History Literature / DoctorWhoNewAdventures

In 1997, the success of the TV movie resulted in the BBC taking their license for original ''Doctor Who'' fiction in-house, meaning the end of New Adventures starring the Doctor. BBC books began the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures, which took the principles started here and just went ''ballistic'' applying them to the relatively blank slate that was the Eighth Doctor. However, the New Adventures continued as novels starring Bernice Summerfield until the end of 1999.

* BouquetToss: ''Sleepy'' ends with a wedding at which the bouquet is caught, to her obvious surprise and alarm, by Bernice. In the novel immediately following, she falls in love and decides to leave the TARDIS and get married.

* EverybodyLives: Played with in ''Sleepy'', where the Doctor explicitly challenges himself to save the day without anybody dying: "villains, innocents, everyone".

** The Psi-Powers arc: ''Warchild'', ''Sleepy'', ''Christmas on a Rational Planet'', ''The Death of Art'', ''Damaged Goods'' and ''So Vile A Sin''.

* HollywoodVoodoo: ''White Darkness'' uses spelling as a distinguishing feature: American soldiers who don't know what they're talking about refer to "voodoo" and "zombies", native Haitians and the Doctor talk of "vodoun" and "zombi". Mind you, despite the author [[ShowTheirWork Showing His Work]] there's still an evil voudon priest who actually worships the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old Ones]]...

The series was followed by the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures, which took the principles started here and just went ''ballistic'' applying them to the relatively blank slate that was the Eighth Doctor.

* GrayEyes: The novels tended to make much of the Seventh Doctor's gray eyes, presumably as a way to contrast his characterisation as TheChessmaster with his [[DitzyGenius previous incarnations]].

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The novels ''Sky Pirates!'' and ''Death and Diplomacy'' heavily imply this applies to The Doctor himself, and the TARDIS too. This was an idea of the author Dave Stone which never really caught on with the rest of the Whoniverse.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm:
** The seven-dimensional Legion, introduced in ''Lucifer Rising'', aren't even ''contiguous'' in three dimensions.
** ''Sky Pirates!'' heavily implies the Doctor himself falls into this category. Its loose sequel ''Death and Diplomacy'' extends this to the TARDIS too.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Is characteristic of Sgloomi Po in ''Sky Pirates'' and the Plobs in ''Death and Diplomacy''. Is both books being written by Dave Stone, suggesting he is liking this trope.

* ClockPunk: The main form of technology in ''Sky Pirates!'', including clockwork robots and clockwork machine guns (which, in keeping with the novel's tone, have such a ludicrously low rate of fire that it would almost be faster to reload by hand).

* CrowdSong: A sequence in ''Sky Pirates!'' features a stress-induced disorder called Rojahama's Song-And-Dance. It only exists in the System, where reality itself runs on RuleOfFunny. (And, since the book twists Rule of Funny into Fridge Horror and back, Benny is deeply traumatised at finding herself singing a song about trusting one another against her will.)

* DenserAndWackier: The series' mission was to push the envelope on stories that could be told in novel form, but none did it quite like ''Sky Pirates!'', which even replaced the usual blurb with:
-->Stories deeper, wider, firmer, plumper, perkier, yellower, crispier and with more incredible bad jokes than you can shake a stick at, the New Adventures take the TARDIS into previously unexplored realms of taste and stupidity.

* DrunkenSong: A footnote in ''Sky Pirates!'' reveals a proverb common to many planets that Bernice Summerfield has visited:
-->"If a strange dark woman, after the tenth drink, suddenly begins to sing
--->What's that I hear? ''(put your hand to your ear)''\\
Upstairs in the attic? ''(point up)''\\
It is an elephant ''(make like a trunk)''\\
Riding around on a bicycle ''(stomp stupidly)''\\
It is an elephant ''(ditto last line but one)''\\
So ''chic'' and elegant ''(flounce!)''\\
With one trunk here and one tail there ''(thing with the trunk again, and then bump and grind)''
-->do not under any circumstances approach her for she shall immediately fall over and be violently and spectacularly ill on you."

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Sky Pirates!''

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith[=/=]AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: The novel ''Sky Pirates!'' heavily implies this applies to The Doctor himself, and the TARDIS too. This was an idea of the author Dave Stone which never really caught on with the rest of the Whoniverse.

* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: In ''Sky Pirates!'', new companion Roz reflects that her first adventure with the Doctor ended with the possibility her friend could turn into a mindless berserker with no warning, her career in ruins, assassins searching for them, and a destroyed city, and asks Benny for reassurance that not all of their adventures will end like that. Benny is suddenly reluctant to continue the conversation.

* LastOfHisKind: ''Sky Pirates!'' ends with the Doctor going up against an alien being that's the last survivor of species wiped out long ago by the Time Lords in an us-or-them war of extermination.

* LevitatingLotusPosition: In ''Sky Pirates!'', there's a scene where Benny finds the Doctor "sitting in a lotus and ... levitating three feet off the deck -- something he swore blind that he could only do occasionally and with concentrated mental effort, but which Benny had lately come to suspect was the result of being so engrossed he simply forgot to stay on the ground." (They're in a pocket universe with weird physics, which may or may not explain it.)

* LivingShip:
** The CoolShip, the Schirron Dream, in ''Sky Pirates!''
** Several of the novels offer hints that the TARDIS itself is alive. The "Cat's Cradle" arc establishes that at least part of it is OrganicTechnology (and that things can go badly wrong if the organism is contaminated).

* MadeFromRealGirlScouts: In ''Sky Pirates!'', when Benny wants a drink to fortify her against the cold, the Doctor offers her something called Bartle and Critchlowe's Patented And Very Efficacious Horse Oil Lineament, made from genuine horses. She declines.

* TheMusicMeister: Rojahama's Song-and-Dance, from ''Sky Pirates!'', is a force of nature, or perhaps some kind of meteorological effect, that causes spontaneous outbreaks of CrowdSong complete with SpontaneousChoreography. (The planet on which this occurs is in a solar system that, for reasons explained later in the book, is basically one giant WeirdnessMagnet.)

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: ''Sky Pirates!'' has a sequence in which the heroes set out on an expedition to retrieve a PlotCoupon from the heart of an ancient temple full of devious and deadly traps, only for the viewpoint character to promptly be knocked unconscious and not wake up until after the rest of the expedition gets back, plot coupon in hand.

* PlotCoupon: The plot of ''Sky Pirates!'' revolves around a search for a scattered set of legendary jewels called the Eyes of Schirron. Legends differ on what will happen when the Eyes are reunited, but it's bound to be something awesome.

* RuleOfFunny: Deconstructed in ''Sky Pirates!'', which is set in a PocketDimension based on jokes, but makes it clear that it's not funny if it actually happens to you.

* SingleBiomePlanet: The System in ''Sky Pirates!'' comprises an ocean world, a forest world, a desert world and an ice world. However, this is far from [[WorldShapes the weirdest thing about them]], and it's made very clear that The System feels under no obligation to do anything that our universe would consider "making sense".
* SkyPirate: ''Sky Pirates!'' blurred the line between this trope and SpacePirates with its setting being a solar system within a pocket universe which is fully pressurized with a breathable atmosphere. The pirates (and all the other "space" ships) are able to travel in a variety of non-airtight steampunk-esque vessels, some with open decks.

* SpacePirates: In ''Sky Pirates!'', the eponymous pirates fly between all the planets of their solar system, so are technically space pirates as well.

** Deconstructed in ''Sky Pirates!'', which suggests that the reason the Doctor never encounters any ''really'' alien aliens is that those were all wiped out by the Time Lords to make the universe more comfortable for Time-Lord-like species. The novel features an encounter with a lone survivor of one of the species wiped out by the Time Lords, which is so completely alien that just being in the same room as it threatens the sanity.

* SurvivalistStash: ''Sky Pirates!'', when the heroes are stuck on an ice planet. Not a survivalists' bunker, though, but a stash left by arctic explorers.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In ''Transit'', the Doctor gets the AI FLORENCE to wipe every mention of him from Earth's data records, in exchange giving it the valuable advice "The golden rule is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney those who have the gold, make the rules]]". In the much later NA ''Sky Pirates!'' the EncyclopediaExposita quotes include FLORENCE's autobiography, which attributes the line to "Anon. And not some alien who never existed in the first place and even if he did I never met him".

