History Characters / DoctorWhoClassicSeriesCompanions

* BusCrash: After a sizable amount of time proceeded her actor's demise, the webcast [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresSpecialFarewellSarahJane "Farewell, Sarah Jane"]] ripped off the band-aid and depicted her funeral and Rani Chandra saying good-bye to Mr. Smith, letting someone else find him if it was meant to be.

->'''Final Regular Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]" (1989)[[note]]Ace was not given a proper departure story, as "Survival" was the final serial of the classic ''Doctor Who'' run, and she was later stated as leaving some time between the events of "Survival" and [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]].[[/note]]
-> '''Departure Story''': "[[RecapDoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power Of The Doctor]]" (2022)

* CartwrightCurse: Became close to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Mike Smith]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight Gwendoline Pritchard]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric Captain Sorin]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Karra]]; none of them made it to the end of their respective serials. The ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' continued the trend. Even more darkly hilarious is the fact she became close to the [[Creator/JodieWhittaker Thirteenth Doctor]]... and even '''''she''''' didn't make it to the end of [[RecapDoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor the episode]]!

* CartwrightCurse: Became close to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Mike Smith]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight Gwendoline Pritchard]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric Captain Sorin]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Karra]]; none of them made it to the end of their respective serials. The ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' continued the trend.

* GirlOfTheWeek: The censored [[invoked]]WordOfGay version. Ace appeared in nine stories, and rapidly established a close friendship with an attractive young female character in at least five of them. She also voices her admiration of the beauty of the female living statue in 'Silver Nemisis'.
* GoodLookingPrivates: Ace always falls for men in uniform who later turn out to be the enemy.

->'''Played by:''' Creator/BonnieLangford (1986–87, 2022, 2023)

* InformedAbility: All over the place - often it's hard to remember the Mel we actually see is the same one we're told about. Mel supposedly has a PhotographicMemory, but aside from a SpotTheImposter moment in ''"The Ultimate Foe"'', it never comes up. She's apparently quite well-read, with the Doctor claiming she's a fan of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._Snow CP Snow]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani "Time And The Rani"]]. Similarly, about the only time her experience as a computer programmer comes up is when she inexplicably identifies the Valeyard's doomsday machine as "a [[{{Technobabble}} megabyte modem]]." The Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse at least takes these attributes and makes something out of them and she would later work at UNIT later on. This is ''finally'' averted in "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]", which actually shows her at a computer terminal [[TheCastShowoff as well as her singing voice]].
* MultipleChoicePast: Since Mel never got a proper televised introduction (see below), the expanded universe novels and audios have built a cottage industry out of creating one for her, most of which are mutually contradictory.

The many people (and the occasional robot) who accompany the Doctor in the classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' TV series.

'''Classic Series Companions''' ([[Characters/DoctorWhoK9 K9]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoRomana Romana]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesCompanions Revival Series Companions]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoRoseTyler Rose Tyler]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoJackHarkness Captain Jack Harkness]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong River Song]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoClaraOswald Clara Oswald]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoOtherSupportingCast Other Supporting Cast]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoThePaternosterGang The Paternoster Gang]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoUNITStaff UNIT Staff]]\\

* NeverMessWithGranny: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]], Tegan is in her 60s and manages to completely disable the Master's entire Cyberman army (with a little assistance from a psychic hologram of the Doctor). Age hasn't mellowed her even slightly, as she wastes no time in giving the Doctor a dressing down and leaves her with very little choice when she decides she wants to see inside the TARDIS again. She is also the one that ultimately freezes and blows up Ashad [[AndThisIsFor in Adric's name]].

* NeverMessWithGranny: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]], Tegan is in her 60s and manages to completely disable the Master's entire Cyberman army (with a little assistance from a psychic hologram of the Doctor). Age hasn't mellowed her even slightly, as she wastes no time in giving the Doctor a dressing down and leaves her with very little choice when she decides she wants to see inside the TARDIS again.

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: In the mini-episode to celebrate the rerelease of the Season 20 boxset, it's revealed she's still hosting the Mara, who every now and then keeps tempting her with the hope of a reunion with Nyssa and the good days of traveling. Tegan's only answer is to remind the monster it's powerless without her, endure the nightmare and the offer, and smack it back into its box inside her head.

-->''"Oh, grandfather!"''

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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Nicola Bryant, a Brtish native, auditioned for Peri by secretly impersonating an American accent because she wanted to be on the show, when the producers were scouting out someone who had a real American accent. As ''Doctor Who'' was her first professional acting job, her inexperience led to her natural accent slipping through many times. The accent is far more consistent in the Big Finish stories.

->'''Played by:''' Creator/LouiseJameson (1977–78, 1993)

[[Characters/DoctorWhoImmortalsAndEldritchAbominations Immortals and Eldritch Abominations]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters The Master]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoJohnSimmsMaster John Simms' Master]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoMissy Missy]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverseMasters Expanded Universe Masters]])\\

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute[=/=]ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Vicki, of course, was intended to occupy the same space in the group dynamic as Susan, so she's an interesting bundle of similarities and contrasts. She and the Doctor both discuss how they're looking for lost family in each other, and she falls into the "child" role with Ian and Barbara. But personality-wise, she's quite different to Susan - she's a lot more confident and adventurous, and also lacks Susan's occasionally alien outlook on the world. And for the viewers, where Susan was a mysterious and somewhat unrelatable space waif, Vicki was (despite being from the future) recognisably a Scouse mod... InSpace

* BoundAndGagged[=/=]{{Brainwashed}}[=/=]TapOnTheHead: In the classic series, one (or more) of these would happen to Sarah Jane in each story she appeared in. Holds the companion record for most times hypnotized. Lampshaded in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]" and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''.

