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The ''Virgin Missing Adventures'' were a series of novels from
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series ''
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'', which had been cancelled in 1989, featuring stories set between televised episodes of the programme. The novels were published from 1994 to 1997, and featured the First through
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s. (The
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also appeared in one novel.) The ''Missing Adventures'' complemented the ''
Virgin New Adventures The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the televisi ...
'' range, which had proved successful.


Publication history

Virgin had purchased the successful children's imprint
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in 1989, with Virgin's new fiction editor
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taking over the range. Target's major output was novelisations of televised ''Doctor Who'' stories, and Darvill-Evans realised that there were few stories left to be novelised. He approached the
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for permission to commission original stories written directly for print, but such a licence was initially refused. However, after the television series was cancelled at the end of 1989, Virgin were granted the licence to produce full-length original novels continuing the story from the point at which the series had concluded. Virgin New Adventures#cite note-Bookwyrm-4 The first range covered only the continuing adventures of the Seventh Doctor, but when that proved successful, Virgin also created this range covering the previous Doctors, with new stories that fit in between the televised serials. ere's your citation: https://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv39/missingadventures.html In addition to original novels, the Missing Adventures series also incorporated two novelisations: '' The Ghosts of N-Space'', based upon a mid-1990s BBC audio play, and '' Downtime'', which was based upon an independent video production featuring several characters from the ''Doctor Who'' series (the novelisation is one of the few ''Doctor Who'' novels in which the Doctor does not appear as a central character). When the BBC decided in 1996 to do their own line of novels with the Eighth Doctor, they withdrew the license from Virgin to publish the
Eighth Doctor Adventures The ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and published under the BBC Books impr ...
. The adventures of the previous Doctors were taken up by the BBC in the Past Doctor Adventures line of books.


Reprints

In 2014, both ''The Scales of Injustice'' and ''The Sands of Time'' were reprinted as part of
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' ''The Monster Collection''. These were followed with ''The English Way of Death'', a part of ''The History Collection'' (2015).


List of ''Virgin Missing Adventures''

Including books featuring two of the Doctors, the total tallies are: First Doctor, 5 books; Second, 5 books; Third, 6 books; Fourth, 9 books; Fifth, 5 books; Sixth, 5 books; and Seventh, 1 book.


Continuity

Three of the ''Missing Adventures'' were sequels to televised serials, they were: *''The Sands of Time'' — ''
Pyramids of Mars ''Pyramids of Mars'' is the third serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by Robert Holmes and Lewis Greifer under the pseudonym of "Stephen Harris" and directed by Paddy Russell, t ...
'' *''The Shadow of Weng-Chiang'' — '' The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' *''Twilight of the Gods'' — ''
The Web Planet ''The Web Planet'' is the fifth serial of the second season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by Bill Strutton and directed by Richard Martin, the serial was broadcast on BBC1 in six weekly parts from ...
'' Two of the ''Missing Adventures'' were novelisations: *''The Ghosts of N-Space'' — the
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audio drama '' The Ghosts of N-Space'' *''Downtime'' — the
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direct-to-video spin-off '' Downtime'', featuring the
Great Intelligence The Great Intelligence is a fictional character from the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Although the Great Intelligence has no physical form, it is capable of communicating, both by itself and through possession, with o ...
and forming a sequel to ''
The Abominable Snowmen ''The Abominable Snowmen'' is the mostly missing second serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in six weekly parts from 30 September to 4 November 1967. In this seri ...
'' (1967) and ''
The Web of Fear ''The Web of Fear'' is the partly missing fifth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. The serial is set on the ...
'' (1968). Many ''Missing Adventures'' featured old foes, including: *''Killing Ground'' — The
Cybermen The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. The Cybermen are a species of space-faring cyborgs who often forcefully and painfully convert human beings ( ...
*''The Dark Path'' — The
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*''The Scales of Injustice'' — The
Silurians The Silurians are a race of reptilian humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The species first appeared in ''Doctor Who'' in the 1970 serial '' Doctor Who and the Silurians'', and were created ...
*''Lords of the Storm'' — The
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s *''State of Change'' — The
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*''
Millennial Rites ''Millennial Rites'' is an original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel. Plot The Doctor and Mel land in London, 1999, to ce ...
'' — The Valeyard *''The Well-Mannered War'' — The
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*''The Romance of Crime'' — The Ogrons *''Speed of Flight'' is the only novel in the series that is a prequel; to
Timelash ''Timelash'' is the fifth serial of the 22nd season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on BBC1 on 9 and 16 March 1985. In the serial, the Borad (Robert Ashby), the mu ...
.


Who Killed Kennedy

In 1996, Virgin Books published ''
Who Killed Kennedy ''Who Killed Kennedy'' is an original novel written by David Bishop and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Although published by Virgin Books, it is considered a standalone, and not therefore part ...
'', a ''Doctor Who'' novel by David Bishop. Although set during the time of the Third Doctor, Virgin published this book as a standalone work and not as part of the Missing Adventures series.


External links


The ''Doctor Who'' Bewildering Reference Guide
– a guide to continuity references in selected ''Doctor Who'' original novels.
The Cloister Library
– commentaries on selected ''Doctor Who'' original novels, named and modeled after ''
The Discontinuity Guide ''The Discontinuity Guide'' is a 1995 guidebook to the serials of the original run (1963–1989) of the BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. The book was written by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping and was first published as ''D ...
'' by
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, Day and
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* – a guide to ''Doctor Who'' original novels.
''The TARDIS Librarys listing of Missing Adventures
{{Virgin Missing Adventures Book series introduced in 1994