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
 * Loses his memory due to the Master's trap after his death
 * First Doctor
 * Second Doctor
 * Third Doctor
 * Fourth Doctor
 * Fifth Doctor
 * Sixth Doctor
 * Seventh Doctor
 * Sam Jones
 * 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.
 * Flavia
 * Susan Foreman
 * Barbara Wright
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Jamie McCrimmon
 * Zoe Heriot
 * Jo Grant
 * Sergeant Benton
 * Romana II
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * Vislor Turlough
 * Raston Warrior Robot
 * massacres the Sontarans

Continuity

 * 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 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.


 * The BBC audio Bounty follows directly from this.


 * 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.

Timeline
For the First Doctor:
 * This story occurs during episode 3 of An Unearthly Child.

For the Second Doctor:
 * This story occurs during episode 9 of The War Games.

For the Third Doctor:
 * This story occurs after DW: The Sea Devils
 * This story occurs before DWM: 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 ST: Lily

For the Sixth Doctor:
 * This story occurs during episode 1 of 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 BBCA: Bounty