History Literature / PastDoctorAdventures

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: ''Mission: Impractical'' features Frobisher the shape-shifting penguin from the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip (and shamelessly declines to offer any hints about what he's doing in a novel supposedly based only on the TV series).

* ''The Indestructible Man'' (November, 2004) by Simon Messingham. Features the Second Doctor, Jamie [=McCrimmon=], and Zoe Heriot. The novel includes Dystopian versions of the characters and organizations from ''{{Series/Stingray|1964}}'', ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'', and ''Series/{{UFO}}''.

* {{Deconstruction}}: ''The Indestructible Man'' by Simon Messingham is a deconstruction of all Creator/GerryAnderson's work, asking ''why'' Jeff Tracy founded the Series/{{Thunderbirds}}, what SHADO personnel would ''really'' be like (yes ''Series/{{UFO}}'' was DarkerAndEdgier to begin with, but Messingham takes it further), and how the ordinary people of the {{UsefulNotes/Supermarionation}} world might feel about so much money being channeled into AwesomeButImpractical vehicles. Most notably, the title Indestructible Man is a CaptainErsatz Series/{{Captain Scarlet|AndTheMysterons}} who feels [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul detached from humanity]] and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever wishes he was able to die]].

* UnfortunateName: In ''Heart of TARDIS'', the Doctor pointedly remarks to Wblk that it's said a Time Lord's name grows in length in recognition of his stature, reputation and deeds of note.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: While normally a pacifist, the events of ''Warmonger'' force the Fifth Doctor to become a military leader of a vast alliance that includes some of his more regular enemies- the Sontarans, the Ice Warriors and the Cybermen in particular- against an army led by the renegade Time Lord Morbius, mounting a successful year-long campaign that earns him the respect of all of his normal foes (and he does this while using an alias so that he doesn’t have his usual reputation as the Doctor as ‘evidence’ that he knows what he’s doing).
* BigEater: In ''Synthespians (TM)'', the Sixth Doctor visits a cinema and orders popcorn, chocolates, a hot dog, nachos and dips, and a super-size fizzy drink.

* ''Atom Bomb Blues'' (December, 2005) by Andrew Cartmel. Features the Seventh Doctor, and Ace. Last novel in this series.

** In ''Byzantium!'', the First Doctor assists in the original translation of the Book of Mark, and in The Witch Hunters, his presence unwittingly helps instigate the Salem Witch Trials.

* TropeCodifier: ''Festival Of Death'' codified the timey-wimey TemporalParadox plot style that would later become commonplace in the TV series (the Doctor arrives on a space station, learns he's going to die saving it from destruction, goes back in time by a day to find out what he did, has to go back ''again'' to do everything for the first time while avoiding the second version...).

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In ''Salvation'', faced with beings who gain power based on the belief others have in them, the First Doctor not only [[spoiler:survives being hit by a fireball in front of a crowd of believers because his belief that he can’t be hurt outweighs the crowd’s belief in his attacker, but later drives these beings away by dropping a dud bomb on the park and making everyone present think it can hurt their ‘gods’]].

* HaveWeMetYet: In ''Deep Blue'', Tegan and Turlough meet the Brigadier in the 1970s, nearly a decade before their first meeting in ''Mawdryn Undead''. Thanks to some convenient EasyAmnesia at the end, this isn't as much of a threat to the timelines as it could have been.

* OldMaster: Particularly invoked in ''The Eleventh Tiger'', when the First Doctor is played in charge of a Chinese school in 1865 and proves himself in combat against another former student of the school.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: ''The Wages of Sin'' sees Liz return and meet Jo. The two don't get on - Liz finding her replacement innadequate and immature, while Jo finding her predecessor patronizing and cold. They get better over the course of the story.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: ''Divided Loyalties'' reveals that every other Time Lord we've seen in the series (the Master, the Rani, etc) were part of the Doctor's gang at the academy. However, the dream sequences showing this are revealed to be the creations of the Celestial Toymaker made to torment the Doctor and are very heavily implied to be complete fabrications.

* ''Deadly Reunion'' (November, 2003) by Terrance Dicks and Creator/BarryLetts. Features the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
* ''Scream of the Shalka'' (February, 2004) by Paul Cornell. Novelization of the animated series. Features its own version of the Ninth Doctor, along with Alison Cheney, and the Master.

* ''Island of Death'' (July, 2005) by Barry Letts. Features the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

* ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoMeetsScratchman Scratchman]]'' (January 2019) by Tom Baker and James Goss. Features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.[[note]]A novel based on Tom Baker's and Ian Marter's unproduced 1970s ''Doctor Who'' film script ''Doctor Who Meets Scratchman''[[/note]]

* FamousLastWords: ''Spiral Scratch'' gives the Sixth Doctor's last words as "Local...tractor beam". Still more dignified than "Carrot juice?"

* ''Deadly Reunion'' (November, 2003) by Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts. Features the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: ''Divided Loyalties'' reveals that every other Time Lord we've seen in the series (the Master, the Rani, etc) were part of the Doctor's gang at the academy.

* EveryManHasHisPrice: A variation of this features in ''Mission: Impractical'', when bounty hunters Sha'ol and Karthakh make it clear more than once that their honour prevents them accepting bribes from their targets to abandon their current contract. However, when Niccolo Mandell offers them double their current fee to not go after the Doctor until he's finished the job Mandell has asked him to help with, Karthakh accept that "bribe" as they're essentially getting paid to do nothing as it's more practical to let the Doctor finish his current job and move somewhere where it's easier for them to get at him.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Tegan falls for PC Andy Weathers in ''Deep Blue'' incredibly quickly, even daydreaming about spending her life with him after only a day. Played with, however, in that her fantasies focus less on their being a couple and more about Andy being a potential way back into a normal life for Tegan; the novel is set during her final season on TV, and she is clearly starting to tire of all the death and danger that comes with her TARDIS travels, foreshadowing her eventual departure in ''Resurrection of the Daleks''.

* UnskilledButStrong: ''Instruments of Darkness'' mentions that the Sixth Doctor has some telepathic potential, but he doesn’t use it very often due to his lack of training, with another telepath musing that it’s a shame he hasn’t explored this trait as he has definite potential.

''Series/DoctorWho'' spin-off novels published from 1997 by [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Books]]. Where the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures featured the new Doctor introduced in the 1996 TV movie, the Past Doctor Adventures told new adventures featuring the first seven Doctors. (In other words, much like Virgin Publishing's Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures, except that the Seventh Doctor was now Past instead of being [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures New]].)

* ''The Roundheads'' (November, 1997) by Mark Gatiss. Features the Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly, and Jamie [=McCrimmon=].

* ''Catastrophea'' (May, 1998) by Terrance Dicks. Features the Third Doctor, and Jo Grant.

* ''Last Man Running'' (September, 1998) by Chris Boucher. Features the Fourth Doctor, and Leela of the Sevateem.

* AMFMCharacterization: ''Business Unusual'' reveals that the Sixth Doctor likes Music/PinkFloyd (especially ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn''), while Mel was a fan of Music/{{ABBA}} and Music/TheBeeGees in her childhood.