History Trivia / DoctorWhoNewAdventures

** 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.]]

** Creator/PaulCornell hated ''No Future'', calling it the worst book he'd ever read.

** Gareth Roberts named ''The Highest Science'' as his favourite of the three books he wrote for the series.
** Creator/PaulCornell referred to ''Human Nature'' as "my ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper]]''"

* DevelopmentGag: ''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.

** 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.

* 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.

** 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.
** 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.

** 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. Midway through a story, the Seventh Doctor was to [[LudicrousGibs 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, [[LanternJawOfJustice 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 the unfettered, [[ChessMaster scheming chessmaster that was the Seventh Doctor.

** 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. Midway through a story, the Seventh Doctor was to [[LudicrousGibs 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.