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The '''''Eighth Doctor Adventures''''' was an audio series produced by [[Big Finish Productions]] beginning in [[2006 (releases)|2006]]. It starred the [[Eighth Doctor]], played by [[Paul McGann]], [[Lucie Miller]], played by [[Sheridan Smith]] and [[Tamsin Drew]], played by [[Niky Wardley]].
'''''The Eighth Doctor Adventures''''' was an audio series produced by [[Big Finish Productions]] from [[2006 (releases)|2006]] to [[2011 (releases)|2011]] which was revitalized from [[2019 (releases)|2019]] onwards as a range encompassing Big Finish's various [[Eighth Doctor]] stories.


The series was originally marketed as "The New Eighth Doctor Adventures", but Big Finish Productions had largely dropped the word "New" by the series' [[Series 4 (8DA)|fourth and final series]]. However, this name remains in use by some fans in order to distinguish this series from [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|the novel of the same name]]. The audios differed substantially in price and format from [[Main Range|Big Finish's monthly line]]. On the Big Finish podcast, these stories were sometimes informally called "the eighth Doctor and Lucie adventures".
== BBC Radio era (2007-2011) ==
The ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' was an audio series produced by [[Big Finish Productions]] beginning in [[2006 (releases)|2006]]. It starred the [[Eighth Doctor]], played by [[Paul McGann]], [[Lucie Miller]], played by [[Sheridan Smith]] and [[Tamsin Drew]], played by [[Niky Wardley]]. The audios differed substantially in price and format from [[Main Range|Big Finish's monthly line]]. On the Big Finish podcast, these stories were sometimes informally called "the eighth Doctor and Lucie adventures".


The series first debuted on [[BBC Radio 7]] with the first part of ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'' on [[31 December (releases)|31 December]] 2006. Each episode of the first season was broadcast alongside a 10 minute making of entitled ''[[Beyond the Vortex]]''. However, the [[Series 2 (8DA)|second]], [[Series 3 (8DA)|third]] and fourth series debuted on CD prior to their radio broadcasts, carrying over to Radio 7's rebranded successor, [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]].
The series first debuted on [[BBC Radio 7]] with the first part of ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'' on [[31 December (releases)|31 December]] 2006. However, the [[Series 2 (8DA)|second]], [[Series 3 (8DA)|third]] and fourth series debuted on CD prior to their radio broadcasts, carrying over to Radio 7's rebranded successor, [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]].


For the third series, Big Finish introduced a unique release method. The series format changed to a series of 16 25 minute episodes as opposed to 50 minute episodes. In absence of a 2009 TV series, a new episode was released as a download every Saturday evening on a weekly basis, and subscribers would be able to receive the physical CD upon release. However, this release method did not carry over to the fourth season. In the case of the third season, its radio broadcast was heavily condensed and only stories which did not feature returning monsters (''[[Orbis (audio story)|Orbis]]'', ''[[The Beast of Orlok (audio story)|The Beast of Orlok]]'', ''[[The Scapegoat (audio story)|The Scapegoat]]'' and ''[[The Cannibalists (audio story)|The Cannibalists]]'') were presented in edited forms.
For the third series, Big Finish introduced a unique release method. The series format changed to a series of 16 25 minute episodes as opposed to 50 minute episodes. In absence of a 2009 TV series, a new episode was released as a download every Saturday evening on a weekly basis, and subscribers would be able to receive the physical CD upon release. However, this release method did not carry over to the fourth season. In the case of the third season, its radio broadcast was heavily condensed and only stories which did not feature returning monsters (''[[Orbis (audio story)|Orbis]]'', ''[[The Beast of Orlok (audio story)|The Beast of Orlok]]'', ''[[The Scapegoat (audio story)|The Scapegoat]]'' and ''[[The Cannibalists (audio story)|The Cannibalists]]'') were presented in edited forms.
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The first four series were notable for driving the Eighth Doctor towards the darker personality as seen in ''[[Dark Eyes (audio series)|Dark Eyes]]'' onwards. Additionally, it introduced a third variation on the Eighth Doctor's theme tune composed by [[Nicholas Briggs]], although the [[David Arnold]] arrangement was used during the [[Series 1 (8DA)|first series]].
The first four series were notable for driving the Eighth Doctor towards the darker personality as seen in ''[[Dark Eyes (audio series)|Dark Eyes]]'' onwards. Additionally, it introduced a third variation on the Eighth Doctor's theme tune composed by [[Nicholas Briggs]], although the [[David Arnold]] arrangement was used during the [[Series 1 (8DA)|first series]].


