List of Doctor Who spin-off companions
Encyclopedia
This is a list of fictional characters who were companions
of the Doctor
, in various spin-off
media based on the long-running British science fiction television
series, Doctor Who
. The canonicity
of these spin-offs is unclear.
, is a companion of the Fifth Doctor
in the Key 2 Time series, which includes the plays The Judgement of Isskar
, The Destroyer of Delights
and The Chaos Pool
.
She is a human "tracer", a device designed to track down the segments of the Key to Time across the universe. When the Doctor meets Amy, she is just a few seconds old and recruits the Doctor as her companion to find the Key.
At the end of The Chaos Pool, Romana
invites Amy to live on Gallifrey
and enroll in their Academy.
Amy (now renamed Abby) and her sister Zara return in their own mini-series Graceless.
and appeared in the webcast
story Death Comes to Time
by Colin Meek (widely understood to be a pseudonym for Dan Freedman). At the start of the story, the listener was not aware of the circumstances of his and the Doctor's meeting. Antimony appeared to be a young humanoid male who was slightly unworldly and naive, for example believing there were still Allosaurus
es roaming the Earth.
During Antimony and the Doctor's battle against the renegade Time Lord
, General Tannis, it was revealed that Antimony was in fact an android constructed by the Doctor. The Doctor in Death Comes to Time was very old and, saddened by the death and departure of many companions, had built Antimony as a companion who would never leave him. Tannis totally destroyed Antimony, leaving the Doctor grief-stricken over Antimony's death.
The actor Kevin Eldon provided the voice of Antimony. The illustrations, by Lee Sullivan
, depicted Antimony as a humanoid with purplish skin, nonetheless bearing a slight resemblance to Eldon.
gave to the stray cat she brought aboard the Fifth Doctor
's TARDIS at the end of The Eye of the Scorpion
. Erimem had adopted the cat, who had in the course of events absorbed a malevolent alien intelligence harmlessly into its mind, and named him Antranak after her mentor in Egypt
.
Erimem and Peri
were quite fond of the cat, the Doctor less so. Antranak quickly made himself at home in the TARDIS, much to the Doctor's chagrin, thanks to the cat's habit of jumping onto the console, and refusal to use the litterbox.
Antranak departed in Nekromanteia
. An energy converter had been built on the planet Talderun to support its creator, Shara, in a heaven
-like state of non-existence in a pocket universe
while his body anchored the reaction on the material plane. Due to the theft and destruction of Shara's corpse, the reaction was becoming critically imbalanced, and would soon destroy the planet, and ultimately the entire star system
.
The reaction could only be rebalanced by another living being mounting an altar
and swapping places with Shara, allowing Shara to return to the physical world and die while the sacrificed being became trapped in Shara's pocket Universe. The Doctor prepared to sacrifice himself to save the planet, but Erimem argued that she should be the one to make the sacrifice. While they argued, Antranak leaped onto the altar himself, swapping places with Shara and stabilising the reaction, saving the planet and allowing Shara to die in peace.
The Doctor later wondered if the alien creature in the cat's mind forced him to act. Erimem, however, remained firm in her belief that her noble cat sacrificed himself of his own accord.
in the pages of TV Comic
in 1973. Introduced in the story Children of the Evil Eye (TVC #1133-#1138), he appeared in only one further story, Nova (TVC #1139-#1147), before being returned to his own time by the Doctor.
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
by Lance Parkin
. This may be the same person as Trix MacMillan
.
, was the travelling companion of the Fifth Doctor
and Nyssa during a limited story arc in the Big Finish Productions
audio dramas. Brewster, a Victorian orphan, meets the Doctor in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
, which culminates with his theft of the TARDIS. He returns it during the events of The Boy That Time Forgot
, travelling with the Doctor in the subsequent three-part story Time Reef
. In the accompanying single-part story, A Perfect World, Brewster leaves the TARDIS to live in the present day. The 12-part mini-series The Three Companions
reveals an adventure he had with Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and Polly Wright during the time he had the TARDIS. Later in his life, he starts traveling with the Sixth Doctor
and Evelyn Smythe
in The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
. The Doctor leaves Brewster in Victorian Lancashire
, but Brewster ends up leaving Earth with an alien trader in Industrial Evolution
.
from the Telos novella
Companion Piece
by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker
. The Doctor and Cat are already travelling together at the start of the novella. Needing mercury links for the TARDIS
, they tried to steal some from the Wierdarbi, a race of cybernetically enhanced insects. When cornered by the Wierdarbi, Cat defeated them by releasing a swarm of prototype robots built by the Doctor.
Still in need of the mercury links, they next travelled to Haven, a planet controlled by the Roman Catholic Church
. The Doctor was nearly burnt at the stake because the Time Lord
s had been to the planet before, and the Church declared them to be witches. He was temporarily spared by the arrival of a giant cross shaped spaceship belonging to the Holy Inquisition
. Whilst the Doctor was being tortured, Cat sneaked into the Cathedral on Haven and encountered an elderly priest named Father Julian. Believing herself to be Roman Catholic, she gave her confession to Julian, who offered to try to save the Doctor's life. After Cat was arrested for the murder of an Archbishop, she and the Doctor were taken to Rome (in fact a space station) to be tried by the Pope
. On the journey, Cat relived many childhood memories with a friendly priest named Paddy, and noted the coincidence of many shared experiences. She later saw that he was in fact a robot. When the Bishop programming the Paddy robot tried to strangle Cat, he let go at the last moment and began laughing.
When the space ship came under attack by a barbarian horde, the Doctor reprogrammed its robots to defend it. As the battle raged, access to the control room was cut off to all except robots, and the TARDIS was trapped in a stasis field. The Doctor noted that there was only one robot left who could get there, one which he had something to tell. The novella ended there, with the implication that Cat was the robot.
, who later played Wilfred Mott
in the revived television series in 2007-2010) travelled with Dr Who
in the feature film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
. His role replaced that of Ian Chesterton
in the television serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, on which the film was based.
Tom mistook the TARDIS
for a real police telephone box
while attempting to foil a jewel robbery. Tom accompanied Dr Who, along with his niece Louise and his granddaughter Susan
, to the year 2150, where they discovered that the Dalek
s had invaded Earth. After the Daleks were defeated, The Doctor returned him to London a few minutes before the robbery was due to take place, enabling him to catch the robbers.
who appeared in the flash-animated serial Scream of the Shalka
by Paul Cornell
and the short story The Feast of the Stone by Cavan Scott
and Mark Wright. Her voice was provided by Sophie Okonedo
, who was also the visual model for the character, animated by Cosgrove Hall
.
Alison was a barmaid from the 21st century who lived in the village of Lannet in Lancashire
with her boyfriend Joe, a doctor. Out of all the village inhabitants she was the only one who did not live in fear of the Shalka.
She was instrumental in helping the Doctor defeat the Shalka. At the end of the adventure she admitted she was going to leave Joe even before all of the Shalka problems started, and broke up with him. When the Master asked her to join the Doctor on his travels, she accepted.
mentioned in Lance Parkin
's eighth Doctor novels Father Time and The Gallifrey Chronicles
. The name Claudia is thought to be an in-joke on Parkin's part, referring to The Stranger by Portia Da Costa (Wendy Wootton), an erotic novel in Virgin Publishing's Black Lace range. The Stranger recounts the affair between a widow named Claudia Marwood and a mysterious amnesiac named "Paul", whom da Costa based on Paul McGann
's performance as the Doctor. Claudia is said in Father Time to be a widow.
was a companion of the Seventh Doctor
in an alternate timeline. In the Big Finish audio The Architects of History
Rachel was working with the Doctor in an effort to put right an alternate reality created by Elizabeth Klein, in which the Nazis had won World War II and then created a Galactic Reich. In the reality where time has run it's correct course, she and the Doctor have never met.
, starting with The Lost Stories
audio drama Crime Of The Century
. The character was originally intended to be the television companion just after Ace
left, however the series was canceled before Ace's character was even given a departure story. In the audio series, Raine travels alongside Ace, rather than replacing her. Raine's father was an English smuggler and her mother was a Russian KGB
agent. The Doctor met them 22 years earlier in Thin Ice, where he helped deliver infant Raine. She gestated for only fifteen weeks because her mother's biology was accelerated by ancient Ice Warrior
technology. Raine is adept at safecracking, burglary
, fencing
as well as being a helicopter pilot. She is cultured and high class, in contrast to Ace.
, written by Terrance Dicks
. She was portrayed by Rebecca Thornhill.
In the Big Finish Productions
audio adaptation she was portrayed by Claire Huckle.
During the course of the play, she developed a friendship with Zog and also formed a close relationship with fellow companion Jason which eventually became romantic. At the end of the play, Jason persuaded her to accompany them on their travels in the TARDIS
.
. The character was named Dave in the script by Terrance Dicks
but this had been changed for the original production after actor James Matthews was cast in the role.
introduced in the Big Finish Short Trips
anthology Short Trips: Snapshots
. He first appears in Attachments and features in Flight of the Monkrah and Puppeteer.
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
by Lance Parkin
. The name may refer to the character of Debbie Castle from the novel Father Time, also by Parkin.
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
by Lance Parkin
. Nothing more is known about this person.
, Tamsin Drew was a failed actress who answered an advert for a companion to a time traveller. She approached it as a type of audition and affected the persona of Juliet Walsh, a professional career woman. Although he didn't place the ad, the Eighth Doctor
spotted it as being intended for him and played along. After finding out the truth about Tamsin, (and after dispatching all the other applicants for their respective secrets and betrayals) he invited her to travel with him, having recently split from Lucie Miller
. Lucie meanwhile has been traveling with The Monk
, but when she leaves him, he manipulates Tamsin to coerce her into being his new companion. She eventually meets back up with the Doctor during a Dalek invasion of Earth (featured in Lucie Miller
/ To the Death
), where she finds out the truth about the Monk. She agrees to help the Doctor, but is killed by a Dalek shortly after, leaving the Monk devastated. Tamsin is played by Niky Wardley
.
comics. He is a resident of the small west country
town of Stockbridge, which the Doctor often visits. A UFO spotter and amateur psychic investigator, Max is awkward and often derided by the other locals. He does, however, have some actual psychic abilities, although he doesn't fully understand how to use them. He first met the Fifth Doctor
in the 1982 comic Stars Fell on Stockbridge, when a starship disintegrated over the town. Roughly a decade later, he befriended Izzy Sinclair
, a teenage girl who shared his interest in space and science fiction. In the 1996 comic End Game, they both encountered the Eighth Doctor
, at which point Izzy began traveling in the TARDIS. The Tenth Doctor
encountered him in the 2009 comic The Stockbridge Child, which ended with Max being badly stricken while riding his moped. Later that year, he was reunited with the Fifth Doctor in the Big Finish audio story The Eternal Summer
. Voiced by Mark Williams
, this story involved a complex time trap that ultimately resulted in Max surviving his road incident.
in the 1999 spoof charity serial Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
written by Steven Moffat
and produced for the charity Comic Relief. She was portrayed by Julia Sawalha
, who had previously auditioned for the role of Ace
.
The circumstances of their meeting were never explained, but the Doctor had planned to marry her and retire. However, the Master
(played by Jonathan Pryce
) and the Dalek
s had other plans, and by the end of the story the Doctor had used up all of his remaining regenerations. The Doctor's thirteenth (and final) incarnation turned out to be a woman (played by Joanna Lumley
) — a form that Emma was not interested in marrying, as the Doctor was literally no longer the man she fell in love with. The Doctor, finding the Master suddenly quite attractive, departed with him instead.
, introduced in the Radio 4
audio drama The Paradise of Death
and played by Richard C. Pearce. Jeremy is a photographer for Metropolitan, the magazine Sarah Jane Smith
works for, and is assigned to the story Sarah is investigating. Jeremy is an inexperienced and somewhat clueless photographer, reflecting the editor's scepticism about Sarah's story, and is used as a comic relief character whom the regular cast find annoying.
Jeremy subsequently appears in the follow-up drama The Ghosts of N-Space
, in which he gives Sarah his spare ticket on a trip to Sicily
(his mother decided not to go), thereby bringing them into the story, and the Past Doctor Adventures
novel Island of Death
in which Sarah enlists the Doctor and the Brigadier to rescue him from an alien cult. This novel also explains that he owes his job to his uncle owning 30% of the magazine. Several Big Finish Short Trips
stories see Jeremy travel with the Third Doctor as his Companion during an unclear period of time where the Third Doctor appears not to be travelling with Sarah.
One of the villains in the Sixth Doctor
Past Doctor Adventures novel Instruments of Darkness
is "John Doe", a paranoid amnesiac with a grudge against the Doctor and UNIT. At the end of the novel, following his death, it is revealed he was Jeremy, whose mental problems began when he carelessly activated the Doctor's Image Reproduction Integrating System
.
, played by James Matthews. In the Big Finish
audio adaptation, he was played by Joseph Thompson.
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
by Lance Parkin
. Nothing more is known about this person.
in the Doctor Who Monthly
comic strips. He first appeared in the story Lunar Lagoon (DWM #76-#77), although he did not meet the Doctor until the start of the next story, 4-Dimensional Vistas (DWM#78-#83). Gus's first appearances were written by Steve Parkhouse
and illustrated by Mick Austin
; he was later drawn by Steve Dillon
.
Gus was an American fighter pilot from an alternate timeline
where World War II was still being fought in 1963. The Doctor had accidentally taken the TARDIS
there, not realising that the idyllic island he had picked out as a holiday spot was not on an alien planet, but somewhere in the Pacific of that parallel Earth. Gus crashed on the island after a dogfight with a Japan
ese plane, and accepted the Doctor's offer to take him off the island.
However, as was usual for the Doctor, he did not take Gus home by the direct route. Back in the Doctor's own universe, they first encountered the Doctor's old enemy, the Meddling Monk
, who had allied himself with the Ice Warrior
s to create a gigantic sonic cannon. After thwarting their plans, the two travelled to the planet Celeste. There they met the malevolent frog-like businessman, Dogbolter, whom the Doctor offended when he refused to sell Dogbolter the TARDIS (The Moderator, DWM #86-87).
Dogbolter sent a hitman
, the Moderator, after the Doctor. The Moderator followed the Doctor's trail back to Gus's world, and ambushed them when the Doctor was about to drop Gus off. Gus was shot in the ensuing hail of gunfire, but managed to shoot back and incapacitate the Moderator. Gus died from his wounds, much to the Doctor's sadness. The Doctor left Gus where he had fallen, but would eventually seek out and encounter Dogbolter again.
audio adventure Terror Firma
, in which it was revealed that they had travelled with the Eighth Doctor
before he met Charley Pollard
. Samson was played by Lee Ingleby
, and Gemma by Lizzie Hopley
. They have since appeared in the short stories The Long Midwinter by Philip Purser-Hallard
, published in Short Trips: The History of Christmas
and Dear John published in Short Trips: The Centenarian
.
