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The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of Spin Off novels based on the long running BBC Science Fiction Television Series '' Doctor Who '' and published under the BBC Books imprint. 73 books were published overall. PUBLICATION HISTORY Between 1991 and 1997 , Virgin Publishing had been producing a successful series of spin off novels under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures ranges. However following the ''Doctor Who'' Television Movie which introduced the Eighth Doctor in 1996 the BBC did not renew Virgin Publishing 's license to continue publishing ''Doctor Who'' material, instead opting to publish their own range. Virgin's last New Adventures novel, ''The Dying Days'' by Lance Parkin , featured the Eighth Doctor. The Eighth Doctor Adventures began in 1997 with '' The Eight Doctors '' by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005 . It is unclear if the BBC line was originally intended to be a continuation of the continuity established in the New Adventures. However, as many of the writers for the Eighth Doctor Adventures had also written for the Virgin series, many elements from the New Adventures began to appear in both the EDAs and the Past Doctor Adventures (which replaced the Missing Adventures), and such continuity has been broadly maintained. Virgin had distinguished the New and Missing Adventures with different Cover Designs . BBC Books, however, did not differentiate their novels featuring the current and past Doctors in this way, although they were listed separately within the books. Fans continued to distinguish the ongoing story of the Eighth Doctor from the more stand-alone adventures of past Doctors, although some plot elements did cross over both ranges. With the revival of the television series, BBC Books ceased the regular Eighth Doctor Adventures in favour of a new range (the Ninth Doctor Adventures ) featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose . Future novels featuring the Eighth Doctor will be published under the Past Doctor Adventures line. In addition to the Eighth Doctor Adventures and the Past Doctor Adventures, the BBC also published three short story collections under the title of Short Trips which feature all eight (at the time of publication) Doctors. These were also inherited from Virgin, a version of their Decalog short story collections, and when the BBC ceased publishing them, a licence to continue was sought by Big Finish Productions , who continue to publish their own range of Short Trips collections to the present day. These novels all feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the 1996 television movie by Paul McGann . The Canonicity of these spin-offs is unclear. LIST OF EIGHTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES PLOT OVERVIEW Following the events of the 1996 ''Doctor Who'' Television Movie , the Eighth Doctor picked up a British teenager from the late 1990 's, Samantha "Sam" Jones , and later a disaffected drifter in his late twenties named Fitz Kreiner from 1963 . During their adventures, the threesome tangled with the Faction Paradox , a renegade Voodoo Cult of time travellers who believed in creating time Paradox es and altering History . They also met the Doctor's old friend Iris Wildthyme , a Time Lady from Gallifrey who travelled in a TARDIS shaped like a London Double-decker Bus . When Sam left the TARDIS, the Doctor and Fitz were joined by Compassion , a member of a once-human race called the Remote who slowly began a conversion process into a living TARDIS . The Time Lords, led by his old companion Romana , now President of the High Council, anxious to get their hands on this new TARDIS technology, pursued the Doctor, who lost his own TARDIS and continued to travel using Compassion. The conflict with Faction Paradox came to a climax on Gallifrey (''The Ancestor Cell'') where the discovered his TARDIS in orbit around the planet, transformed into a giant structure of living bone by the Faction. The Doctor, faced with an impossible decision, destroyed the Faction and caused major damage to the timelines by apparently wiping his homeworld and his people from history. Much later, it was revealed that four Time Lord s had survived the catastrophe, one of which was The Master (seen briefly in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street''). The other two were unknown (although it was hinted at they might have been Iris Wildthyme and the Minister of Chance from the webcast '' Death Comes To Time ''). Meanwhile, having rescued the Doctor from near-death, Compassion left the now-amnesiac Doctor on Earth in the late 19th Century while she dropped Fitz off in 2001 to await the long process of the Doctor's — and the now- Embryo nic TARDIS's — recovery ('' The Ancestor Cell ''). She then departed for parts unknown. The Doctor spent the next hundred years travelling the world and living through its history, eventually even adopting Miranda (''Father Time''), a young girl with two Heart s. Miranda left the Doctor to face her own destiny in the far future, and the Doctor went on to meet Fitz as arranged, thanks to a note Compassion slipped into his pocket a century before. Following that, the two were joined by Anji Kapoor , a London stock trader and the three left Earth in the TARDIS. Much later, while on Earth in the 18th Century , the Doctor, Fitz and Anji encountered Sabbath , a Secret Service operative who was aware of time travel and became the Doctor's personal nemesis. The Doctor lost his second heart, which was slowly killing him as it was his only link to his now-forgotten homeworld. Sabbath took the heart, tying him and the Doctor together. Through several more adventures, the Doctor and his companions encountered Sabbath again and Trix MacMillan stowed away aboard the TARDIS. Eventually, Sabbath lost the Doctor's time-sensitive heart and the Doctor grew a new one. The Doctor began to recover fragments of his memory, and discovered that Sabbath was working for someone else, a group called the Council of Eight. The Council wanted to collapse the Alternate Timelines of the Multiverse into one, manageable timeline. To them, the Doctor was a rogue element that needed to be controlled or eliminated, and they also began to eliminate his previous companions from time. Anji left the TARDIS and Trix came out of hiding, joining the crew. Sabbath eventually realised that the Council was not human and turned on his masters (''Sometime Never...''). Miranda, now a grown woman with a daughter, also returned to help her adopted father defeat the Council, but both she and Sabbath died in the process. Eventually, the Doctor returned to Earth in 2005 and discovered that another Time Lord, Marnal, had also survived the destruction of Gallifrey (''The Gallifrey Chronicles''). Marnal, who also claimed to be the original owner of the Doctor's TARDIS, blamed the Doctor for the cataclysm, and took him and the TARDIS captive while the Insect oid alien Vore invaded the Earth. After a Cold Fusion explosion gutted the interior of the TARDIS, the Doctor discovered that K-9 Mark II had been aboard all along, with orders from Lady President Romana of Gallifrey to kill him. However, K-9 paused once it scanned the Doctor's mind and discovered the reason why the Doctor had lost his memory. It transpired that, just prior to destroying Gallifrey, the Doctor (with Compassion's help) had downloaded the contents of the Gallifreyan Matrix — the massive computer network containing the mental traces of every Time Lord living and dead — into his brain, with his own memories suppressed to make room for the data. Gallifrey had not actually been erased from history, but an Event Horizon in relative time prevented anyone from Gallifrey's past to travel beyond Gallifrey's destruction, and vice versa. Both the planet and the Time Lords could be restored, along with the Doctor's memory, if a sufficiently sophisticated computer could be found to reconstruct them. Before that could be done, however, there was the problem of the Vore to contend with. At novel's end, the Doctor, Trix and Fitz were set to confront the Vore invasion force. The restoration of Gallifrey, in time for its second destruction in the Time War prior to the events of the 2005 Series has yet to be chronicled. As the Eighth Doctor Adventures line ended with ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' and all future novels featuring the Eighth Doctor will be part of the Past Doctor Adventures (starting with ''Fear Itself'' by Nick Wallace ), it is not clear if it will ever be. COMPANIONS The Doctor has a series of new Companions , who never appeared in the television programme. They are:
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