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** Virgin at one stage, until Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son of Creator/PatrickTroughton. [[https://jaowriter.net/2014/08/28/throwback-interview-paul-cornell-2002/ According to Paul Cornell]], the idea was reasonably far in development before the BBC put a stop to it due to their own conflicting plans to introduce their own Eighth Doctor, Paul [=McGann=], in the then-upcoming TV movie. The Seventh Doctor was to die a shockingly gory, ignoble death after stepping on a landmine and slowly regenerate FromASingleCell in a cocoon from the TARDIS (ironically, not too dissimilar from Seven getting randomly gunned down by gangsters in the movie), only for his next incarnation to be a tall, muscular, square-jawed GentleGiant, constantly holding back his true strength to avoid accidentally breaking things -- or people. His personality and physicality would've completely contrasted TheUnfettered, scheming ChessMaster that was the Seventh Doctor.
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** Virgin at one stage, until Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son of Creator/PatrickTroughton. [[https://jaowriter.net/2014/08/28/throwback-interview-paul-cornell-2002/ According to Paul Cornell]], the idea was reasonably far in development before the BBC put a stop to it due to their own conflicting plans to introduce their own Eighth Doctor, Paul [=McGann=], in the then-upcoming TV movie. The Midway through a story, the Seventh Doctor was to [[LudicrousGibs die a shockingly gory, ignoble death death]] after stepping on a landmine and slowly regenerate FromASingleCell in a cocoon from the TARDIS (ironically, not too dissimilar from Seven getting randomly gunned down by gangsters in the movie), only for his next incarnation to be a tall, muscular, square-jawed GentleGiant, constantly holding back his true strength to avoid accidentally breaking things -- or people. His personality and physicality would've completely contrasted TheUnfettered, scheming ChessMaster that was the Seventh Doctor.
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** The NA creators had (perhaps only semi-seriously?) discussed regenerating the Seventh Doctor into a Doctor "played" by Creator/DavidTroughton, the son of Creator/PatrickTroughton. Creator/TheBBC did not allow them to do it.
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** Virgin at one stage, until Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son of Creator/PatrickTroughton. [[https://jaowriter.net/2014/08/28/throwback-interview-paul-cornell-2002/ According to Paul Cornell]], the idea was reasonably far in development before the BBC put a stop to it due to their own conflicting plans to introduce their own Eighth Doctor, Paul [=McGann=], in the then-upcoming TV movie. The Seventh Doctor was to die a shockingly gory, ignoble death after stepping on a landmine and slowly regenerate FromASingleCell in a cocoon from the TARDIS (ironically, not too dissimilar from Seven getting randomly gunned down by gangsters in the movie), only for his next incarnation to be a tall, muscular, square-jawed GentleGiant, constantly holding back his true strength to avoid accidentally breaking things -- or people. His personality and physicality would've completely contrasted TheUnfettered, scheming ChessMaster that was the Seventh Doctor.
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* NamesTheSame: Sort of. Both the Seventh and [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Eighth]] Doctors encounter a type 102 TARDIS in their run. However, the two couldn't be more different; one is an advanced but otherwise mundane TARDIS from Gallifrey's future. The other [[spoiler: was not only once human, but the prototype basis for future sapient [=TARDISes=].]]
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** The New Adventures offered two different explanations of the Sixth Doctor's [[DroppedABridgeOnHim perfunctory]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani death and regeneration]]. The first was convoluted and {{wangst}}y[[note]]In short, that the Seventh Doctor, "waiting" in the Sixth's mind, allowed the Rani to attack the TARDIS and bring on the regeneration[[/note]] and firmly squished by the second, which dismissed it as an impossible story the Seventh Doctor had subconsciously persuaded himself of because he, TheChessmaster, couldn't face having died in such a pointless and random way.
** ''Lungbarrow'', written after [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]] debuted as a transition to it from the novels, offers a solution to the 'Half-Human' plot element that caused a fan backlash. The end of the book reveals that Leela is pregnant with Andred's child. The Doctor, amused, tells them to name the child after himself. It is implied that this half-Human, half-Gallifreyan child grows up, steals a TARDIS somewhere in the 24 years other works have confirmed to have passed between "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]" and ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' (this book is set a year after the TV episode), has his own adventures and then goes back into Gallifrey's past and becomes the Other. ''Then'', he throws himself into a Loom and is reborn as the Doctor ten million years later, meaning that the memories of parents the Doctor refers to in the TV Movie are actually the Other's.
