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Outside of the ExpandedUniverse, she appared 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 mold (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.
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Outside of the ExpandedUniverse, she appared 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 mold (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.
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* AllergicToEvil: In the ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' novelization, any sign of racism brings flashbacks to the fire in Manisha's apartment.
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* ScreamingWoman: Subverted. ''Hard.'' She screams exactly once, and that was when a [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant mutant rat]] started chewing on her leg. This does not count war cries.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A lot. Really hard. To the point that some American viewers have had to Google her to figure out where she was meant to be from.
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* SarcasticDevotee: Tegan is probably the best-known example of this trope in the original series. She's usually either snarking at The Doctor, snarking at Adric, or snarking at the Monster of the Week (even, when, as in the BigFinish drama ''Heroes of Sontar'', it nearly gets both her and the Doctor killed...)
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* [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim The Character Died With Her]]: Shortly before Lis Sladen's April, 2011 death, TomBaker was looking forward to doing the BigFinish dramas with Sarah Jane Smith as the companion. Nobody would dare trying to recast her iconic role.
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* {{Pornstache}}: Interestingly, his fascist MirrorUniverse counterpart is clean-shaven.
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* {{Pornstache}}: Interestingly, his fascist MirrorUniverse counterpart is clean-shaven.[[hottip:*:Actually, he was cleanshaven throughout the series, apparently... the famed moustache was actually a fake.]]
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* TheNthDoctor: "The Mind Robber" replaced Frazer Hines, for an episode or two, for Hamish Wilson, who looked nothing like him. The story explained this by having him run afoul of a trap in the Land of Fiction that required the Doctor to try to reconstruct his face from a bunch of options (facial features hung on a blackboard), kind of like a Mr. Potato Head. He got it wrong the first time, and fixed it the second time -- bringing back Frazer Hines.
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* TheNthDoctor: "The Mind Robber" replaced Frazer Hines, for an episode or two, for Hamish Wilson, who looked nothing like him. The story explained this by having him run afoul of a trap in the Land of Fiction that required the Doctor to try to reconstruct his face from a bunch of options (facial features hung on a blackboard), kind of like a Mr. Potato Head. He got it wrong the first time, and fixed it the second time -- bringing back Frazer Hines. The actor switch was necessary because Frazer Hines was too ill to perform for a time.
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* [[HeroesWantRedheads The Doctor Wants Redheads]]: As far as companions go.
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* RefusalOfTheCall - Ultimately, she decides not to go with the Doctor.
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* MsFanservice: If her penchant for mini-skirts is any indication.
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** BadButt
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Much of the TotallyRadical comes from the writers' attempts to have her insult people or express emotion without swearing.
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* TheNthDoctor: "The Mind Robber" replaced Frazer Hines, for an episode or two, for Hamish Wilson, who looked nothing like him. The story explained this by having him run afoul of a trap in the Land of Fiction that required the Doctor to try to reconstruct his face from a bunch of options (facial features hung on a blackboard), kind of like a Mr. Potato Head. He got it wrong the first time, and fixed it the second time - bringing back Frazer Hines.
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* TheNthDoctor: "The Mind Robber" replaced Frazer Hines, for an episode or two, for Hamish Wilson, who looked nothing like him. The story explained this by having him run afoul of a trap in the Land of Fiction that required the Doctor to try to reconstruct his face from a bunch of options (facial features hung on a blackboard), kind of like a Mr. Potato Head. He got it wrong the first time, and fixed it the second time - -- bringing back Frazer Hines.
* SecurityCling: All the time, especially with the Doctor.
* SecurityCling: All the time, especially with the Doctor.
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* PunnyName: Get it? K-9? [[DontExplainTheJoke Because it looks like a dog!]] K-9! As in '''CA-NINE'''.
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* PunnyName: Get it? K-9? [[DontExplainTheJoke Because it looks like a dog!]] dog! K-9! As in '''CA-NINE'''.
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* BadassAdorable: As seen in ''The Mind Robber'', she's very capable of taking care of herself, when facing off and winning a fight against her favorite fictional character, The Karkas. And the smile on her face when she got Karkus to submit? Priceless.
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* BadassAdorable: As seen in ''The Mind Robber'', she's very capable of taking care of herself, when facing off and winning a fight against her favorite fictional character, The Karkas.Karkus. And the smile on her face when she got Karkus to submit? Priceless.
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* BadassAdorable: As seen in ''The Mind Robber'', she's very capable of taking care of herself, when facing off and winning a fight against her favorite fictional character, The Karkas. And the smile on her face when she got Karkus to submit? Priceless.