* UnsuspectinglySoused: Parodied in ''Sky Pirates!'', in which HardDrinkingPartyGirl Benny Summerfield wakes up with a hangover and declares "Y'know, I'm positive there was alcohol in that scotch last night."

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: In-universe. In ''Sky Pirates!'', we're told that Bernice Summerfield, when an angsty teenager, wrote a lengthy dissertation on the ''WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog'' cartoons that used the words "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" 327 times, pointed out the significance of the supposedly primitive wolf being the tool user, and portrayed Sam as the unwitting dupe of a culture that killed and killed again, hypocritically "defending" its victims from outsiders, before concluding that everything ended in misery and death and she was glad she didn't have a boyfriend or girlfriend because they were all wilfully uninterested in the important truths behind these so-called jokes.

* WorldShapes: In ''Sky Pirates!'', the pocket dimension known as The System comprised four {{Single Biome Planet}}s all of extremely unusual shape. Possibly the most normal is Prometheus, a desert planet shaped like a large bowl. The water world Elysium is actually a globe, but it's also a vast blob of water with no actual planet beneath it. Aneas is a jungle planet shaped like a giant tree, and Reklon is an ice planet shaped like a snowman, complete with pipe and silly hat.
* WorldTree: ''Sky Pirates!'' is set in a pocket universe where none of the planets are the usual spherical shape. One of them is a giant tree.

** ''Sky Pirates!'' features a small pocket universe that is one of these, which is hiding a totally separate species that is also one, and it also heavily implies the Doctor himself falls into this category. Its loose sequel ''Death and Diplomacy'' extends this to the TARDIS too.

* BlackBeltInOrigami: In ''Transit'', the Doctor gets past some Japanese mooks by using the court dialect of the Japanese royal family. They recognised it, but didn't understand it, which was just as well, since he said "Make way, for I am the official keeper of the Emperor's penguins and his majesty's laundry basket is on fire."

* AdaptationExpansion: ''Shakedown'', by Terrance Dicks, is an expanded adaptation of the licensed direct-to-video film of the same name, also written by Terrance Dicks, and featuring the Sontarans and Rutans. The video isn't long enough for a novel (and doesn't have the Doctor or his companions in it, as the aliens were licensed directly from Creator/RobertHolmes' estate), so the novel is in three sections: an adventure with the Doctor and his companions that sets up the events of the video; the novelisation of the video; another adventure with the Doctor, his companions, and the characters from the video that ties everything up. One consequence of this structure is that the first section changes the context of some of the events, and something that seemed like a happy ending in the video isn't in the novel (but it gets sorted out in the third section, so that's okay).

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Hello, I'm the Doctor and this is my friend [companion's name]", to the point that later novels started lampshading and playing with it.

** Lance Parkin reportedly casts Ian Richardson in nearly all of his novels; this is most obvious in ''The Dying Days'', where Lord Greyhaven bears a striking resemblance to Richardson's most famous real-life role, the politician Francis Urquhart in ''Series/{{House of Cards|UK}}''.
** Another author who does it a lot is [=David A. McIntee=]. The villains in ''White Darkness'' are Film/HammerHorror stalwarts Creator/PeterCushing and Ingrid Pitt. The ultimate villain in ''First Frontier'' is Creator/BasilRathbone.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: In ''Blood Heat'', the Seventh Doctor finds himself in a universe where Earth is ruled by Earth Reptiles, and learns it all started when the Third Doctor was killed during "Doctor Who and the Silurians".

* DysfunctionJunction: Over the course of the books, Seventh did quite a few morally questionable things, which would leave him wondering just how close he was to going over to TheDarkSide. He got put through the proverbial grinder quite a few times in the course of events. Ace's parental issues had been established in the TV series, but in the books, the Doctor arranged the death of her current boyfriend, causing her to leave the TARDIS for several books and come back a [[DarkerAndEdgier hardbitten mercenary]] who took a long time to reconcile with the Doctor. Bernice had many issues, mainly relating to her childhood involving an interstellar war, a dead mother and a DisappearedDad. Roz was seriously unlucky in love; she killed her first partner -- a man she loved deeply -- when she found out he was corrupt, then [[LaserGuidedAmnesia got it wiped from her memory]] by the BigBad. Another of her love interests turned out to be a murderer; Roz being a by-the-book cop, this did not sit well with her. About the only one who was left untouched was Chris... up until Roz died, anyway, after which the novels made up for lost time.

