Hello! I’ve just finished the Eight Doctor Adventures with Lucie, and after the finale, I want to listen to what the Doctor does next. But I’ve read Dark Eyes has connection to a lot of audios of the Main Range (Robophobia, UNIT Dominion…) I’m in no real rush as I prefer doing a bit of homework if that will make me appreciate the story better. So if a learned scholar of Big Finish could list (in chronological order if possible 
) the audios I have to listen to be able to get those references it’d be most welcome.
Just a FYI: I’ve listened to every 8th Doctor with Charley and Lucie story (not with Mary Shelley yet), and I’ve listened to 1-14 of the Main Range.
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Robophobia is a one-off Main Range Seventh Doctor story that introduces the character of Liv Chenka. Liv becomes a very long running Eighth Doctor companion starting in Dark Eyes 2. UNIT: Dominion is a long Seventh Doctor boxset that introduced the Alex McQueen Master who features fairly heavily in Dark Eyes 2-4. Personally, I don’t think you really need to listen to either of them before going into Dark Eyes. Both characters are reintroduced to the audience well and they’re not in Dark Eyes 1 anyway so you should be fine. The only prerequisite for Dark Eyes is EDA Series 4.
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I would agree - there are always other releases that give extra context to everything because Big Finish love nothing more than to be self-referential. But DE is a pretty direct continuation of the Lucie stuff, and I listened without Robophobia or anything else. Though, Robophobia is very good, so if you wanted your intro to Liv, I would listen to that first. But I wouldn’t say it’s totally necessary
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Darth’s very thorough and I’ve nothing to add here. Just… I know it’s a me thing, but… Is it not that ‘EDA’ usually refers to the BBC book series and ‘8DA’ refers to the BF audio series, since they’ve zero ingenuity in naming the series. I was confused for a bit by your title.
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Cool I’ll check it out thanks!!
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Yeah it’s a bit confusing
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This is how I differentiate them in my head for sure, and I’m not sure it’s quite widespread enough to be conventional but I have seen other people say 8DA for audio and EDA for books too. Curse Eight for being in so many stories!! 
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And we wouldn’t have it any other way.
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EDA was definitely used for the books because it was accompanied by PDA for the Past Doctor Adventures (and preceded by NA (New Adventures) and MA (Missing Adventures) in the Virgin era.
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