Tag Archives: Companions

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Romana

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 23rd, 2011

Romana (as played by Mary Tamm) arrived in the middle of that period of upheaval in the role of the female companion which started with scientific Liz Shaw and ended with shouty Tegan. She was conceived as a character who would provide ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: The Brigadier

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 16th, 2011

First and foremost: A POX on anyone who claims that the Brigadier doesn’t count as a proper companion because he didn’t get to do much traveling in the TARDIS. He might exist outside of the (even then) traditional ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Jamie McCrimmon

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 9th, 2011

A good companion should be more than just a witness, an object of jeopardy or a convenient dramatic device for the explanation of some weird scientific plot or other, he or she should feel like part of the team.

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Susan Foreman

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 2nd, 2011

Time to start back at the beginning again, in 1963, when Doctor Who first started. Susan Foreman – played by Carole Ann Ford – was the very first of the Doctor’s companions, presented to the viewing public as his ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Amy Pond

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 26th, 2011

Amy Pond has been waiting for the Doctor practically all of her life.

Not in the sense of other companions, who had been waiting for someone like the Doctor, either somehow hemmed in by what the world has to offer, or just getting on with their lives, without an inkling that a chance meeting with a ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Donna Noble

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 19th, 2011

Once you’ve had your horizons dramatically shifted, you’ll always come back different. Every one of the Doctor’s former companions knows this.

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Rose Tyler

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 12th, 2011

It’s pretty clear now, that when Doctor Who came back after its enforced lay-off, the character on whom the production team’s hopes rested wasn’t so much the Doctor as his first companion. Get that right, and ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Grace Holloway

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 5th, 2011

For someone whose on-screen time with the Doctor lasted less than ninety minutes (that’s only three episodes of normal Doctor Who), Grace Holloway – played by Daphne Ashbrook – made quite an impact, not least because of all ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Ace

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on July 29th, 2011

There’s a powerful argument to be made that Ace, companion to the Seventh Doctor and posh girl pretending to be street-scruff (her real name is Dorothy, y’know), is the Scrappy Doo of the Whoniverse: she’s a terrier, ...

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Peri Brown

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on July 22nd, 2011

Within the world of Doctor Who, there is something extra special about those companions who are there to see a regeneration take place. They get to share a special bond with the Doctor, partly because regeneration must be quite an ...