* ConveyorBeltODoom: Is put on one in "The Seeds of Doom", but to be fair she also (later in the story) rescued the Doctor from said same fate.

* OptOut[=/=]RageBreakingPoint[=/=]RageQuit: By "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]", she's had all she can take from the Doctor and decides to leave. And then she changes her mind at the worst possible time.

--> '''Sarah Jane:''' You've regenerated.
--> '''Tenth Doctor:''' Half a dozen times since we last met [in my Fifth incarnation].

* InterspeciesRomance[=/=]MayflyDecemberRomance: Andred is Gallifreyan, and thus HumanOutsideAlienInside and LongLived. [[spoiler: In the audio series, [[{{Irony}} she ends up outliving him by many years]].]]

[[folder: Sara Kingdom]]
!!Sara Kingdom (First Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" (1965-66)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeanMarsh (1965-66)

-->''"Yes, he's dead. The others must be killed as well. They will be shot on sight but aim for the head."''

Outside of the ExpandedUniverse, she appeared in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan only one, twelve episode long, story, for seven of its episodes]]. She was intentionally written to serve in a companion role (taking over from Katarina) but was never intended to be a permanent character. Sara broke the normal companion mould (then and now) and worked as an agent for a sinister solar system-wide governmental security agency run by the human BigBad. Once she realized her error, she joined the crew of the TARDIS.

* AscendedExtra: There was some debate among fans as to whether Sara Kingdom counted as a Companion, given that [[MauveShirt she's only alive for the course of one adventure]]. However the Dalek Master Plan goes on so long, with her adventures covering different times and planets, that it makes little difference. When "Master Plan" was novelised, a six-month gap was inserted in the story, to allow the expanded universe to feature more stories with Sara as a companion.
* TheAtoner: After she kills her own brother and realizes she has worked for the BigBad all along, leads to her transitioning into a more normal ActionGirl. The novelisation of the story makes this a big part of her character. She is haunted by nightmares of her brother's final moments and continually beats herself up over the fact that she blindly believed Mavic Chen when he said that Bret was a traitor. While she does genuinely want to stop the Daleks and Mavic Chen from destroying the universe, a major secondary reason is that she doesn't want the death of Bret to be in vain.
* DarkActionGirl: At least, the story wants to give his impression when she first appears.
* ExpandedUniverse: When her one and only (very long) story was novelised, it was split into parts. The second began by saying six months had passed since the first. Various Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse works have been set in this gap. (The novelizations, incidentally, do not occur in the same continuity as other branches of the EU, or with each other.)
** Several Creator/BigFinish audio dramas featuring her are set after her death, a copy of her personality having lingered on in a wish-granting house in Ely.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: She loses her gun shortly after her introduction, but fights just as well without it in subsequent episodes.
* HeroicSacrifice: Makes one.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: When she and Steven are fighting off two guards, she takes care of the one attacking her before stepping in to finish off the one attacking Steven, all without breaking a sweat.
--> '''Sara:''' Not bad. Remind me to teach you a few tricks sometime.
--> '''Steven:''' Remind ''me'' not to pick a fight with you.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Why she's sent to terminate her own brother.
* NervesOfSteel: Even in a crisis, she carries on with her duty, such as when she continues to calmly relay information when the trio's escape ship is being pulled back by the Daleks.
* PerpetualFrowner: As befits her strait-laced, efficient demeanour.
* PuttingOnTheReich: She belongs to the ''SSS'', too.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Fits the character arc of someone who does something bad at the start of the adventure serial, only to redeem themselves with a HeroicSacrifice at the end.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Does this to ''herself'', but drags the person she's fighting out with her.
* YouLookFamiliar: Jean Marsh had already played a different character, and returned in 1989 to play a third. Oh, and she married Creator/JonPertwee.
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[[folder: Dodo Chaplet]]
!!Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet (First Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]" (1966)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" (1966)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JackieLane (1966)

-->''"If it isn't allowed, Dodo would be first in the queue!"''
-->-- '''Steven Taylor'''

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An teenaged schoolgirl from the year 1966. Although a FishOutOfWater in most of time and space, she tried her best to stay brave and ended up saving the day a few times over.

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* HeroKiller: [[AccidentalMurder While it wasn’t on purpose]], she still killed the Seventh Doctor and did a better job than any Dalek could.
* HeroesWantRedheads: And likes snogging them.
* HospitalHottie: Especially in her big dress.

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* OohMeAccentsSlipping:
** Nicola Bryant, a Brtish native, auditioned for Peri by secretly impersonating an American accent because she wanted to be on the show, when the producers were scouting out someone who had a real American accent. As ''Doctor Who'' was her first professional acting job, her inexperience led to her natural accent slipping through many times. The accent is far more consistent in the Big Finish stories.

!!Melanie "Mel" Bush (Sixth, Seventh, Fourteenth Doctors, and Fifteenth Doctors)

Over thirty years later, she reunites with the Doctor during "The Giggle". In the interim since they departed, Mel's since joined up with UNIT, having returned to Earth after Glitz died.