BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures was a series of original paperback novels featuring the Eighth Doctor published by BBC Books from June 1997 to June 2005, taking over the Doctor Who franchise from the Virgin New Adventures line. The first BBC Book release was in fact Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film, a novelisation of the 1996 telefilm; however, this is not considered part of the EDA series, which launched with a novel featuring all eight incarnations of the Doctor.
Initially, the novels were not linked to Virgin Books' previous Doctor Who New Adventures line (though the accompanying Missing Adventures line was referenced in the very first instalment, as well as throughout the Past Doctor Adventures from The Murder Game onwards), but as the series progressed, the barriers began to come down; as a result, many EDAs contain characters and references to events in the Virgin series.
While the EDA novels did not contain sexual or "adult" content as explicit as the Virgin series, they gained a focus, occasionally more overt than subtle, on representative themes, implications, and even blatant statements that gave major characters a degree of sexual or gender ambiguity and expression outside of heterosexuality and cisgender identity, including Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, and most notably the Doctor himself.
The EDA novels were marked by complex and lengthy story arcs, some lasting over many books, in particular a series of stories relating to a great Time War. The novels also spearheaded the "Post-War universe" utilised by the Faction Paradox series. Elements of and references to various accounts of future incarnations of the Doctor were implemented into the series' lore, most notably The Curse of Fatal Death and Scream of the Shalka.
Although the final EDA release was The Gallifrey Chronicles, published in June 2005, the following September one final Eighth Doctor novel, Fear Itself, was published, albeit under the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line, recognising the coming of the Ninth Doctor to television.
With more than seventy novels published, the Eighth Doctor Adventures is the longest-running series of novels featuring any single incarnation of the Doctor to date.
In 2005 BBC Books retired its EDA and PDA lines, preferring to focus its publishing efforts on novels based upon the revived TV series. Although there was speculation that the Eighth Doctor's adventures might continue in a revived PDA line of books, this did not occur. The literary adventures of the Eighth Doctor continued in the Short Trips short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions (many of which were written by veterans of the EDA and PDA ranges), until that series was also retired in the spring of 2009. BBC Books and Puffin have included the Eighth Doctor in various short story series and collections since.
== Stories ==
# 	Title 	Author 	Featuring 	Published
1 	The Eight Doctors 	 	Sam, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, the Master	2 June 1997
2 	Vampire Science 	Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum 	Sam, Vampires 	7 July 1997
3 	The Bodysnatchers 	 	Sam, Litefoot, Zygons 	18 August 1997
4 	Genocide 	 	Sam, Jo Grant, Sergeant Benton, UNIT 	1 September 1997
5 	War of the Daleks 	 	Sam, Daleks, Davros 	6 October 1997
6 	Alien Bodies 	 	Sam, Krotons, Faction Paradox, the Shift 	24 November 1997
7 	Kursaal 	 	Sam 	8 January 1998
8 	Option Lock 	 	Sam 	2 February 1998
9 	Longest Day 	 	Sam 	2 March 1998
10	Legacy of the Daleks 	 	Susan, , Daleks 	6 April 1998
11	Dreamstone Moon 	 	Sam 	5 May 1998
12	Seeing I 	Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum 	Sam, the I 	8 June 1998
13	Placebo Effect 	 	Sam, Stacy, Ssard, Wirrn, Foamasi, Meep 	6 July 1998
