"She left the swing – Lizzie always loved swings, her childhood-self had found them comforting. Now, she glanced behind her to see it rocking slowly in the breeze. Through the warm, summer, evening air she strode. The Doctor was inside, waiting for her, ready to dance around the console again, and ready to rediscover good again. They had the whole of the universe ahead of them, tens of hundreds of thousands of millions of billions of stars and times and worlds and galaxies, all within the doors of the box. She was right outside the box now, with all of that ahead of her.

Elizabeth Darwin took one last look at the town she called home.

She stepped.

Their lives began again."

Foreword

The Eighth Doctor Adventures is a retelling of the life of the Eighth Doctor, a character who, through various conflicting expanded universe accounts, has a convoluted timeline. It was this enigma that attracted writer Janine Rivers to the character, where she wrote the first four spectacular seasons of The Eighth Doctor Adventures, telling Doctor Who in a revolutionary way by which it had never been done so before. However, time came for Janine to move on, so she left the series to me, where I have been continuing it from Series 5.

The break between our two eras is similar to the Davies/Moffat change – they are largely completely different epochs, and so one can start with Series 5 with very little prior knowledge of the series, hence my willingness to post Series 5 onwards on this site and broaden its readership further. The series is also uploaded here ( without spaces: doctorwhofanfic. weebly ), a much smaller fanfiction community dedicated to Doctor Who, one which I currently edit. It is on this site where one can find Series 1-4 of the series, as well as a multitude of other stories.

The Eighth Doctor Adventures relies on original companions, but all with the Eighth Doctor, along with various villains and locations known through Doctor Who. It is intended to bridge the gap between the TV Movie, and The Night of the Doctor. Because of this, the show ignores most established Eighth Doctor canon, instead choosing to develop its own stuff or adopt elements.

As I said, Series 5 can be read without reading Series 1-4, but for background information, reading The Story So Far might be useful.