History Literature / DoctorWhoNewAdventures

** On his return appearance in ''The Room With No Doors'', Joel autmatically responds to the question "What do you want?" with a forceful "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSD75pPsquM Never ask that question!]]", followed by an embarrassed retraction and a more serious answer when the person he's talking to completely fails to get the reference.

-->'''Joel''': We get all kinds. [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ETs]], {{mutants}}, strays, [[TheGreys greys]], [[LittleGreenMen LGMs]], [=BEMs=], UNIT deserters, [[AlienAbduction Striebs]], dweebs, [[TheStepfordWives Stepford Wives]], [[Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos Midwich Cuckoos]], missing persons, [[Creator/JohnBuchan faraway people]], peepers, buzzers, hoppers, [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy hitchers]], [[Series/QuantumLeap Leapers]], Series/{{Sliders}}...

* PunnyName: One of the aliens' historical figures in ''First Frontier'' is Councillor Ph'Roch, which if you read it aloud is pronounced "Frock".[[note]]It's also a FandomNod -- at the time, fandom was divided between the 'Gun' and 'Frock' factions.[[/note]].

Several AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episodes, sometimes marked "Side Step", take place in the ''New Adventures'' continuity. In 2012, they began adapting pre-existing novels (from this and the Literature/VirginMissingAdventures) to audio too, beginning with Creator/PaulCornell's "Love And War".

** ''The Also People'', in addition to being one huge ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheCulture'', also features a number of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' references, such as a merchant named [[HonestJohnsDealership C!Mot]], a [[Discworld/ReaperMan suspicious yellow dip at parties]], a drink called [[Discworld/MenAtArms a Double Entendre]], the Doctor seeing into the time vortex because he has [[Discworld/TheColourOfMagic octagons in his eyes as well as rods and cones]] and the chapter title "[[Discworld/{{Pyramids}} A Better Class of Recurring Dream]]".

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* FamousAncestor: The Forrester family take great pride in being able to trace their ancestry back to Nelson Mandela.

The ability to tell a story in 300 pages with an effectively unlimited "special effects "budget allowed the writers to provide deeper, more thought out stories along with more than a few {{story arc}}s, both universal and character-based. The novels were deliberately aimed at adult readers, rather than the family-friendly aim of the TV series, and did not shy away from depicting sex and violence. The stories expanded upon the Seventh Doctor's penchant for [[ManipulativeBastard playing people-chess]] with both enemies ''and'' friends, and gave it [[{{Deconstruction}} realistic consequences]].

The ability to tell a story in 300 pages with an effectively unlimited special effects budget allowed the writers to provide deeper, more thought out stories along with more than a few {{story arc}}s, both universal and character-based. The novels were deliberately aimed at adult readers, rather than the family-friendly aim of the TV series, and did not shy away from depicting sex and violence. The stories expanded upon the Seventh Doctor's penchant for [[ManipulativeBastard playing people-chess]] with both enemies ''and'' friends, and gave it [[{{Deconstruction}} realistic consequences]].

* ContractualImmortality:
** The NA creators had (perhaps only semi-seriously?) discussed regenerating the Seventh Doctor into a Doctor "played" by David Troughton, the son of Creator/PatrickTroughton. Creator/TheBBC did not allow them to do it.
** Also played with in the final Doctor Who New Adventure, ''The Dying Days'', at the time of which a rumor went around to the effect that Virgin were going to spite the BBC by killing the Doctor off. It features quite a bit of foreshadowing to that effect, starting, obviously, with the title. [[spoiler:The Doctor is apparently killed halfway through, but it's a NeverFoundTheBody situation and he shows up alive and well in the climax, just in time to save the day.]]

* DawsonCasting: Played with as at least one writer in the early novels described Ace (around 18 when the TV series concluded and played by Creator/SophieAldred, an actress in her late twenties) as in her twenties. This might indicate that a couple of years have passed since the first NA (though apparently haven't) or could explain why Aldred did not exactly look like a teenager.

* MilestoneCelebration: The 50th New Adventure, ''Happy Endings'', marked the occasion with Benny's wedding, with characters from most of the previous books turning up, plus a chapter featuring contributions from almost every author in the range up to that point, apart from Jim Mortimore.

** Infamously, ''Lungbarrow'' revealed that, since a long-ago catastrophe rendered their entire race sterile, Time Lords don't have sex -- they get created on ''looms''. (Included at no extra cost: A tortured explanation of how, in that case, the Doctor can be Susan's grandfather.) The novel led to a lot of MemeticMutation, and was entirely ignored by the TV series.

** In ''Love and War'', Ace acompanies New Age Traveller Jan on a cyberspace-enhanced Vision Quest, in which they meet the {{Trickster}}. Ace starts to identify who she sees him as, but gets interupted. However his cry of "[[CatchPhrase You wouldn't let it lie!]]" and later comment "That's a Diana and Trickster sword" makes it pretty clear he's [[TheSmellOfReevesAndMortimer Vic Reeves]].

** In ''No Future'', set in the 1970s, the Doctor watches part of an episode of ''Professor X'', the in-universe equivalent of ''Doctor Who''; the actor playing the Professor is not explicitly identified, but is clearly Frankie Howerd in the same comic mode as ''UpPompeii''.

** Another author who does it a lot is [=David A. McIntee=]. The villains in ''White Darkness'' are HammerHorror stalwarts Creator/PeterCushing and Ingrid Pitt. The ultimate villain in ''First Frontier'' is Basil Rathbone.

Several AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episodes, sometimes marked "Side Step", take place in the ''New Adventures'' continuity.

* HumanoidAbomination: One of the authors (specifically, Dave Stone) liked to hint that Time Lords are incomprehensible multi-dimensional entities bearing no more resemblance to the humanoids the audience knows than JimHenson to Kermit the Frog. The idea doesn't seem to have caught on, though.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Gilgamesh and Enkidu fought a cybernetic construct (''Timewyrm: Genesys''); the Doctor worked with AlCapone to try and keep the peace among Chicago's gangs (''Blood Harvest''); Akhenaten helped Ace escape AncientEgypt, while Benny went on an expedition with Vivant Dominique Denon, father of modern archaeology (''Set Piece''); and William Blake traveled with the Doctor (''The Pit'').

* PowerBornOfMadness: In ''Timewyrm: Exodus'', the Timewyrm tries to possess AdolfHitler and is instead trapped in his mind by his madness.

Several AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episodes, sometimes marked "Side Step", take place in the ''New Adventures'' continutity.

Several AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episodes, somtimes marked "Side Step", take place in the ''New Adventures'' continutity.