The Previous Doctor Adventures range of books was a series of original novels featuring the adventures of the First to Seventh Doctors which were published monthly by BBC Books (excluding Decembers) from June 1997, and which were effectively a replacement for Virgin's Missing Adventures series which had ceased publication in the April.

The series went bi-monthly from October 2003 when they began to alternate with novels in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range.

With the start of the new Doctor Who television series starring Christopher Eccleston in March 2005, the Eighth Doctor Adventures range was cancelled, with The Gallifrey Chronicles being the final title published in June 2005 — the intention being that all further books featuring the Eighth Doctor would be released in the Previous Doctor Adventures range.

In the event, the Previous Doctor Adventures range itself ended with a fizzle rather than a bang in the November of 2005 with the publication of Andrew Cartmel's Seventh Doctor and Ace novel Atom Bomb Blues.