Tag Archives: Companions

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Kamelion

By | Posted on February 24th, 2012

Let’s imagine you’re an inventor on a planet far from Earth, a planet called Xeriphas (which is almost Sapphire X backwards, a fact that wiseacre visitors never tire of telling you). And you’ve come up with a rather ...

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Nyssa

By | Posted on February 17th, 2012

Being a man possessed of great charm, the Doctor operates as a classless being. So long as you’re not mean-spirited or judgmental, he’ll happily get along with anyone.

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Harry Sullivan

By | Posted on February 10th, 2012

The saying “two’s company, but three’s a crowd” could have been coined with Harry Sullivan in mind. A naval medical officer, charged with keeping an eye on the newly-regenerated Fourth Doctor, he found himself ...

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Sergeant Benton and Mike Yates

By | Posted on February 3rd, 2012

At the start of the Third Doctor’s tenure in the TARDIS, there was a distinct plan to move the show out of the realms of the entirely fantastical, and to give it a basis in what was then modern day fact. To this end, the idea was ...

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Polly And Ben

By | Posted on January 27th, 2012

Polly and Ben both arrived in the TARDIS at the same time, having been thrown together by conflict (and a new friend who needed taking out for a drink). By the time they left the Doctor, a year later, they had become inseparable.

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Steven Taylor and Vicki

By | Posted on January 20th, 2012

It’s always tough to be the first replacement in a winning team. The staggering success of Doctor Who’s first series, way back in 1964, created a certain mythology around the key four characters, the Doctor, Susan, Ian, and ...

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: River Song

By | Posted on January 13th, 2012

Imagine if you met the Doctor and River Song in a restaurant, on a romantic night out. You’d get to chatting with the garrulous pair, sharing stories from your lives, the one in the tweed jacket would be spinning some yarn about a ...

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Mickey Smith

By | Posted on January 6th, 2012

It’s become a common thread in recent Doctor Who episodes to emphasise the extent to which the appearance of a time-travelling eccentric in an inter-dimensional phone box tends to play havoc with a human’s sense of self. ...

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Adam Mitchell

By | Posted on December 16th, 2011

To observe the way the Doctor picks his companions, you’d think he was a fairly come-one come-all kind of Time Lord. Certainly, until Adam Mitchell came along, no one was aware that his selection process was any more rigorus than ...

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A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Turlough

By | Posted on December 9th, 2011

It’s almost too easy to point out that travelling with the Doctor changes people. Considering that the overwhelming majority of companions come from the same time era as the audience watching the show, and that we humans have as ...

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