y separately published work icon Past Doctor Adventures series - publisher   novel   science fiction  
Alternative title: Past Doctor Books
Issue Details: First known date: 1997-2005... 1997-2005 Past Doctor Adventures
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The Past Doctor Adventures (PDA) was a series of paperback novel launched by BBC Books in 1997 in conjunction with its Eighth Doctor Adventures line. This series featured new adventures of the first seven Doctors, with the exception of three releases (see note below). Both series ended in 2005 when BBC Books decided to focus its publishing ventures on books related to the revived TV series. Although there was speculation that the PDA line would later resume with novels featuring the Eighth Doctor and even Ninth Doctor, as of 2009 this has not eventuated.

Notes

  • The three novels that do not focus on the first seven regenerations of the Doctor are Scream of the Shalka (a novelisation of a webcast story featuring the 'Shalka' Doctor); The Infinity Doctors (featuring an unspecified Doctor); and The Face of the Enemy (featuring The Master). One of the last novels, Fear Itself, was the only PDA title featuring the Eighth Doctor, which acknowledged the coming of the Ninth Doctor on television.
  • The 'Shalka' Doctor, as the variant of the Doctor in Scream of the Shalka is known, was originally understood to be the ninth regeneration of the Doctor (the Ninth Doctor). However, when the series was revived on television in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston as the canonical Ninth Doctor, the 'Shalka' Doctor was shunted into the role of an alternative version of the Doctor.
  • From 2006 through until March 2009 the baton of past Doctor adventures was carried by the Short Trips series. This short-story collection was published by Big Finish Productions (which had previously been associated with the Doctor Who franchise through its audio dramas).

Includes

y separately published work icon Blue Box Kate Orman , London : BBC Books , 2003 Z1118327 2003 single work novel science fiction

'The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn 'Internet' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents.

A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as 'The Doctor' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw.

Respected computer journalist Charles 'Chick' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation's vulnerable capital — and inside the world of the computer. Blue Box is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think.'

Source: Cover blurb (http://www.drwhoguide.com/whobbk59.htm). Sighted: 3/6/11


This is a 'Past Doctor' novel, which chronicles an adventure of the Sixth Doctor.

 London : BBC Books , 2003

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Related Works

y separately published work icon Doctor Who : The New Adventures The New Doctor Who Adventures Doctor Who Books (publisher), 1991 London : Doctor Who Books , 1991-1997 Z1293398 1991 series - publisher

Chronicles the adventures of the seventh Doctor. Another series, Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures, about previous regenerations of the Doctor, was published by Virgin Publishing between 1994 and 1997.
Short Trips Big Finish Productions (publisher), BBC Books (publisher), 1998 series - publisher short story science fiction
y separately published work icon Doctor Who Novellas 2001 Surrey : Telos , 2001-2004 Z1293392 2001 series - publisher novella science fiction British company Telos published fifteen Doctor Who novellas between 2001 and 2004.
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