Samson was a librarian who lived in the town of Folkestone
. He and his sister met the Doctor in the Folkestone library and followed him into the TARDIS
. Their travels included visits to the planets Porteus and Murgatroyd, the Ice Caves of Shabadabadon, the court of Queen Elizabeth I
, prehistoric Earth and Studio 54
. The Long Midwinter details another of Samson and Gemma's adventures during this time, set on the brown dwarf world of Yesod. The three then travelled to 1956 to visit the Doctor's old friend, Edward Grainger. Samson called the Doctor "Skipper", and greatly enjoyed his adventures.
After a visit to the planet Valuensis, the TARDIS encountered a Nekkistani time cruiser in the Time Vortex. Samson and Gemma went to explore the ship and encountered Davros
, who gained control of their minds. Davros forced Samson to knock the Doctor out, and operated on the TARDIS and the Griffins, linking Samson's mind to the TARDIS. Davros returned Samson and Gemma to Earth and altered the Doctor's memories so that he had no recollection of the two siblings.
Samson remained subconsciously aware of the Doctor's further travels with Charley and C'rizz
via his link with the TARDIS, and remained under Davros' partial control. This allowed Davros to monitor the Doctor while leaving Samson disoriented and confused. Davros also infected Gemma with a deadly virus that mutates humans into Daleks, using her to spread the disease around the world and paving the way for Davros to conquer the planet with a new race of Dalek
s. When the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz arrived on Earth, Davros (who was struggling against having his personality consumed by the Dalek Emperor programming) sprung his elaborate trap.
Unknown to Davros, Gemma had encountered and become allied with a faction of rebel Daleks. On their orders, she tested C'rizz's killing instincts, which were proven when he killed a human test subject. Gemma then brought C'rizz to the Dalek resistance, who tried unsuccessfully to make C'rizz their new Emperor. Gemma's exact fate is unknown, although C'rizz told the Doctor she had died and it is implied that C'rizz killed her.
Eventually, the Doctor blackmailed the Daleks into releasing C'rizz and leaving Earth, taking Davros (now fully the Dalek Emperor) with them. The Doctor then freed Samson from Davros's control and severed his link to the TARDIS. Samson remained in Folkestone with his mother Harriet, a leader of the human resistance, to help rebuild Earth.
In the play Minuet in Hell
, a litany of the Doctor's previous companions includes the name "Sam". At the time of the play's release, this was intended as a reference to Sam Jones
, the Eighth Doctor's companion from the novels
; this placed the books and the audios in the same continuity. Producer Gary Russell
subsequently decided that the two continuities should be separate (partly because of different directions taken between the two ranges). Terror Firma now provides the possibility that "Sam" was a reference to Samson instead, although this is undermined somewhat by the Doctor constantly addressing Samson by his full name and never once as "Sam".
The Company of Friends: Mary's Story reveals that at some point during their travels, the Doctor dropped Samson and Gemma off in Vienna
and then spent years travelling with Mary Shelley
before going finally returning to pick them up. His first attempt to reunite with them was in The Silver Turk
, which reveals that he left them in June, 1816, the same day he met Mary in Switzerland
.
, Oliver Harper was a city trader
from 1966. He joined the First Doctor
and Steven Taylor
, in the audio play The Perpetual Bond. He was motivated to escape with the Doctor as he was in immediate danger of being arrested for homosexual behaviour
, as revealed in his second story, The Cold Equations
. In his third adventure, The First Wave
, he is killed by Vardans, beings of pure energy. His mind continued to exist without form or ability to interact with others. He stayed with the Doctor, unbeknownst to him, finally fading out of existence during the Doctor's first regeneration
. Oliver is the first ongoing companion created for the Companion Chronicles range
with her boyfriend, Jared. The train went through a temporal breach, transporting it from modern day London to a sentient
planet called Symbios. There, Flip briefly met the Sixth Doctor
, whose companion at the time was Evelyn Smythe
. In this first appearance, the 2011 audio drama The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
, Flip and Jared return to Earth while the Doctor and Evelyn leave in the TARDIS. Flip reunites with the Sixth Doctor and journeys with him, starting with the January 2012 release, The Curse of Davros
. She is played by Lisa Greenwood
.
, appeared in the stage play Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
, written by Terrance Dicks
.
Jason was originally played by Graeme Smith up until 15 July 1989, except from 21–23 April 1989 (where he was portrayed by David Bingham). Bingham carried on in the role from 17 July 1989 until the end of the stage production.
Jason was rescued from the Guillotine
by the Doctor and was already a companion with the Doctor at the start of the play. When Crystal joined them he developed a close friendship with her which eventually became romantic. At the end of the play, Jason persuaded her accompany them on their travels in the TARDIS
.
In the Big Finish Productions
audio adaptation he is played by former Hear'say
member Noel Sullivan
.
Jason was also the name of the new Master of the Land of Fiction in the Virgin New Adventures
novels Conundrum and Head Games by Steve Lyons, and briefly accompanied a fictional version of the Doctor known as "Dr. Who" before the Seventh Doctor
set things right.
Neither Jason should be confused with Jason Kane, the ex-husband of Bernice Summerfield
.
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
by Lance Parkin
. The name is the same as that of a companion (played by Mel Giedroyc
) being "auditioned" by Jon Pertwee
in a sketch from the 1990s BBC radio comedy, The Skivers.
, who met her on the planet Torrok in 2191 in the Virgin Missing Adventures
novel Time Of Your Life by Steve Lyons.
Angela was born in 2171 and had black hair and green eyes. Her ID number was 9/12/44. Her father was killed by "outside perils" and her sister Ruth was taken away by Peace Keepers. Angela's time with the Doctor
was sadly cut short when he left her aboard the abandoned space station
used by the Meson Broadcasting Company. Although this was to keep her safe, Angela's body was killed by a techno-organic, data consuming entity known as Krllxk. The last bits of Angela's consciousness absorbed by Krllxk died after the Meson station vaporised.
to the time of King Actaeus
of Athens
in the novel The Slitheen Excursion
.
Sir Justin, a medieval knight, accompanied the Fifth Doctor
in the Doctor Who Monthly
comic strip story The Tides of Time (DWM#61-#67), written by Steve Parkhouse
and illustrated by Dave Gibbons
.
Justin was a pious Christian
knight from medieval England
who was transported to the 20th century by the actions of the demon Melanicus. Melanicus had wrested control of a vast biomechanical complex known as the Event Synthesizer (which could control all of time, space, and reality) from its guardian, the Prime Mover
, using the Synthesizer to wreak havoc with time. Justin was plucked from a joust
in his own time, and collided with the Doctor's TARDIS
outside of the village of Stockbridge. The Doctor brought the unconscious Justin into the TARDIS, and when Justin recovered the Doctor was impressed with the ease with which he accepted his strange surroundings. Justin also believed the Doctor to be an angel of God, the TARDIS a miracle and their quest a crusade, despite the Doctor's attempts to disabuse him of the notion.
Justin accompanied the Doctor to Gallifrey
and the Althrace system, which was situated inside a white hole
, to attend a meeting with the High Evolutionaries of Althrace who explained the situation with Melanicus. Eventually, with the help of Rassilon
, Merlin, and the Matrix
-powered Time Lord
agent known as Shayde
, the Doctor was able to confront Melanicus, who had hidden the Event Synthesizer in a time-altered version of a Stockbridge church. Justin, the Doctor and Shayde fought Melanicus, and Justin gave the killing blow at the cost of his own life, all in a blinding flash.
With time set right, the Doctor regained consciousness in the restored church — now named St. Justinian's — in the 20th century, wondering if it had all been a dream. There, he saw a statue of Sir Justin, with an inscribed epitaph referring obliquely to his adventures in time and space. It was suggested that Merlin was responsible for the memorial.
) was first heard in the 2001 Big Finish Productions
audio story Colditz
. She was a British citizen of German descent who came from an alternate timeline in which the Nazis had won World War II. She was a scientist, working for the Reich, and put in charge of studying the Doctor's captured TARDIS. In it, she traveled from her version of 1965, back to the original version of 1944, where she was ultimately stranded by the Seventh Doctor
. She returns as the Seventh Doctor's traveling companion in the 2010 story A Thousand Tiny Wings
and continues in Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story
, but is subsequently erased from history in The Architects of History
after she steals the TARDIS in an attempt to recreate her own history, resulting in Earth and the 'Thousand Year Reich' being destroyed in a brief war with the Selachians. Her erasure undoes the damage she had caused to history, the story ending with the Doctor meeting the Klein that exists in the 'true' history, now working for UNIT, although it is unclear how much he remembers of his time with the original Klein.
who assisted the Doctor during The Infinity Doctors
, and later appeared in The Gallifrey Chronicles
. A Larna also appeared in Unnatural History
, and recognised the Doctor, but it is unclear if this was the same character. A short story, "Birth of a Renegade" by Eric Saward
published in the Radio Times
special commemorating the 20th anniversary of Doctor Who, had previously established Lady Larna as the true Gallifreyan name of Susan Foreman
.
first mentioned in a flashback sequence in the novel The Year of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman
, which took place in the South Sea
s in 1935. Lorenzo is mentioned again in The Gallifrey Chronicles
by Lance Parkin
.
) was the niece of "Dr. Who
" in the film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
. In the film's plot, Louise took the role filled by Barbara Wright
in the television serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, on which the film was based.
in the Big Finish play He Jests at Scars...
, set in an alternate universe
where the Valeyard won the Sixth Doctor's remaining incarnations in "Trial of a Time Lord". An "eco-warrior", the Valeyard rescued her from being hit by a police car during an environmental protest, and she accompanied him on his quest to conquer time. He later killed her, to make the point that he was no longer the Doctor. It is hinted she might have known the Doctor before he became the Valeyard as she frequently refers to him, much to the Valeyard's annoyance, as the Doctor, "Champion of Justice".
In Big Finish's regular Doctor Who continuity, Martin is a friend of Sarah Jane Smith
, and appeared in the first series of Sarah Jane audio adventures. When the Sarah Jane audios were initially announced, the role of Ellie Martin was listed as (books companion) Sam Jones; her "eco-warrior" past may be a reference to that former origin.
in the comic strips printed in the Doctor Who Adventures magazine. A history student at Edinburgh
university, she was created by a reader as part of a competition. She debuted in the issue on sale December 31, 2008. It's suggested she's a descendent of Jamie McCrimmon
.
, Robert McIntosh was a young science student from Scotland, who assisted the Fifth Doctor
in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
. This took place while the Doctor was spending a year in Victorian London, accidentally separated from Nyssa. Robert sacrificed his life for the Doctor, in the same story he was introduced.
and India Fisher
, Mila appeared in three audio stories, Patient Zero
, Paper Cuts
and Blue Forgotten Planet
. Mila was a human prisoner of the Daleks, who experimented on her using bio-engineered viruses. As a result of these endeavors, she lost most of her memories and eventually became invisible and non-corporeal, as well as gaining other strange abilities. She escaped from the Daleks and snuck on board the First Doctor
's TARDIS, possibly during the events of The Chase
. She remained in the TARDIS, unseen by anyone for centuries. She silently watched the Doctor, growing obsessed by his heroics and longing to be a real companion. During the Sixth Doctor
's life, she met Charley Pollard
, the only companion unprotected by the TARDIS' biological defenses. Mila managed to transfer her afflictions to Charley, while simultaneously adopting Charley's physical form. She was then able travel with the Doctor, pretending to be Charley, while the real Charley was left invisible and alone. Eventually Charley was cured by the Viyrans and Mila gave her life to save the Doctor. The Viyrans also altered the Sixth Doctor's memories so that he remembers his adventures with Charley as being with Mila's name and face.
Doctor Who Unbound audio play
Full Fathom Five
by David Bishop
.
This Doctor (played by David Collings
) had raised Ruth since 2039, when her father, Dr Vollmer, was lost in the destruction of the Deep-sea Energy Exploration Project (DEEP) undersea naval base. When the DEEP was rediscovered in 2066, the Doctor hired a mini-sub to get to the base before the naval recovery team. However, Ruth stowed away on board the mini-sub against the Doctor's wishes.
After Ruth and the Doctor reached the base, Ruth eventually discovered that the Doctor was responsible for her father's death. There had been illegal genetic experimentation going on in the base and the Doctor had killed Vollmer to prevent any information on the experiments from getting out. Still believing that the ends justified the means, the Doctor had simply returned to the DEEP base to regain his TARDIS
, which had been left there when he abandoned the base.
Horrified that the man who raised her had been lying to her, Ruth shot the Doctor and watched his face change. Ruth shot the new incarnation of the Doctor, and as he changed again, wondered how many times she would have to shoot him before he stayed dead.
mentioned in The Gallifrey Chronicles
by Lance Parkin
and possibly taken from the Telos novella
Rip Tide
by Louise Cooper
.
in the Doctor Who Magazine
comic strips. Olla was a Dreilyn, a heat vampire
whose race drew sustenance from draining the heat from other beings, although never enough to kill. She first met the Doctor and Frobisher
on A-Lux in the story A Cold Day in Hell (DWM#130-#133), written by Simon Furman and drawn by John Ridgway
. A-Lux was a resort planet which the Ice Warrior
s were planning to freeze and turn into a new Mars
. Olla helped the Doctor and Frobisher defeat the Ice Warriors, and when Frobisher elected to stay behind, the Doctor took her on board as his newest companion. The Doctor, however, was mildly disturbed by the way Olla kept waiting on him hand and foot.
Her stint in the TARDIS was short-lived. In the very next story, Redemption (DWM #134), Olla's former master, the Vachysian warlord Skaroux (a legal enforcer for the Galactic Federation), intercepted the TARDIS and demanded her return. It transpired that Olla had stolen Skaroux's money and then become a fugitive. The Doctor agreed to hand her over on the condition that she receive a fair trial, and Skaroux and Olla left together.
comic strip in #394, "Hotel Historia", as an alien entrepreneur running an illegal time-travel operation on Earth. Her organisation is shut down by the Tenth Doctor, and she gets taken away by the "cosmic baliffs", saying she likes the Doctor, but will get her revenge.
She returns "Thinktwice", a three-part story beginning in #400, as a convict on a space-station prison. The convicts have no recollection of their past lives due to repeated memory wipes, supposedly to rehabilitate them, but actually to feed parasitic lifeforms called the Memeovax. The Doctor enters the station undercover and is surprised to find Majenta there, having assumed she was sent to a "cushy" debtor's prison. He manages to defeat the Memovax and rescue Majenta.
However, Majenta's memories of her time prior to her first encounter with the Doctor do not return. Holding the Doctor responsible for this, she insists she will stay with him until he finds a way to reverse the process. The Doctor is taken aback by this, especially when she tells him she's in charge. She has little patience with the Doctor's insistence on stopping to help people, especially when it does not appear to have anything to do with her problem.
