Doctor Who: Who-ology (Dr Who)

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The first and last things the Doctor ever said to his companions.

HAVEN’T I SEEN YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE?

The role of the Doctor’s new companion is one of the most hotly contested parts on British television – but sometimes it’s a case of being in the right place at the right time… and just sometimes it’s enough to have already appeared in Doctor Who…

PETER PURVES

First: Morton Dill

Later: Steven Taylor

Blue Peter may have been a few years in the future for Peter Purves in 1965, but it was a matter of just weeks between the actor’s first Doctor Who appearance and his second. He was cast as American tourist Morton Dill in the third episode of The Chase, encountering the Daleks at the top of the Empire State Building. The young actor got on well with William Hartnell and Maureen O’Brien and was offered the part of new companion, space pilot Steven Taylor, appearing just three weeks after his original debut.

NICHOLAS COURTNEY

First: Bret Vyon

Later: The Brigadier

Nicholas Courtney’s first appearance in Doctor Who was as dashing Space Security Agent Bret Vyon in The Daleks’ Master Plan, opposite William Hartnell. He very nearly missed out on being cast as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart in 1967 when the role went to future Upstairs Downstairs star David Langton, with Courtney booked to play Captain Knight. Langton was forced to pull out at the last minute due to other work commitments, leading to Courtney’s subsequent promotion to Colonel. One false moustache later and Doctor Who history was made!

JOHN LEVENE

First: Monsters

Later: Sergeant Benton

John Levene played uncredited roles in two Patrick Troughton stories – as a Cyberman in The Moonbase and a Yeti in The Web of Fear. He was scheduled to once again don a cyber-suit for The Invasion, but the tardiness of another actor saw him cast as Corporal Benton. The rest is history.

IAN MARTER

First: Lieutenant John Andrews

Later: Harry Sullivan

Ian Marter had narrowly missed out on playing the role of Captain Mike Yates in 1971, but producer Barry Letts later cast him as Andrews in Carnival of Monsters. In 1974, he became the Fourth Doctor’s first male companion.

LALLA WARD

First: Princess Astra

Later: Romana

Having decided to leave Doctor Who, Mary Tamm suggested Lalla Ward, who had appeared as Princess Astra in The Armageddon Factor, as her replacement. Two months later, Ward was cast as the new Romana.

FREEMA AGYEMAN

First: Adeola Ashodi

Later: Martha Jones

Freema Agyeman so impressed the Doctor Who production team when she played Adeola in 2006’s Doomsday that she was invited back to audition for the role of Martha Jones – under the pretence she was testing for a role in Torchwood to maintain secrecy. When Martha appeared in 2007, her resemblance to Adeola was explained by revealing the two girls were cousins.

KAREN GILLAN

First: Soothsayer

Later: Amy Pond

Former model Karen Gillan had a small supporting role as a Soothsayer in 2008’s The Fires of Pompeii. Two years later, she was making her debut as the Doctor’s future mother-in-law.

And one more…

COLIN BAKER

First: Commander Maxil

Later: The Sixth Doctor

Colin Baker feared that his guest appearance as Maxil in Arc of Infinity would prevent him from playing the Doctor. Thankfully this was not the case, and the Sixth Doctor stepped into the TARDIS on a full-time basis the following year.

RETURN PERFORMANCES

Sometimes former companions even come back as someone new!

JACQUELINE HILL

First: Barbara Wright

Later: Lexa

Fifteen years after Barbara Wright, her first Doctor Who role, left the TARDIS, Jacqueline Hill returned to the series as high priestess Lexa in Meglos. To date she is the only companion who’s returned as a completely different character, although John Leeson also played Dugeen in The Power of Kroll while he was lending his vocal talents to K-9.

BERNARD CRIBBINS

First: Tom Campbell

Later: Wilfred Mott

Veteran actor Bernard Cribbins was elevated to guest companion as Wilfred Mott for the Tenth Doctor’s final adventure, The End of Time after several semi-regular appearances. Bernard’s time playing Donna’s ‘gramps’ was his second brush with Who fame – although his first wasn’t a role in the BBC series. In the 1966 film Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. he played PC Tom Campbell, companion to Peter Cushing’s Dr Who. Forty-one years later, he appeared as a newspaper vendor in Voyage of the Damned – a role that was later expanded to become Wilfred Mott.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WHO

A month-by-month guide to the companions’ birthdays.

