This thread is for that minority who have read some or all of the Virgin and BBC novels.

Human Nature was a Seventh Doctor novel that was made into an Tenth Doctor TV two-parter. As one of that strange breed who believe the novels and audios to be canon (yes, Ting isn't the only one!) I did have a bit of a problem with the Doctor having the same adventure twice, but I can't deny that the TV adaption was excellent.

We of that strange breed will always believe the spin-offs to be canon until the ONLY authority on this matter, the BBC, officially state otherwise.

For the purpose of this thread, on the hypothetical assumption that the BBC do officially state that the spin-offs are indeed not canon, which other novel (or novels) would you like to see adapted as an Eleventh Doctor TV story?

My choices would be:-

The Sorceror's Apprentice (a First Doctor Virgin Missing Adventure)

Managra (a Fouth Doctor Virgin Missing Adventure)

and

The Crystal Bucephalus (a Fifth Doctor Virgin Missing Adventure)

On the purely hypothetical basis you outline: Nightshade. Preferably with Tom Baker as Edmund Trevithick.

From the the Virgin Missing Adventure 'Sands of Time' or 'Goth Opera'

"Warlock" and "The Deadstone Memorial", for starters.

No Future
(Seventh Doctor Virgin New Adventure, written by Paul Cornell, who also wrote "Human Nature").

I love that book, even if Cornell himself was alledgedly very unhappy with it.

I would love to see "War of the Daleks" or maybe "the 8 Doctors".

None of them, it creates serious "canon" issues

Haha!

Eight Doctors. In a dream world this would be amazing.

Not novels,but I'd like to see an adaptation of one of the comic stories-"The Iron Legion", "The Tides of Time" or
"Voyager"/"Once Upon a Time Lord..."

The Iron Legion would be nice. I'm not sure Voyager would ever work outside its original medium-it'd be almost impossible to do justice in live action.

Agree with you here! Also would like to see the Chelonians, especially now they've been mentioned on screen.

I've thought of another one. "Prisoner of the Daleks". Loved that one.

Okay... veered a bit off the topic there. I don't think the question posed here is entirely hypothetical though, since Steven Moffat, Paul Cornell and Gareth Roberts have all taken their ideas from annuals, novels and comic strips and made TV stories out of them. I think something similar could happen in the future.

If it does, I'd like them to take on something that stands alone, and doesn't take established characters and settings from the TV series off in various odd directions. So as long as there are never any references to anything like the Valeyard turning out to be Jack the Ripper, or the Master really being called Koschei, or Looms, or the Pythia, or the Other, or Lungbarrow, I'll be happy.

As for what I'd like to see adapted, the only thing that really springs to mind is a Grant Morrison-penned DWM story called Changes, which I recall as a very entertaining and suitably odd trip around the inside of the TARDIS.

Pretty much the only ones I could see possibly working are Timewyrm: Exodus, Nightshade, The Highest Science, First Frontier (which I liked, even though no one else seems to), Just War and something almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike Conundrum.

Oh, and The Chimes of Midnight even though that isn't a novel.

Plus, I would have liked to have seen All-Consuming Fire, but it might be a bit tricky to get the cast together what with Jeremy Brett being dead and everything.

I would quite like to see Nuclear Time while we still have the right cast.

Just noticed that some Doctor Who books are now available to download on Kindle. So going on your advice I've downloaded Prisoner of the Daleks!

Yeah! Influence!

I'm going to be really embarrassed if its actually rubbish.

The Iron Legion without a doubt.

Not sure how far the budget would stretch to do it justice-the very first page of the strip is mind blowing in itself.

Human Nature. That would be brilliant. Can't see it happening though!

Surely All-Consuming Fire should be in there as well.

Holmes, Watson, The Doctor, giant rats. Something for everybody.

Nightshade, though almost certainly too Quatermass for the family audience.

BTW I'd be amazed if we ever see the Chelonians, they'd be too expensive.

I always thought "the stealers of dreams" (9th Doctor with Rose and Jack) would have made a good two parter, quite a dark story which explores some interesting ideas.

Well if we're talking new books, I'd quite like Peacemaker which is a Ten, Martha story. Simply because it's set in the Wild West. The only other Wild West story I've seen is One in the Gunfighters which didn't live up to my expectations.

I vote for"The Crooked World", that'd be amazing!!

And can we squeeze in a TV adaptation of Planet Bollywood???? from DWM?

There wouldn't be if they made any of the New Series Adventures into TV stories. I have read nearly all of them, and none of them contradict anything in any major way. The most controversial thing that was ever said in one of these novels was when the Doctor said that he hadn't slept in years.