Since then, elements of Majenta's past have come to light; in the story "Mortal Beloved" (DWM #406-407) it transpires she was previously engaged to a powerful businessman named Wesley Sparks, who since her departure has become an insane cyborg. With the help of the Doctor and an artificial intelligence based on Sparks' earlier self, she manages to stop him and leaves the business in the hands of Violet, an android based on herself. The Doctor insists he did not intentionally take her back to Sparks, and she sees a mysterious figure on the scanner telling her to "remember the Hand".
Following this, in "The Age of Ice" (DWM# 408-410), Majenta is reunited with Fanson, her business associate from "Hotel Historia", now working for the Skith. Fanson seemingly persuades her to betray the Doctor, and eventually tells her he was the one who erased her memories, claiming he did it to save her sanity. She eventually becomes the Skith Queen, but returns to normal by the end of the story. Unfortunately, Fanson was killed when he intercepted an attack meant for her. At story's end, she's made her peace with the Doctor, and the two head to the next adventure.
In "The Crimson Hand" (DWM# 416-420), Majenta is being pursued by the Intersol Fleet, an intersteller police force which can somehow hack into the TARDIS systems. It is revealed that she is part of a powerful crime organisation called the Crimson Hand. Majenta is captured by Zephyr, an Intersol agent who was her cellmate on Thinktwice.
Commander Dargo forces his way into Majenta's mind, accessing her suppressed memories of the Crimson Hand - and thereby attracting the Hand themselves; four powerful beings who destroy Intersol's Justice Computer. Majenta tells the Doctor and Zephyr her new memories: The Crimson Hand were a group of four ruthless beings who possessed the Manus Mallificus, a machine shaped like a crimson hand that could reshape reality, but required five users. Majenta accepted their invitation to be the fifth member, but was horrified by their use of the Malus to destroy the Ownworld of the Skith. She fled, limiting the Hand's use of the Manus. Fanson found her, and realised that the Hand could psychically trace her, hence his removal of her memory. The Doctor, Majenta and Zephyr try to escape, but at the last minute, Majenta accepts the Crimson Hand's offer, and seemingly destroys the Doctor.
With the power of the Manus, Majenta attempts to convert her home planet, Vessica, into a utopia. Zephyr is her personal assistant (and, it's implied, lover) and her life is a constant stream of parties. Her desire to make life better for her people puzzles the other members of the Hand, who realise she is not like them. When a spatial rift threatens Veccia, and a rebellion against her rule turns out to be led by Wesley Sparks, Majenta admits she only sent the Doctor away, and calls him back. With the Doctor's help, Majenta cuts the rest of the Hand off from their power source, and destroys them, nearly dying in the attempt. Majenta and Zephyr settle on the planet Redemption (from "The Deep Hereafter", DWM #412).
encountered in the Time Vortex
in the Big Finish
audio play Storm Warning, taking place in 1930. The Doctor's companion Charley
named it Ramsay, after its resemblance to then-Prime Minister
James Ramsay MacDonald.
However, Ramsay soon began to weaken, being away from the vortex for so long. Despite finding a temporary solution in Sword of Orion
, the Doctor and Charley knew they had to return him to his natural habitat. As they approached the centre of the vortex, however, he attacked Charley. Ramsay sensed the fracturing web of time around her as she had been fated to die in the Airship R101 crash but escaped that fate due to the Doctor. The Doctor managed to expel Ramsay through the open doors of the TARDIS but the ship — and the Doctor — were damaged in the process, leading to the events of Minuet in Hell
. Charley's paradoxical existence was eventually resolved in Neverland
.
comic strip Party Animals (DWM #173), where she attended the birthday party of the Doctor's friend Bonjaxx on the space station Maruthea, situated at the centre of the space-time vortex
. Along with that future Doctor, she met the Seventh Doctor
and Ace
who were also attending the party and was involved in the subsequent brawl provoked by an inebriated Beep the Meep
. Nothing else is known about her, although her Doctor's appearance was subsequently used as a disguise in a complex ruse by the Eighth Doctor
against the time-travelling mercenaries known as the Threshold
.
The appearance of Ria was a sly reference to the series of unofficial audio plays produced as the Audio Visuals
series in the 1980s, which featured Nicholas Briggs
as the Doctor. Ria was played by several different actresses including Liz Knight, Patricia Merrick and Heather Barker.
for the duration of the Past Doctor Adventures
novel World Game
.
Serena was a member of an eminent but uninfluential Time Lord
family who had ambitions to some day become President of the High Council of Time Lords, spending her days working in the Capitol Library, studying records of the presidential election as a means of learning more about Time Lord politics. She is assigned to accompany the Second Doctor (after his conviction by the Time Lords in The War Games
) on a mission for the Celestial Intervention Agency
to improve her own political credentials (see also: Season 6B
).
Unlike the later Fourth Doctor
's relationship with Romana
, Serena is effectively the Doctor's parole officer, the two of them using, for the duration of the mission, a newer Type 97 TARDIS
that only she knows how to operate (Allegedly because the CIA felt that the Doctor's TARDIS was too obsolete for such work). Because of the terms of the Doctor's reprieve from execution, she also has the authority to give him orders. There was thus a certain hostility between the Doctor and Serena from the moment they met; the Doctor objected to having a companion forced on him like this, resenting Serena's claims that she would be his supervisor, while Serena was opposed to The Doctor calling her his assistant, and insisted that The Doctor was merely a convict on parole.
However, during the course of the mission, they gradually begin to appreciate each other's talents. Even before meeting The Doctor face-to-face, Serena felt that he'd been treated unfairly; upon learning that he'd only been captured because he wished to save the humans involved in the War Games, she commented that his original sentence of execution seemed an unfair reward for his altruism. As they continued to work together, Serena came to understand more about The Doctor's reasons for leaving Gallifrey, and began to see that, for all the charges put against him at his trial, he had only interfered because he believed it to be right, not because he simply felt like it, and had left Gallifrey mainly because there was no place on it for someone with his principles. She even seemed to come to care for The Doctor in her own way, apparently exhibiting jealousy of the fondness that the Countess- a member of the race known as the Players whom the Doctor had encountered in the past- had for the Time Lord.
Serena's time with The Doctor was cut tragically short after only one adventure with him. Having learned that the Countess intended to assassinate the Duke of Wellington at a ball held on the eve of Waterloo, The Doctor and Serena attended the ball to find out what had happened, and Serena took the shot intended for Wellington herself; the musket ball, fired at her from practically point-blank range, destroyed both her hearts, thus preventing her from regenerating
. She was buried in a simple grave, the only thing on her gravestone being SERENA, and, after the battle of Waterloo, it was visited by the Doctor and Wellington, who assured the Doctor that he would always remember the role he and Serena had played in the battle. Once back on Gallifrey, having unmasked a Time Lord who'd been collaborating with the Players, the Doctor refused to go on any more missions for the Agency until certain conditions were met, including an order that Serena's name be placed on the Gallifreyian Honour Roll and that he be allowed to tell her family how she had died.
audio drama The Genocide Machine
. She reappeared in the audio drama Dust Breeding
, at the end of which she travels to the 20th century with the Seventh Doctor
and Ace
. She seems to have made at least one more journey in the TARDIS
, as she is next heard of in the 27th century in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield
audio drama The Bellotron Incident
, where it is revealed that "a mutual friend" has brought her to Bernice's time. All three of these stories were written by Mike Tucker
.
Tarrant has since become a regular character in the Bernice Summerfield books and audio dramas, where she is played by Louise Faulkner. Her surname is an in-joke based on the fact that Terry Nation
, the creator of the Dalek
s, was overly fond of using the name "Tarrant" in his scripts.
, was the Fourth Doctor
's housekeeper in the Hornets' Nest
CD dramas. Formerly a possessed pawn of the Hornet Queen, she first encountered the Doctor in Cromer
in 1932, where she was the curator of the Palace of Curios, a small curiosity shop. Released from the Hornets' influence, she was taken by the Doctor to his house in Sussex
, in the early 21st century. She joined him and Mike Yates in their descent into the papier-mâché
brain of a stuffed
zebra
where the Hornets had built their primary nest. After they defeated the Queen and put paid to the Hornets' nefarious schemes, she settled into the house and took care of it while the Doctor continued his travels. He returned to check in on her a year later in the sequel, Demon Quest
, whereupon she traded one of the vital components of his TARDIS
to a mysterious figure. The Doctor insisted that she accompany him on a chase through time to retrieve it. While on the journey, she exhibited odd flashes of insight, such as making a prescient prediction while posing as the goddess "Wibbsentia" in pre-Roman Britain. This was later shown to be an effect of the Demon and the Hornets, who were trying to lure the Doctor to the dead world Sepulchre, there to turn the Doctor into a dimensional atlas
. Mrs Wibbsey was nearly killed in the attempt to rescue the Doctor after she was again infested with the Hornets. She returns in Serpent Crest
.
in the Big Finish Short Trips
anthology The Muses
. He later appeared in most of the short stories in Short Trips: Time Signature
, edited by Guerrier.
When William first met the Doctor, he was a young man living with his mother in Slough
, in near-contemporary England, following his parents' separation. Though the Doctor had met him previously in his own timeline, William's association with the Time Lord began when he encountered the Sixth Doctor
in a fishing shop and agreed to join him on a fishing trip. This expedition turned out to be to a far-future Earth populated by an advanced hunter-gatherer
society.
Together, William and the Doctor visited London in William's near future, and a walking city in the very distant future, although they never achieved William's ambition of meeting Viking
s. During their travels William developed his previously latent talent for music, and became fascinated with a tune which turned out to act directly upon the time vortex
. They parted company in an unnamed Eastern European country resembling Albania
in the 1950s, after William (who now began using the name "Isaac") fell in love with a local woman and became involved in a counter-revolutionary movement against the local Communist
regime.
Isaac became a prominent composer in his adopted country, his compositions incorporating the music of the vortex. He met the Doctor on two subsequent occasions, both of them earlier in the Doctor's timeline than their original meeting. His meeting with the Third Doctor
in London in the 1970s (their first, from the Doctor's point of view) took place shortly before Isaac's murder at the hands of forces wishing to protect the vortex.
The Doctor seems to have remembered Isaac late in his eighth incarnation
. After scattering his friend's ashes from a Viking longship
, he finally dealt with the murderous powers attempting to excise Isaac's compositions from the universe. This process eventually entailed changing the young William's timeline so that he never joined the sixth Doctor on his fishing trip, but instead developed his musical talent without the influence of the vortex.
The exact effects of this on history are unclear. While it seems that the Doctor still remembered his travels with William, the young man's life was altered so that he became a prominent composer in his own time. Whether the events they experienced together still happened, happened differently or did not occur at all is a matter of speculation.
. She was played by Wendy Padbury
, who had previously played Zoe Heriot
. Not to be confused with Jenny
from the 2008 episode "The Doctor's Daughter
."
In the Big Finish
audio adaptation, she was played by Wendy Padbury's daughter Charlie Hayes.
. She was a historian, before becoming a companion of the red-haired future Doctor mentioned in Battlefield
, and has an ex-husband named Lance. Given that this Doctor took the identity of Merlin
, it is unlikely that her name, and that of her husband, is a coincidence.
by Joan in the novel Human Nature by Paul Cornell
. Wolsey travelled in the TARDIS until the events of The Dying Days
by Lance Parkin
. The Eighth Doctor
then gave Wolsey to Bernice Summerfield
, and the cat remained with her for the remainder of the New Adventures
. Wolsey also appeared in some of the Bernice Summerfield audio dramas and books from Big Finish Productions
.
In the audio drama Oh No It Isn't!
by Paul Cornell, Wolsey was portrayed by Nicholas Courtney
, the actor better known for his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
, as the cat acquired the power of speech for part of the story.
The version of the Doctor seen in the Past Doctor Adventures
novel The Infinity Doctors
by Lance Parkin
had a cat named Wycliff, a reference to the New Adventures' Wolsey by way of reforming theologian John Wycliffe
.
slave, appeared in the stage play Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
, written by Terrance Dicks
.
Zog was a slave who served at the Bar Galactica run by Madame Delilah. When the Doctor, Jason and Crystal arrived, they found Karl and his mercenaries there waiting for them. Crystal formed a friendship with Zog and the three took Zog with them when they fled the bar. Zog continued to travel with the Doctor, Jason and Crystal at the end of the play. In the short story Face Value by Steve Lyons, published in Short Trips and Sidesteps
, it is revealed that Zog is an Aldeberian tyrant, and unbeknownst to this travelling companions is planning to enslave the universe. Zog also appeared alongside assorted monsters in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time
.
Companion (Doctor Who)
In the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, the term "companion" refers to a character who travels with, and shares the adventures of the Doctor. In most Doctor Who stories, the primary companion acts as both deuteragonist and audience surrogate...
of the Doctor
Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
, in various spin-off
Doctor Who spin-offs
Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
media based on the long-running British science fiction television
Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...
series, Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
. The canonicity
Canon (fiction)
In the context of a work of fiction, the term canon denotes the material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base. It is often contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction, which are not considered canonical...
of these spin-offs is unclear.
Amy
Amy, portrayed by Ciara JansonCiara Janson
Ciara Janson is an English actress best known for her role in Hollyoaks as Nicole Owen.The character of Nicole Owen was Ciara Janson's first major television work. Previous parts include the role of Heidi for a BBC radio drama...
, is a companion of the Fifth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
in the Key 2 Time series, which includes the plays The Judgement of Isskar
The Judgement of Isskar
The Judgement of Isskar is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:The Key to Time must be sought again, due to the Doctor's carelessness during its last assembling...
, The Destroyer of Delights
The Destroyer of Delights
Destroyer of Delights is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
and The Chaos Pool
The Chaos Pool
The Chaos Pool is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:...
.
She is a human "tracer", a device designed to track down the segments of the Key to Time across the universe. When the Doctor meets Amy, she is just a few seconds old and recruits the Doctor as her companion to find the Key.
At the end of The Chaos Pool, Romana
Romana
Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
invites Amy to live on Gallifrey
Gallifrey
Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the homeworld of the Doctor and the Time Lords...
and enroll in their Academy.
Amy (now renamed Abby) and her sister Zara return in their own mini-series Graceless.
Antimony
Antimony was a companion of the Seventh DoctorSeventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
and appeared in the webcast
Webcast
A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...
story Death Comes to Time
Death Comes to Time
Death Comes to Time is a webcast audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on the BBCi Cult website from 12 July 2001, accompanied by limited animation.-Synopsis:When two Time Lords are...
by Colin Meek (widely understood to be a pseudonym for Dan Freedman). At the start of the story, the listener was not aware of the circumstances of his and the Doctor's meeting. Antimony appeared to be a young humanoid male who was slightly unworldly and naive, for example believing there were still Allosaurus
Allosaurus
Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period . The name Allosaurus means "different lizard". It is derived from the Greek /allos and /sauros...
es roaming the Earth.
