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'''''The Eight Doctors''''' was the first novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Terrance Dicks]]. It explored the [[amnesia]] theme of the ''[[Doctor Who ( | '''''The Eight Doctors''''' was the first novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Terrance Dicks]]. It explored the [[amnesia]] theme of the ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' TV movie by having the [[Eighth Doctor]] encounter his predecessors. | ||
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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 Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], and his hands move over the controls of their own accord. | 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 Doctor's TARDIS|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 [[ | 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 [[Sam 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... | 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... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
After an encounter with {{Roberts}} in [[1999]] [[San Francisco]], the Eighth Doctor finishes reading ''The Time Machine'' (a book written by his old friend [[H.G. Wells]]). After he checks the Eye of Harmony in his TARDIS, he falls prey to a final trap set by his old enemy, the Master, which erases all of his memory. The only fact he knows for certain is that he is called "the Doctor" - but Doctor who? His instincts tell him to "trust the TARDIS", which immediately lands. | After an encounter with {{Roberts}} in [[1999]] [[San Francisco]], the Eighth Doctor finishes reading ''The Time Machine'' (a book written by his old friend [[H. G. Wells]]). After he checks the Eye of Harmony in his TARDIS, he falls prey to a final trap set by his old enemy, the Master, which erases all of his memory. The only fact he knows for certain is that he is called "the Doctor" - but Doctor who? His instincts tell him to "trust the TARDIS", which immediately lands. | ||
He has landed at a scrapyard at [[76 Totter's Lane]], [[London]] in 1997, where he encounters a young lady by the name of Sam Jones, who is being accused by local drug dealers, led by [[Baz Bailey]], of "grassing" them over to the police. Having saved Sam from these insidious characters, who were intending to force Sam into taking drugs to get her addicted, the Doctor falls foul of the local police who promptly charge him with possession and selling the cocaine he has confiscated from the thugs. Sam tells her two teachers, who have noticed her lateness, and takes them back to the junkyard to verify the story. The Doctor escapes in the confusion of Bailey's desperate attack on the local police station. He runs back into the TARDIS and it dematerialises - taking the cocaine with him to dispose of it safely. This leaves Sam alone, defenceless against the knife-wielding druggies... | He has landed at a scrapyard at [[76 Totter's Lane]], [[London]] in 1997, where he encounters a young lady by the name of Sam Jones, who is being accused by local drug dealers, led by [[Baz Bailey]], of "grassing" them over to the police. Having saved Sam from these insidious characters, who were intending to force Sam into taking drugs to get her addicted, the Doctor falls foul of the local police who promptly charge him with possession and selling the cocaine he has confiscated from the thugs. Sam tells her two teachers, who have noticed her lateness, and takes them back to the junkyard to verify the story. The Doctor escapes in the confusion of Bailey's desperate attack on the local police station. He runs back into the TARDIS and it dematerialises - taking the cocaine with him to dispose of it safely. This leaves Sam alone, defenceless against the knife-wielding druggies... | ||
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* [[Sixth Doctor]] | * [[Sixth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Seventh Doctor]] | * [[Seventh Doctor]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Sam Jones]] | ||
* [[The Master]] | * [[The Master]] | ||
* [[The Valeyard]] | * [[The Valeyard]] | ||
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* [[Ruath]] supposedly destroyed the Timescoop chamber in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera]]''. | * [[Ruath]] supposedly destroyed the Timescoop chamber in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera]]''. | ||
* 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 [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors]]'' and ''[[Lungbarrow]]''. | * 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 [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors]]'' and ''[[Lungbarrow]]''. | ||
* The Master uses the creation of the Morg to become worm-like as he is in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who ( | * The Master uses the creation of the Morg to become worm-like as he is in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''. | ||
* There is an inconsistency to Tegan knowing her Doctors as she mistakenly believed the Eighth Doctor to be the Fourth even though she had met the Fourth when he regenerated into the Fifth in ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''. | * There is an inconsistency to Tegan knowing her Doctors as she mistakenly believed the Eighth Doctor to be the Fourth even though she had met the Fourth when he regenerated into the Fifth in ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''. | ||
* The "small improvements" that Rassilon used the Eighth Doctor to make through this novel are elaborated on in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]''. | * The "small improvements" that Rassilon used the Eighth Doctor to make through this novel are elaborated on in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]''. | ||