== Stories ==
=== Series 1 ===
=== Series 1 ===
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{{main|Series 1 (8DA)}}
The Eighth Doctor Adventures began as an eight-part series titled "The Eighth Doctor BBC7 Stories". <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20070701142722/http://www.bigfinish.com/drwho_eighthdoctor/index.shtml</ref>
The series first debuted on [[BBC Radio 7]] with the first part of ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'' on [[31 December (releases)|31 December]] 2006. Each episode of the first season was broadcast alongside a 10 minute making of entitled ''[[Beyond the Vortex]]''.
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=== Series 2 ===
=== Series 2 ===
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With its second series, "The Eighth Doctor BBC7 Stories" were renamed to "The New Eighth Doctor Adventures". The new series was called "Season 2" and the previous one named "Season 1".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20071214093148/http://www.bigfinish.com/index.asp?function=DISPLAYCAT&catid=80</ref> Although the name was dropped shortly after the end of this series, "The New Eighth Doctor Adventures" remained in use by some fans in order to distinguish this series from [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|the novel series of the same name]].
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=== Series 3 ===
=== Series 3 ===
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In August 2008, shortly after the end of Season 2, the webpage for the series was renamed "The Eighth Doctor Adventures". <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20081006012632/http://www.bigfinish.com/the-eighth-doctor-adventures</ref>
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=== Series 4 ===
=== Series 4 ===
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''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'', a story in ''[[Special Releases]]'' accompanying this season, was later retroactively included in ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures'' in 2019.
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== Continuing adventures ==
== Dark Eyes (2012-2015) ==
=== Dark Eyes ===
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==== Dark Eyes ====
The next period of ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures'' was the subseries ''[[Dark Eyes (audio series)|Dark Eyes]]''.
{{main|Dark Eyes (audio anthology)}}
 
''Dark Eyes'' began as a boxset called ''[[Dark Eyes (audio anthology)|Dark Eyes]]'' which was announced to be the "New Eighth Doctor Box Set 1" and released as part of ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures''.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121115111001/http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/released/eighth-doctor-adventures</ref> The success of the first boxset led to ''Dark Eyes'' becoming a larger series which was considered its own range, a sequel to ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures''. At this point, ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures'' were renamed ''Classic Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Adventures''. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131113021420/http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doctor-who---dark-eyes</ref> However, despite being its own series, ''Dark Eyes'' continued to also be collected under the ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' banner.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131031024215/http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/eighth-doctor-adventures</ref>
 
