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: 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

 * First Doctor: DW: An Unearthly Child
 * Second Doctor: DW: The War Games, or just prior to PDA: Players
 * Third Doctor: After DW: The Sea Devils
 * Fourth Doctor: After DW: State of Decay
 * Fifth Doctor: After DW: The Five Doctors
 * Sixth Doctor: Just before DW: The Ultimate Foe
 * Seventh Doctor: Some point between Lungbarrow and Notre Dame du Temps