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** Though she did seem a little hurt when Leo called her 'all brain and no heart'.
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* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal: Barbara ran over Daleks ''with a'' '''''lorry'''''. The series' CMOA page put it best: "The first two seasons could have been renamed The Why Barbara Is Awesome Show, and no one would have noticed."
** BadassNormal: Barbara ran over Daleks ''with a'' '''''lorry'''''. The series' CMOA page put it best: "The first two seasons could have been renamed The Why Barbara Is Awesome Show, and no one would have noticed."
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* {{Badass}}
**BadassNormal: Barbara ran over Daleks ''with a'' '''''lorry'''''. The series' CMOA [[Awesome/DoctorWho Moment of Awesome]] page put it best: "The first two seasons could have been renamed The Why Barbara Is Awesome Show, and no one would have noticed."
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* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard: In old age.
** BadassMustache: Ironically, a fake one in almost all of his appearances outside "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]". This allowed the actor to turn TheBrigadier into the "Brigade Leader" in the MirrorUniverse tale "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]". There, the character sported an [[GoodScarsEvilScars Evil Scar]]-and-[[EyepatchOfPower Eyepatch]] combo. Quite jarring.)
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** ColonelBadass: Before his promotion to TheBrigadier.
** BadassBeard: In old age.
** BadassMustache: Ironically, a fake one in almost all of his appearances outside "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]". This allowed the actor to turn TheBrigadier into the "Brigade Leader" in the MirrorUniverse tale "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]". There, the character sported an [[GoodScarsEvilScars Evil Scar]]-and-[[EyepatchOfPower Eyepatch]] combo. Quite jarring.)
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* {{Badass}}
**BadassBeard: In old age.
** * BadassMustache: Ironically, a fake one in almost all of his appearances outside "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]". This allowed the actor to turn TheBrigadier into the "Brigade Leader" in the MirrorUniverse tale "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]". There, the character sported an [[GoodScarsEvilScars Evil Scar]]-and-[[EyepatchOfPower Eyepatch]] combo. Quite jarring.)
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** ColonelBadass: Before his promotion to TheBrigadier.* BadassNormal
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** ColonelBadass: Before his promotion to TheBrigadier.
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* LongBusTrip: Appeared as a companion to the Sixth Doctor's BigFinish adventures 25 years since his last appearance in the series; 41 years since his last appearance as a Companion proper. This must be some kind of record.[[hottip:*:Well, Frazer winds up playing a ''fictional'' version of Jamie back in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber}} the Land of Fiction]]... but that's fine, he's got all the same memories of Jamie. Awesome.]]]]
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* LongBusTrip: Appeared as a companion to the Sixth Doctor's BigFinish adventures 25 years since his last appearance in the series; 41 years since his last appearance as a Companion proper. This must be some kind of record.[[hottip:*:Well, Frazer winds up playing a ''fictional'' version of Jamie back in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber}} the Land of Fiction]]...Fiction ... but that's fine, he's got all the same memories of Jamie. Awesome.]]]]]]
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* LongBusTrip: Appeared as a companion to the Sixth Doctor's BigFinish adventures 25 years since his last appearance in the series; 41 years since his last appearance as a Companion proper. This must be some kind of record.[[hottip:*:Well, Frazer winds up playing a ''fictional'' version of Jamie back in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber}} the Land of Fiction]]... but that's fine, he's got all the same memories of Jamie. Awesome.]]
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* LongBusTrip: Appeared as a companion to the Sixth Doctor's BigFinish adventures 25 years since his last appearance in the series; 41 years since his last appearance as a Companion proper. This must be some kind of record.[[hottip:*:Well, Frazer winds up playing a ''fictional'' version of Jamie back in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber}} the Land of Fiction]]... but that's fine, he's got all the same memories of Jamie. Awesome.]]]]]]
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Guessing this means \"The End of Time\", but I think that\'s a little out of context. It\'s presumably referring to all the timey-wimey-ness of fighting a Time War. It\'s made clear several times that whatever the Doctor did at the end, he wiped them out permanently (and from the Time Lords\' perspective in TEOT, it hasn\'t quite happened).
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** BusCrash: The Doctor stated he was the LastOfHisKind as early as "The End of the World". In the later episodes "The Empty Child", "Fear Her" and "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor reminisces about having had children once, and confirms that he considers every last Time Lord dead. In "End Of The World", we finally learn that the Time Lords [[spoiler: are trapped in a time bubble forever, and that those near the centre of the bubble are forced to die for all eternity.]] The Doctor explicitly calls it "Hell". In series 6, [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter they get better]].]]
