The Eight Doctors (novel)

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

Characters
Eighth Doctor

First Doctor

Second Doctor

Third Doctor

Fourth Doctor

Fifth Doctor

Sixth Doctor

Seventh Doctor

The Master
 * Retrieves his TARDIS from Devil's End.
 * Eats a Deathworm to cheat death (again).

The Valeyard

Miss Olive Hawthorne
 * May have latent telekinetic abilities.

Tarak
 * Dead vampiric leader.

Ivo
 * Plans to make an Inn of the town hall.

Rassilon

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Meets the Eighth Doctor.

Continuity

 * This novel also makes for one of the more continuity heavy novels with Terrance Dicks referencing: State of Decay (which he had previous written a sequel as Blood Harvest). Also The Five Doctors (also by Dicks) is references heavily here.


 * The Eight Doctors revisits point in the past during:
 * First Doctor: An Unearthly Child.
 * Second Doctor: At the end of The War Games.
 * Third Doctor: After The Sea Devils.
 * Fourth Doctor: After State of Decay.
 * Fifth Doctor: After The Five Doctors.
 * Sixth Doctor: Just before The Ultimate Foe.
 * Seventh Doctor: Some point before Doctor Who: The TV Movie.


 * The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in The Face of the Enemy.
 * The BBC audio Bounty follows directly from this.