JANUARY

Deborah Watling

2 January 1948

Richard Franklin

15 January 1936

Daphne Ashbrook

30 January 1963

FEBRUARY

Peter Purves

10 February 1939

MARCH

Freema Agyeman

20 March 1979

Bruno Langley

21 March 1983

Mary Tamm

22 March 1950

John Leeson

March 1943

APRIL

Mark Strickson

6 April 1959

Elisabeth Sladen

19 April 1946

Louise Jameson

20 April 1951

Gerald Flood

21 April 1927

Michelle Ryan

22 April 1984

Jenna-Louise Coleman

27 April 1986

MAY

Catherine Tate

12 May 1968

Kylie Minogue

28 May 1968

JUNE

Carole Ann Ford

8 June 1940

Arthur Darvill

17 June 1982

David Morrissey

21 June 1964

Lalla Ward

28 June 1951

Maureen O’Brien

29 June 1943

JULY

Jean Marsh

1 July 1934

Jackie Lane

10 July 1947

Adrienne Hill

22 July 1937

Bonnie Langford

22 July 1964

AUGUST

Sophie Aldred

20 August 1962

SEPTEMBER

Janet Fielding

9 September 1953

Frazer Hines

22 September 1944

Billie Piper

22 September 1982

OCTOBER

Caroline John

11 October 1940

Nicola Bryant

11 October 1960

Katy Manning

14 October 1949

Anneke Wills

20 October 1941

Ian Marter

28 October 1944

NOVEMBER

Lindsay Duncan

7 November 1950

William Russell

19 November 1924

Karen Gillan

28 November 1987

Michael Craze

29 November 1942

DECEMBER

Noel Clarke

6 December 1975

Wendy Padbury

7 December 1947

Sarah Sutton

12 December 1961

Nicholas Courtney

16 December 1929

Jacqueline Hill

17 December 1929

Matthew Waterhouse

19 December 1961

John Levene

24 December 1941

Bernard Cribbins

29 December 1928

COMPANION ROLL CALL: THE 1970s

LIZ SHAW

played by CAROLINE JOHN

First regular Doctor Who appearance: Spearhead from Space Episode 1 (1970)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: Inferno Episode 7 (1970)

Final guest Doctor Who appearance: Dimensions in Time Part 2 (1993)

Following her time at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Caroline John toured with both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, where she was directed by Sir Laurence Olivier. In 1970 she was cast as the Doctor’s new companion, only staying with Doctor Who for one series. She continued to work solidly, appearing in many TV series, including The Hound of the Baskervilles with Tom Baker and in the film Love, Actually. She passed away in 2012.

Dr Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Shaw was a brilliant Cambridge academic, co-opted into UNIT as a scientific adviser. Highly intelligent and not afraid of action, Liz eventually headed back to Cambridge, claiming that all the Doctor needed was somebody to pass him test tubes and tell him how brilliant he was!

And another thing: Caroline John was married to actor Geoffrey Beevers, who played a UNIT private in The Ambassadors of Death and the Master in The Keeper of Traken.

JO GRANT

played by KATY MANNING

First regular Doctor Who appearance: Terror of the Autons Episode 1 (1971)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: The Green Death Episode 6 (1973)

Katy Manning was beginning to earn a name for herself on British television with appearances in Softly, Softly: Taskforce and Man at the Top, before being cast as Jo Grant in Doctor Who. Manning left the series after two years and moved with her two children to Australia where she hosted her own chat show. She returned to the United Kingdom in 2009, and reprised the role of Jo Grant in The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2010.

Josephine Grant was a feisty, loyal and capable UNIT operative assigned to the Doctor as his new assistant. Caring and resourceful, Jo would never hesitate to put herself danger to help others – including offering her own life for the Doctor’s on more than one occasion. She left UNIT to marry environmentalist Professor Clifford Jones.

And another thing: While living down under, Katy toured the Australian outback with her one-woman show about Bette Davis, Me and Jezebel.

