The Virgin New Adventures (NAs) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the television programme was cancelled (in 1989). From 1991 to 1997 all books (except the final one) involved the Seventh Doctor, played on television by Sylvester McCoy; in further books published between 1997 and 1999, the New Adventures series focused on the character Bernice Summerfield and the Doctor did not appear. Like all spin-off media, their canonicity in relation to the television series is unclear. Publication history Doctor Who Virgin had purchased the successful children's imprint Target Books in 1989, with Virgin's new fiction editor Peter Darvill-Evans taking over the range. Target's major output was novelisations of televised Doctor Who stories, and Darvill-Evans rea