During Antimony and the Doctor's battle against the renegade Time Lord
Time Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
, General Tannis, it was revealed that Antimony was in fact an android constructed by the Doctor. The Doctor in Death Comes to Time was very old and, saddened by the death and departure of many companions, had built Antimony as a companion who would never leave him. Tannis totally destroyed Antimony, leaving the Doctor grief-stricken over Antimony's death.
The actor Kevin Eldon provided the voice of Antimony. The illustrations, by Lee Sullivan
Lee Sullivan
Lee Terence Sullivan is the drummer for the London based alternative rock band Bôa. Lee is the son of Terry Sullivan, the drummer for the rock band Renaissance.-References:...
, depicted Antimony as a humanoid with purplish skin, nonetheless bearing a slight resemblance to Eldon.
Antranak
Antranak was the name ErimemErimem
Erimemushinteperem, or simply Erimem, is a fictional character played by Caroline Morris in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A princess of Ancient Egypt born in 1419 BC, she is the daughter of...
gave to the stray cat she brought aboard the Fifth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
's TARDIS at the end of The Eye of the Scorpion
The Eye of the Scorpion
The Eye of the Scorpion is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
. Erimem had adopted the cat, who had in the course of events absorbed a malevolent alien intelligence harmlessly into its mind, and named him Antranak after her mentor in Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
.
Erimem and Peri
Peri Brown
Peri Brown, full name Perpugilliam Brown, is a fictional character played by Nicola Bryant in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
were quite fond of the cat, the Doctor less so. Antranak quickly made himself at home in the TARDIS, much to the Doctor's chagrin, thanks to the cat's habit of jumping onto the console, and refusal to use the litterbox.
Antranak departed in Nekromanteia
Nekromanteia (Doctor Who audio)
Nekromanteia is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Cast:*The Doctor — Peter Davison*Peri — Nicola Bryant*Erimem — Caroline Morris*Tallis — Kate Brown...
. An energy converter had been built on the planet Talderun to support its creator, Shara, in a heaven
Heaven
Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit...
-like state of non-existence in a pocket universe
Pocket universe
-In science:A pocket universe is a concept in inflationary theory, proposed by Alan Guth. It defines a realm like the one that contains the observable universe as only one of many inflationary zones.-In fiction:...
while his body anchored the reaction on the material plane. Due to the theft and destruction of Shara's corpse, the reaction was becoming critically imbalanced, and would soon destroy the planet, and ultimately the entire star system
Star system
A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars which orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction. A large number of stars bound by gravitation is generally called a star cluster or galaxy, although, broadly speaking, they are also star systems.-Binary star systems:A stellar...
.
The reaction could only be rebalanced by another living being mounting an altar
Altar
An altar is any structure upon which offerings such as sacrifices are made for religious purposes. Altars are usually found at shrines, and they can be located in temples, churches and other places of worship...
and swapping places with Shara, allowing Shara to return to the physical world and die while the sacrificed being became trapped in Shara's pocket Universe. The Doctor prepared to sacrifice himself to save the planet, but Erimem argued that she should be the one to make the sacrifice. While they argued, Antranak leaped onto the altar himself, swapping places with Shara and stabilising the reaction, saving the planet and allowing Shara to die in peace.
The Doctor later wondered if the alien creature in the cat's mind forced him to act. Erimem, however, remained firm in her belief that her noble cat sacrificed himself of his own accord.
Arnold
Arnold, a boy from the 30th century, was a short-lived companion for the Third DoctorThird Doctor
The Third Doctor is the third incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee....
in the pages of TV Comic
TV Comic
TV Comic was a British comic book published weekly between November 9, 1951 and June 29, 1984 for 1,697 issues. With its bright, eye-catching covers, it featured stories based on television shows running at the time of publication. The first issue had 8 pages and had Muffin the Mule on the cover....
in 1973. Introduced in the story Children of the Evil Eye (TVC #1133-#1138), he appeared in only one further story, Nova (TVC #1139-#1147), before being returned to his own time by the Doctor.
Beatrice
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
. This may be the same person as Trix MacMillan
Trix MacMillan
Beatrix MacMillan, or simply Trix, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel Time Zero by Justin Richards, but it was not until the novel Timeless by Stephen Cole...
.
Thomas Brewster
Thomas Brewster, portrayed by John PickardJohn Pickard (British actor)
John Pickard is a British actor who is currently best known for appearing in Channel 4's Hollyoaks playing Dominic Reilly from 2005-2010. He is the brother of fellow Hollyoaks star Nick Pickard, who plays Tony Hutchinson, Dom's half-brother, in the soap...
, was the travelling companion of the Fifth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
and Nyssa during a limited story arc in the Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio dramas. Brewster, a Victorian orphan, meets the Doctor in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, which culminates with his theft of the TARDIS. He returns it during the events of The Boy That Time Forgot
The Boy That Time Forgot
The Boy That Time Forgot is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:...
, travelling with the Doctor in the subsequent three-part story Time Reef
Time Reef & A Perfect World
Time Reef & A Perfect World is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It contains a three part story and a one part story as well...
. In the accompanying single-part story, A Perfect World, Brewster leaves the TARDIS to live in the present day. The 12-part mini-series The Three Companions
The Three Companions
The Three Companions is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is a 12-part mini-series included as a bonus feature on 12 consecutive monthly Doctor Who plays, starting with The Magic Mousetrap and ending with...
reveals an adventure he had with Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and Polly Wright during the time he had the TARDIS. Later in his life, he starts traveling with the Sixth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
and Evelyn Smythe
Evelyn Smythe
Dr. Evelyn Smythe is a fictional character played by Maggie Stables in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A professor of history from the 20th century with a fondness for chocolate, she is a...
in The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. - Plot :...
. The Doctor leaves Brewster in Victorian Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
, but Brewster ends up leaving Earth with an alien trader in Industrial Evolution
Industrial Evolution
Industrial Evolution is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
.
Catherine Broome
Catherine "Cat" Broome was a companion of the Seventh DoctorSeventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
from the Telos novella
Telos Doctor Who novellas
The Telos Doctor Who novellas were a series of tie-in novellas based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, officially licensed by the BBC and published by Telos Publishing Ltd...
Companion Piece
Companion Piece
Companion Piece is an original novella written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor and Catherine. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and a deluxe edition featuring a...
by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker is a special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as an Effects Supervisor for his own company, The Model Unit. He is also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series Doctor Who and...
. The Doctor and Cat are already travelling together at the start of the novella. Needing mercury links for the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
, they tried to steal some from the Wierdarbi, a race of cybernetically enhanced insects. When cornered by the Wierdarbi, Cat defeated them by releasing a swarm of prototype robots built by the Doctor.
Still in need of the mercury links, they next travelled to Haven, a planet controlled by the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
. The Doctor was nearly burnt at the stake because the Time Lord
Time Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
s had been to the planet before, and the Church declared them to be witches. He was temporarily spared by the arrival of a giant cross shaped spaceship belonging to the Holy Inquisition
Inquisition
The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis , was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy...
. Whilst the Doctor was being tortured, Cat sneaked into the Cathedral on Haven and encountered an elderly priest named Father Julian. Believing herself to be Roman Catholic, she gave her confession to Julian, who offered to try to save the Doctor's life. After Cat was arrested for the murder of an Archbishop, she and the Doctor were taken to Rome (in fact a space station) to be tried by the Pope
Pope
The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...
. On the journey, Cat relived many childhood memories with a friendly priest named Paddy, and noted the coincidence of many shared experiences. She later saw that he was in fact a robot. When the Bishop programming the Paddy robot tried to strangle Cat, he let go at the last moment and began laughing.
When the space ship came under attack by a barbarian horde, the Doctor reprogrammed its robots to defend it. As the battle raged, access to the control room was cut off to all except robots, and the TARDIS was trapped in a stasis field. The Doctor noted that there was only one robot left who could get there, one which he had something to tell. The novella ended there, with the implication that Cat was the robot.
Tom Campbell
Special Constable Tom Campbell (portrayed by Bernard CribbinsBernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins, OBE is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2010 is still an active...
, who later played Wilfred Mott
Wilfred Mott
Wilfred "Wilf" Mott is a recurring fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Bernard Cribbins. He is the maternal grandfather of the Tenth Doctor's companion Donna Noble, and father of character Sylvia Noble...
in the revived television series in 2007-2010) travelled with Dr Who
Dr. Who (Dalek films)
Dr. Who is a character based on the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. Although based upon the character of the Doctor from the television series, the character is fundamentally different, most notably in being human....
in the feature film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. is the second of two films based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks , and starred Peter Cushing in his return to the role of the eccentric inventor and time traveller "Dr. Who". It also...
. His role replaced that of Ian Chesterton
Ian Chesterton
Ian Chesterton is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. He was played in the series by William Russell, and was one of the members of the programme's very first regular cast, appearing in the bulk of the first two...
in the television serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from November 21 to December 26, 1964....
, on which the film was based.
Tom mistook the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
for a real police telephone box
Police box
A police box is a British telephone kiosk or callbox located in a public place for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police...
while attempting to foil a jewel robbery. Tom accompanied Dr Who, along with his niece Louise and his granddaughter Susan
Susan Foreman
Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The granddaughter and original companion of the First Doctor, she was played by actress Carole Ann Ford from 1963 to 1964, in the show's first season and the first two stories of the second season...
, to the year 2150, where they discovered that the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s had invaded Earth. After the Daleks were defeated, The Doctor returned him to London a few minutes before the robbery was due to take place, enabling him to catch the robbers.
Alison Cheney
Alison Cheney was a companion of the "unofficial" Ninth DoctorShalka Doctor
The Shalka Doctor is the common fan name given to the character that appeared as an alternate incarnation of the Doctor in the flash-animated serial Scream of the Shalka in 2003 and the later short story The Feast of the Stone which were based on the British science fiction television series,...
who appeared in the flash-animated serial Scream of the Shalka
Scream of the Shalka
Scream of the Shalka is a flash-animated series based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was produced to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the series and was originally posted in six weekly parts from 13 November to 18 December 2003 on bbc.co.uk's Doctor Who...
by Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield....
and the short story The Feast of the Stone by Cavan Scott
Cavan Scott
Cavan Scott is a freelance author, journalist and editor best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who...
and Mark Wright. Her voice was provided by Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo, OBE is a British actress, who has starred both in successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels...
, who was also the visual model for the character, animated by Cosgrove Hall
Cosgrove Hall Films
Cosgrove Hall Films was a British animation studio based in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, that once was a major producer of children's television programmes. Cosgrove Hall's programmes are still seen in over eighty countries...
.
Alison was a barmaid from the 21st century who lived in the village of Lannet in Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
with her boyfriend Joe, a doctor. Out of all the village inhabitants she was the only one who did not live in fear of the Shalka.
She was instrumental in helping the Doctor defeat the Shalka. At the end of the adventure she admitted she was going to leave Joe even before all of the Shalka problems started, and broke up with him. When the Master asked her to join the Doctor on his travels, she accepted.
Claudia
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
mentioned in Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
's eighth Doctor novels Father Time and The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. The name Claudia is thought to be an in-joke on Parkin's part, referring to The Stranger by Portia Da Costa (Wendy Wootton), an erotic novel in Virgin Publishing's Black Lace range. The Stranger recounts the affair between a widow named Claudia Marwood and a mysterious amnesiac named "Paul", whom da Costa based on Paul McGann
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role...
's performance as the Doctor. Claudia is said in Father Time to be a widow.
Rachel Cooper
Rachel, played by Lenora CrichlowLenora Crichlow
Lenora Isabella Crichlow is a British actress best known for playing Annie in the science fiction drama Being Human.-Background:...
was a companion of the Seventh Doctor
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
in an alternate timeline. In the Big Finish audio The Architects of History
The Architects of History
The Architects of History is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It contains a four part story. -Plot:In 2044, The Selachians attack Earth’s Moonbase...
Rachel was working with the Doctor in an effort to put right an alternate reality created by Elizabeth Klein, in which the Nazis had won World War II and then created a Galactic Reich. In the reality where time has run it's correct course, she and the Doctor have never met.
Raine Creevey
Raine, played by Beth Chalmers, is a companion to the Seventh DoctorSeventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
, starting with The Lost Stories
The Lost Stories
The Lost Stories are a range of Doctor Who audio plays from Big Finish, adapted from unused TV stories.-Series 1:The first series is largely adapted from stories planned for the unmade 1985-1986 series...
audio drama Crime Of The Century
Crime Of The Century (Doctor Who audio)
Crime Of The Century is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:...
. The character was originally intended to be the television companion just after Ace
Ace (Doctor Who)
Dorothy Gale McShane, better known by her nickname Ace, is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
left, however the series was canceled before Ace's character was even given a departure story. In the audio series, Raine travels alongside Ace, rather than replacing her. Raine's father was an English smuggler and her mother was a Russian KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
agent. The Doctor met them 22 years earlier in Thin Ice, where he helped deliver infant Raine. She gestated for only fifteen weeks because her mother's biology was accelerated by ancient Ice Warrior
Ice Warrior
The Ice Warriors are a fictional extraterrestrial race of reptilian-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The race originated on Mars, and first appeared in the 1967 serial The Ice Warriors where they encountered the Second Doctor and his...
technology. Raine is adept at safecracking, burglary
Burglary
Burglary is a crime, the essence of which is illicit entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offense. Usually that offense will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary...
, fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
as well as being a helicopter pilot. She is cultured and high class, in contrast to Ace.
Crystal
Crystal, a nightclub singer, appeared in the stage play Doctor Who - The Ultimate AdventureDoctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure was a 1989 stage play, written by Terrance Dicks based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
, written by Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s.- Early career :...
. She was portrayed by Rebecca Thornhill.
In the Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio adaptation she was portrayed by Claire Huckle.
During the course of the play, she developed a friendship with Zog and also formed a close relationship with fellow companion Jason which eventually became romantic. At the end of the play, Jason persuaded her to accompany them on their travels in the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
.
Dave
Dave was the alternative name for Jimmy in the 1981 and 1984 regional revivals of the 1974 play Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to DoomsdayDoctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday
Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday was a stage play based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The play ran at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England for four weeks, beginning on 16 December 1974...
. The character was named Dave in the script by Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s.- Early career :...
but this had been changed for the original production after actor James Matthews was cast in the role.
Oliver Day
Oliver Day is a companion of the Fourth DoctorFourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
introduced in the Big Finish Short Trips
Big Finish Short Trips
The Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002 and ending with the loss of their license in 2009...
anthology Short Trips: Snapshots
Short Trips: Snapshots
Short Trips: Snapshots is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Joseph Lidster and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. He first appears in Attachments and features in Flight of the Monkrah and Puppeteer.
