The City of the Dead	Lloyd Rose		3 September 2001
50	Grimm Reality	Simon Bucher-Jones, Kelly Hale		1 October 2001
51	The Adventuress of Henrietta Street	Lawrence Miles		5 November 2001
52	Mad Dogs and Englishmen	Paul Magrs	Fitz, Anji, Iris	7 January 2002
53	Hope	Mark Clapham	Fitz, Anji	4 February 2002
54	Anachrophobia	Jonathan Morris		4 March 2002
55	Trading Futures	Lance Parkin		8 April 2002
56	The Book of the Still	Paul Ebbs		6 May 2002
57	The Crooked World	Steve Lyons		3 June 2002
58	History 101	Mags L. Halliday		1 July 2002
59	Camera Obscura	Lloyd Rose		5 August 2002
60	Time Zero	Justin Richards	Fitz, Anji, Trix	2 September 2002
61	The Infinity Race	Simon Messingham	Fitz, Anji	4 November 2002
62	The Domino Effect	David Bishop		3 February 2003
63	Reckless Engineering	Nick Walters		7 April 2003
64	The Last Resort	Paul Leonard	Fitz, Anji, Trix	2 June 2003
65	Timeless	Stephen Cole		4 August 2003
66	Emotional Chemistry	Simon A. Forward	Fitz, Trix	6 October 2003
67	Sometime Never...	Justin Richards	Fitz, Trix, Miranda	5 January 2004
68	Halflife	Mark Michalowski	Fitz, Trix	5 April 2004
69	The Tomorrow Windows	Jonathan Morris		7 June 2004
70	The Sleep of Reason	Martin Day		2 August 2004
71	The Deadstone Memorial	Trevor Baxendale		4 October 2004
72	To the Slaughter	Stephen Cole		7 February 2005
73	The Gallifrey Chronicles	Lance Parkin		2 June 2005

Notes

• Appropriately, the first and final novels of the series were published on 2 June, exactly eight years apart.

External links

• Guidelines for Prospective Authors
• FAQ for writing BBC Books by Jacqueline Rayner
• The Doctor Who Online Merchandise Guide - BBC Books - Eighth Doctor Adventures