Book #64 of 2025: Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell (Virgin New Adventures #4) The year is 1991, and the newly-canceled Doctor Who — what we now call “Classic” Who, to distinguish it from the post-2005 version — has been limping on in the form of these licensed novels continuing the story of the …
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Book #53 of 2025: Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Apocalypse by Nigel Robinson (Virgin New Adventures #3) This volume doesn’t quite deserve its reputation as a series low point — it’s far better than Lungbarrow, for instance — but it’s an early indication of the limitations of the concept here. Classic Doctor Who wasn’t exactly a consistently …
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Book #42 of 2025: Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus by Terrance Dicks (Virgin New Adventures #2) Categorically an improvement over the John Peel title that launched this series, thank goodness. We’re still traveling with final Classic Who TV heroes the Seventh Doctor and Ace, but the writing this time feels more sure of itself, with less …
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Book #31 of 2025: Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Genesys by John Peel (Virgin New Adventures #1) When Classic Doctor Who was canceled after its 26th season in 1989 — not that it was called Classic at the time — there was no expectation that the series would ever pick back up again on-screen. Virgin Publishing, running …
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