The Eight Doctors (novel)

The Eight Doctors was the first novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It explored the amnesia theme of the Doctor Who TV movie by having 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
 * Engin

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.

Species

 * Drashigs, Sontarans and the Raston Warrior Robot are time scooped in order to launch an attack on 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

 * From the Eighth Doctor perspective, it follows on from DW: Doctor Who.
 * 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.

For the First Doctor

 * This story occurs during Episode 3 of DW: An Unearthly Child

For the Second Doctor

 * This story occurs during Episode 9 of DW: The War Games

For the Third Doctor

 * This story occurs after DW: The Sea Devils
 * This story occurs before DWY: 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 VG: Destiny of the Doctors

For the Sixth Doctor

 * This story occurs during episode 1 of DW: 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