Deborah
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
. The name may refer to the character of Debbie Castle from the novel Father Time, also by Parkin.
Delilah
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
. Nothing more is known about this person.
Tamsin Drew
Making her debut in the audio play Situation VacantSituation Vacant
Situation Vacant is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.-Cast:*The Doctor - Paul McGann*Hugh Bainbridge/Drusus - James Bachman...
, Tamsin Drew was a failed actress who answered an advert for a companion to a time traveller. She approached it as a type of audition and affected the persona of Juliet Walsh, a professional career woman. Although he didn't place the ad, the Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
spotted it as being intended for him and played along. After finding out the truth about Tamsin, (and after dispatching all the other applicants for their respective secrets and betrayals) he invited her to travel with him, having recently split from Lucie Miller
Lucie Miller
Lucie Miller is a character in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions for BBC7 based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. Lucie meanwhile has been traveling with The Monk
Meddling Monk
The Meddling Monk, or simply The Monk, was a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Played by the British comic actor Peter Butterworth, the character appeared in two stories: as an adversary of the First Doctor.Other than the...
, but when she leaves him, he manipulates Tamsin to coerce her into being his new companion. She eventually meets back up with the Doctor during a Dalek invasion of Earth (featured in Lucie Miller
Lucie Miller (audio drama)
Lucie Miller is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.This the first part of a two part story, the second part being To the Death....
/ To the Death
To the Death (audio drama)
To the Death is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.This is the second part of a two-part story, the first part being Lucie Miller....
), where she finds out the truth about the Monk. She agrees to help the Doctor, but is killed by a Dalek shortly after, leaving the Monk devastated. Tamsin is played by Niky Wardley
Niky Wardley
Niky Wardley is an English actress. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.One of her best known parts was in The Catherine Tate Show as Lauren Cooper's best friend Liese Jackson, as well as other parts during the series.-Theatre:...
.
Maxwell Edison
Max is a character that originated in the Doctor Who MagazineDoctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
comics. He is a resident of the small west country
West Country
The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region. It is often defined to encompass the historic counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset and the City of Bristol, while the counties of...
town of Stockbridge, which the Doctor often visits. A UFO spotter and amateur psychic investigator, Max is awkward and often derided by the other locals. He does, however, have some actual psychic abilities, although he doesn't fully understand how to use them. He first met the Fifth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
in the 1982 comic Stars Fell on Stockbridge, when a starship disintegrated over the town. Roughly a decade later, he befriended Izzy Sinclair
Izzy Sinclair
Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair, is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She was a companion of the Eighth Doctor...
, a teenage girl who shared his interest in space and science fiction. In the 1996 comic End Game, they both encountered the Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
, at which point Izzy began traveling in the TARDIS. The Tenth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
encountered him in the 2009 comic The Stockbridge Child, which ended with Max being badly stricken while riding his moped. Later that year, he was reunited with the Fifth Doctor in the Big Finish audio story The Eternal Summer
The Eternal Summer
The Eternal Summer is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It contains a three part story and a one part story as well. -Plot:...
. Voiced by Mark Williams
Mark Williams (actor)
Mark Williams is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and presenter. He is best known as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show The Fast Show, as well as for his role as Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter films....
, this story involved a complex time trap that ultimately resulted in Max surviving his road incident.
Emma
Emma was the companion of the Ninth Doctor portrayed by Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line...
in the 1999 spoof charity serial Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death is a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999...
written by Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer.Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang. His first sitcom, Joking Apart, was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage; conversely, his later sitcom Coupling was based upon the development of his...
and produced for the charity Comic Relief. She was portrayed by Julia Sawalha
Julia Sawalha
Julia Sawalha is an English actress well known for her roles as Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 television miniseries of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She also played Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume...
, who had previously auditioned for the role of Ace
Ace (Doctor Who)
Dorothy Gale McShane, better known by her nickname Ace, is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
.
The circumstances of their meeting were never explained, but the Doctor had planned to marry her and retire. However, the Master
Master (Doctor Who)
The Master is a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is a renegade Time Lord and the archenemy of the Doctor....
(played by Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce, CBE is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s...
) and the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s had other plans, and by the end of the story the Doctor had used up all of his remaining regenerations. The Doctor's thirteenth (and final) incarnation turned out to be a woman (played by Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS is a British actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive...
) — a form that Emma was not interested in marrying, as the Doctor was literally no longer the man she fell in love with. The Doctor, finding the Master suddenly quite attractive, departed with him instead.
Jeremy Fitzoliver
A companion of the Third DoctorThird Doctor
The Third Doctor is the third incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee....
, introduced in the Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
audio drama The Paradise of Death
The Paradise of Death
The Paradise of Death is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on BBC Radio 5 from 27 August to 24 September 1993. The original radio play was released on CD as part of the BBC...
and played by Richard C. Pearce. Jeremy is a photographer for Metropolitan, the magazine Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British BBC Television science-fiction series Doctor Who and its spin-offs K-9 and Company and The Sarah Jane Adventures....
works for, and is assigned to the story Sarah is investigating. Jeremy is an inexperienced and somewhat clueless photographer, reflecting the editor's scepticism about Sarah's story, and is used as a comic relief character whom the regular cast find annoying.
Jeremy subsequently appears in the follow-up drama The Ghosts of N-Space
The Ghosts of N-Space
The Ghosts of N-Space is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was recorded in 1994 and finally broadcast in six parts on BBC Radio 2 from January 20 to February 24, 1996. This was the second Third Doctor radio play, following The...
, in which he gives Sarah his spare ticket on a trip to Sicily
Sicily
Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
(his mother decided not to go), thereby bringing them into the story, and the Past Doctor Adventures
Past Doctor Adventures
The Past Doctor Adventures were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. For most of their existence, they were published side-by-side with the Eighth Doctor Adventures...
novel Island of Death
Island of Death
Island of Death is a BBC Books original novel written by Barry Letts and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.-Synopsis:...
in which Sarah enlists the Doctor and the Brigadier to rescue him from an alien cult. This novel also explains that he owes his job to his uncle owning 30% of the magazine. Several Big Finish Short Trips
Big Finish Short Trips
The Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002 and ending with the loss of their license in 2009...
stories see Jeremy travel with the Third Doctor as his Companion during an unclear period of time where the Third Doctor appears not to be travelling with Sarah.
One of the villains in the Sixth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
Past Doctor Adventures novel Instruments of Darkness
Instruments of Darkness
Instruments of Darkness is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel....
is "John Doe", a paranoid amnesiac with a grudge against the Doctor and UNIT. At the end of the novel, following his death, it is revealed he was Jeremy, whose mental problems began when he carelessly activated the Doctor's Image Reproduction Integrating System
Planet of the Spiders
Planet of the Spiders is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from May 4 to June 8, 1974. It was Jon Pertwee's last serial as the Doctor and marks the first, uncredited appearance of Tom Baker in the role. It also marks...
.
Jimmy Forbes
Jimmy was one of the Doctor's companions in the stage play Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to DoomsdayDoctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday
Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday was a stage play based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The play ran at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England for four weeks, beginning on 16 December 1974...
, played by James Matthews. In the Big Finish
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio adaptation, he was played by Joseph Thompson.
Frank
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
. Nothing more is known about this person.
Gus Goodman
Angus Goodman, or simply Gus, was a companion of the Fifth DoctorFifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
in the Doctor Who Monthly
Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
comic strips. He first appeared in the story Lunar Lagoon (DWM #76-#77), although he did not meet the Doctor until the start of the next story, 4-Dimensional Vistas (DWM#78-#83). Gus's first appearances were written by Steve Parkhouse
Steve Parkhouse
Steve Parkhouse is a writer, artist and letterer who has worked for many British comics, especially 2000 AD and Doctor Who Magazine.-Biography:...
and illustrated by Mick Austin
Mick Austin
Michael J. "Mick" Austin is a fine artist who lives and works in the UK. Initially a comic book artist and illustrator his painterly style led to him leaving this genre and concentrating on fine art in 1996.-Biography:...
; he was later drawn by Steve Dillon
Steve Dillon
Steve Dillon is a British comic book artist, from Luton, Bedfordshire, best known for his work with writer Garth Ennis on Hellblazer, Preacher and The Punisher.-Biography:...
.
Gus was an American fighter pilot from an alternate timeline
Parallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
where World War II was still being fought in 1963. The Doctor had accidentally taken the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
there, not realising that the idyllic island he had picked out as a holiday spot was not on an alien planet, but somewhere in the Pacific of that parallel Earth. Gus crashed on the island after a dogfight with a Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese plane, and accepted the Doctor's offer to take him off the island.
However, as was usual for the Doctor, he did not take Gus home by the direct route. Back in the Doctor's own universe, they first encountered the Doctor's old enemy, the Meddling Monk
Meddling Monk
The Meddling Monk, or simply The Monk, was a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Played by the British comic actor Peter Butterworth, the character appeared in two stories: as an adversary of the First Doctor.Other than the...
, who had allied himself with the Ice Warrior
Ice Warrior
The Ice Warriors are a fictional extraterrestrial race of reptilian-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The race originated on Mars, and first appeared in the 1967 serial The Ice Warriors where they encountered the Second Doctor and his...
s to create a gigantic sonic cannon. After thwarting their plans, the two travelled to the planet Celeste. There they met the malevolent frog-like businessman, Dogbolter, whom the Doctor offended when he refused to sell Dogbolter the TARDIS (The Moderator, DWM #86-87).
Dogbolter sent a hitman
Hitman
A hitman is a person hired to kill another person.- Hitmen in organized crime :Hitmen are largely linked to the world of organized crime. Hitmen are hired people who kill people for money. Notable examples include Murder, Inc., Mafia hitmen and Richard Kuklinski.- Other cases involving hitmen...
, the Moderator, after the Doctor. The Moderator followed the Doctor's trail back to Gus's world, and ambushed them when the Doctor was about to drop Gus off. Gus was shot in the ensuing hail of gunfire, but managed to shoot back and incapacitate the Moderator. Gus died from his wounds, much to the Doctor's sadness. The Doctor left Gus where he had fallen, but would eventually seek out and encounter Dogbolter again.
Samson and Gemma Griffin
Samson Griffin and his sister Gemma appeared in the Big FinishBig Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio adventure Terror Firma
Terror Firma
Terror Firma is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The story follows on directly from the previous Eighth Doctor audio drama The Next Life and flashes back to scenes that takes place before the first Eighth Doctor...
, in which it was revealed that they had travelled with the Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
before he met Charley Pollard
Charley Pollard
Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, many of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 7, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young woman...
. Samson was played by Lee Ingleby
Lee Ingleby
Lee Ingleby is a British film, television, and stage actor.He is perhaps best known for his roles as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus in the BBC Drama George Gently and as Stan Shunpike in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...
, and Gemma by Lizzie Hopley
Lizzie Hopley
Lizzie Hopley is a British actor and writer.She appears in several audio plays based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Her first appearance was as the Eighth Doctor’s companion Gemma Griffin in Terror Firma. She also portrayed the sister of Davros in the I, Davros...
. They have since appeared in the short stories The Long Midwinter by Philip Purser-Hallard
Philip Purser-Hallard
Philip Purser-Hallard is an author and scholar whose interests in science fiction and religion have been expressed both in fiction and non-fiction....
, published in Short Trips: The History of Christmas
Short Trips: The History of Christmas
Short Trips: The History of Christmas is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Simon Guerrier and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the second Christmas anthology released under the Short Trips title.-Stories:-External links:*...
and Dear John published in Short Trips: The Centenarian
Short Trips: The Centenarian
Short Trips: The Centenarian is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection follows the life of a man, Edward Grainger, from his birth through to his death and explores the history of the...
.
Samson was a librarian who lived in the town of Folkestone
Folkestone
Folkestone is the principal town in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port. The coming of the railways, the building of a ferry port, and its...
. He and his sister met the Doctor in the Folkestone library and followed him into the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
. Their travels included visits to the planets Porteus and Murgatroyd, the Ice Caves of Shabadabadon, the court of Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
, prehistoric Earth and Studio 54
Studio 54
Studio 54 was a highly popular discotheque from 1977 until 1991, located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming a CBS radio and television studio. In 1977 it...
. The Long Midwinter details another of Samson and Gemma's adventures during this time, set on the brown dwarf world of Yesod. The three then travelled to 1956 to visit the Doctor's old friend, Edward Grainger. Samson called the Doctor "Skipper", and greatly enjoyed his adventures.
After a visit to the planet Valuensis, the TARDIS encountered a Nekkistani time cruiser in the Time Vortex. Samson and Gemma went to explore the ship and encountered Davros
Davros
Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Davros is an archenemy of the Doctor and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks...
, who gained control of their minds. Davros forced Samson to knock the Doctor out, and operated on the TARDIS and the Griffins, linking Samson's mind to the TARDIS. Davros returned Samson and Gemma to Earth and altered the Doctor's memories so that he had no recollection of the two siblings.
Samson remained subconsciously aware of the Doctor's further travels with Charley and C'rizz
C'rizz
C'rizz is a fictional character played by Conrad Westmaas in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Eutermesan from the planet Bortresoye, which exists in a parallel universe, he is a companion of...
via his link with the TARDIS, and remained under Davros' partial control. This allowed Davros to monitor the Doctor while leaving Samson disoriented and confused. Davros also infected Gemma with a deadly virus that mutates humans into Daleks, using her to spread the disease around the world and paving the way for Davros to conquer the planet with a new race of Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s. When the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz arrived on Earth, Davros (who was struggling against having his personality consumed by the Dalek Emperor programming) sprung his elaborate trap.
Unknown to Davros, Gemma had encountered and become allied with a faction of rebel Daleks. On their orders, she tested C'rizz's killing instincts, which were proven when he killed a human test subject. Gemma then brought C'rizz to the Dalek resistance, who tried unsuccessfully to make C'rizz their new Emperor. Gemma's exact fate is unknown, although C'rizz told the Doctor she had died and it is implied that C'rizz killed her.
Eventually, the Doctor blackmailed the Daleks into releasing C'rizz and leaving Earth, taking Davros (now fully the Dalek Emperor) with them. The Doctor then freed Samson from Davros's control and severed his link to the TARDIS. Samson remained in Folkestone with his mother Harriet, a leader of the human resistance, to help rebuild Earth.
In the play Minuet in Hell
Minuet in Hell
Minuet in Hell is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Unlike the other Eighth Doctor audio plays from this "season", Minuet in Hell was not broadcast on BBC 7 in 2005, primarily due to story references that were...
, a litany of the Doctor's previous companions includes the name "Sam". At the time of the play's release, this was intended as a reference to Sam Jones
Sam Jones (Doctor Who)
Samantha Angeline Jones, or simply Sam, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks, and she went on to become one of his...