SARAH JANE SMITH

played by ELISABETH SLADEN

First regular Doctor Who appearance: The Time Warrior Part 1 (1973)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: The Hand of Fear Part 4 (1976)

Final guest Doctor Who appearance: The End of Time, Part Two (2010)

Z-Cars, Doomwatch and a six-episode stint in Coronation Street were all on Elisabeth Sladen’s CV by the time she was cast as Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who. Appearing alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, Elisabeth became the most popular and recognisable Doctor Who companion in the history of the programme. Largely stepping back from acting in the late 1980s to bring up her daughter, Elisabeth returned to Doctor Who in 2006 and went on to star in The Sarah Jane Adventures until her death in 2010.

Journalist Sarah Jane Smith first met the Third Doctor under an assumed identity, posing as her virologist aunt, Lavinia Smith. Investigative instincts made her the ideal companion for the Doctor, capable of getting into as much trouble as the Time Lord. The bond between the two friends strengthened after the Doctor regenerated, but Sarah was heartbroken when he practically kicked her out of the TARDIS. However, the Doctor was true to his word – he never forgot Sarah Jane Smith.

And another thing: Elisabeth presented the ITV children’s programmes My World and Stepping Stone in the late 1970s.

HARRY SULLIVAN

played by IAN MARTER

First regular Doctor Who appearance: Robot Part 1 (1974)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: Terror of the Zygons Part 4 (1975)

Final guest Doctor Who appearance: The Android Invasion Part 4 (1975)

After leaving University in 1969, 25-year-old Ian Marter secured a job as Acting Stage Manager at the Bristol Old Vic. One of his first television auditions was for UNIT’s Captain Yates, a role he won but couldn’t play due to prior commitments. After Doctor Who, Marter appeared in such series as The Brothers, Crown Court, Shine on Harvey Moon and Bergerac before his untimely death in 1986.

Poor old Harry. You have to pity the physician put in charge of the newly regenerated Fourth Doctor. The rather befuddled Surgeon Lieutenant later found himself on board the TARDIS as it took off for the Nerva Beacon. Brave, if not a little clumsy at times, Harry was charming and polite but infuriated Sarah by often calling her ‘old girl’ or ‘old thing’. Despite the Doctor’s assertion in Revenge of the Cybermen that ‘Harry Sullivan is an imbecile’, the Time Lord owed his life to the Naval officer on more than one occasion.

And another thing: In the 1970s and 1980s, Ian Marter novelised nine Doctor Who stories for Target Books.

LEELA

played by LOUISE JAMESON

First regular Doctor Who appearance: The Face of Evil Part 1 (1977)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: The Invasion of Time Part 6 (1978)

Final guest Doctor Who appearance: Dimensions in Time Part 2 (1993)

After winning the prestigious Shakespeare Memorial Prize, Louise Jameson left RADA in 1971 and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her long-lasting TV career began with four lines in a BBC production of Cider With Rosie, followed by appearances in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Z-Cars, Emmerdale and Space: 1999. Following Doctor Who, Jameson remained a familiar face on television playing major roles in The Omega Factor, Tenko, Bergerac, EastEnders and Doc Martin.

When the Doctor first met Leela she was wild, untamed and had just been exiled from her tribe. After helping him defeat the mad computer Xoanon, the leather-clad Sevateem warrior insisted the Doctor took her with him. Despite his best intentions, this savage Eliza Doolittle often reverted back to her violent roots. Primitive but no fool, Leela never waited to be asked before jumping into action.

And another thing: Looking for a familiar face to bridge the move from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, producer John Nathan-Turner asked Jameson to return as Leela for the Fifth Doctor’s first season. As she was only happy to return for a maximum of three stories, the idea was dropped.

K-9 MARK I & MARK II

voiced by JOHN LEESON and DAVID BRIERLEY

First regular Doctor Who appearance: The Invisible Enemy Part 1 (1977)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: Warriors Gate Part 4 (1981)

Final guest Doctor Who appearance: Journey’s End (2008)

A RADA graduate, John Leeson holds the distinction of being the original Bungle the bear in Rainbow. In the late 1970s, Leeson bumped into an old friend, director Derrick Goodwin, who subsequently asked him to play a couple of voices in The Invisible Enemy – namely an alien virus and K-9. Leeson temporarily left the series after The Armageddon Factor and was replaced by David Brierley. After an accident in rehearsal ended his ballet-dancing career, Brierley had moved into stage managing, picking up acting roles as he transferred from theatre to theatre. His TV work included three separate parts in Coronation Street, most notably as a friend of Ken Barlow in episodes 6 to 14 of the legendary soap opera. Brierley voiced K-9 for four stories, including the untelevised Shada, before Leeson was persuaded to return for K-9’s imminent departure. Brierley went on to appear in Threads, Juliet Bravo, The Tripods and Howard’s Way before passing away in June 2008, while Leeson made appearances in Minder, Doctors and ChuckleVision. He returned to Doctor Who in 2006 for School Reunion, reprising his role in the subsequent spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, and again in Australian TV’s K9 series.

