British publisher W.H. Allen releases the non-fiction book Doctor Who: A Celebration by Peter Haining (with uncredited contributions by Jeremy Bentham), chronicling the series up to the eve of its 20th anniversary. 
British publisher W.H. Allen releases the non-fiction book Doctor Who: A Celebration by Peter Haining (with uncredited contributions by Jeremy Bentham), chronicling the series up to the eve of its 20th anniversary.
British publisher W.H. Allen releases the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Key To Time by Peter Haining, a chronological collection of events, press mentions and other ephemera from Doctor Who’s beginning through the book’s publication. (The book is not related to the Key to Time storyline of the series’ 16th season.)
British publisher W.H. Allen releases the non-fiction book Doctor Who: 25 Glorious Years by Peter Haining, celebrating a quarter-century of Doctor Who with behind-the-scenes stories from 1963 through the early Sylvester McCoy episodes.
With no new series in sight on TV, Virgin Publishing begins its long-awaited line of original print fiction with the first Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Timewyrm: Genesys” by John Peel. The first book in a four-book cycle of linked stories, the novel picks up where the television series left off, featuring the seventh Doctor and Ace. Three further books are already in the works in the Timewyrm series, with other authors lining up for a chance to write later books in 1992 and beyond.
Virgin Publishing releases the second novel in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “Timewyrm: Exodus” by early ’70s Doctor Who script editor Terrance Dicks. This book continues the four-part Timewyrm cycle and revisits the War Lord last seen in the 1969 TV story The War Games, and long before the TV episode Let’s Kill Hitler, places the Doctor in the company of Hitler. This is Dicks’ first Doctor Who prose which is not a direct adaptation of a television story.
Virgin Publishing releases the fourth book in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “Timewyrm: Revelation” by Paul Cornell. This is Cornell’s first professionally-published fiction, and is published over the objections of former Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner (acting as an advisor to the editors), who cites concerns over the book’s abstract attempts to establish an epic mythology involving Gallifreyan gods. The book also concludes the four-book Timewyrm cycle, which has proven to be enough of a sales success that Virgin opts to continue publishing original Doctor Who fiction.
The ninth Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Love And War” by Paul Cornell, is published. A pivotal point in the young book series, “Love And War” sees the exit of TV companion Ace and the introduction of an older companion, archaeologist Professor Bernice Sumemrfield, for the seventh Doctor. Using a non-sequitur mention of the “Hoothi and their great gas dirigibles” from the television story The Brain Of Morbius as a starting point for this book’s enemy, author Cornell crafts a novel that forces the series to grow into more mature territory, with a truly unsettling adversary for the Doctor to fight. An audio version will be produced by Big Finish Productions 20 years later.
Virgin Books publishes the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, offering a detailed inside look at the tenure of Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor.
Virgin Books publishes the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, offering a detailed inside look at the tenure of Colin Baker as the sixth Doctor.
Virgin Publishing releases the 23rd book in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “No Future” by Paul Cornell. This book concludes a five-book cycle involving someone trying to ensnare the Doctor by making paradoxical major changes to the Time Lord’s established history. “No Future” also explains the somewhat cryptic “breakdown” suffered by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart during the 1970s, leading to his retirement from UNIT.
Virgin Publishing releases the first Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Goth Opera by Paul Cornell, featuring the TARDIS team of the fifth Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan. This novel forms a duology with the New Adventures novel Blood Harvest.
Virgin Publishing releases the 32nd book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Daniel O’Mahony’s Falls The Shadow.
Virgin Books publishes the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The First Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, offering a detailed inside look at the development of Doctor Who both before it was ever broadcast and during the entire tenure of William Hartnell as the original Doctor.
Virgin Publishing releases the 33rd book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Parasite by Jim Mortimore.
Virgin Publishing releases the 34th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Warlock by former Doctor Who TV script editor Andrew Cartmel.
Virgin Publishing releases the 35th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Set Piece by Kate Orman.
Virgin Publishing releases the 36th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Infinite Requiem by Daniel Blythe.
Virgin Publishing releases the 36th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Sanctuary by David A. McIntee.
Virgin Publishing releases the ninth Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Dancing The Code by Paul Leonard, featuring the TARDIS team of the third Doctor, Jo Grant, and U.N.I.T.
Virgin Publishing releases the 38th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Human Nature by Paul Cornell. This book will be remade in the 21st century TV series as a heavily-reworked two-part story featuring the tenth Doctor rather than the seventh.
Virgin Publishing releases the tenth Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, The Menagerie by Martin Day, featuring the TARDIS team of the second Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie.
Virgin Publishing releases the 39th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Original Sin by Andy Lane. This book will be introduces two new companions original to the novels, Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej.
Virgin Publishing releases the 11th Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, System Shock by Justin Richards, featuring the TARDIS team of the fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan.
Virgin Publishing releases the 40th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Sky Pirates! by Dave Stone.
Virgin Publishing releases the 12th Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Christopher Bulis, featuring the TARDIS team of the first Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara.
Virgin Publishing releases the 41st book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Zamper by Gareth Roberts.
Virgin Publishing releases the 13th Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Invasion of the Cat-People by Gary Russell, featuring the TARDIS team of the second Doctor, Polly, and Ben.
Virgin Publishing releases the 42nd book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Toy Soldiers by Paul Leonard.
Virgin Publishing releases the 14th Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Managra by Stephen Marley, featuring the TARDIS team of the fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.
Virgin Publishing releases the 43rd book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Head Games by Steve Lyons.