The TV series is going on still, yes - it’s had a soft reboot with the newest Doctor and the next series is due to air next month, and they are still doing a line of New Series Adventures (NSAs) to go along with them, though all the NSAs are less edgy than anything published in the 90s
I absolutely love that you’re doing DW purely through books - I think that’s a fascinatingly unique approach and I love thaf you’re loving it!
Oh no, there is - there just wasn’t when the books you are reading were coming out. The TV series went on hiatus from 1989 to 2005, with the exception of the 8th Doctor Movie in 1996.
That 1989-2005 period is called wilderness years by some fans (because of Classic Who last tv story, Survival)
Anyone here has the physical copy of ‘The Eight Doctors’? I’m trying to check if some things on the text of my weirdly formatted ebook are real or not.
I have one at home I can check later for you. What is perplexing you?
Delta will have it sooner than I do! Not home till the weekend.
Thanks! The sheer amount of line breaks!!! I’m trying to format my version into something I might be able to print and bind (pls BBC don’t sue me 
), so I wanted to know if those were mistakes or if Terrance Dicks is just addicted to them.
I’ve gone and found it on the bookshelf, it looks like it has relatively normal line breaks to me
Fantastic, thank you!!!
Redundant again… 
Being temporarily unemployed does have its advantages 
A bit off-topic (but I think the Topic/Discussion at hand has ended), but I finally read “Vampire Science” and it was GREAT. So much I could point out that I just loved.
I especially loved the Moments with Sam how she discusses that the Doctor left her on her own for quite a while. Fitting for 8 really.
My favorite moment from Vampire Science is the vampire squirrels attack at Carolyn’s house. I have so much fun with that book.
Someone said earlier that its biggest sucess is the characters and agreed. I love all of them. And althought I quite like Carolyn as an original character, it puts things in perspective that it was supposed to be Grace in that role.
(If anyone wants to actually get a sort of follow up on Grace, GO READ THE EIGHTH DOCTOR DWM STRIPS)
I’m actually getting a serious urge to pick up those graphic novels collections…
Best thing Doctor Who ever. Just do it!
It has the Story “The Flood”, so I agree everybody should at least read that one!! (I still have quite a few left, but I will leave at it with my comments about it, considering this is a Thread about the Books after all hah)
Read it all! The Flood is a great standalone story but it’s even greater as a finale of the thousand of pages that came before!
Plus no skipping the best Doctor Who story ever! As known as The Glorious Dead!
Anyway, this is a EDA post so to compesate me hijacking it to talk about DWM: everybody should read Alien Bodies too!
I’ve read quite a few EDAs so far and I’m yet to truly get into them. Alien Bodies is absolutely fantastic and absolutely everybody who’s ever liked Doctor Who outside of catching it on Saturdays needs to read it, but other than that we have such belters as:
The Eight Doctors: a boring and sluggish mess
The Bodysnatchers: one of the worst written books I have ever read with horrific prose and an uninspired plot
Genocide: another absolute mess that completely butchers Jo
War of the Daleks: a John Peel stunt that could be as effective in the form of a TARDIS wiki entry
Kursaal: an overwhelmingly generic runaround with werewolves
It also doesn’t help I find Sam Jones to be one of the least interesting companions I have ever come across. I’ve heard great stuff about Fitz but Sam is just an amalgam of better companions.
I’ve recently slowed with the rate at which I read Doctor Who books on account of re-realising that there are other books in the world and getting stuck into those, but I definitely want to continue at some point, although the thought of having to read another John Peel novel haunts me.