, the Eighth Doctor's companion from the novels
Eighth Doctor Adventures
The Eighth Doctor Adventures are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. 73 books were published overall...
; this placed the books and the audios in the same continuity. Producer Gary Russell
Gary Russell
Gary James Russell is a freelance writer and former child actor. As a writer, he is best known for his work in connection with the television series Doctor Who and its spin-offs in other media...
subsequently decided that the two continuities should be separate (partly because of different directions taken between the two ranges). Terror Firma now provides the possibility that "Sam" was a reference to Samson instead, although this is undermined somewhat by the Doctor constantly addressing Samson by his full name and never once as "Sam".
The Company of Friends: Mary's Story reveals that at some point during their travels, the Doctor dropped Samson and Gemma off in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
and then spent years travelling with Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
before going finally returning to pick them up. His first attempt to reunite with them was in The Silver Turk
The Silver Turk
The Silver Turk is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
, which reveals that he left them in June, 1816, the same day he met Mary in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
Oliver Harper
Played by Tom AllenTom Allen (comedian)
Tom Allen is an English stand up comedian actor and writer.At the age of 22 Allen won the UK's most prestigious comedy newcomer award So You Think You're Funny in 2005. The same year he won the BBC New Comedy Awards...
, Oliver Harper was a city trader
Trader (finance)
A trader is someone in finance who buys and sells financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, commodities and derivatives. A broker who simply fills buy or sell orders is not a trader, as they are merely executing instructions given to them. According to the Wall Street Journal in 2004, a managing...
from 1966. He joined the First Doctor
First Doctor
The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors in 1973 - albeit in a...
and Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor (Doctor Who)
Steven Taylor is a fictional character played by Peter Purves in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A space pilot from Earth in the future, he was a companion of the First Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1965 to 1966.-Character history:Steven first...
, in the audio play The Perpetual Bond. He was motivated to escape with the Doctor as he was in immediate danger of being arrested for homosexual behaviour
Buggery Act 1533
The Buggery Act 1533, formally An Acte for the punysshement of the vice of Buggerie , was an Act of the Parliament of England that was passed during the reign of Henry VIII...
, as revealed in his second story, The Cold Equations
The Cold Equations (Doctor Who)
The Cold Equations is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
. In his third adventure, The First Wave
The First Wave
The First Wave is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound...
, he is killed by Vardans, beings of pure energy. His mind continued to exist without form or ability to interact with others. He stayed with the Doctor, unbeknownst to him, finally fading out of existence during the Doctor's first regeneration
Regeneration (Doctor Who)
Regeneration, in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a biological ability exhibited by Time Lords, a race of fictional humanoids originating on the planet Gallifrey. This process allows a Time Lord who is old or mortally wounded to undergo a transformation into a new...
. Oliver is the first ongoing companion created for the Companion Chronicles range
Flip Jackson
Flip (Philippa) Jackson was a young girl who boarded a tube trainLondon Underground
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...
with her boyfriend, Jared. The train went through a temporal breach, transporting it from modern day London to a sentient
Sentience
Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive or be conscious, or to have subjective experiences. Eighteenth century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think from the ability to feel . In modern western philosophy, sentience is the ability to have sensations or experiences...
planet called Symbios. There, Flip briefly met the Sixth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
, whose companion at the time was Evelyn Smythe
Evelyn Smythe
Dr. Evelyn Smythe is a fictional character played by Maggie Stables in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A professor of history from the 20th century with a fondness for chocolate, she is a...
. In this first appearance, the 2011 audio drama The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. - Plot :...
, Flip and Jared return to Earth while the Doctor and Evelyn leave in the TARDIS. Flip reunites with the Sixth Doctor and journeys with him, starting with the January 2012 release, The Curse of Davros
The Curse of Davros
The Curse of Davros is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. She is played by Lisa Greenwood
Lisa Greenwood
Lisa Greenwood is a British actor, notable for her appearances as 'Sissy Cooper' in The Hour, along with four Doctor Who audio plays alongside Colin Baker, including The Crimes of Thomas Brewster.-External links:...
.
Jason
Jason, a young nobleman from Revolutionary FranceFrench Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
, appeared in the stage play Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure was a 1989 stage play, written by Terrance Dicks based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
, written by Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s.- Early career :...
.
Jason was originally played by Graeme Smith up until 15 July 1989, except from 21–23 April 1989 (where he was portrayed by David Bingham). Bingham carried on in the role from 17 July 1989 until the end of the stage production.
Jason was rescued from the Guillotine
Guillotine
The guillotine is a device used for carrying out :executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body...
by the Doctor and was already a companion with the Doctor at the start of the play. When Crystal joined them he developed a close friendship with her which eventually became romantic. At the end of the play, Jason persuaded her accompany them on their travels in the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
.
In the Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio adaptation he is played by former Hear'say
Hear'Say
Hear'Say were a British manufactured pop group created in February 2001 from the winners of Popstars, an ITV reality TV show based on a New Zealand show of the same name. They enjoyed huge success with their debut single "Pure and Simple", helped by the publicity surrounding Popstars, the first of...
member Noel Sullivan
Noel Sullivan
Noel Sullivan , is a Welsh singer and actor. He was a member of the British pop group Hear'Say. Like the other members of the group, he won his part through the talent show Popstars.-Early life and career:...
.
Jason was also the name of the new Master of the Land of Fiction in the Virgin New Adventures
Virgin New Adventures
The Virgin New Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who...
novels Conundrum and Head Games by Steve Lyons, and briefly accompanied a fictional version of the Doctor known as "Dr. Who" before the Seventh Doctor
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
set things right.
Neither Jason should be confused with Jason Kane, the ex-husband of Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures...
.
Jemima-Katy
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
mentioned only by name in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
. The name is the same as that of a companion (played by Mel Giedroyc
Mel Giedroyc
Mel Giedroyc is an English television presenter, actress, and writer.-Mel and Sue:Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Sue Perkins. The two women met whilst students at Cambridge and both were members of the famous Footlights comedy club.As Mel and Sue, the duo were...
) being "auditioned" by Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee , was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...
in a sketch from the 1990s BBC radio comedy, The Skivers.
Angela Jennings
Angela Jennings was a companion of the Sixth DoctorSixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
, who met her on the planet Torrok in 2191 in the Virgin Missing Adventures
Virgin Missing Adventures
The Virgin Missing Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, featuring stories set between televised episodes of the programme. The novels were published from 1994 to 1997, and...
novel Time Of Your Life by Steve Lyons.
Angela was born in 2171 and had black hair and green eyes. Her ID number was 9/12/44. Her father was killed by "outside perils" and her sister Ruth was taken away by Peace Keepers. Angela's time with the Doctor
Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
was sadly cut short when he left her aboard the abandoned space station
Space station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing...
used by the Meson Broadcasting Company. Although this was to keep her safe, Angela's body was killed by a techno-organic, data consuming entity known as Krllxk. The last bits of Angela's consciousness absorbed by Krllxk died after the Meson station vaporised.
June
A university student who travels with the Tenth DoctorTenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
to the time of King Actaeus
Actaeus
Actaeus was the first king of Attica, according to Pausanias. He was the son of Erysichthon, father of Agraulus, and father-in-law to Cecrops, the first king of the city of Athens. Actaeus is said to have ruled over a city named Acte or Akte. The location of this city is uncertain...
of Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
in the novel The Slitheen Excursion
The Slitheen Excursion
The Slitheen Excursion is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Guerrier and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
.
Sir Justin
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
in the Doctor Who Monthly
Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
comic strip story The Tides of Time (DWM#61-#67), written by Steve Parkhouse
Steve Parkhouse
Steve Parkhouse is a writer, artist and letterer who has worked for many British comics, especially 2000 AD and Doctor Who Magazine.-Biography:...
and illustrated by Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
.
Justin was a pious Christian
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
knight from medieval England
England in the Middle Ages
England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the Medieval period — from the end of Roman rule in Britain through to the Early Modern period...
who was transported to the 20th century by the actions of the demon Melanicus. Melanicus had wrested control of a vast biomechanical complex known as the Event Synthesizer (which could control all of time, space, and reality) from its guardian, the Prime Mover
Cosmological argument
The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of a First Cause to the universe, and by extension is often used as an argument for the existence of an "unconditioned" or "supreme" being, usually then identified as God...
, using the Synthesizer to wreak havoc with time. Justin was plucked from a joust
Jousting
Jousting is a martial game or hastilude between two knights mounted on horses and using lances, often as part of a tournament.Jousting emerged in the High Middle Ages based on the military use of the lance by heavy cavalry. The first camels tournament was staged in 1066, but jousting itself did not...
in his own time, and collided with the Doctor's TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
outside of the village of Stockbridge. The Doctor brought the unconscious Justin into the TARDIS, and when Justin recovered the Doctor was impressed with the ease with which he accepted his strange surroundings. Justin also believed the Doctor to be an angel of God, the TARDIS a miracle and their quest a crusade, despite the Doctor's attempts to disabuse him of the notion.
Justin accompanied the Doctor to Gallifrey
Gallifrey
Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the homeworld of the Doctor and the Time Lords...
and the Althrace system, which was situated inside a white hole
White hole
A white hole, in general relativity, is a hypothetical region of spacetime which cannot be entered from the outside, but from which matter and light may escape. In this sense it is the reverse of a black hole, which can be entered from the outside, but from which nothing, including light, may escape...
, to attend a meeting with the High Evolutionaries of Althrace who explained the situation with Melanicus. Eventually, with the help of Rassilon
Rassilon
Rassilon is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In the backstory of the programme, he was the founder of Time Lord society on the planet Gallifrey...
, Merlin, and the Matrix
Matrix (Doctor Who)
The Matrix, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a massive computer system on the planet Gallifrey that acts as the repository of the combined knowledge of the Time Lords....
-powered Time Lord
Time Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
agent known as Shayde
Shayde
Shayde is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, the Doctor was able to confront Melanicus, who had hidden the Event Synthesizer in a time-altered version of a Stockbridge church. Justin, the Doctor and Shayde fought Melanicus, and Justin gave the killing blow at the cost of his own life, all in a blinding flash.
With time set right, the Doctor regained consciousness in the restored church — now named St. Justinian's — in the 20th century, wondering if it had all been a dream. There, he saw a statue of Sir Justin, with an inscribed epitaph referring obliquely to his adventures in time and space. It was suggested that Merlin was responsible for the memorial.
Klein
Elizabeth Klein (voiced by Tracey ChildsTracey Childs
Tracey Childs is an English actress, best known for playing Lynne Howard in the 1980s drama series Howards' Way. More recently, she has appeared in Born and Bred as Linda Cosgrove and as Patty Cornwell in Hollyoaks....
) was first heard in the 2001 Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio story Colditz
Colditz (Doctor Who audio)
Colditz is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:The Seventh Doctor and Ace are caught intruding in Colditz Castle in October 1944...
. She was a British citizen of German descent who came from an alternate timeline in which the Nazis had won World War II. She was a scientist, working for the Reich, and put in charge of studying the Doctor's captured TARDIS. In it, she traveled from her version of 1965, back to the original version of 1944, where she was ultimately stranded by the Seventh Doctor
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
. She returns as the Seventh Doctor's traveling companion in the 2010 story A Thousand Tiny Wings
A Thousand Tiny Wings
A Thousand Tiny Wings is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It contains a four part story. -Plot:...
and continues in Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story
Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story
Survival of the Fittest & Klein’s Story is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It contains a three part story and a one part story as well...
, but is subsequently erased from history in The Architects of History
The Architects of History
The Architects of History is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It contains a four part story. -Plot:In 2044, The Selachians attack Earth’s Moonbase...
after she steals the TARDIS in an attempt to recreate her own history, resulting in Earth and the 'Thousand Year Reich' being destroyed in a brief war with the Selachians. Her erasure undoes the damage she had caused to history, the story ending with the Doctor meeting the Klein that exists in the 'true' history, now working for UNIT, although it is unclear how much he remembers of his time with the original Klein.
Larna
Larna was a Time LordTime Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
who assisted the Doctor during The Infinity Doctors
The Infinity Doctors
The Infinity Doctors is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, and later appeared in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. A Larna also appeared in Unnatural History
Unnatural History (Doctor Who)
Unnatural History is an original novel written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, and recognised the Doctor, but it is unclear if this was the same character. A short story, "Birth of a Renegade" by Eric Saward
Eric Saward
Eric Saward was born on 9 December 1944 and became a scriptwriter and script editor for the BBC, resigning from the latter post on the TV programme Doctor Who in 1986....
published in the Radio Times
Radio Times
Radio Times is a UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC. It has been published since 1923 by BBC Magazines, which also provides an on-line listings service under the same title...
special commemorating the 20th anniversary of Doctor Who, had previously established Lady Larna as the true Gallifreyan name of Susan Foreman
Susan Foreman
Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The granddaughter and original companion of the First Doctor, she was played by actress Carole Ann Ford from 1963 to 1964, in the show's first season and the first two stories of the second season...
.
Lorenzo
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
first mentioned in a flashback sequence in the novel The Year of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman
Kate Orman
Kate Orman is an Australian author, best known for her books connected to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.-Biography:...
, which took place in the South Sea
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
s in 1935. Lorenzo is mentioned again in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
.
Louise
Louise (portrayed by Jill CurzonJill Curzon
Jill Curzon is a British actress most famous for her film and television appearances during the 1960s.Her television appearances include The Champions , Adam Adamant Lives! , The Saint , Hugh and I and Disneyland...
) was the niece of "Dr. Who
Dr. Who (Dalek films)
Dr. Who is a character based on the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. Although based upon the character of the Doctor from the television series, the character is fundamentally different, most notably in being human....
" in the film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. is the second of two films based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks , and starred Peter Cushing in his return to the role of the eccentric inventor and time traveller "Dr. Who". It also...
. In the film's plot, Louise took the role filled by Barbara Wright
Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)
Barbara Wright is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. She was one of the programme's very first regulars and appeared in the bulk of its first two seasons from 1963–65, played by Jacqueline Hill. In the film version...
in the television serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from November 21 to December 26, 1964....
, on which the film was based.
Ellie Martin
Ellie Martin (played by Juliet Warner) is the companion of the ValeyardValeyard
The Valeyard is a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. He is described as an aspect of the Doctor from between his twelfth and final incarnations as depicted in the TV show or regenerations in the novelization of the story...
in the Big Finish play He Jests at Scars...
He Jests at Scars...
He Jests at Scars... is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Doctor Who Unbound dramas pose a series of "What if...?" questions.-Plot:What if.....
, set in an alternate universe
Parallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
where the Valeyard won the Sixth Doctor's remaining incarnations in "Trial of a Time Lord". An "eco-warrior", the Valeyard rescued her from being hit by a police car during an environmental protest, and she accompanied him on his quest to conquer time. He later killed her, to make the point that he was no longer the Doctor. It is hinted she might have known the Doctor before he became the Valeyard as she frequently refers to him, much to the Valeyard's annoyance, as the Doctor, "Champion of Justice".
