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Novelisation character names
This is a list of pages that could be renamed under the policy change I suggested in Thread:231243. By no means is it complete! This list only includes characters whose names are currently not unique on the wiki: for instance, Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils lists Ridgeway's first name as "Robin", but I haven't put him on the list because he's the only Ridgeway on our wiki. The issue of whether these first names should be used regardless as "future-proofing" is probably best left to case-by-case decision, as described in the policy about "When not to disambiguate".
 * Roberts (Doctor Who and the Silurians) into George Roberts.
 * Radio operator (The Sea Devils) into Sharps.
 * Mitchell (The Sea Devils) into Tony Mitchell.
 * Munro (Terror of the Zygons) into Jock Munro.
 * Barclay (The Tenth Planet) into Tom Barclay.
 * Collins (Pyramids of Mars) into Josiah Collins.
 * The Squire (The Visitation) into John (The Visitation).
 * Co-pilot (The Horns of Nimon) into Sardor.
 * Pilot (The Horns of Nimon) into Sekkoth.
 * Soldier (Planet of the Spiders) into Hodges (Planet of the Spiders).
 * Price (Fury from the Deep) into David Price.
 * Perkins (Fury from the Deep) into Ronald Perkins.
 * Sergeant (The Highlanders) into Klegg.
 * Interviewer (The Daleks' Master Plan) into Jim Grant.
 * Forester (Planet of Giants) into Mark Forester.
 * Miranda (Doctor Who) into Miranda Gerhardt.
 * Bruce (Doctor Who) into Bruce Gerhardt.
 * Caretaker (Scream of the Shalka) into Mitch Stannard.
 * Joe (Scream of the Shalka) into Joe Latham.
 * Mickey Smith's mother into Odessa Smith.
 * Cass (The Night of the Doctor) into Cass Fermazzi.

Thinly-veiled Doctors

 * Old man (42nd Doctor)
 * War veteran (Eighth Doctor)
 * Rivera Manuscript renegade
 * Lethean Campaign assassin
 * "Dr. Smith"

Initial run
For the first five years of output, BBC Books released two novels a month, one continuing an ongoing Eighth Doctor storyline and the other concerning a more standalone adventure of a previous Doctor.

Halving the output
Beginning in September 2002, instead of releasing two novels each month, BBC Books began publishing one a month. The books alternated between releases in the ongoing Eighth Doctor storyline and standalone stories about past Doctors, with the notable exception of Scream of the Shalka, which was published between an Eighth Doctor novel and a Fifth Doctor novel.

The New Series
With the return of Doctor Who to television in March 2005,