Search for the Doctor (novel)

Search for the Doctor is the first in a series of "choose-your-own-adventure" style gamebooks, titled Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who in the UK and released in the US in Ballantine Books' Find Your Fate line.

UK and Australian editions
Have you ever longed to climb aboard the TARDIS and enter another dimension? Meet the Doctor and join him in outwitting his enemies? Well, now's your chance! All you need is a pair of dice, a pencil, a little bit of luck and all your wits about you. Ready?

Search for the Doctor The year is 2056, and the Doctor is trapped in toroidal stasis by arch enemy Omega. But help is at hand from the Doctor's old friends Drax and K9 — and you! Now open the covers and join the Doctor in an adventure through Time and Space...

US edition
YOU are the only hope for the salvation of the Doctor in SEARCH FOR THE DOCTOR

The year is 2056. From the Fern Spacelab orbiting above the Fusion Energy Research Network in California, OMEGA has mounted a devastating attack.

OMEGA plans to take over the Doctor's mind and body. By controlling the Doctor's awesome power, OMEGA can take revenge on the Time Lords, who sacrificed him to obtain the secret of Time Travel.

YOU will join forces with DRAX and K9 to free the Doctor and defeat OMEGA. As DRAX uses his secondhand TARDIS (cleverly disguised as a 1956 Cadillac) and K9 uses his impressive electronic skills, YOU must use all your wits to FIND YOUR FATE

Characters

 * Sixth Doctor
 * K9 Mark III
 * Drax
 * Omega

Continuity

 * This story takes place in the mid-21st Century and featured K9 Mark III, the K9 model featured in K9 and Company and The Five Doctors; the first-person reader character is a future descendant of Sarah Jane Smith who inherits the dog. This book was written long before the 2006 episode School Reunion in which that version of K9 was destroyed.
 * Drax appears, having not been seen since DW: The Armageddon Factor. He arguably appears once more as Qixotl in EDA: Alien Bodies.
 * The Doctor is travelling without a companion, likely placing this story in the interval between DW: The Ultimate Foe, after which he presumably returned Melanie Bush to her proper timeline, and PDA: Business Unusual in which the Doctor properly meets Melanie.
 * The artwork portrays the Doctor wearing the flowered waistcoat he wore in DW: The Two Doctors.

Timeline

 * This story occurs after ST: The Earwig Archipelago
 * This story occurs before Garden of Evil