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The ''Virgin Missing Adventures'' were a series of novels from
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based on the British science-fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', 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 Seventh Doctor 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 televisio ...
'' 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
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. The adventures of the previous Doctors were taken up by the BBC in the
Past Doctor Adventures The ''Past Doctor Adventures'' (sometimes known by the abbreviation ''PDA'' or ''PDAs'') were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' and published under the BBC Books impri ...
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'' — ''
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'' *''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 1 ...
'' 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 and forming a sequel to '' The Abominable Snowmen'' (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 Dark Path'' — The
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*''The Scales of Injustice'' — The Silurians *''Lords of the Storm'' — The Sontarans *''State of Change'' — The Rani *'' Millennial Rites'' — The
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*''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
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.


Who Killed Kennedy

In 1996, Virgin Books published ''
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'', 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'' by Cornell, Day and Topping * – a guide to ''Doctor Who'' original novels.
''The TARDIS Librarys listing of Missing Adventures
{{Virgin Missing Adventures Book series introduced in 1994