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|rowspan=4|''[[Dark Eyes (audio anthology)|Dark Eyes]]''
|1.1
|1.1
|''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]''
|''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]''
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|1.4
|1.4
|''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]''
|''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]''
|}
==== Dark Eyes 2 ====
{{main|Dark Eyes 2}}
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|rowspan=4|''[[Dark Eyes 2]]''
|2.1
|2.1
|''[[The Traitor (BF audio story)|The Traitor]]''
|''[[The Traitor (BF audio story)|The Traitor]]''
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|''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]''
|''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]''
|Liv, Molly, the Eminence, Dalek Time Controller, The Master, Sally Armstrong, David Walker
|Liv, Molly, the Eminence, Dalek Time Controller, The Master, Sally Armstrong, David Walker
|}
==== Dark Eyes 3 ====
{{main|Dark Eyes 3}}
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|rowspan=4|''[[Dark Eyes 3]]''
|3.1
|3.1
|''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]''
|''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]''
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|''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]''
|''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]''
|Molly, Liv, the Master, the Eminence, Narvin, Hope Gardener
|Molly, Liv, the Master, the Eminence, Narvin, Hope Gardener
|}
==== Dark Eyes 4 ====
{{main|Dark Eyes 4}}
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|rowspan=4|''[[Dark Eyes 4]]''
|4.1
|4.1
|''[[A Life in the Day (audio story)|A Life in the Day]]''
|''[[A Life in the Day (audio story)|A Life in the Day]]''
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=== Doom Coalition ===
== Retroactive Eighth Doctor Adventures (2015-2018) ==
==== Doom Coalition 1 ====
With the release of ''[[Doom Coalition (audio series)|Doom Coalition]]'', [[Big Finish Productions]] began a period of releasing new [[Eighth Doctor]] releases entirely separate from the ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' branding. The ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' were adjusted to no longer include ''[[Dark Eyes (audio series)|Dark Eyes]]'', being defined as just the radio-broadcast stories.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151024055812/http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/released/eighth-doctor-adventures</ref>
{{main|Doom Coalition 1}}
 
In this period, the narrative of ''Dark Eyes'' was continued in the series ''[[Doom Coalition (audio series)|Doom Coalition]]'' and ''[[Ravenous (audio series)|Ravenous]]''. Additionally, ''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War]]'' began being released.
 
With the redesign of the Big Finish website on 1 April 2019, the stories released in this period were retroactively considered part of ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures''.
 
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|rowspan=16|''[[Doom Coalition (audio series)|Doom Coalition]]''
|rowspan=4|''[[Doom Coalition 1]]''
|1.1
|1.1
|''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]''
|''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]''
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|[[Edward Collier]]
|[[Edward Collier]]
|Liv, Helen, the Eleven, Padrac, Galileo
|Liv, Helen, the Eleven, Padrac, Galileo
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==== Doom Coalition 2 ====
{{main|Doom Coalition 2}}
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|rowspan=4|''[[Doom Coalition 2]]''
|2.1
|2.1
|''[[Beachhead (audio story)|Beachhead]]''
|''[[Beachhead (audio story)|Beachhead]]''
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|[[Matt Fitton]]
|[[Matt Fitton]]
|Liv, Helen, [[River Song]], [[Caleera|the Sonomancer]], [[the Eleven]]
|Liv, Helen, [[River Song]], [[Caleera|the Sonomancer]], [[the Eleven]]
|}
==== Doom Coalition 3 ====
{{main|Doom Coalition 3}}
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|rowspan=4|''[[Doom Coalition 3]]''
|3.1
|3.1
|''[[Absent Friends (audio story)|Absent Friends]]''
|''[[Absent Friends (audio story)|Absent Friends]]''
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|John Dorney
|John Dorney
|Liv, Helen, River Song, [[Padrac]], [[the Nine]]
|Liv, Helen, River Song, [[Padrac]], [[the Nine]]
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==== Doom Coalition 4 ====
{{main|Doom Coalition 4}}
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|rowspan=4|''[[Doom Coalition 4]]''
|4.1
|4.1
|''[[Ship in a Bottle (audio story)|Ship in a Bottle]]''
|''[[Ship in a Bottle (audio story)|Ship in a Bottle]]''
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|John Dorney
|John Dorney
|Liv, Helen, Padrac, Caleera, the Eleven
|Liv, Helen, Padrac, Caleera, the Eleven
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=== Ravenous ===
First announced on 9 January 2018,<ref name="FirstNews">{{cite web|url=https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/eighth-doctor-ravenous|title=Eighth Doctor: Ravenous|accessmonthday=12 January|accessyear=2018|website name=bigfinish.com/news|publisher=Big Finish Productions|date of source=9 January 2018}}</ref> the series mainly dealt with the [[Ravenous]], an ancient species which struck fear on the [[Time Lord]]s. Despite the Ravenous being a common theme on all anthologies, producer [[David Richardson]] considered the series to be "somewhat looser in structure than ''[[Doom Coalition (audio series)|Doom Coalition]]''".<ref name="FirstNews"/>
Like on ''Doom Coalition'', [[Mark Bonnar]] guest-starred as [[the Eleven]], although he was no longer the series' main antagonist. In fact, in ''[[Ravenous 3]]'', the Time Lord joined the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] crew, allying himself with the Doctor once he realised that he couldn't defend himself from the Ravenous alone.
==== Ravenous 1 ====
{{main|Ravenous 1}}
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|-
|-
|rowspan=4|''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War]]''
|rowspan=4|''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume One]]''
|1.1
|''[[The Starship of Theseus (audio story)|The Starship of Theseus]]''
|[[John Dorney]]
|[[Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)|Sheena]], [[Bliss]], [[Rupa Maguire|Rupa]], [[Quarren Maguire|Quarren]], [[Dalek]]s
|rowspan=4|[[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]
|-
|1.2
|''[[Echoes of War (audio story)|Echoes of War]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Matt Fitton]]
|rowspan=2|Bliss, Rupa, Quarren, [[War Ollistra]], [[Fourth Tamasan]], Daleks
|-
|1.3
|''[[The Conscript (audio story)|The Conscript]]''
|-
|1.4
|''[[One Life (audio story)|One Life]]''
|[[John Dorney]]
|Bliss, Rupa, Quarren, War Ollistra, Daleks
|-
|rowspan=4|''[[Ravenous (audio series)|Ravenous]]''
|rowspan=4|''[[Ravenous 1]]''
|1.1
|1.1
|''[[Their Finest Hour (audio story)|Their Finest Hour]]''
|''[[Their Finest Hour (audio story)|Their Finest Hour]]''
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|1.4
|1.4
|-
|-
|}
|rowspan=4|''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War]]''
 
