The Eight Doctors (novel)

The Eight Doctors was the first novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It explored the amnesia theme of Doctor Who - that is, the TV movie - to have the Eighth Doctor encounter his predecessors.

Publisher's summary
Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Eighth 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...

Plot
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Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * First Doctor
 * Second Doctor
 * Third Doctor
 * Fourth Doctor
 * Fifth Doctor
 * Sixth Doctor
 * Seventh Doctor
 * Sam Jones
 * The Master
 * The Valeyard
 * Miss Olive Hawthorne
 * Tarak
 * Ivo
 * Rassilon
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Flavia
 * Susan Foreman
 * Barbara Wright
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Jamie McCrimmon
 * Zoe Heriot
 * Jo Grant
 * John Benton
 * Romana II
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * Vislor Turlough
 * Raston Warrior Robot
 * Ryoth
 * Trev Selby
 * Vicky Latimer
 * Vrag
 * Machete Charlie
 * John Hart
 * Jane Blythe
 * Jack Harris
 * Zarn
 * Hurda
 * Xan

Baz's gang

 * Baz Bailey
 * Mikey
 * Pete
 * Monster

Coal Hill police

 * Foster
 * Sanders
 * Ballard

Foods and beverages

 * Rassilon's Red is Gallifrey's finest vintage. The Sixth Doctor and Eighth Doctor drink several goblets of it.
 * The Fourth Doctor and Romana drink red wine.

Gallifreyan culture

 * Shobogans speak highly of the Doctor.
 * The Eye of Harmony in the Doctor's TARDIS is a symbolic manifestation.

Individuals

 * Olive Hawthorne may have latent telekinetic abilities.
 * The Eighth Doctor meets the Brigadier.

Individual Time Lords

 * Flavia is president.
 * The Eighth Doctor loses his memory from a trap left by the Master.

Locations

 * The Master left his TARDIS in Devil's End. He retrieves it following his escape from Fortress Island.

Races and species

 * Drashigs, Sontarans and the Raston Warrior Robot are time scooped in order to launch an attack the Fifth Doctor and the Eighth Doctor.
 * Deathworms were tamed by the Morg. The Master experimented on them for his own purposes.

Technology

 * The Raston Warrior Robot feeds on atomic radiation in the atmosphere. It can be confused by two similar brain wave patterns combined with the principle of Buridan's ass.
 * The Master uses his Tissue Compression Eliminator.

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 to as NA: Blood Harvest). Also DW: The Five Doctors (also by Dicks) is references heavily here.


 * The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in PDA: The Face of the Enemy.


 * AG: Bounty follows on directly from this story.


 * While pondering the Doctor's interaction with his other selves, Flavia mentions the events of DW: The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, and The Two Doctors as other events where multiple incarnations were present.


 * The Eighth Doctor would later meet the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors again in BFA: The Four Doctors.

Timeline
For the First Doctor:
 * This story occurs during episode 3 of An Unearthly Child.

For the Second Doctor:
 * This story occurs during episode 9 of The War Games.

For the Third Doctor:
 * This story occurs after DW: The Sea Devils
 * This story occurs before DWM: Under Pressure

For the Fourth Doctor:
 * This story occurs after DW: State of Decay
 * This story occurs before DWM: Pathfinders

For the Fifth Doctor:
 * This story occurs after DW: The Five Doctors
 * This story occurs before ST: Lily

For the Sixth Doctor:
 * This story occurs during episode 1 of The Ultimate Foe.

For the Seventh Doctor:
 * This story occurs after PDA: Bullet Time
 * This story occurs before NA: The Room With No Doors (when the Doctor returns to Chris)

For the Eighth Doctor:
 * This story occurs after DW: Doctor Who
 * This story occurs before AG: Bounty