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** BusCrash: The Doctor stated he was the LastOfHisKind as early as "The End of the World". In the later episodes "The Empty Child", "Fear Her" and "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor reminisces about having had children once, and confirms that he considers every last Time Lord dead. In "End Of The World", we finally learn that the Time Lords [[spoiler: are trapped in a time bubble forever, and that those near the centre of the bubble are forced to die for all eternity.]] The Doctor explicitly calls it "Hell". In series 6, [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter they get better]].]]
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** BusCrash: The Doctor stated he was the LastOfHisKind as early as "The End of the World". In the later episodes "The Empty Child", "Fear Her" and "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor reminisces about having had children ones, and confirms that he considers every last Time Lord dead. In "End Of The World", we finally learn that the Time Lords [[spoiler: are trapped in a time bubble forever, and that those near the centre of the bubble are forced to die for all eternity.]] The Doctor explicitly calls it "Hell".
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** BusCrash: The Doctor stated he was the LastOfHisKind as early as "The End of the World". In the later episodes "The Empty Child", "Fear Her" and "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor reminisces about having had children ones, once, and confirms that he considers every last Time Lord dead. In "End Of The World", we finally learn that the Time Lords [[spoiler: are trapped in a time bubble forever, and that those near the centre of the bubble are forced to die for all eternity.]] The Doctor explicitly calls it "Hell". In series 6, [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter they get better]].]]
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** BusCrash: The Doctor stated he was the LastOfHisKind as early as "The End of the World", however her fate is even more strongly implied when noting how he "knows the feeling" of once being a father and grandfather, and becoming neither to Dr. Constantine in "The Empty Child".
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** BusCrash: The Doctor stated he was the LastOfHisKind as early as "The End of the World", however her fate is even more strongly implied when noting how he "knows World". In the feeling" of once being a father and grandfather, and becoming neither to Dr. Constantine in later episodes "The Empty Child".Child", "Fear Her" and "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor reminisces about having had children ones, and confirms that he considers every last Time Lord dead. In "End Of The World", we finally learn that the Time Lords [[spoiler: are trapped in a time bubble forever, and that those near the centre of the bubble are forced to die for all eternity.]] The Doctor explicitly calls it "Hell".
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* RealWomenDontWearDresses: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]" (and the novelisation of "The Mind Robber"), she thinks dresses are impractical and doesn't wear them by choice. In "The Invasion", Isobel introduces her to miniskirts, which she seems to like better.
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* LoveFreak: In the audio play ''[[BigFinishDoctorWho The Juggernauts]]'' she tries to redeem ''Davros''. Of course, she doesn't exactly have the long history with him the Doctor has, but ''still''...
**BewareTheNiceOnes:[[spoiler: However, once it turns out Davros is a lying sack of crap and reverts to form, Melanie decides to leave him at the so-called mercy of his own creations: the Juggernauts. Whom are basically anti-Dalek Daleks made from human remains.]] Just don't piss her off, really.
**BewareTheNiceOnes:[[spoiler: However, once it turns out Davros is a lying sack of crap and reverts to form, Melanie decides to leave him at the so-called mercy of his own creations: the Juggernauts. Whom are basically anti-Dalek Daleks made from human remains.]] Just don't piss her off, really.
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* RedHeadedHeroRedHeadedHero: [[ExecutiveMeddling John Nathan-Turner]] insisted that the naturally blond Mark Strickson dye his hair ginger so as not to be confused with Peter Davison in long shots.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: In her [[BigFinishDoctorWho Companion Chronicle]] ''The Darkening Eye.'' With Tegan. Naturally, [[IGotBetter She Got Better.]]
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A Time Lord Lord, or more properly a Time Lady, like the Doctor, and therefore has multiple regenerations. (Two were seen onscreen, dubbed Romana I and Romana II by fans; the ExpandedUniverse added a third.) Sent to assist the Doctor in [[GottaCatchEmAll the search for]] the [[CosmicKeystone Key To Time]], she was initially what one would call "book-smart": extremely well-educated (her academic record trounced the Doctor's), but quite young and with little practical experience.
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!!Susan "Foreman" (First Doctor)
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->''Oh, grandfather!''
-->Played by: Carole Ann Ford (1963-64, 1983, 1993)
The Doctor's granddaughter. When the series began, she attended Coal Hill School in London as a student for a few months in 1963, posing as a human.
