User:Cousin Ettolrhc/Sandbox/Timeline - Eighth Doctor/EDA

After the Doctor Who (TV story)1996 Doctor Who movie, BBC Books started publishing novels featuring the Eighth Doctor. These were unique in the sense that their continuity picked up immediately from the 1996 movie, unlike all other ranges then and since, with The Eight Doctors. Between that initial novel and the subsequent one, there was a gap in in-universe continuity, filled by User:Cousin_Ettolrhc/Sandbox/Timeline_-_Eighth_Doctor/Greenpeace gap.

TECHNICAL NOTE

PROSE: The Eight Doctors has been omitted from this list as it is already listed in [post-regeneration], but for context it is the first EDA

Travels with Sam Jones (EDA 2 - 26)

• PROSE: Vampire Science
• PROSE: The Bodysnatchers
• PROSE: Genocide
• PROSE: War of the Daleks
• PROSE: Alien Bodies

This was the first source to ever feature Faction Paradox and had the Eighth Doctor crossover with the future War, which he would do a few more times later in this series.

• PROSE: Kursaal
• PROSE: Dead Time - a Short Trip where Sam is still a school girl, setting this before her four year separation from the Doctor which began in Longest Day.

Sam and the Doctor are separated

• PROSE: Longest Day
• PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks
• PROSE: Dreamstone Moon

(NOTE)

The Doctor mentions having returns to some places he and Sam had prevoiusly been to, and some new places, but clarifies he didn't have any "adventures" as he was just looking for him (PROSE: Seeing I)

Reuinted with Sam

• PROSE: Seeing I
• PROSE: Placebo Effect

Stacy and Ssard appear in this story, from the Radio Times comics

• PROSE: Vanderdeken's Children
• PROSE: The Scarlet Empress
• PROSE: The Janus Conjunction
• PROSE: Beltempest
• PROSE: The Face-Eater

Travels with Sam Jones and Fitz Kreiner

• PROSE: The Taint

Fitz Kriener joins Sam and the Doctor in the TARDIS

• PROSE: Femme Fatale - a Short Trip

The events of The Scarlet Empress are mentioned as being "four months ago" and, although absent, Fitz is mentioned, setting this after The Taint, although its exact placement isn't clear as the "four months ago" quote isn't particulary useful as no strict chronology is in effect around these novels

• PROSE: Demontage
• PROSE: Revolution Man
• PROSE: Dominion

The Doctor detects a temporal anomly in San Francisco, leading directly into Unnatural History (although the segment with blonde Sam mentioned in Unnatural History is not shown, just before it)

• PROSE: Unnatural History

CONTINUITY

The Doctor looses his shadow, meaning any story where he does not have it and an alternative explanation is not given are set between this and Interference, where he regains it (partially)

• PROSE: Autumn Mist

The Doctor claims to be 1018 years old

Repeated exploits with the future War

• PROSE: Interference: What Happened On Earth

There appears to be a gap between this section and the "Foreman's World" segment, which some stories may fit into

• PROSE: Toy Story - explicity set in this gap. Kode and Compassion are sleeping in the TARDIS whilst Lolita visits and talks to the TARDIS through the sleeping Compassion
• The Doctor's adventures with Charley Pollard in the Main Range may fit here, especially due to the fact that the way the Doctor disregards the Web of Time in these audios could be seen as a result of the Biodata virus he recieves in the What Happened on Dust segment (which happens to the Third Doctor) but which doesn't activate until now, or perhaps in Unnatural History.
• PROSE: Interference (novel): Foreman's World

Travels with Fitz Kreiner and no Sam Jones(EDA 27-72)

• PROSE: The Blue Angel
• PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 - The Doctor enters the War again, and Compassion is exposed to dozens of TARDISs
• PROSE: Frontier Worlds - Compassion begins turning into a humanoid TARDIS
• PROSE: Parallel 59

CONTINUITY

While the Doctor takes Compassion to Earth, Fitz remains on Skale with Fillipa Cian. After living on Skale for some time, the Doctor returns for Fitz. On their way to pick up Compassion, they visit "strange dimensions", "worlds at an angle to reality", and "dreamlike places." (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)

Travels without Fitz Kriener

• PROSE: Seven Deadly Sins - part of the Short Trips series

The Doctor's eyes keep changing from blue to green, showing the biodata virus is getting worse, placing this soon after Interference. He also has no companions, making it fit into the "Interference gap" quite nicely

• Jonathan Blum places the Doctor's adventures with Charley Pollard in the Main Range during the time Fitz is on Skale with Fillipa, and the Doctor is traveling on his own for a while. (DWM 354: Come in, Number Eight)

Travels with only Fitz

• PROSE: Growing Higher - part of the Short Trips series. Set here as the Doctor and Fitz are alone, and so it is in the gap mentioned above, before The Shadows of Avalon

Travels with Fitz and Compassion

• PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon - the Doctor looses his TARDIS after it "collides between dimensional barriers", but Compassion evolves into a Type 102 humanoid TARDIS and the Doctor and Fitz travel in her.
• PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine
• PROSE: Coldheart
• PROSE: The Space Age
• PROSE: The Banquo Legacy

Ending the War

• PROSE: The Ancestor Cell - Following on from The Banquo Legacy by the Doctor mentioning a coat "he only just got" and a prelude to The Ancestor Cell in The Banquo Legacy

CONTINUIY

The Doctor ends the War on its first day, and so any story set in the Post-War universe must be set after this. He gains amnesia

NOTE

The Faction Paradox short story The Story So Far... recontexualises this as the Doctor "falling from the Warring Heaven" rather than ending it properly.