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The Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann

BBC Books Season 1 (Sam)

Code Title Type Rating Notes

TVM

Enemy Within

feature-length episode

5

The Doctor regenerates.
Grace appears.

ED01

The Eight Doctors

BBC Novel

5

This follows Enemy Within, though not necessarily immediately.
Sam joins.

EB

Bounty

BBC Audio

5

This is Sam's first trip in the TARDIS.

Reference from Vampire Science

Reference

4

The Doctor drops Sam off at a Greenpeace rally, as mentioned in Vampire Science.

NA61

The Dying Days

Virgin Novel

3

Either soon after the regeneration (Wolsey is still alive), or way after (the Doctor claims to be 1300). Not while the Doctor is amnesiac. Placebo Effect places it here.
Benny appears.
Wolsey leaves.

ST1

Model Train Set

Short Trips

2

Features the Eighth Doctor, probably soon after the regeneration.

ST2

Totem

More Short Trips

2

Eighth Doctor alone.

RT

Radio Times Strips

Radio Times

3

In these, the Doctor travels with Stacey and Ssard. He later drops them off.

TE06

Rip Tide

Telos Novella

3

The Doctor is alone and remembers Gallifrey.

TE12

Eye of the Tyger

Telos Novella

2

The Doctor is alone.

ED02

Vampire Science

BBC Novel

5

Sam rejoins.
Three years have passed for the Doctor since leaving her.

ST1

The People's Temple

Short Trips

3

Features the eighth Doctor and (younger) Sam.

ST2

Dead Time

More Short Trips

3

Features the eighth Doctor and (younger) Sam.

ST3

The Queen of Eros

Short Trips and Side Steps

3

Features the eighth Doctor and (younger?) Sam.

ED03

The Bodysnatchers

BBC Novel

5

ED04

Genocide

BBC Novel

5

Sam is 17.

ED05

War of the Daleks

BBC Novel

5

Sam is 17.

ED06

Alien Bodies

BBC Novel

5

ED7

Kursaal

BBC Novel

5

ED08

Option Lock

BBC Novel

5

ED09

Longest Day

BBC Novel

5

Sam leaves.

ED10

Legacy of the Daleks

BBC Novel

5

Follows on from Longest Day.
Susan appears.

ED11

Dreamstone Moon

BBC Novel

5

Follows on from Legacy of the Daleks.

ED12

Seeing I

BBC Novel

5

Follows on from Dreamstone Moon.
Sam rejoins.

BBC Books Season 2 (Fitz)

Code Title Type Rating Notes

ED13

Placebo Effect

BBC Novel

5

ED14

Vanderken's Children

BBC Novel

5

ED15

The Scarlet Empress

BBC Novel

5

ED16

The Janus Conjunction

BBC Novel

5

ED17

Beltempest

BBC Novel

5

ST2

Femme Fatale

BBC Novel

3

Features the Eighth Doctor and Sam. Takes place four months after The Scarlet Empress.

ED18

The Face Eater

BBC Novel

5

ED19

The Taint

BBC Novel

5

Fitz joins.

ED20

Demontage

BBC Novel

5

ED21

Revolution Man

BBC Novel

5

Fitz takes a break.

ED22

Dominion

BBC Novel

5

Sam is 22.

ED23

Unnatural History

BBC Novel

5

ED24

Autumn Mist

BBC Novel

5

The Doctor is 1,018.

ED25
ED26

Interference: Book 1
Interference: Book 2

BBC Novel
BBC Novel

5

Sarah and K9 Mk III appear.
Sam leaves.
Fitz changes to New Fitz.
Compassion joins.

Big Finish Season 1

I currently place the Big Finish audios featuring the eighth Doctor after Interference because we know the Doctor takes a side trip soon afterwards, and it fits that he would be infected by the Faction Paradox virus during them.

Code Title Type Rating Notes

BF16

Storm Warning

Big Finish Audio

5

Charley joins.

