BBC New Series Adventures
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The BBC New Series Adventures is a banner under which the series of novels published by BBC Books featuring the Ninth and Tenth Doctors are collected.
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[edit] Ninth Doctor
These novels are a series published by BBC Books and are stories featuring the Ninth Doctor. With the revival of the television series, BBC Books ended the Eighth Doctor Adventures line to print the Ninth Doctor Adventures.
The are the only spin-off books to have had content referenced from them in the series as in the episode Boom Town, Rose makes a reference to her and the Doctor's trip to the Justicia system. This took place in The Monsters Inside. The first three novels also contain Bad Wolf references in common with the 2005 television series, and Winner Takes All also features the recurring characters Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler.
The first three novels probably take place between World War Three and The Empty Child, and the latter three (which feature Captain Jack) between The Doctor Dances and Boom Town. They can be read in any order.
This line of novels continued to be issued following Christopher Eccleston's departure from the series until the end of 2005, after which the series continued, featuring the Tenth Doctor in 2006.
[edit] List of novels featuring the Ninth Doctor
- Rain of Terror by Mike Tucker was originally listed in the second batch of three novels, but was replaced by The Stealers of Dreams a few days later without explanation.
[edit] Notes
Behind the chapter numbers in the books are symbols similar to the "Gallifreyan writing" seen in the series. The same symbols appear on the spines, and are referred to as Gallifreyan numbers by fans. The recurring patterns in the symbols suggest that Time Lords count in base seven, although a reucrring error means that the symbol for 13 is accidentally replaced by the symbol for 11 every time it should appear.
[edit] Tenth Doctor
These novels are a series of published by BBC Books and are stories featuring the Tenth Doctor. Following the success of the six novels published in 2006 featuring the Doctor and Rose, followed by more books published in 2007 and 2008 featuring Martha Jones as companion. Martha continued to appear in prose adventures until well after her departure from the series. Her successor, Donna Noble, first appeared in Pest Control, a made-for-audio adventure published by BBC Audio as part of the Tenth Doctor Adventures line; the first printed novels featuring her were released in the Autumn of 2008, however she only appeared in a few of the books before a series of novels featuring the Doctor travelling solo began with The Eyeless and continued into September 2009. So far all releases announced for 2009 also follow the theme of featuring classic monsters and villains from the TV series, including Daleks, Sontarans (twice), and the Nestene Consciousness.
The line also includes an ongoing series of shorter novellas under the banner "Quick Reads". Launched in 2006, this is a BBC initiative to promote literacy, and the second release in the series, Made of Steel, marked the "revived franchise" debut of longtime Doctor Who novelist and scriptwriter Terrance Dicks. A series of made-for-audio stories, read by actors David Tennant and Catherine Tate, have also been released under the TDA banner. So far, the audio books have continued to feature Donna Noble, despite her no longer being featured in the print novels.
All of the Tenth Doctor adventures (except for the Quick Reads series) have been released as abridged audio books. The first three were read by David Tennant. After that, other popular actors replaced Tennant, who did not reappear as narrator until the made-for-audio stories. The other actors include Freema Agyeman, Georgia Moffat, Anthony Head and Adjoa Andoh.
[edit] List of novels featuring the Tenth Doctor
[edit] Quick Reads
[edit] Audio books
| Title | Author | Narrator | ISBN | Image |
| Pest Control | Peter Anghelides | David Tennant | ISBN 978-1-405-67819-3 | 
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| The Forever Trap | Dan Abnett | Catherine Tate | ISBN 978-1-408-40678-6 | 
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| The Nemonite Invasion | David Roden | Catherine Tate | ISBN 978-1-408-40679-3 | 
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| The Rising Night | Scott Handcock | Michelle Ryan | ISBN 978-1408409381 | 
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| The Day of the Troll | Simon Messingham | David Tennant | ISBN 978-1408409398 | 
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| The Last Voyage | Dan Abnett | David Tennant | ISBN 978-1-4084-0940-2 | 
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[edit] Future releases
As of October 2009 no further full-length Tenth Doctor novels have been announced beyond those published in late September 2009. A Quick Reads novella featuring the Tenth Doctor has been announced for release in the spring of 2010 (several months after David Tennant's scheduled final appearance), but it is not yet known whether there will be any further full-length Tenth Doctor novels.
BBC Books has likewise yet to confirm when or if NSA novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor will appear.
[edit] Sarah Jane Adventures
The Tenth Doctor also appears in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, a release in the BBC The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations line. Although the cover art matches the format of the NSA line, the book, published by Penguin Character Books, is not considered part of the New Series Adventures.
[edit] Notes
Behind the chapter numbers in the books are symbols similar to the "Gallifreyan writing" seen in the series. The same symbols appear on the spines, and are Gallifreyan numbers. The recurring patterns in the symbols suggest that Time Lords count in base seven. However, the numerals for 11 and 13 are the same, suggesting an error.
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| Ninth Doctor novels |
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| The Clockwise Man • The Monsters Inside • Winner Takes All • The Deviant Strain • Only Human • The Stealers of Dreams |