** The New Adventures offered two different explanations of the Sixth Doctor's [[DroppedABridgeOnHim perfunctory]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani death and regeneration]]. The first was convoluted and {{wangst}}y[[note]]In short, that the Seventh Doctor, "waiting" in the Sixth's mind, allowed the Rani to attack the TARDIS and bring on the regeneration[[/note]] and firmly squished by the second, which dismissed it as an impossible story the Seventh Doctor had subconsciously persuaded himself of because he, TheChessmaster, couldn't face having died in such a pointless and random way.
** ''Lungbarrow'', written after [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]] debuted as a transition to it from the novels, offers a solution to the 'Half-Human' plot element that caused a fan backlash. The end of the book reveals that Leela is pregnant with Andred's child. The Doctor, amused, tells them to name the child after himself. It is implied that this half-Human, half-Gallifreyan child grows up, steals a TARDIS somewhere in the 24 years other works have confirmed to have passed between "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]" and ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' (this book is set a year after the TV episode), has his own adventures and then goes back into Gallifrey's past and becomes the Other. ''Then'', he throws himself into a Loom and is reborn as the Doctor ten million years later, meaning that the memories of parents the Doctor refers to in the TV Movie are actually the Other's.
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** The New Adventures offered two different explanations of the Sixth Doctor's [[DroppedABridgeOnHim perfunctory]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani death and regeneration]]. The first was convoluted and {{wangst}}y[[note]]In short, that the Seventh Doctor, "waiting" in the Sixth's mind, allowed the Rani to attack the TARDIS and bring on the regeneration[[/note]] and firmly squished by the second, which dismissed it as an impossible story the Seventh Doctor had subconsciously persuaded himself of because he, TheChessmaster, couldn't face having died in such a pointless and random way.
** ''Lungbarrow'', written after [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]] debuted as a transition to it from the novels, offers a solution to the 'Half-Human' plot element that caused a fan backlash. The end of the book reveals that Leela is pregnant with Andred's child. The Doctor, amused, tells them to name the child after himself. It is implied that this half-Human, half-Gallifreyan child grows up, steals a TARDIS somewhere in the 24 years other works have confirmed to have passed between "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]" and ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' (this book is set a year after the TV episode), has his own adventures and then goes back into Gallifrey's past and becomes the Other. ''Then'', he throws himself into a Loom and is reborn as the Doctor ten million years later, meaning that the memories of parents the Doctor refers to in the TV Movie are actually the Other's.
** The New Adventures offered two different explanations of the Sixth Doctor's [[DroppedABridgeOnHim perfunctory]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani death and regeneration]]. The first was convoluted and {{wangst}}y[[note]]In short, that the Seventh Doctor, "waiting" in the Sixth's mind, allowed the Rani to attack the TARDIS and bring on the regeneration[[/note]] and firmly squished by the second, which dismissed it as an impossible story the Seventh Doctor had subconsciously persuaded himself of because he, TheChessmaster, couldn't face having died in such a pointless and random way.
** ''Lungbarrow'', written after [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]] debuted as a transition to it from the novels, offers a solution to the 'Half-Human' plot element that caused a fan backlash. The end of the book reveals that Leela is pregnant with Andred's child. The Doctor, amused, tells them to name the child after himself. It is implied that this half-Human, half-Gallifreyan child grows up, steals a TARDIS somewhere in the 24 years other works have confirmed to have passed between "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]" and ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' (this book is set a year after the TV episode), has his own adventures and then goes back into Gallifrey's past and becomes the Other. ''Then'', he throws himself into a Loom and is reborn as the Doctor ten million years later, meaning that the memories of parents the Doctor refers to in the TV Movie are actually the Other's.
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* Lance Parkin wrote four possible epilogues for ''The Dying Days'' which were rejected. Two featured the 42nd Doctor, a far-future incarnation from his own fanfic, and editor Rebecca Levine said there was "no way on God's Earth" he was getting away with that. One was the same idea, but with a much older Eighth Doctor. And one was completely different and featured Chris Cwej and the Timewyrm, and even he hated that one.
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* Lance Parkin wrote four possible epilogues for ''The Dying Days'' which were rejected. Two featured the 42nd Doctor, a far-future incarnation from his own fanfic, and editor Rebecca Levine said there was "no way on God's Earth" he was getting away with that. One was the same idea, but with a much older Eighth Doctor. And one was completely different and featured Chris Cwej and the Timewyrm, and even he hated that one.
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* DevelopmentGag: ''Lunbarrow'' reveals that the Doctor and Susan aren't actually related. In the early stages of the television show, they weren't related until someone pointed out that an old man travelling around with a teenager girl raised all kinds of questions.
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* DevelopmentGag: ''Lunbarrow'' ''Lungbarrow'' reveals that the Doctor and Susan aren't actually related. In the early stages of the television show, they weren't related until someone pointed out that an old man travelling around with a teenager girl raised all kinds of questions.