|rowspan=4|''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Two]]''
==== Ravenous 2 ====
|2.1
{{main|Ravenous 2}}
|''[[The Lords of Terror (audio story)|The Lords of Terror]]''
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|[[Jonathan Morris]]
! # || Title || Author || Featuring || Released
|[[Bliss]], [[Fifth Tamasan|Tamasan]], [[Dalek]]s
|rowspan=4|[[10 July (releases)|10 July]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
|-
|2.2
|''[[Planet of the Ogrons (audio story)|Planet of the Ogrons]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Guy Adams]]
|rowspan=2|Bliss, Daleks, [[the Twelve]], Fifth Tamasan
|-
|2.3
|''[[In the Garden of Death (audio story)|In the Garden of Death]]''
|-
|2.4
|''[[Jonah (audio story)|Jonah]]''
|[[Timothy X. Atack|Timothy X Atack]]
|Bliss, Daleks, the Twelve, [[War Ollistra]], Fifth Tamasan
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|''[[Ravenous (audio series)|Ravenous]]''
|rowspan=4|''[[Ravenous 2]]''
|2.1
|2.1
|''[[Escape from Kaldor (audio story)|Escape from Kaldor]]''
|''[[Escape from Kaldor (audio story)|Escape from Kaldor]]''
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== The Eighth Doctor Adventures (2019-present) ==
{{Section stub|Missing stories from ''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War]]''.}}
From 1 April 2019 onwards, the various Eighth Doctor series were once more collected in a range titled ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures''. ''[[Ravenous (audio series)|Ravenous]]'' continued as a subseries of this range, narratively followed by ''[[Stranded (audio series)|Stranded]]''; unlike in the era of ''Dark Eyes'', these series were more primarily part of ''The Eighth Doctor Adventures'' rather than distinct ranges of their own. ''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War]]'' also continued as a subseries of this one, with its own subseries ''[[Uncharted (audio series)|Uncharted]]'' being the next Eighth Doctor ongoing boxset narrative after ''Stranded''.
=== ''Ravenous'' ===
==== Ravenous 3 ====
==== Ravenous 3 ====
{{main|Ravenous 3}}
{{main|Ravenous 3}}
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