* FantasticHonorifics: At least one novel uses "Trau" (Mr) and "Krau" (Ms), which originally appeared in the TV story "The Caves of Androzani".

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The final Doctor Who New Adventure, ''The Dying Days'', includes a conversation between two fans about the final movie of a famous sci-fi franchise, and the fact that because it was the final one the audience for once couldn't be sure that the main characters had ContractualImmortality. The relevance to the main characters of ''The Dying Days'' is obvious and entirely deliberate.

* RankUp: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart gets promoted to General at the end of ''The Dying Days'', the last of the Doctor Who New Adventures.

* BlackBeltInOrigami: In ''Transit'', the Doctor gets past some Japanese mooks by using the court dialect of the Japanese royal family. They recognised it, but didn't understand it, which was just as well, since he said "Make way, for I am the official keeper of the Emperor's penguins and his majesty's laundry basket is on fire."

* DogFoodDiet: The FutureSlang glossary at the back of ''Transit'' includes "Petfood Monster" for an extremely poor person.

* GeniusLoci: The 1992 novel ''Transit'' featured a 22nd-century interplanetary subway system (the "stunnel") that had become so complex that it had evolved sentience.

* InstantAIJustAddWater: ''Transit'' has a weird (possibly parodic) variant of the "any system will become self-aware if it's just complex enough" version -- where the system in question is the much-extended future equivalent to UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground.

* IRegretNothing: Played with in ''Transit''. The Doctor and Kadiatu are caught in a crashing plane on Mars. Kadiatu hears him humming.
-->'''Kadiatu:''' What's that noise?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Edith Piaf. Born on a doorstop and sang the blues.\\
'''Kadiatu:''' I'd sing the blues, if I'd been born on a doorstep. What's the song about?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Regret.\\
'''Kadiatu:''' What did she regret?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Absolutely nothing.\\
''[they hit the ground]''

* MythologyGag: Several are packed into the scene in Ben Aaronovitch's novel ''Transit'' where the Doctor watches a scene from an opera inspired by one of his earlier adventures. The adventure in question recognisably "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]", also written by Aaronovitch. The opera is said to be by "Marconi Paletti", a {{Tuckerization}} of Creator/MarcPlatt, who wrote the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation]] of "Battlefield". And the title of the opera is ''Il Dottore Va in Viaggio'', meaning something like "The Doctor Goes on a Journey", which could be rendered as ''Series/DoctorOnTheGo'', making it an extension of the gag in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]" (also by Aaronovitch) where the Doctor is seen reading ''Literature/DoctorInTheHouse'' -- or as ''The Doctor in Transit'', giving us the Doctor in ''Transit'' watching ''The Doctor in Transit''.

* PortalNetwork: The Transit Network of portal-trains in ''Transit'' just covers the solar system (although the book describes an attempt at a Stellar Tunnel). Most people have a better idea of the shape of the network than of the physical system. It's a parody of UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground, of course.

* TeleFrag: ''Transit'' has a teleport network spanning the Solar System, where trains are sent through the gates. There are occasional references to the Bad Accident, which is eventually explained as what happened when two trains tried to materialise in ''almost'' the same place at the same time. They ended up merged together. And so did everyone on board.

* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse:
** ''Lucifer Rising'' mentions a holodrama [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Very Loosely Based On]] the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]", with no mention of the Doctor and his companions, and a TokenRomance grafted on.
** In ''Transit'', there's an ''opera'' based on the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]".

** ''No Future'' has a sequence with the Doctor and Benny visiting the Mediasphere, the TV-based collective unconcious of TheSeventies, and interacting with ''Series/TheGoodies'', ''Series/TheTomorrowPeople'', ''Series/TheGoodLife'', ''Series/TillDeathUsDoPart'', ''Series/DadsArmy'', and, er, ''Professor X''.