BF17

Sword of Orion

Big Finish Audio

5

BF18

The Stones of Venice

Big Finish Audio

5

BF19

Minuet in Hell

Big Finish Audio

5

BF28

Invaders from Mars

Big Finish Audio

5

BF29

The Chimes of Midnight

Big Finish Audio

5

BF30

Seasons of Fear

Big Finish Audio

5

BF31

Embrace the Darkness

Big Finish Audio

5

BF32

The Time of the Daleks

Big Finish Audio

5

ST05

Apocrypha Bipedium

Short Trips: Companions

4

BF33

Neverland

Big Finish Audio

5

BF50

Zagreus

Big Finish Audio

5

Big Finish Season 2

Code Title Type Rating Notes

BF52

Scherzo

Big Finish Audio

5

BF53

The Creed of the Kromon

Big Finish Audio

5

C'rizz joins

BF54

The Natural History of Fear

Big Finish Audio

5

BF55

The Twilight Kingdom

Big Finish Audio

5

BF61

Faith Stealer

Big Finish Audio

5

BF62

The Last

Big Finish Audio

5

Charley leaves

Conjecture

Charley and C'rizz leave.

BBC Books Season 3 (Faction Paradox)

Code Title Type Rating Notes

ED27

The Blue Angel

BBC Novel

5

ED28

The Taking of Planet 5

BBC Novel

5

ED29

Frontier Worlds

BBC Novel

5

Compassion starts becoming a TARDIS.

ED30

Parallel 59

BBC Novel

5

ED31

The Shadows of Avalon

BBC Novel

5

The TARDIS is destroyed. Compassion becomes a TARDIS.

ED32

The Fall of Yquatine

BBC Novel

5

ED33

Coldheart

BBC Novel

5

ED34

The Space Age

BBC Novel

5

ED35

The Banquo Legacy

BBC Novel

5

ED36

The Ancestor Cell

BBC Novel

5

Follows on from The Banquo Legacy.
Gallifrey is destroyed.
Fitz and Compassion leave.

BBC Books Season 4 (The Earth Arc)

Code Title Type Rating Notes

ED37

The Burning

BBC Novel

5

It's 1894.

ED38

Casualties of War

BBC Novel

5

It's 1918.

PD62

Wolfsbane

BBC Novel

5

Takes place during the Earth Arc, in 1936.

ED39

The Turing Test

BBC Novel

5

Spans 1943-1945

ED40

Endgame

BBC Novel

5

It's 1951

ED41

Father Time

BBC Novel

5

Spans most of the 1980s.

ED42

Escape Velocity

BBC Novel

5

It's February 2001.
Fitz rejoins, Anji joins.

ED43

EarthWorld

BBC Novel

5

Follows on from Escape Velocity.

PD72

Fear Itself

BBC Novel

3

Features the eighth Doctor, Fitz, and Anji, and is implied to be soon after Earthworld.

ED44

Vanishing Point

BBC Novel

5

ED45

Eater of Wasps

BBC Novel

5

ED46

The Year of Intelligent Tigers

BBC Novel

5

ED47

The Slow Empire

BBC Novel

5

ED48

Dark Progeny

BBC Novel

5

ED49

The City of the Dead

BBC Novel

5

ED50

Grimm Reality

BBC Novel

5

ST05

Notre Dame Du Temps

Short Trips: Companions

3

Anji has been in the TARDIS for a while, and this part of the story fit very well with the framing sequence in Grimm Reality.

BBC Books Season 5 (Sabbath)

Code Title Type Rating Notes

ED51

The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

BBC Novel

5

ED52

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

BBC Novel

5

ED53

Hope

BBC Novel

5

ED54

Anachrophobia

BBC Novel

5

ED55

Trading Futures

BBC Novel

5

ED56

The Book of the Still

BBC Novel

5

ED57

The Crooked World

BBC Novel

5

ED58

History 101

BBC Novel

5

ST05

Notre Dame Du Temps

Short Trips: Companions

3

The Doctor has a single heart, so between The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and Camera Obscura, and it's a long time since the Anji segment of the story.

ED59

Camera Obscura

BBC Novel

5

ED60

Time Zero

BBC Novel

5

Trix stows away on the TARDIS

ED61

The Infinity Race

BBC Novel

5

Follows on from Time Zero

ED62

The Domino Effect

BBC Novel

5

ED63

Reckless Engineering

BBC Novel

5

Trix appears

ED64

The Last Resort

BBC Novel

5

Trix appears

ED65

Timeless

BBC Novel

5

Anji leaves, Trix joins

ED66

Emotional Chemistry

BBC Novel

5

ED67

Sometime Never...

BBC Novel

5

ED68

Halflife

BBC Novel

5

ED69

The Tomorrow Windows

BBC Novel

5

ED70

The Sleep of Reason

BBC Novel

5

ED71

The Deadstone Memorial

BBC Novel

5

ED72

To the Slaughter

BBC Novel

5

ED73

The Gallifrey Chronicles

BBC Novel

5

Anji appears

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