14	Vanderdeken's Children 	 	Sam 	3 August 1998
15	The Scarlet Empress 	 	Sam, Iris Wildthyme 	7 September 1998
16	The Janus Conjunction 	 	Sam 	5 October 1998
17	Beltempest 	 	Sam 	16 November 1998
18	The Face-Eater 	 	Sam 	4 January 1999
19	The Taint 	 	Sam, Fitz 	1 February 1999
20	Demontage 	 	Sam, Fitz 	1 March 1999
21	Revolution Man 	 	Sam, Fitz 	6 April 1999
22	Dominion 	 	Sam, Fitz 	10 May 1999
23	Unnatural History 	Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum 	Sam, Fitz 	7 June 1999
24	Autumn Mist 	 	Sam, Fitz 	5 July 1999
25	InterferenceBook One: Shock TacticBook Two: The Hour of the Geek	 	Sam, Fitz, CompassionThird Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith 	2 August 1999
26	InterferenceBook One: Shock TacticBook Two: The Hour of the Geek	 	Sam, Fitz, CompassionThird Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith 	2 August 1999
27	The Blue Angel 	Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad 	Fitz, Compassion, Iris 	6 September 1999
28	The Taking of Planet 5 	Simon Bucher-Jones, Mark Clapham	Fitz, Compassion 	4 October 1999
29	Frontier Worlds 	 	Fitz, Compassion 	29 November 1999
30	Parallel 59 	Stephen Cole, Natalie Dallaire 	Fitz, Compassion 	4 January 2000
31	The Shadows of Avalon 	 	Fitz, Compassion, the Brigadier, Romana III 	7 February 2000
32	The Fall of Yquatine 	 	Fitz, Compassion 	6 March 2000
33	Coldheart 	 	Fitz, Compassion 	3 April 2000
34	The Space Age 	 	Fitz, Compassion 	1 May 2000
35	The Banquo Legacy 	Andy Lane, Justin Richards 	Fitz, Compassion 	5 June 2000
36	The Ancestor Cell 	Peter Anghelides, Stephen Cole 	Fitz, Compassion, Romana III 	3 July 2000
37	The Burning 	 	 	7 August 2000
38	Casualties of War 	 	 	4 September 2000
39	The Turing Test 	 	 	2 October 2000
40	Endgame 	 	the Players 	6 November 2000
41	Father Time 	 	Miranda 	8 January 2001
42	Escape Velocity 	 	Fitz, Anji 	5 February 2001
43	EarthWorld 	 	Fitz, Anji 	5 March 2001
44	Vanishing Point 	 	Fitz, Anji 	2 April 2001
45	Eater of Wasps 	 	Fitz, Anji 	7 May 2001
46	The Year of Intelligent Tigers 	 	Fitz, Anji 	4 June 2001
47	The Slow Empire 	 	Fitz, Anji 	2 July 2001
48	Dark Progeny 	 	Fitz, Anji 	6 August 2001
49	The City of the Dead 	 	Fitz, Anji 	3 September 2001
50	Grimm Reality 	Simon Bucher-Jones, Kelly Hale 	Fitz, Anji 	1 October 2001
51	The Adventuress of Henrietta Street 	 	Fitz, Anji 	5 November 2001
52	Mad Dogs and Englishmen 	 	Fitz, Anji, Iris 	7 January 2002
53	Hope 	 	Fitz, Anji 	4 February 2002
54	Anachrophobia 	 	Fitz, Anji 	4 March 2002
55	Trading Futures 	 	Fitz, Anji 	8 April 2002
56	The Book of the Still 	 	Fitz, Anji 	6 May 2002
57	The Crooked World 	 	Fitz, Anji 	3 June 2002
58	History 101 	 	Fitz, Anji 	1 July 2002
59	Camera Obscura 	 	Fitz, Anji 	5 August 2002
60	Time Zero 	 	Fitz, Anji, Trix 	2 September 2002
61	The Infinity Race 	 	Fitz, Anji 	4 November 2002
62	The Domino Effect 	 	Fitz, Anji 	3 February 2003
63	Reckless Engineering 	 	Fitz, Anji 	7 April 2003
64	The Last Resort 	 	Fitz, Anji, Trix 	2 June 2003
65	Timeless 	 	Fitz, Anji, Trix 	4 August 2003
66	Emotional Chemistry 	 	Fitz, Trix 	6 October 2003
67	Sometime Never... 	 	Fitz, Trix, Miranda 	5 January 2004
68	Halflife 	 	Fitz, Trix 	5 April 2004
69	The Tomorrow Windows 	 	Fitz, Trix 	7 June 2004
70	The Sleep of Reason 	 	Fitz, Trix 	2 August 2004
71	The Deadstone Memorial 	 	Fitz, Trix 	4 October 2004
72	To the Slaughter 	 	Fitz, Trix 	7 February 2005
73	The Gallifrey Chronicles 	 	Fitz, Trix 	2 June 2005
== Notes ==
* Appropriately, the first and final novels of the series were published on 2 June exactly eight years apart.
== External links ==
* Guidelines for Prospective Authors
* FAQ for writing BBC Books by Jacqueline Rayner
* The Doctor Who Online Merchandise Guide - BBC Books - Eighth Doctor Adventures
 
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