The Eight Doctors (novel)

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Publisher's summary

Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the 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...

Characters

References

Notes

  • There are several...discontinuities within The Eight Doctors (owed 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 8 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

  • 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 as NA: Blood Harvest). Also DW: The Five Doctors (also by Dicks) is references heavily here.
  • The BBC audio Bounty follows directly from this.

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

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