** In ''Love and War'', Ace acompanies New Age Traveller Jan on a cyberspace-enhanced Vision Quest, in which they meet the {{Trickster}}. Ace starts to identify who she sees him as, but gets interupted. However his cry of "[[CatchPhrase You wouldn't let it lie!]]" and later comment "That's a Diana and Trickster sword" makes it pretty clear he's [[Series/TheSmellOfReevesAndMortimer Vic Reeves]].

* {{Oxbridge}}: ''The Dimension Riders'' by Daniel Blythe is set in the fictional St Matthew's College, Oxford. The college president is a retired Time Lord. Presumably, the author (an alumnus of St John's, Oxford) wanted to balance out ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]''.

Several AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episodes, sometimes marked "Side Step", take place in the ''New Adventures'' continuity. In 2012, they began adapting pre-existing novels (from this and the Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures) to audio too, beginning with Creator/PaulCornell's "Love And War".

When the TV series was revived, it took plenty of cues from the New Adventures. One story in particular, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]'', was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature adapted for television]] by writer Creator/PaulCornell.

* EverybodyIsSingle: Less than a year after Benny exited the series by marrying Jason, with an entire novel devoted to showing the wedding and assuring the audience they were going to live happily ever after, the decision was made to give her her own spin-off, and since the lead character of an adventure series obviously must be available to hook up with Love Interests of the Week, another entire novel was devoted to showing their marriage collapsing so messily that it upstaged the violent deaths of a tenth of the Earth's population.

* EverybodyIsSingle: The decision to give ex-companion Bernice Summerfield her own spin-off series -- in which, as lead character, she would be expected to participate in romantic-interest subplots -- led directly to the messy collapse of her marriage, which upstaged the violent deaths of a tenth of the Earth's population. This, ''less than a year'' after an entire novel was devoted to the wedding and much effort was expended in assuring readers that it was HappilyEverAfter-type True Love.

* AdaptationExpansion: ''Shakedown'', by Terrance Dicks, is an expanded adaptation of the fan video of the same name, also written by Terrance Dicks. The video isn't long enough for a novel (and doesn't have the Doctor or his companions in it, only a few of the aliens from the series), so the novel is in three sections: an adventure with the Doctor and his companions that sets up the events of the video; the novelisation of the video; another adventure with the Doctor, his companions, and the characters from the video that ties everything up. One consequence of this structure is that the first section changes the context of some of the events, and something that seemed like a happy ending in the video isn't in the novel (but it gets sorted out in the third section, so that's okay).

** The CoolShip in ''Sky Pirates!''

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: ''No Future'' takes its title from the punk anthem "God Save the Queen" by the Music/SexPistols.

* SkyPirate: In ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sky Pirates]][[ExcitedShowTitle !]]''

* TokenRomance: ShowWithinAShow version, in ''Lucifer Rising''.

* WeWillNotHaveAppendixesInTheFuture: Chris and Roz.

* OrganicTechnology: See Living Ship.

* RashomonStyle: During the murder investigation in ''Lucifer Rising''.

* RuleNumberOne: A character-defining moment in ''Set Piece'', calling back to the RuleNumberOne moment in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]".

* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Monk from the TV series]] for the Alternative Universe arc.

* DysfunctionJunction

* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: The Library of St John the Beheaded

* HurtComfortFic: A recurring theme, particularly in the novels of Kate Orman; two novels (Orman's ''Set Piece'' and Paul Cornell's ''Human Nature'') have chapters actually titled "Hurt/Comfort".

* DiscontinuityNod: Various novels include references to various dubious ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs in ways that establish their unreality:
** In ''First Frontier'', ''[[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime Dimensions in Time]]'' was a ''literal'' [[AllJustADream nightmare]].
** In ''Head Games'', the OutOfCharacter ''Dalek Attack'' video game was a cathartic daydream, and the "Doctor Who" stories in ''TV Comic'' only happened in the Land of Fiction.

* DiscontinuityNod: Various novels include references to various dubious ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs in ways that establish their unreality (''[[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime Dimensions in Time]]'' was a ''literal'' [[AllJustADream nightmare]], the OutOfCharacter ''Dalek Attack'' video game was a cathartic daydream, the "Doctor Who" stories in ''TV Comic'' only happened in the Land of Fiction, and so on).

* EngineeredPublicConfession: The Doctor arranges one for the villain in ''The Dying Days''.