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The Eight Doctors

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1997
1997
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Prologue - Prologue
1 - Totters Lane
2 - Information Received
3 - Reunion
4 - Lost Legion
5 - Decision
6 - Escape
7 - Devil's End
8 - Old Friends
9 - Interlude
10 - Vampires
11 - The Vampire Mutation
12 - Blood of a Time Lord
13 - Timescoop
14 - Harmony
15 - Buridan's Ass
16 - Battleground
17 - Death Sentence
18 - Flavia
19 - Inquiry
20 - The Master
21 - The Return
22 - Holiday with Danger
23 - Rassilon's Game
Epilogue - Epilogue
Appendix - Extract from the Secret Scrolls of Gallifrey
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A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

1) The Eight Doctors
2) Vampire Science
3) The Bodysnatchers
4) Genocide
5) War of the Daleks
6) Alien Bodies
7) Kursaal
8) Option Lock
9) Longest Day
10) Legacy of the Daleks
11) Dreamstone Moon
12) Seeing I
13) Placebo Effect
14) Vanderdeken's Children
15) The Scarlet Empress
16) The Janus Conjunction
17) Beltempest
18) The Face-Eater
19) The Taint
20) Demontage
21) Revolution Man
22) Dominion
23) Unnatural History
24) Autumn Mist
25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) The Blue Angel
28) Taking of Planet 5
29) Frontier Worlds
30) Parallel 59
31) Shadows of Avalon
32) The Fall of Yquatine
33) Coldheart
34) The Space Age
35) The Banquo Legacy
36) The Ancestor Cell
37) The Burning
38) Casualties of War
39) The Turing Test
40) Endgame
41) Father Time
42) Escape Velocity
43) Earthworld
44) Vanishing Point
45) Eater of Wasps
46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) The Slow Empire
48) Dark Progeny
49) City of the Dead
50) Grimm Reality
51) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Hope
54) Anachrophobia
55) Trading Futures
56) The Book of the Still
57) The Crooked World
58) History 101
59) Camera Obscura
60) Time Zero
61) The Infinity Race
62) The Domino Effect
63) Reckless Engineering
64) The Last Resort
65) Timeless
66) Emotional Chemistry
67) Sometime Never...
68) Halflife
69) The Tomorrow Windows
70) The Sleep of Reason
71) The Deadstone Memorial
72) To the Slaughter
73) The Gallifrey Chronicles
© Terrance Dicks 1997
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Synopsis (may contain spoilers)
This is the 1st novel published by the BBC to feature the 8th Doctor.  His companion is Samantha "Sam" Jones.

The Doctor, while checking on the Eye of Harmony, is ensnared in a trap set by the Master.  He forgets who he is but trusts the TARDIS.  It takes him on a journey through time to correct problems that had arose with his other selves.  As he meets each of his past selves more of his memory is restored.

In the end, the Doctor materializes in Totters Lane to rescue Sam from Baz Bailey and they both take off in the TARDIS.

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Last Updated: 06-Apr-2020

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 02-Jun-1997
BBC Books
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Date Issued:
02-Jun-1997
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280
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ISBN:
0-563-40563-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-563-40563-4
Printing:
5
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Credits:
Black Sheep  - Cover Artist
'Trust the TARDIS...'

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 disoriented 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...
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Terrance Dicks  
Birth: 10 May 1935 East Ham, London, England, UK
Death: 29 Aug 2019

Notes:
From the back of the book Warmonger.

Terrance Dicks joined Doctor Who as junior assistant trainee script editor in 1968, when they were making The Web of Fear and desperately trying to  make a roaring Yeti sound less like a flushing lavatory.  He worked on the show during the end of the Patrick Troughton years, and co-wrote The War Games, Troughton's last show, with Malcolm Hulke.  He stayed on as a script editor for the whole of the Jon Pertwee period, and left to write Robot, the first Tom Baker story.  (This was in accordance with an ancient Who tradition, which he'd just invented, that the departing script editor writes the first show of the next season.)

In the years that followed he wrote a handful of Doctor Who scripts, finishing in 1983 with The Five Doctors, the programmes twentieth anniversary special.

In the early 1970s he was in at the very beginning of the Doctor Who novelisation programme and ended up, more by luck than judgment, writing most of them - seventy something in all.  He has since written a number of Doctor Who 'originals', including Exodus, part of the opening Timewyrm sequence published by Virgin, and The Eight Doctors, the first original novel published by BBC Worldwide.

He has written two Doctor Who stage plays, one a flop d'éstime (great reviews, poor audiences), the other a bit of a pantomime but a modest touring success.  He has also written about a hundred non-Who books, fiction and non-fiction for young adults, but nobody ever asks about them.

In over thirty years with the Doctor he has grown older, fatter, greyer and grumpier.  But not noticeably wiser.

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