Virgin New Adventures

The New Adventures published by Virgin were a series of original, full-length Doctor Who novels that continued the adventures of the Seventh Doctor (and, originally, Ace) following on from the TV story, Survival.

The series concluded with the Eighth Doctor novel The Dying Days. After The Dying Days concluded, the books continued with Bernice as the principal character in a new series of novels.

Continuity

 * The New Adventures introduced a few new companions into the life of the Doctor: Bernice Summerfield (debuting in Love and War), Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej (debuting in Original Sin) and Wolsey the cat (who debuted in Human Nature).
 * Ace was written out in Love and War and left the Doctor for three years (in terms of Ace's timestream) before re-unting with him in Deceit. During that time she changed consierably and turned into what some fans refer to as "Space Bitch Ace". Ace left a second time, permanently, in Set Piece. Ace's character development and departure were contradicted by later media, which also contradicted each other.
 * Apart from the novels, a few of the comics and audios take place specifically in the New Adventures continuity. These feature the Seventh Doctor, Bernice and the older version of Ace.
 * Eternity Weeps portrays the death (some years in the future, from the viewpoint of readers when the book first came out) of the Third Doctor's companion, Liz Shaw.

Adaptations

 * Birthright and Just War were adapted, without the Doctor, the rights to which character they did not have permission to use at the time, as the first Bernice Sumemrfield productions form Big Finish Productions.
 * An adaptation of Human Nature will appear in Series 3 of Doctor Who.

Major links to the Virgin Missing Adventures

 * A story strand originated in Blood Harvest continued into the first Missing Adventure Goth Opera in an effort to get readers to buy both books.
 * Shakedown and Lords of the Storm both featured the Sontarans in the same month.
 * The Missing Adventure Cold Fusion featured both the Fifth Doctor as his companions with the Seventh Doctor and Roz and Chris Cwej from the New Adventures.

Production notes

 * So Vile a Sin was published out of sequence with the other books because of the delays. In story terms, however, it took place between Damaged Goods and Bad Therapy. The death of a major character in that book was meant to be a surprise, but because of the production delay, that was spoiled, and the prologue started off with the funeral for that character.