* TheBusCameBack: While Susan has certainly been on a LongBusTrip, she did return for one adventure in 1983. There is also an audio adventure featuring her and the Eighth Doctor together, but that's of debatable canon.
* HumanAliens: From the same race as the Doctor. Never seen regenerating, though.
* ItRunsInTheFamily
* LongBusTrip: Returns briefly in the 20th anniversary special ''The Five Doctors'' and the [[BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish audio]] ''An Earthly Child''.
* PutOnABus: Done at the end of the serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]" where the Doctor leaves her behind so she can marry a nice young resistance fighter and have [[HomeSweetHome some stability in her life]]. She would have stayed with her grandfather out of a sense of obligation if he hadn't.
** BusCrash: The Doctor stated he was the LastOfHisKind as early as "The End of the World", however her fate is even more strongly implied when noting how he "knows the feeling" of once being a father and grandfather, and becoming neither to Dr. Constantine in "The Empty Child".
* ScreamingWoman: The original screamer. That was why the actress left the show after only one season - she got tired of this role.
* ShipperOnDeck: The BigFinish Companion Chronicle "Here There Be Monsters" opens with her talking about how she thinks that Ian and Barbara truly belong together.
* ThickerThanWater: She feels strongly about her duty to her grandfather.
!!Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton (First Doctor)
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->'''Ian''': We'd better keep an eye on [the Doctor]. He seems to have a knack of getting himself into trouble.
-->Played by: Jacqueline Hill and William Russell (1963-65)
Two teachers at Susan's school (history and science, respectively); together with Susan, the first three companions.
* TheAgeless: Sarah Jane, after doing research to find other old companions of the Doctor, comments that Ian & Barbara, now married and professors at Cambridge, are rumored not to have aged since the 1960s.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal: Barbara ran over Daleks ''with a'' '''''lorry'''''. The series' CMOA page put it best: "The first two seasons could have been renamed The Why Barbara Is Awesome Show, and no one would have noticed."
** As for Ian, he had his moments of awesome as well, which include beating the crap out of some soldiers and outsmarting Daleks left and right.
** BadassTeacher: Both of them, [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale with Barbara being the bigger Bad Ass of the two.]]
* BrainyBrunette: Barbara.
* TheLancer: Ian. Oddly, the original intention of the show was to make him the hero with the Doctor being in this role.
* HotLibrarian: Barbara.
* HotScientist: Ian.
* MistakenForGods: Barbara, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs The Aztecs]]".
* OfficialCouple
!!Vicki (First Doctor)
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->''Oh, something else I forgot to tell you. I think I've poisoned Nero.''
-->Played by: Maureen O'Brien (1965)
Survivor of a spaceship crash on the planet Dido (so she did go down with the ship...), she was a teenage girl who then traveled with the Doctor. She decided to stay in ancient Troy and married Trolius, becoming Cressida (yep, the one from GreekMythology).
* HandsOffMyFluffy
* IChooseToStay
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: One of the rare companions with literal {{Squee}} moments, notably when she realizes that she's about to meet Nero.
* NoNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed on screen. The ExpandedUniverse has established her full name is Vicki Pallister.
* PluckyGirl: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" she ''stows away aboard a Dalek time machine'' and when confronted by armed Saxon villagers, tells them to hurry up and make up their minds whether she and Steven are spies or not.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Susan.
* TeenGenius: She can talk to the Doctor at close to his own level about time travel theory.
!!Steven Taylor (First Doctor)
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->''This is quite a ship you've got here, Doc.''
-->Played by: Peter Purves (1965-66)
A marooned pilot from Earth's future, he eventually leaves the TARDIS to mediate between two opposing factions of humans (or HumanAliens).
* CompanionCube: His stuffed panda, Hi-Fi. The only thing that kept him sane-ish while stuck on the planet Mechanus for two years.
* TheLancer
* WhatTheHellHero: He berates the Doctor and storms out of the TARDIS after they flee the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and leave a young Protestant girl behind.
* YouAreInCommandNow: How he leaves the show. Two factions choose him as their new ruler during their peace negotiations.
* YouLookFamiliar: Purves plays a different character in an earlier episode of ''the same story'' in which Steven is introduced.
!!Katarina (First Doctor)
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->'''First Doctor''': She wanted to save our lives, and perhaps the lives of all other beings of the solar system. I hope she found perfection.
-->Played by: Adrienne Hill (1965)
Came from ancient Troy and thought the Doctor was a god. Her character was considered too limiting and she only appeared in two stories.
* HeroicSacrifice: First companion to leave the show by dying.