Given to the Doctor by his creator Professor Marius, mobile computer K-9 travelled on board the TARDIS until he opted to remain on Gallifrey with Leela. The Doctor had obviously been preparing for the possibility that his robot dog might leave – he already had a box containing the components for K-9 Mark II.

And another thing: John Leeson provided the voice of the Dalek Battle Computer in Remembrance of the Daleks.

ROMANADVORATRELUNDAR (ROMANA) I

played by MARY TAMM

First regular Doctor Who appearance: The Ribos Operation Part 1 (1978)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: The Armageddon Factor Part 6 (1979)

After attending RADA, Mary Tamm joined the Birmingham repertory theatre in 1971 appearing alongside Ronnie Barker and Derek Jacobi. She made the move into television two years later, winning roles in The Donati Conspiracy and Coronation Street, where she played Hilda Ogden’s daughter-in-law. Her first major role after leaving Doctor Who was as Jill Frazer in the 1980 TV thriller The Assassination Run and its sequel The Treachery Game. Tamm would go on to appear as Penny Crosbie in Channel 4’s Brookside from 1993 to 1995 and guest starred in such popular series as Heartbeat, Jonathan Creek, Wire in the Blood and EastEnders. She passed away in July 2012.

Romana was thrust upon the Doctor by the White Guardian to help the Time Lord gather the six segments of the Key to Time. Hyper-intelligent yet naïve, the original Romana was a force to be reckoned with, glamorous and absolutely convinced of her own superiority. Several centuries younger than the Doctor, she still considered herself his intellectual and academic superior – although relations between the two Gallifreyans thawed over time.

And another thing: Mary Tamm attended RADA at the same time as Louise Jameson.

ROMANADVORATRELUNDAR (ROMANA) II

played by LALLA WARD

First regular Doctor Who appearance: Destiny of the Daleks Episode 1 (1979)

Final regular Doctor Who appearance: Warriors Gate Part 4 (1981)

Final guest Doctor Who appearance: Dimensions in Time Part 2 (1993)

Even though she was painfully shy and had never even taken part in a school play, the Honourable Sarah Ward dared herself to go to drama school. Winning a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama, she graduated three years later and immediately secured a role in Hammer’s Vampire Circus. She left Doctor Who in 1980, just prior to her brief marriage to Tom Baker, and worked extensively in the theatre before retiring from acting in 1992. Ward now balances a successful career as an illustrator with charity work.

After completing the quest for the Key to Time, Romana regenerated. Having tried on a few bodies for size, she settled on the image of Princess Astra of Atrios, despite the Doctor’s protestations. In her new incarnation, Romana was more playful but still brimmed with confidence, unable to resist any opportunity to rib the Doctor about his shortcomings.

And another thing: Lalla Ward met second husband Richard Dawkins at Douglas Adams’s 40th birthday party. They were married six months later.

THE FOURTH DOCTOR’S RULES FOR COMPANIONS

Rule 1: ‘Do exactly as I say.’

Rule 2: ‘Stick close to me.’

Rule 3: ‘Let me do all the talking.’

MUSTERING THE TROOPS – THE CREATION OF UNIT

‘We deal with the odd, the unexplained, anything on Earth or even beyond.’

The Brigadier, Spearhead from Space

Earth-bound military group UNIT has been a mainstay of Doctor Who since the late 1960s. What led to the creation of this much-loved facet of the Doctor’s lives?

When, in the summer of 1968, Patrick Troughton having announced his intention to leave Doctor Who, producer Peter Bryant and script editor Derrick Sherwin cast their eyes to the future, with a revamp for the series very much on the cards.

