History Literature / DoctorWhoMissingAdventures

* AllForNothing: In ''Who Killed Kennedy'', James Stevens realises that UNIT really are the good guys and that he was simply a pawn in the Master's schemes. So, his life has been ruined, his marriage is over, Dodo is dead and his has nothing to show for it.

* ItsAllAboutMe: In ''The Shadows of Weng-Chiang'', Hsien-Ko Chang is smart enough to have formed a reasonable understanding of time travel in the 1930s using information obtained from Magnus Greel's notes, but she still rejects the Doctor's attempt to explain that her plans won't work because she's so consumed by her desire for revenge.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: ''The Sands of Time'' sees the Doctor join an expedition to Egypt in the Victorian era as part of his efforts to learn what has happened to Nyssa.

* BatmanGambit: ''The Sands of Time'' sees the Fifth Doctor defeat a virtually all-powerful entity by [[spoiler:exploiting her current state of being essentially mentally handicapped to trick his foe into trapping herself in a time loop]]

* RapidAging: In ''The Sands of Time'', the Doctor defeats the villain by basically subjecting her to this; [[spoiler:his enemy's consciousness has been divided between her intellect and her instinct, so with her intellect trapped, the Doctor tricks her into using a time machine that causes her to rapidly age a hundred and forty years every time she uses it, incapable of intellectually processing what she's doing to herself until it's too late]].

* 12. ''The Sorceror's Apprentice'' (July 1995), by Christopher Bulis, featuring the First Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan

* PathOfInspiration: The Lazarus Intent in ''The Crystal Bucephalus'' was set up by a criminal who ripped off Christanity wholesale to create a religion which, rather than teaching the Messiah was resurrected and would return, taught that it was up to believers to invent time travel, and rescue their saviour from the moment of his death. The Doctor notes that while the church may be a fraud set up by a egomaniac (Lazarus isn't even a DarkMessiah, just a conman who thinks big), devout Lazarites tend to be good people.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Jamie was apparently told about regeneration by Ben and Polly, but didn't believe it until he sees another regeneration in ''The Dark Path''.

* In ''The Crystal Bucephalus'', Tegan finds herself in mid-eighties London, where she has a confrontation with a stroppy teenaged [=McDonalds=] waitress named Dorothy.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: In ''Goth Opera'', the Fifth Doctor at least start to become a vampire when he is turned by Ruath, an old acquaintance of his from Gallifrey, but he is able to avert this before the change becomes permanent.

* BatmanGambit: ''The Sands of Time'' sees the Fifth Doctor defeat a virtually all-powerful entity by [[spoiler:exploiting her current state of being essentially mentally handicapped to trick his foe into trapping herself in a time loop]]

* CitizenshipRomance: In ''Who Killed Kennedy'', James Stevens is a New Zealander who came to England. In order to stay in the country, he married the daughter of a disapproving English lord.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In ''Invasion of the Cat People'', Gary Russell lists as his preferred casting choices for if the book had hypothetically been a TV story, and how he envisions each character's appearance. Among his choices are Creator/JudeLaw as Atimkos and Creator/JacquelinePearce as Godwanna.

* HeroicBSoD: In ''Who Killed Kennedy'', James Stevens goes through this after Dodo's death. He retreats to Brighton and spends several weeks debauching himself and wallowing in pity.

* ImADoctorNotAnX: In ''The Crystal Bucephalus'', the Doctors says that he's Time Lord, not a bank manager.

* {{Interquel}}

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''Time of Your Life'' gives us Miriam Walker, television campaigner who is an obvious dig at Mary Whitehouse.

* ParentalAbandonment: James Stevens, the protagonist of ''Who Killed Kennedy'' was abandoned by both parents. His father refused to acknowledge his responsibilites and was killed in WWII before James was born and his mother put him up for adoption.

* SweetPollyOliver: In ''The Plotters'', Vicki dresses as a boy and dresses in a doublet and hose, adopting the name Victor and promptly becomes the object of the homosexual King James' affections.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: ''The Well-Mannered War'' ends with one as, through an evil plot by the Black Guardian, the Fourth Doctor and Romana are trapped in the TARDIS and unable to leave without causing a time paradox, choosing instead to exile themselves out of time and space as they know it. The Doctor notes that the last time he did this, he ended up in the Land of Fiction and they might become fictional themselves! (As a GrandFinale for both Roberts' beloved Graham Williams era of the show, and for the Virgin line, some have interpreted this as a TakeThat both at Creator/JohnNathanTurner, who became producer with the next TV episode, and at BBC Books for their stated intention to not be like Virgin, but Roberts denies both interpretations!)

* 7. ''The Ghosts of N-Space'' (February 1995), by Barry Letts, featuring the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane and UNIT[[note]]A novelisation of the second of the Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas[[/note]]

* FiringDay: In ''Who Killed Kennedy?'', James Stephens is fired from the ''Daily Chronicle'' when he refuses to turn in his files on UNIT.