BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures was a series of original paperback novels published by BBC Books from June 1997 to June 2005, taking over the literary 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, but 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 the previous Virgin New Adventures series of books (which had included one Eighth Doctor novel), but as the series progressed and more writers from the Virgin line came over to write for the EDA series, the barriers began to come down and numerous books contain characters and references to events in the Virgin series.

The EDA novels were marked by complex and lengthy story arcs, some lasting over many books, particularly a series of stories relating to a great Time War. A time war is also a major part of the backstory of the revived television series, but the production team have generally stated that their Time War is considered a separate (or possibly follow up) event to the one featured in the EDA novels.

After the launch of the EDA line, BBC Books launched two spin-off series of books, the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line, and the Short Trips short story collections.

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, but under the Past Doctor Adventures line, recognizing the coming of the Ninth Doctor to television.

The more than 70 novels published in the EDA makes it the longest-running series of novels of any incarnation of the Doctor to date.

In 2005 BBC Books retired both 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, as of mid 2010 this has not occurred. The literary adventures of the Eighth Doctor continued in the Short Trips short story anthologies published by Big Finish (many of which were written by veterans of the EDA and PDA ranges), until that series was also retired in the spring of 2009.

List of Eighth Doctor Adventures

Title	Author	Featuring	Published
The Eight Doctors	Terrance Dicks	Sam Jones, First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton, Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot, Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant Benton, Fourth Doctor, Romana II, Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor	June 1997
Vampire Science	Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum	Sam Jones	July 1997
The Bodysnatchers	Mark Morris	Sam	August 1997
Genocide	Paul Leonard	Sam, Jo Grant, UNIT (Sergeant Benton)	September 1997
War of the Daleks	John Peel	Sam	October 1997
Alien Bodies	Lawrence Miles	Sam	November 1997
Kursaal	Peter Anghelides	Sam	January 1998
Option Lock	Justin Richards	Sam	February 1998
Longest Day	Michael Collier	Sam	March 1998
Legacy of the Daleks	John Peel	Susan Foreman	April 1998
Dreamstone Moon	Paul Leonard	Sam	May 1998
Seeing I	Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum	Sam	June 1998
Placebo Effect	Gary Russell	Sam, Stacy Townsend, Ssard	July 1998
Vanderdeken's Children	Christopher Bulis	Sam	August 1998
The Scarlet Empress	Paul Magrs	Sam	September 1998
The Janus Conjunction	Trevor Baxendale	Sam	October 1998
Beltempest	Jim Mortimore	Sam	November 1998
The Face-Eater	Simon Messingham	Sam	January 1999
The Taint	Michael Collier	Sam, Fitz	February 1999
Demontage	Justin Richards	Sam, Fitz	March 1999
Revolution Man	Paul Leonard	Sam, Fitz	April 1999
Dominion	Nick Walters	Sam, Fitz	May 1999
Unnatural History	Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum	Sam, Fitz	June 1999
Autumn Mist	David A. McIntee	Sam, Fitz	July 1999
Interference: Book One (Shock Tactic)	Lawrence Miles	Sam, Fitz, Compassion; Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith	August 1999
Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek)	Lawrence Miles	Sam, Fitz, Compassion; Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith	August 1999
The Blue Angel	Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad	Fitz, Compassion	September 1999
The Taking of Planet 5	Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham	Fitz, Compassion	October 1999
Frontier Worlds	Peter Anghelides	Fitz, Compassion	November 1999
Parallel 59	Stephen Cole and Natalie Dallaire	Fitz, Compassion	January 2000
The Shadows of Avalon	Paul Cornell	Fitz, Compassion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Romana III	February 2000
The Fall of Yquatine	Nick Walters	Fitz, Compassion	March 2000
Coldheart	Trevor Baxendale	Fitz, Compassion	April 2000
The Space Age	Steve Lyons	Fitz, Compassion	May 2000
The Banquo Legacy	Andy Lane and Justin Richards	Fitz, Compassion	June 2000
The Ancestor Cell	Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole	Fitz, Compassion, Romana III	July 2000
The Burning	Justin Richards	none	August 2000
Casualties of War	Steve Emmerson	none	September 2000
The Turing Test	Paul Leonard	none	October 2000
Endgame	Terrance Dicks	none	November 2000
Father Time	Lance Parkin	Miranda Dawkins	January 2001
Escape Velocity	Colin Brake	Fitz, Anji Kapoor	February 2001
EarthWorld	Jacqueline Rayner	Fitz, Anji	March 2001
Vanishing Point	Stephen Cole	Fitz, Anji	April 2001
Eater of Wasps	Trevor Baxendale	Fitz, Anji	May 2001
The Year of Intelligent Tigers	Kate Orman	Fitz, Anji	June 2001
The Slow Empire	Dave Stone	Fitz, Anji	July 2001
Dark Progeny	Steve Emmerson	Fitz, Anji	August 2001
The City of the Dead	Lloyd Rose	Fitz, Anji	September 2001
Grimm Reality	Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale	Fitz, Anji	October 2001
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street	Lawrence Miles	Fitz, Anji	November 2001
Mad Dogs and Englishmen	Paul Magrs	Fitz, Anji	January 2002
Hope	Mark Clapham	Fitz, Anji	February 2002
Anachrophobia	Jonathan Morris	Fitz, Anji	March 2002
Trading Futures	Lance Parkin	Fitz, Anji	April 2002
The Book of the Still	Paul Ebbs	Fitz, Anji	May 2002
The Crooked World	Steve Lyons	Fitz, Anji	June 2002
History 101	Mags L. Halliday	Fitz, Anji	July 2002
Camera Obscura	Lloyd Rose	Fitz, Anji	August 2002
Time Zero	Justin Richards	Fitz, Anji, Trix	September 2002
The Infinity Race	Simon Messingham	Fitz, Anji	November 2002
The Domino Effect	David Bishop	Fitz, Anji	February 2003
Reckless Engineering	Nick Walters	Fitz, Anji	April 2003
The Last Resort	Paul Leonard	Fitz, Anji, Trix	June 2003
Timeless	Stephen Cole	Fitz, Anji, Trix	August 2003
Emotional Chemistry	Simon A. Forward	Fitz, Trix	October 2003
Sometime Never...	Justin Richards	Fitz, Trix, Miranda	January 2004
Halflife	Mark Michalowski	Fitz, Trix	April 2004
The Tomorrow Windows	Jonathan Morris	Fitz, Trix	June 2004
The Sleep of Reason	Martin Day	Fitz, Trix	August 2004
The Deadstone Memorial	Trevor Baxendale	Fitz, Trix	October 2004
To the Slaughter	Stephen Cole	Fitz, Trix	January 2005
The Gallifrey Chronicles	Lance Parkin	Fitz, Trix	June 2005

External links

• The Doctor Who Online Merchandise Guide - BBC Books - Eighth Doctor Adventures