In Big Finish's regular Doctor Who continuity, Martin is a friend of Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British BBC Television science-fiction series Doctor Who and its spin-offs K-9 and Company and The Sarah Jane Adventures....
, and appeared in the first series of Sarah Jane audio adventures. When the Sarah Jane audios were initially announced, the role of Ellie Martin was listed as (books companion) Sam Jones; her "eco-warrior" past may be a reference to that former origin.
Heather McCrimmon
Heather McCrimmon is a companion of the Tenth DoctorTenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
in the comic strips printed in the Doctor Who Adventures magazine. A history student at Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
university, she was created by a reader as part of a competition. She debuted in the issue on sale December 31, 2008. It's suggested she's a descendent of Jamie McCrimmon
Jamie McCrimmon
James Robert "Jamie" McCrimmon is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A piper of the Clan McLaren who lived in 18th century Scotland, he was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1966...
.
Robert McIntosh
Played by Christian CoulsonChristian Coulson
Christian Coulson is an English actor best known for playing Tom Marvolo Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.-Early life:...
, Robert McIntosh was a young science student from Scotland, who assisted the Fifth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. This took place while the Doctor was spending a year in Victorian London, accidentally separated from Nyssa. Robert sacrificed his life for the Doctor, in the same story he was introduced.
Mila
Played by Jess RobinsonJess Robinson
Jess Robinson , is an English up and coming comedy actress and impressionist.Jess started out in theatre and trained at The Arts Educational School, Tring Park as a singer. She played Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, by Jim Cartwright, at the Courtyard Theatre...
and India Fisher
India Fisher
India Fisher is a British actress born in 1974. Her father is the ex-MP Mark Fisher. She is also the stepsister of musician Crispin Hunt and of actress Francesca Hunt, who appears with her in the play Other Lives....
, Mila appeared in three audio stories, Patient Zero
Patient Zero (Doctor Who audio)
Patient Zero is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:Charley becomes ill, which brings the Doctor to The Amethyst Viral Containment Station...
, Paper Cuts
Paper Cuts (Doctor Who audio)
Paper Cuts is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Cast:*The Doctor - Colin Baker*Mila - India Fisher*Prince/The Red Emperor in His Youth - Anthony Glennon...
and Blue Forgotten Planet
Blue Forgotten Planet
Blue Forgotten Planet is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:In the far future, the Earth is dying...
. Mila was a human prisoner of the Daleks, who experimented on her using bio-engineered viruses. As a result of these endeavors, she lost most of her memories and eventually became invisible and non-corporeal, as well as gaining other strange abilities. She escaped from the Daleks and snuck on board the First Doctor
First Doctor
The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors in 1973 - albeit in a...
's TARDIS, possibly during the events of The Chase
The Chase (Doctor Who)
The Chase is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 22 May to 26 June 1965. The story is set on multiple locations including the Mary Celeste, the Empire State Building, and the planet Aridius...
. She remained in the TARDIS, unseen by anyone for centuries. She silently watched the Doctor, growing obsessed by his heroics and longing to be a real companion. During the Sixth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
's life, she met Charley Pollard
Charley Pollard
Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, many of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 7, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young woman...
, the only companion unprotected by the TARDIS' biological defenses. Mila managed to transfer her afflictions to Charley, while simultaneously adopting Charley's physical form. She was then able travel with the Doctor, pretending to be Charley, while the real Charley was left invisible and alone. Eventually Charley was cured by the Viyrans and Mila gave her life to save the Doctor. The Viyrans also altered the Sixth Doctor's memories so that he remembers his adventures with Charley as being with Mila's name and face.
Ruth Mills
Ruth Mills (played by Siri O'Neal) was the companion and foster daughter of an alternate version of the Doctor in the Big Finish ProductionsBig Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
Doctor Who Unbound audio play
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
Full Fathom Five
Full Fathom Five (Doctor Who audio)
Full Fathom Five is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Doctor Who Unbound dramas pose a series of "What if...?" questions.-Plot:What if.....
by David Bishop
David Bishop
David Bishop is a screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD, the latter between 1996 and the summer of 2000....
.
This Doctor (played by David Collings
David Collings
David Collings is a British actor. He has played many different roles on various television programmes, including the leading dramatic role in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in 1964....
) had raised Ruth since 2039, when her father, Dr Vollmer, was lost in the destruction of the Deep-sea Energy Exploration Project (DEEP) undersea naval base. When the DEEP was rediscovered in 2066, the Doctor hired a mini-sub to get to the base before the naval recovery team. However, Ruth stowed away on board the mini-sub against the Doctor's wishes.
After Ruth and the Doctor reached the base, Ruth eventually discovered that the Doctor was responsible for her father's death. There had been illegal genetic experimentation going on in the base and the Doctor had killed Vollmer to prevent any information on the experiments from getting out. Still believing that the ends justified the means, the Doctor had simply returned to the DEEP base to regain his TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
, which had been left there when he abandoned the base.
Horrified that the man who raised her had been lying to her, Ruth shot the Doctor and watched his face change. Ruth shot the new incarnation of the Doctor, and as he changed again, wondered how many times she would have to shoot him before he stayed dead.
Nina
A companion of the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
mentioned in The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)
For the John Peel book of the same name, see: The Gallifrey Chronicles The Gallifrey Chronicles is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
and possibly taken from the Telos novella
Telos Doctor Who novellas
The Telos Doctor Who novellas were a series of tie-in novellas based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, officially licensed by the BBC and published by Telos Publishing Ltd...
Rip Tide
Rip Tide
Rip Tide is an original novella written by Louise Cooper and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and a deluxe edition featuring a frontispiece by Fred Gambino. Both...
by Louise Cooper
Louise Cooper
Louise Cooper was a British fantasy writer who lived in Cornwall with her husband, Cas Sandall.Cooper was born in Hertfordshire. She began writing stories when she was at school to entertain her friends. She continued to write and her first full-length novel was published at the age of twenty...
.
Olla
Olla was very briefly a companion of the Seventh DoctorSeventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
in the Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
comic strips. Olla was a Dreilyn, a heat vampire
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
whose race drew sustenance from draining the heat from other beings, although never enough to kill. She first met the Doctor and Frobisher
Frobisher (Doctor Who)
Frobisher is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who in the 1980s. He was a companion of the Sixth and Seventh Doctors...
on A-Lux in the story A Cold Day in Hell (DWM#130-#133), written by Simon Furman and drawn by John Ridgway
John Ridgway (comic artist)
John Ridgway is a British comics artist.-Career:Ridgway began his career initially as a hobby, drawing D.C.Thompson's Commando War Stories alongside professional work as a design engineer...
. A-Lux was a resort planet which the Ice Warrior
Ice Warrior
The Ice Warriors are a fictional extraterrestrial race of reptilian-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The race originated on Mars, and first appeared in the 1967 serial The Ice Warriors where they encountered the Second Doctor and his...
s were planning to freeze and turn into a new Mars
Mars (Doctor Who)
Mars, the fourth planet in our solar system, has been featured in the Doctor Who fictional universe on a number of occasions. In the various Doctor Who serials which feature the Ice Warriors, mention is made that Mars is their homeworld....
. Olla helped the Doctor and Frobisher defeat the Ice Warriors, and when Frobisher elected to stay behind, the Doctor took her on board as his newest companion. The Doctor, however, was mildly disturbed by the way Olla kept waiting on him hand and foot.
Her stint in the TARDIS was short-lived. In the very next story, Redemption (DWM #134), Olla's former master, the Vachysian warlord Skaroux (a legal enforcer for the Galactic Federation), intercepted the TARDIS and demanded her return. It transpired that Olla had stolen Skaroux's money and then become a fugitive. The Doctor agreed to hand her over on the condition that she receive a fair trial, and Skaroux and Olla left together.
Majenta Pryce
Majenta Pryce is introduced in the Doctor Who MagazineDoctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
comic strip in #394, "Hotel Historia", as an alien entrepreneur running an illegal time-travel operation on Earth. Her organisation is shut down by the Tenth Doctor, and she gets taken away by the "cosmic baliffs", saying she likes the Doctor, but will get her revenge.
She returns "Thinktwice", a three-part story beginning in #400, as a convict on a space-station prison. The convicts have no recollection of their past lives due to repeated memory wipes, supposedly to rehabilitate them, but actually to feed parasitic lifeforms called the Memeovax. The Doctor enters the station undercover and is surprised to find Majenta there, having assumed she was sent to a "cushy" debtor's prison. He manages to defeat the Memovax and rescue Majenta.
However, Majenta's memories of her time prior to her first encounter with the Doctor do not return. Holding the Doctor responsible for this, she insists she will stay with him until he finds a way to reverse the process. The Doctor is taken aback by this, especially when she tells him she's in charge. She has little patience with the Doctor's insistence on stopping to help people, especially when it does not appear to have anything to do with her problem.
Since then, elements of Majenta's past have come to light; in the story "Mortal Beloved" (DWM #406-407) it transpires she was previously engaged to a powerful businessman named Wesley Sparks, who since her departure has become an insane cyborg. With the help of the Doctor and an artificial intelligence based on Sparks' earlier self, she manages to stop him and leaves the business in the hands of Violet, an android based on herself. The Doctor insists he did not intentionally take her back to Sparks, and she sees a mysterious figure on the scanner telling her to "remember the Hand".
Following this, in "The Age of Ice" (DWM# 408-410), Majenta is reunited with Fanson, her business associate from "Hotel Historia", now working for the Skith. Fanson seemingly persuades her to betray the Doctor, and eventually tells her he was the one who erased her memories, claiming he did it to save her sanity. She eventually becomes the Skith Queen, but returns to normal by the end of the story. Unfortunately, Fanson was killed when he intercepted an attack meant for her. At story's end, she's made her peace with the Doctor, and the two head to the next adventure.
In "The Crimson Hand" (DWM# 416-420), Majenta is being pursued by the Intersol Fleet, an intersteller police force which can somehow hack into the TARDIS systems. It is revealed that she is part of a powerful crime organisation called the Crimson Hand. Majenta is captured by Zephyr, an Intersol agent who was her cellmate on Thinktwice.
Commander Dargo forces his way into Majenta's mind, accessing her suppressed memories of the Crimson Hand - and thereby attracting the Hand themselves; four powerful beings who destroy Intersol's Justice Computer. Majenta tells the Doctor and Zephyr her new memories: The Crimson Hand were a group of four ruthless beings who possessed the Manus Mallificus, a machine shaped like a crimson hand that could reshape reality, but required five users. Majenta accepted their invitation to be the fifth member, but was horrified by their use of the Malus to destroy the Ownworld of the Skith. She fled, limiting the Hand's use of the Manus. Fanson found her, and realised that the Hand could psychically trace her, hence his removal of her memory. The Doctor, Majenta and Zephyr try to escape, but at the last minute, Majenta accepts the Crimson Hand's offer, and seemingly destroys the Doctor.
With the power of the Manus, Majenta attempts to convert her home planet, Vessica, into a utopia. Zephyr is her personal assistant (and, it's implied, lover) and her life is a constant stream of parties. Her desire to make life better for her people puzzles the other members of the Hand, who realise she is not like them. When a spatial rift threatens Veccia, and a rebellion against her rule turns out to be led by Wesley Sparks, Majenta admits she only sent the Doctor away, and calls him back. With the Doctor's help, Majenta cuts the rest of the Hand off from their power source, and destroys them, nearly dying in the attempt. Majenta and Zephyr settle on the planet Redemption (from "The Deep Hereafter", DWM #412).
Ramsay
A Vortisaur that the Eighth DoctorEighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
encountered in the Time Vortex
Time vortex (Doctor Who)
In the science fiction television series Doctor Who, the time vortex is the medium that the TARDIS and other time machines travel through...
in the Big Finish
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio play Storm Warning, taking place in 1930. The Doctor's companion Charley
Charley Pollard
Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, many of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 7, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young woman...
named it Ramsay, after its resemblance to then-Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
James Ramsay MacDonald.
However, Ramsay soon began to weaken, being away from the vortex for so long. Despite finding a temporary solution in Sword of Orion
Sword of Orion
Sword of Orion is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was broadcast on BBC 7 in four weekly parts starting from 3 September 2005, and was repeated in 2006...
, the Doctor and Charley knew they had to return him to his natural habitat. As they approached the centre of the vortex, however, he attacked Charley. Ramsay sensed the fracturing web of time around her as she had been fated to die in the Airship R101 crash but escaped that fate due to the Doctor. The Doctor managed to expel Ramsay through the open doors of the TARDIS but the ship — and the Doctor — were damaged in the process, leading to the events of Minuet in Hell
Minuet in Hell
Minuet in Hell is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Unlike the other Eighth Doctor audio plays from this "season", Minuet in Hell was not broadcast on BBC 7 in 2005, primarily due to story references that were...
. Charley's paradoxical existence was eventually resolved in Neverland
Neverland (Doctor Who audio)
Neverland is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
.
Ria
Ria was a companion of the unspecified future incarnation of the Doctor seen in the Doctor Who MagazineDoctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
comic strip Party Animals (DWM #173), where she attended the birthday party of the Doctor's friend Bonjaxx on the space station Maruthea, situated at the centre of the space-time vortex
Time vortex (Doctor Who)
In the science fiction television series Doctor Who, the time vortex is the medium that the TARDIS and other time machines travel through...
. Along with that future Doctor, she met the Seventh Doctor
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
and Ace
Ace (Doctor Who)
Dorothy Gale McShane, better known by her nickname Ace, is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
who were also attending the party and was involved in the subsequent brawl provoked by an inebriated Beep the Meep
Beep the Meep
Beep the Meep is a fictional alien who appeared in the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The cute and cuddly appearance of Beep the Meep — a round, furry biped with large, expressive eyes and long ears — belies...
. Nothing else is known about her, although her Doctor's appearance was subsequently used as a disguise in a complex ruse by the Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
against the time-travelling mercenaries known as the Threshold
Threshold (Doctor Who)
The Threshold are a fictional organisation who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
.
The appearance of Ria was a sly reference to the series of unofficial audio plays produced as the Audio Visuals
Audio Visuals
The Audio Visuals were an unlicensed series of Doctor Who audio dramas made by British fans in the 1980s.Featuring Nicholas Briggs as the Doctor, twenty-six audio plays were recorded and distributed on audio cassette between 1985 and 1991 .The first three seasons were produced by...
series in the 1980s, which featured Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Daleks. Briggs sometimes uses the pseudonym Arthur Wallis...
as the Doctor. Ria was played by several different actresses including Liz Knight, Patricia Merrick and Heather Barker.