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* CreatorsFavouriteEpisode: Creator/PaulCornell referred to ''Human Nature'' as "my ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper]]''"
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** Gareth Roberts named ''The Highest Science'' as his favourite of the three books he wrote for the series.
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** Gareth Roberts named ''The Highest Science'' as his favourite of the three books he wrote for the series.
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** Several of the novels were based on story ideas that had originally been pitched for the TV series, but had failed to make the cut for various reasons. Possibly the one that made it closest to getting on the air was Ben Aaronovitch's ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTransit Transit]]'', which was actively being considered until he put it aside after being offered the chance to write [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the big 25th anniversary Dalek story]]. Marc Platt's pitch that became ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresCatsCradleTimesCrucible Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'' was turned down because it went way beyond what could be achieved on the show's budget. Several different accounts have been given for why Platt's ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLungbarrow Lungbarrow]]'' didn't make the cut, although several aspects of it received a positive reception and were retained into Platt's successful next pitch, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight Ghost Light]]".
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* ExiledFromContinuity: The Daleks are mentioned but never actually make an appearance, as the rights were separately owned by Creator/TerryNation, with whom Virgin was unable to agree upon terms for their use.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Virgin at one stage, until Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son of Creator/PatrickTroughton.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Virgin at one stage, until Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son ofCreator/PatrickTroughton.Creator/PatrickTroughton.
** The original plan for ''So Vile A Sin'' was to have an incredibly powerful and evil being living in the core of the Earth. This would tie back to stories like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]] and show that the Doctor had unknowingly been fighting against it for a long time. This was abandoned when Kate Orman took over the book, though the scene with the Empress of the Earth Empire may been a retooled version of it.
** Virgin at one stage, until Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son of
** The original plan for ''So Vile A Sin'' was to have an incredibly powerful and evil being living in the core of the Earth. This would tie back to stories like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]] and show that the Doctor had unknowingly been fighting against it for a long time. This was abandoned when Kate Orman took over the book, though the scene with the Empress of the Earth Empire may been a retooled version of it.
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** Comic/DoctorWhoMagazine writer Scot Gray hated having to share a continuity, since he thought they were [[PanderingToTheBase appealing to a smaller audience]] than their own.
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* CreatorsPest: Gary Russell hated Chris and Roz, going so far as to call them the worst characters ever.
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** Comic/DoctorWhoMagazine Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine writer Scot Gray hated having to share a continuity, since he thought they were [[PanderingToTheBase appealing to a smaller audience]] than their own.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/PaulCornell referred to ''Human Nature'' as "my ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper]]''"
* CreatorsPest: Gary Russellhated ''hated'' Chris and Roz, going so far as to call them the worst characters ever.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/PaulCornell referred to ''Human Nature'' as "my ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper]]''"
* CreatorsPest: Gary Russell
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Virgin at one stage, until Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son of Creator/PatrickTroughton.Creator/PatrickTroughton.
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* ShrugOfGod: ''Just War'' mentions that UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, had a predecessor organisation under the League of Nations called LONGBOW. The novel never explains what LONGBOW is short for, and the author has admitted that he just picked a suitably resonant word beginning with "LON" and never bothered to fill out the acronym.
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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/PaulCornell hated ''No Future'', calling it the worst book he'd ever read.
* CreatorsPest: Gary Russel hated Chris and Roz, going so far as to call them the worst characters ever.
* CreatorsPest: Gary Russel hated Chris and Roz, going so far as to call them the worst characters ever.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Virgin at one stage, until the BBC Creator/TheBBC rejected the idea, considered having the Seventh Doctor regenerate into an Eighth incarnation, who on cover illustrations would have been [[ComicBookFantasyCasting visually based]] on David Troughton, son of Creator/PatrickTroughton.
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* NamesTheSame: Sort of. Both the Seventh and [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Eighth]] Doctors encounter a type 102 TARDIS in their run. However, the two couldn't be more different; one is an advanced but otherwise mundane TARDIS from Gallifrey's future. The other [[spoiler: was not only once human, but the prototype basis for future sapient [=TARDISes=].]]
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* NamesTheSame: Sort of. Both the Seventh and [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Eighth]] Doctors encounter a type 102 TARDIS in their run. However, the two couldn't be more different; one is an advanced but otherwise mundane TARDIS from Gallifrey's future. The other [[spoiler: was not only once human, but the prototype basis for future sapient TARDISes.[=TARDISes=].]]
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* 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.
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** The New Adventures also celebrated the 30th anniversary of the TV series with a five-part story arc, published in late 1993 and early 1994, in which the Doctor faced a series of old enemies.
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** 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.
** 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.
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