Newbies Guide to Doctor Who

Doctor:

The Eighth The eighth Doctor has byronesque hair and tends to wear velvet coats. He is childlike and has a sense of wonder about him.

Companions:

Sam Jones: Sam is a teenaged schoolgirl from London 1997 who joined the Doctor in The Eight Doctors (BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures). She is a do-gooder with a heavy interest in groups like Greenpeace and Amnesty. She has blonde hair.

Recurring Characters:

Vampires Vampires are powerful beings that feed on the blood of other species. The Time Lords fought them in the days of Rassilon and thought that they had destroyed them all. However, the fourth Doctor encountered and destroyed some survivors in State of Decay (Classic Series Season 18). He also faced them in Goth Opera (Virgin Missing Adventure) and Blood Harvest (Virgin New Adventure).

The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce UNIT is an international organisation formed to combat alien invasions and the like. Its members are mostly soldiers from the countries in which they operate. We first saw UNIT in The Invasion (Classic Series Season 6), and the Third Doctor became scientific advisor to UNIT in Spearhead from Space (Classic Series Season 7). The Doctor has worked with UNIT on numerous occasions since then.

Recommended Viewing:

General Kramer's previous adventure with the Seventh Doctor and Ace happened in the fan-produced video Time Rift.

The Doctor defeated The Great Vampire in State of Decay (Classic Series Season 18).

Recommended Reading:

The fourth and eighth Doctors defeated the vampire Zarn and his followers in The Eight Doctors (BBC Eighth Doctor Adventure).

The fifth Doctor defeated a group of vampires in Goth Opera (Virgin Missing Adventure) and the seventh Doctor defeated some more in Blood Harvest (Virgin Missing Adventure). However, these encounters are not directly referred to in Vampire Science.

Recommended Listening:

None.