The scripts for the Cyberman story The Invasion provided the germ of an idea for that revamp, with Derrick Sherwin fleshing out the concept of UNIT and the return of the Lethbridge-Stewart character, now promoted to Brigadier.

Bryant and Sherwin saw in The Invasion the opportunity to revamp their series to a more contemporary setting, something that had proved popular in The Web of Fear the previous year. Time travel and alien planets were out, cheaper Earth-bound adventure was in, with UNIT as a central concept.

During production of The Invasion in September 1968, the production team sounded out Nicholas Courtney about returning to Doctor Who as the Brigadier on a regular basis for the following series. The actor readily agreed.

With a new Doctor, Jon Pertwee, in place and the series moving into colour, it was all change for Doctor Who on 3 January 1970, and UNIT and the Brigadier were firmly established as a core part of the series.

UNIT PERSONNEL

LENGTH OF SERVICE

The boys (and girls) of UNIT have come and gone, but who has served the longest on screen? Here we rank the great and good in order of the number of stories we’ve seen them defending the Earth as a member of the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. No guessing who’s top of the list…

Other UNIT personnel include:

Sir John Sudbury – the Doctor’s contact within department C19 (Time-Flight)

Major Walton – fought the Silurians on Wenley Moor under Lethbridge-Stewart (Doctor Who and the Silurians)

Mr Campbell – worked in the scientific supplies section during the second Auton invasion. Jo Grant thought he was a dolly Scotsman. (Terror of the Autons)

THE UNKNOWN SOLDIERS

Not all UNIT squaddies and officers are lucky enough to have names. We salute the actors who played these unnamed protectors of Earth:

SQUADDIES

Brian Haughton, Mark Johnson, John Spradbury, Alex Donald, David Melbourne (Doctor Who and the Silurians)

Steve Smart, Geoff Brighty, Ron Conrad, Les Conrad, Tom Laird, Doug Roe, Roy Brent, David Aldridge, Clive Rogers, Alan Chuntz, Steve Kelly, Keith Simons, Derek Chafer, Ron Gregory, Rod Peers, Stewert Myers, David Pike, Jo Santos (The Ambassadors of Death)

Les Conrad (Terror of the Autons)

Charles Marrior, Stuart Fell, Nick Hobbes, Dennis Balcombe, Roger Marsden (The Mind of Evil)

Roy Brent, Bill Hughes, Douglas Roe, Clive Rogers, Pierce McAvoy, Michael Stainer (The Claws of Axos)

David Melbourne (Day of the Daleks)

Pat Gorman, Leslie Bates, Terence Deville, Terry Sartain, David Billa, David Melbourne (The Three Doctors)

Leslie Bates, David Billa (The Green Death)

David Cleeve, Stephen Ismay (The Time Warrior)

Brian Nolan, Geoff Witherick, Dennis Plenty, David Billa, Ian Elliot, Louis Souchez, Leslie Bates, John Cash, James Muir (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

James Muir, Barry Summerford, Alan Clements, Rowland Greall, Patrick Glinter, David Selby (Terror of the Zygons)

Alan Clements, Christopher Woods, Alf Coster, Mark Allington, Pat Milner, Derek Hunt, Roy Pearch, Terry Sartain, Peter Brace (The Android Invasion)

Rowland Geall, Patrick Glinter, Tony Snell, Barry Summerford, Derek Wayland, Peter Bailey (The Seeds of Doom)

Stephen Woodhouse, Laurie Goode, Craig Gilmans, Mark Tony, Howard Buttress, Paul Dore, Andrew Davoile, Garry Haig, Adrian Bean, Garry Lovini, Mark Warren, Peter Davoile, Kevin Malfb y, Dean Foy, Anthony Hayworth, Phil Player, Daniel Spacer, Andrew Jones, Peter Oliver (Battlefield)

CORPORALS

Bill Horrigan (The Mind of Evil)

Clinton Morris (The Claws of Axos)

Derek Martin (The Claws of Axos)

Patrick Milner (The Daemons)

Pat Gorman (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

Bernard G. High (Terror of the Zygons). Terrance Dick’s named High’s character Palmer in the novelisation, Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster.

SERGEANTS

Anthony Moss, Ken Lee (Battlefield)

CHAUFFER

Michael Ely (The Mind of Evil)

OPERATORS