Virgin New Adventures

The New Adventures published by Virgin were a series of original, full-length Doctor Who novels that continued the adventures of the Seventh Doctor (and, originally, Ace) following on from the TV story, Survival.

The series concluded with the Eighth Doctor novel The Dying Days. After The Dying Days concluded, the books continued with Bernice as the principal character in a new series of novels.

Doctor Who: The New Adventures

#	Title	Author	Doctor	Companions	Published
1	Timewyrm: Genesys	John Peel	7th	Ace	June 1991
2	Timewyrm: Exodus	Terrance Dicks	7th	Ace	August 1991
3	Timewyrm: Apocalypse	Nigel Robinson	7th	Ace	October 1991
4	Timewyrm: Revelation	Paul Cornell	7th	Ace	December 1991
5	Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible	Marc Platt	7th	Ace	February 1992
6	Cat's Cradle: Warhead	Andrew Cartmel	7th	Ace	April 1992
7	Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark	Andrew Hunt	7th	Ace	June 1992
8	Nightshade	Mark Gatiss	7th	Ace	August 1992
9	Love and War	Paul Cornell	7th	Ace and Bernice (introduction)	October 1992
10	Transit	Ben Aaronovitch	7th	Bernice	December 1992
11	The Highest Science	Gareth Roberts	7th	Bernice	February 1993
12	The Pit	Neil Penswick	7th	Bernice	March 1993
13	Deceit	Peter Darvill-Evans	7th	Ace and Bernice	April 1993
14	Lucifer Rising	Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane	7th	Ace and Bernice	May 1993
15	White Darkness	David A. McIntee	7th	Ace and Bernice	June 1993
16	Shadowmind	Christopher Bulis	7th	Ace and Bernice	July 1993
17	Birthright	Nigel Robinson	7th; Muldwych (future Doctor)	Ace and Bernice	August 1993
18	Iceberg	David Banks	7th	none	September 1993
19	Blood Heat	Jim Mortimore	7th	Ace and Bernice	October 1993
20	The Dimension Riders	Daniel Blythe	7th	Ace and Bernice	November 1993
21	The Left-Handed Hummingbird	Kate Orman	7th	Ace and Bernice	December 1993
22	Conundrum	Steve Lyons	7th	Ace and Bernice	January 1994
23	No Future	Paul Cornell	7th	Ace and Bernice	February 1994
24	Tragedy Day	Gareth Roberts	7th	Ace and Bernice	March 1994
25	Legacy	Gary Russell	7th	Ace and Bernice	April 1994
26	Theatre of War	Justin Richards	7th	Ace and Bernice	May 1994
27	All-Consuming Fire	Andy Lane	7th	Ace and Bernice	June 1994
28	Blood Harvest	Terrance Dicks	7th	Ace and Bernice	July 1994
29	Strange England	Simon Messingham	7th	Ace and Bernice	August 1994
30	First Frontier	David A. McIntee	7th	Ace and Bernice	September 1994
31	St Anthony's Fire	Mark Gatiss	7th	Ace and Bernice	October 1994
32	Falls the Shadow	Daniel O'Mahony	7th	Ace and Bernice	November 1994
33	Parasite	Jim Mortimore	7th	Ace and Bernice	December 1994
34	Warlock	Andrew Cartmel	7th	Ace and Bernice	January 1995
35	Set Piece	Kate Orman	7th	Ace and Bernice	February 1995
36	Infinite Requiem	Daniel Blythe	7th	Bernice	March 1995
37	Sanctuary	David A. McIntee	7th	Bernice	April 1995
38	Human Nature	Paul Cornell	7th	Bernice	May 1995
39	Original Sin	Andy Lane	7th	Bernice, Chris (introduction) and Roz (introduction)	June 1995
40	Sky Pirates!	Dave Stone	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	July 1995
41	Zamper	Gareth Roberts	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	August 1995
42	Toy Soldiers	Paul Leonard	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	September 1995
43	Head Games	Steve Lyons	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	October 1995
44	The Also People	Ben Aaronovitch	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	November 1995
45	Shakedown	Terrance Dicks	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	December 1995
46	Just War	Lance Parkin	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	January 1996
47	Warchild	Andrew Cartmel	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	February 1996
48	Sleepy	Kate Orman	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	March 1996
49	Death and Diplomacy	Dave Stone	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	April 1996
50	Happy Endings	Paul Cornell	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	May 1996
51	GodEngine	Craig Hinton	7th	Chris and Roz	June 1996
52	Christmas on a Rational Planet	Lawrence Miles	7th	Chris and Roz	July 1996
53	Return of the Living Dad	Kate Orman	7th	Bernice, Chris and Roz	August 1996
54	The Death of Art	Simon Bucher-Jones	7th	Chris and Roz	September 1996
55	Damaged Goods	Russell T. Davies	7th	Chris and Roz	October 1996
56	So Vile A Sin	Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman	7th	Chris and Roz	May 1997
57	Bad Therapy	Matthew Jones	7th	Chris	December 1996
58	Eternity Weeps	Jim Mortimore	7th	Chris	January 1997
59	The Room With No Doors	Kate Orman	7th	Chris	February 1997
60	Lungbarrow	Marc Platt	7th	Chris, Romana, Leela, Ace, K-9 Mark Is and Mark II,	March 1997
61	The Dying Days	Lance Parkin	8th	Bernice, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT	April 1997

Notes

Continuity

• The New Adventures introduced a few new companions into the life of the Doctor: Bernice Summerfield (debuting in Love and War), Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej (debuting in Original Sin) and Wolsey the cat (who debuted in Human Nature).
• Ace was written out in Love and War and left the Doctor for three years (in terms of Ace's timestream) before re-unting with him in Deceit. During that time she changed consierably and turned into what some fans refer to as "Space Bitch Ace". Ace left a second time, permanently, in Set Piece. Ace's character development and departure were contradicted by later media, which also contradicted each other.
• Apart from the novels, a few of the comics and audios take place specifically in the New Adventures continuity. These feature the Seventh Doctor, Bernice and the older version of Ace.
• Eternity Weeps portrays the death (some years in the future, from the viewpoint of readers when the book first came out) of the Third Doctor's companion, Liz Shaw.

Adaptations

• Birthright and Just War were adapted, without the Doctor, the rights to which character they did not have permission to use at the time, as the first Bernice Sumemrfield productions form Big Finish Productions.
• An adaptation of Human Nature will appear in Series 3 of Doctor Who.

Major links to the Virgin Missing Adventures

• A story strand originated in Blood Harvest continued into the first Missing Adventure Goth Opera in an effort to get readers to buy both books.
• Shakedown and Lords of the Storm both featured the Sontarans in the same month.
• The Missing Adventure Cold Fusion featured both the Fifth Doctor as his companions with the Seventh Doctor and Roz and Chris Cwej from the New Adventures.

Production notes

• So Vile a Sin was published out of sequence with the other books because of the delays. In story terms, however, it took place between Damaged Goods and Bad Therapy. The death of a major character in that book was meant to be a surprise, but because of the production delay, that was spoiled, and the prologue started off with the funeral for that character.