* The Virgin Missing Adventures novel Venusian Lullaby established that the First Doctor had a sonic screwdriver.

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The Rani appears in the Virgin Missing Adventures spin-off novel State of Change by Christopher Bulis.

* State of Change by Christopher Bulis ( Virgin Missing Adventures )

* Killing Ground by Steve Lyons ( Virgin Missing Adventures )

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As well as the original Doctor Who television series, they appear in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Romance of Crime by Gareth Roberts, the New Adventures novels Shakedown and Mean Streets, both by Terrance Dicks, and the BBC Books novels Mission: Impractical by David A. McIntee and Interference by Lawrence Miles.

The comic strip Plastic Millennium, published in the Doctor Who Magazine Winter 1994 Special ; Craig Hinton's Virgin Missing Adventures novel Millennial Rites ( October 1995 ); Justin Richards's Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock ( May 1999 ), the Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins story " Suitors, Inc ." ( 2005 ) and the Fourth Doctor's segment from the comic The Forgotten ( 2008 ) all take place on those dates, as do elements of the Torchwood episode " Fragments ".

The character has been featured ( usually in dream sequences or metaphors ) in the New Adventures and Missing Adventures book ranges from Virgin Publishing and the Past Doctor Adventures from the BBC-his appearance in the novel Matrix featuring him using his new control of the Matrix to try and destroy the Doctors while assuming the role of Jack the Ripper, his plans only being thwarted at the last minute by the Seventh Doctor.

Eventually, the novels became popular enough that not only did Virgin switch to a monthly publication schedule, it also put out another range, the Missing Adventures, which told stories of previous incarnations of the Doctor.

After 61 New Adventures and 33 Missing Adventures, Doctor Who fiction came to an end at Virgin with The Dying Days, their only Eighth Doctor novel.

The Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Scales of Injustice is both a sequel to this story as well as a prequel to the events of Warriors of the Deep.

After Virgin began its New Adventures and Missing Adventures line of original novels in 1991, it also published several additional novelisations both on their own and under the Missing Adventures label.

Later, the editors loosened their policy on links between the Virgin and BBC novels, even publishing direct sequels to novels by the other publisher ; for example, Justin Richards ' Millennium Shock was a sequel to his earlier Virgin Missing Adventure System Shock.

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Other output from the Virgin fiction department during his time there included another series of Doctor Who novels ( the Missing Adventures, featuring previous Doctors and companions ); a series of novels following the character of Bernice Summerfield ; the Virgin Worlds imprint of new mainstream science-fiction and fantasy novels.

In the Virgin Missing Adventures novel System Shock ( 1995 ) and the Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock ( 1999 ), both by Justin Richards, he is seen during the 1990s as a Deputy Director of MI5.

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Further novelisations of Doctor Who-related productions were published by Virgin under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures lines ( including an adaptation of the BBC Radio play The Ghosts of N-Space and the independently-produced spin-offs Downtime and Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans ), while BBC Books would later adapt the 1996 TV-movie, the 2003 webcast, Scream of the Shalka and, in March 2012, the unbroadcast story, Shada.

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The Virgin New Adventures establish a religion on Gallifrey centred around the three main gods, Time, Death and Pain.

* Beige Planet Mars ( 1998 ) by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham, a novel in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series is set on a terraformed Mars which has become a retirement home for Earth's wealthy elderly.

* The Seventh Doctor regained his sonic screwdriver in the Virgin New Adventures novels, with its first reappearance in The Pit.

Shakedown marks the only occasion in which the Sontarans and their Rutan foes appear on screen together, and was adapted into a Virgin New Adventures novel.

" The Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt records Susan telling the First Doctor that she gave him the idea when he was, implicitly, the " Other ".

The circuit was also repaired during the Virgin New Adventures novels, but again the TARDIS's shape was eventually set back to a police box shape.

The fiftieth Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel Happy Endings by Paul Cornell features a Polari-speaking Silurian musical duo from the 30th century called Jacquilian and Sanki.

In Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War, the Doctor uses a similar method to read the mind of his companion Bernice Summerfield.

In the Doctor Who Annual 2006, a section by Russell T Davies says that during the Time War, the Time Lords used Bowships ( used against the Great Vampires in an ancient war ), Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms ( war machines first mentioned in the Virgin New Adventures novel " Damaged Goods ", written by Davies ).

* Irving Braxiatel from the Virgin New Adventures and Bernice Summerfield audio dramas

In Part One, Romana makes a throwaway reference to a great art gallery called the Braxiatel Collection ; the Virgin New Adventures novel series would later expand on this, introducing the character Irving Braxiatel, a Time Lord.

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The Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt provides some additional history on the Hand during the early years of its creation on Gallifrey.

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The Virgin New Adventures novel Iceberg by David Banks states that some Cybermen experience rare flashes of emotional memory from the time before they were converted, which are then usually suppressed.

* Iceberg by David Banks ( Virgin New Adventures )

In Seventh Doctor Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Heat ( 1993 ), Silurians of an alternate reality have conquered Earth after the Third Doctor was killed in their initial appearance.

Silurians have also made many minor appearances in Virgin New Adventures series of novels.

In the Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt, Leela was taken prisoner by the Agency and charged with treason as the CIA sought further information about the Doctor's past.

* In Doctor Who the 30th century features the decline of the Earth Empire, as seen in the television serial The Mutants and the Virgin New Adventures novel Original Sin.