Lady Serena
The Lady Serena, or more completely, the Lady Serenadellatrovella, was the companion of the Second DoctorSecond Doctor
The Second Doctor is the second incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by character actor Patrick Troughton....
for the duration of the Past Doctor Adventures
Past Doctor Adventures
The Past Doctor Adventures were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. For most of their existence, they were published side-by-side with the Eighth Doctor Adventures...
novel World Game
World Game (Doctor Who)
World Game is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Second Doctor and the Lady Serena and is set during "Season 6B"...
.
Serena was a member of an eminent but uninfluential Time Lord
Time Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
family who had ambitions to some day become President of the High Council of Time Lords, spending her days working in the Capitol Library, studying records of the presidential election as a means of learning more about Time Lord politics. She is assigned to accompany the Second Doctor (after his conviction by the Time Lords in The War Games
The War Games
The War Games is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from 19 April to 21 June 1969. It was the last regular appearance of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, and of Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines as companions Zoe...
) on a mission for the Celestial Intervention Agency
Celestial Intervention Agency
The Celestial Intervention Agency is a fictional organization of Time Lords in the universe of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
to improve her own political credentials (see also: Season 6B
Season 6B
Season 6B is a fan theory related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It constitutes a hypothetical series of adventures undertaken by the Second Doctor between his final regular appearance in season 6 and the Third Doctor's debut in season 7...
).
Unlike the later Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
's relationship with Romana
Romana
Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, Serena is effectively the Doctor's parole officer, the two of them using, for the duration of the mission, a newer Type 97 TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
that only she knows how to operate (Allegedly because the CIA felt that the Doctor's TARDIS was too obsolete for such work). Because of the terms of the Doctor's reprieve from execution, she also has the authority to give him orders. There was thus a certain hostility between the Doctor and Serena from the moment they met; the Doctor objected to having a companion forced on him like this, resenting Serena's claims that she would be his supervisor, while Serena was opposed to The Doctor calling her his assistant, and insisted that The Doctor was merely a convict on parole.
However, during the course of the mission, they gradually begin to appreciate each other's talents. Even before meeting The Doctor face-to-face, Serena felt that he'd been treated unfairly; upon learning that he'd only been captured because he wished to save the humans involved in the War Games, she commented that his original sentence of execution seemed an unfair reward for his altruism. As they continued to work together, Serena came to understand more about The Doctor's reasons for leaving Gallifrey, and began to see that, for all the charges put against him at his trial, he had only interfered because he believed it to be right, not because he simply felt like it, and had left Gallifrey mainly because there was no place on it for someone with his principles. She even seemed to come to care for The Doctor in her own way, apparently exhibiting jealousy of the fondness that the Countess- a member of the race known as the Players whom the Doctor had encountered in the past- had for the Time Lord.
Serena's time with The Doctor was cut tragically short after only one adventure with him. Having learned that the Countess intended to assassinate the Duke of Wellington at a ball held on the eve of Waterloo, The Doctor and Serena attended the ball to find out what had happened, and Serena took the shot intended for Wellington herself; the musket ball, fired at her from practically point-blank range, destroyed both her hearts, thus preventing her from regenerating
Regeneration (Doctor Who)
Regeneration, in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a biological ability exhibited by Time Lords, a race of fictional humanoids originating on the planet Gallifrey. This process allows a Time Lord who is old or mortally wounded to undergo a transformation into a new...
. She was buried in a simple grave, the only thing on her gravestone being SERENA, and, after the battle of Waterloo, it was visited by the Doctor and Wellington, who assured the Doctor that he would always remember the role he and Serena had played in the battle. Once back on Gallifrey, having unmasked a Time Lord who'd been collaborating with the Players, the Doctor refused to go on any more missions for the Agency until certain conditions were met, including an order that Serena's name be placed on the Gallifreyian Honour Roll and that he be allowed to tell her family how she had died.
Bev Tarrant
Bev Tarrant is an art thief from the 43rd century, whose first appearance was in the Big Finish ProductionsBig Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio drama The Genocide Machine
The Genocide Machine
The Genocide Machine is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It forms the first serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which continues in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase...
. She reappeared in the audio drama Dust Breeding
Dust Breeding
Dust Breeding is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The story marks the return of Caroline John to Doctor Who and the introduction of the Master to the Big Finish continuity.-Plot:The Seventh Doctor's diary has a...
, at the end of which she travels to the 20th century with the Seventh Doctor
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
and Ace
Ace (Doctor Who)
Dorothy Gale McShane, better known by her nickname Ace, is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. She seems to have made at least one more journey in the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
, as she is next heard of in the 27th century in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures...
audio drama The Bellotron Incident
The Bellotron Incident
The Bellotron Incident is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :...
, where it is revealed that "a mutual friend" has brought her to Bernice's time. All three of these stories were written by Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker is a special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as an Effects Supervisor for his own company, The Model Unit. He is also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series Doctor Who and...
.
Tarrant has since become a regular character in the Bernice Summerfield books and audio dramas, where she is played by Louise Faulkner. Her surname is an in-joke based on the fact that Terry Nation
Terry Nation
Terry Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist.He is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, the creator of the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s, was overly fond of using the name "Tarrant" in his scripts.
Mrs Wibbsey
Fenella Wibbsey, played by Susan JamesonSusan Jameson
Susan Jameson is an English actress who is best known for her television work.Jameson was born in Barnt Green, Worcestershire, England, UK. She is married to actor James Bolam with whom she has a daughter, Lucy...
, was the Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
's housekeeper in the Hornets' Nest
Hornets' Nest (Doctor Who)
Hornets' Nest is an audio play in five episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is written by Paul Magrs, and stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates...
CD dramas. Formerly a possessed pawn of the Hornet Queen, she first encountered the Doctor in Cromer
Cromer
Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish in north Norfolk, England. The local government authority is North Norfolk District Council, whose headquarters is in Holt Road in the town. The town is situated 23 miles north of the county town, Norwich, and is 4 miles east of Sheringham...
in 1932, where she was the curator of the Palace of Curios, a small curiosity shop. Released from the Hornets' influence, she was taken by the Doctor to his house in Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, in the early 21st century. She joined him and Mike Yates in their descent into the papier-mâché
Papier-mâché
Papier-mâché , alternatively, paper-mache, is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste....
brain of a stuffed
Taxidermy
Taxidermy is the act of mounting or reproducing dead animals for display or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all vertebrate species of animals, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians...
zebra
Zebra
Zebras are several species of African equids united by their distinctive black and white stripes. Their stripes come in different patterns unique to each individual. They are generally social animals that live in small harems to large herds...
where the Hornets had built their primary nest. After they defeated the Queen and put paid to the Hornets' nefarious schemes, she settled into the house and took care of it while the Doctor continued his travels. He returned to check in on her a year later in the sequel, Demon Quest
Demon Quest
Demon Quest is an audio play in five episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is written by Paul Magrs, and stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates...
, whereupon she traded one of the vital components of his TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
to a mysterious figure. The Doctor insisted that she accompany him on a chase through time to retrieve it. While on the journey, she exhibited odd flashes of insight, such as making a prescient prediction while posing as the goddess "Wibbsentia" in pre-Roman Britain. This was later shown to be an effect of the Demon and the Hornets, who were trying to lure the Doctor to the dead world Sepulchre, there to turn the Doctor into a dimensional atlas
Atlas
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets in the Solar System. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats...
. Mrs Wibbsey was nearly killed in the attempt to rescue the Doctor after she was again infested with the Hornets. She returns in Serpent Crest
Serpent Crest
Serpent Crest is an audio play in five episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is written by Paul Magrs, and stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates...
.
William
William (surname unknown), also known as Isaac, first appeared in the short story Euterpe: An Overture Too Early by Simon GuerrierSimon Guerrier
Simon Guerrier is a British science fiction author and dramatist, closely associated with the fictional universe of Doctor Who and its spinoffs...
in the Big Finish Short Trips
Big Finish Short Trips
The Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002 and ending with the loss of their license in 2009...
anthology The Muses
Short Trips: The Muses
Short Trips: The Muses is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The stories are based on the nine Muses.-Stories:-External links:*...
. He later appeared in most of the short stories in Short Trips: Time Signature
Short Trips: Time Signature
Short Trips: Time Signature is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Simon Guerrier and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection is themed loosely around music, time and consequences.-Stories:...
, edited by Guerrier.
When William first met the Doctor, he was a young man living with his mother in Slough
Slough
Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town straddles the A4 Bath Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London...
, in near-contemporary England, following his parents' separation. Though the Doctor had met him previously in his own timeline, William's association with the Time Lord began when he encountered the Sixth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
in a fishing shop and agreed to join him on a fishing trip. This expedition turned out to be to a far-future Earth populated by an advanced hunter-gatherer
Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forage society is one in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies which rely mainly on domesticated species. Hunting and gathering was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo, and all modern humans were...
society.
Together, William and the Doctor visited London in William's near future, and a walking city in the very distant future, although they never achieved William's ambition of meeting Viking
Viking
The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...
s. During their travels William developed his previously latent talent for music, and became fascinated with a tune which turned out to act directly upon the time vortex
Time vortex (Doctor Who)
In the science fiction television series Doctor Who, the time vortex is the medium that the TARDIS and other time machines travel through...
. They parted company in an unnamed Eastern European country resembling Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
in the 1950s, after William (who now began using the name "Isaac") fell in love with a local woman and became involved in a counter-revolutionary movement against the local Communist
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
regime.
Isaac became a prominent composer in his adopted country, his compositions incorporating the music of the vortex. He met the Doctor on two subsequent occasions, both of them earlier in the Doctor's timeline than their original meeting. His meeting with the Third Doctor
Third Doctor
The Third Doctor is the third incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee....
in London in the 1970s (their first, from the Doctor's point of view) took place shortly before Isaac's murder at the hands of forces wishing to protect the vortex.
The Doctor seems to have remembered Isaac late in his eighth incarnation
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
. After scattering his friend's ashes from a Viking longship
Longship
Longships were sea vessels made and used by the Vikings from the Nordic countries for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. The longship’s design evolved over many years, beginning in the Stone Age with the invention of the umiak and continuing up to the 9th century with...
, he finally dealt with the murderous powers attempting to excise Isaac's compositions from the universe. This process eventually entailed changing the young William's timeline so that he never joined the sixth Doctor on his fishing trip, but instead developed his musical talent without the influence of the vortex.
The exact effects of this on history are unclear. While it seems that the Doctor still remembered his travels with William, the young man's life was altered so that he became a prominent composer in his own time. Whether the events they experienced together still happened, happened differently or did not occur at all is a matter of speculation.
Jenny Wilson
Jenny was one of the Doctor's companions in the stage play Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to DoomsdayDoctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday
Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday was a stage play based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The play ran at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England for four weeks, beginning on 16 December 1974...
. She was played by Wendy Padbury
Wendy Padbury
Wendy Padbury is a British actress from Warwickshire, England. She is most famous for her involvement in various Doctor Who projects....
, who had previously played Zoe Heriot
Zoe Heriot
Zoe Heriot , or simply Zoe, is a fictional character played by Wendy Padbury in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
. Not to be confused with Jenny
Jenny (Doctor Who)
Jenny, portrayed by Georgia Moffett, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She first appeared in the episode "The Doctor's Daughter", originally broadcast 10 May 2008...
from the 2008 episode "The Doctor's Daughter
The Doctor's Daughter
"The Doctor's Daughter" is the sixth episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 10 May 2008.- Synopsis :...
."
In the Big Finish
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audio adaptation, she was played by Wendy Padbury's daughter Charlie Hayes.
Guinevere Winchester
Guinevere Winchester, known as Guin, appears in the short story "Revenants" by Peter AnghelidesPeter Anghelides
Peter Anghelides is an English author and dramatist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC television series Doctor Who.-Work:...
. She was a historian, before becoming a companion of the red-haired future Doctor mentioned in Battlefield
Battlefield (Doctor Who)
Battlefield is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 6 to September 27, 1989. It was the last appearance of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who....
, and has an ex-husband named Lance. Given that this Doctor took the identity of Merlin
Merlin
Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures...
, it is unlikely that her name, and that of her husband, is a coincidence.
Wolsey
Wolsey (named for Cardinal Wolsey) was a cat given to the Seventh DoctorSeventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
by Joan in the novel Human Nature by Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield....
. Wolsey travelled in the TARDIS until the events of The Dying Days
The Dying Days
The Dying Days is an original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was last of that range to feature the Doctor and the only one of that range to feature Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor. Thereafter the series centred around...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
. The Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
then gave Wolsey to Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures...
, and the cat remained with her for the remainder of the New Adventures
Virgin New Adventures
The Virgin New Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who...
. Wolsey also appeared in some of the Bernice Summerfield audio dramas and books from Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
.
In the audio drama Oh No It Isn't!
Oh No It Isn't!
Oh No It Isn't! is a novel published in 1997 by Paul Cornell from the Virgin New Adventures featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield....
by Paul Cornell, Wolsey was portrayed by Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an English television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...
, the actor better known for his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, generally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Nicholas Courtney...
, as the cat acquired the power of speech for part of the story.
The version of the Doctor seen in the Past Doctor Adventures
Past Doctor Adventures
The Past Doctor Adventures were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. For most of their existence, they were published side-by-side with the Eighth Doctor Adventures...
novel The Infinity Doctors
The Infinity Doctors
The Infinity Doctors is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
by Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale...
had a cat named Wycliff, a reference to the New Adventures' Wolsey by way of reforming theologian John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers were known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached...
.
Zog
Zog, an alienExtraterrestrial life in popular culture
In popular cultures, "extraterrestrials" are life forms — especially intelligent life forms— that are of extraterrestrial origin .-Historical ideas:-Pre-modern:...
slave, appeared in the stage play Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure was a 1989 stage play, written by Terrance Dicks based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
, written by Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s.- Early career :...
.
Zog was a slave who served at the Bar Galactica run by Madame Delilah. When the Doctor, Jason and Crystal arrived, they found Karl and his mercenaries there waiting for them. Crystal formed a friendship with Zog and the three took Zog with them when they fled the bar. Zog continued to travel with the Doctor, Jason and Crystal at the end of the play. In the short story Face Value by Steve Lyons, published in Short Trips and Sidesteps
BBC Short Trips
The BBC Short Trips books were a series of short story anthologies published by BBC Books based on the television series Doctor Who, following a pattern established by Virgin Publishing's Decalog collections. Three volumes were published between March 1998 and March 2000, before the BBC decided to...
, it is revealed that Zog is an Aldeberian tyrant, and unbeknownst to this travelling companions is planning to enslave the universe. Zog also appeared alongside assorted monsters in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time
Dimensions in Time
Dimensions in Time is a charity special crossover between the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and the soap opera EastEnders that ran in two parts on 26 and 27 November 1993. It was filmed on the EastEnders Albert Square set, and features several of the stars of that programme...
.
See also
- List of Doctor Who supporting characters: Companions