** ShooOutTheNewGuy: And she died in only her second adventure and fifth episode (in part 4 of a 12 part epic no less).
* MistakenForGods: Inverted.
* OnlyOneName
* ThrownOutTheAirlock
!!Sara Kingdom (First Doctor)
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-->Played by: Jean Marsh (1965)
Outside of the ExpandedUniverse, she appared 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 mold (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.
* 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.
* 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 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 BigFinish audio dramas featuring her are set after her death. Somehow.
* HeroicSacrifice
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Dressed as a badass with a zap gun, but doesn't really do much of anything after her introductory episode.
* PuttingOnTheReich: She belongs to the '''SSS'', too.
* YouLookFamiliar: Jean Marsh had already played a different character, and returned in 1989 to play a third.
!!Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet (First Doctor)
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->'''Steven''': If it isn't allowed, Dodo would be first in the queue!
-->Played by: Jackie Lane (1966)
Rather a forgotten companion, she waltzed off in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and left a note saying she was staying on her native Earth.
* BreakTheCutie: The ExpandedUniverse thrives on this trope ''anyway'', but Dodo comes in for more than her share. She comes away from her travels with a venereal disease and a nervous breakdown. [[ItGotWorse And that's just the start of it...]]
* OopNorth: Famously invoked ([[FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester accent]]) and then [[TheQueensEnglish revoked]] after [[ExecutiveMeddling BBC fiat]].
* PluckyGirl
* PutOnABus: Didn't even get a leaving scene.
* TotallyRadical: A 1960s variant of this trope. There's probably a good reason she was forgotten.
!!Ben Jackson and Polly (First and Second Doctors)
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->'''Ben''': The Doctor always wore this. If you are him it should fit... That settles it!
->'''Second Doctor''': I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings.
->'''Polly''': Then you ''did'' change.
-->Played by: Michael Craze and Anneke Wills (1966-1967)
From 1966. The pair - he was a sailor, she was a secretary - helped the Doctor through his first regeneration. They joined and left the TARDIS crew at the same time as each other.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Ben comes to Polly's assistance when another man at the nightclub won't leave her alone.
* GoodLookingPrivates: Ben in his Able Seaman's uniform.
* InHarmsWay: When he first appears, Ben's moping every night in the nightclub because he's been given a shore posting.
* NoNameGiven: Polly's surname is never mentioned on screen. It's [[WordOfGod probably]] "Wright". (In "The Faceless Ones", an alien duplicate of her gave her name as "Michelle Leuppi", but given that she was using a different forename there's no reason to suppose she kept Polly's original surname).
* OnlyOneName: Polly's last name was never revealed on screen, but the scripts indicated it to be Wright, which has been adopted by the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. A few reference books in the 1980s gave her last name as Lopez, a mishearing of "Leuppi" as mentioned above.
* StayInTheKitchen: Polly gets told to "Go make some coffee" a lot when she asks how she can help. Worse, when they leave the TARDIS crew Ben gets told to find his ship and become an admiral, while Polly should take care of Ben.
* TotallyRadical: Intended by the production team to show the new face of ''Doctor Who'' in the swinging mid-sixties.
!!Jamie [=McCrimmon=] (Second Doctor)
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->''Me? Foreign? ''You're'' the one that's foreign - I'm ''Scottish''.''
-->Played by: Frazer Hines (1966-69, 1983, 1985); Hamish Wilson (1968)
The longest running male companion. Or the longest running of all if you count by episode instead of by years active. A piper of the Clan [=McLaren=], who came from 18th century Scotland.
* AscendedExtra: His character wasn't intended to be a companion.
* {{Badass}}: One of the few action oriented companions, and quite keen to get stuck into the action.
* BattleCry: "Creag an Tuire!" ("The Boar's Rock", the motto of the [=McLaren=] Clan).
* BraveScot
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: To an extent; he was a quick learner.
* HeroicSacrifice: One of Jamie's ultimate fates in an ExpandedUniverse tale penned by GrantMorrison. Many fans were ''not'' happy... but most seem to agree that it was a pretty damned badass way to go.[[hottip:*:In fact, it was the most beloved story from Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine that year. Go figure.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He appears in all but the first of Troughton's serials, and this pairing is remembered as one of the best ever.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Had all but his first adventure mind-wiped by the Time Lords.
* LongBusTrip: Appeared as a companion to the Sixth Doctor's BigFinish adventures 25 years since his last appearance in the series; 41 years since his last appearance as a Companion proper. This must be some kind of record.[[hottip:*:Well, Frazer winds up playing a ''fictional'' version of Jamie back in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber}} the Land of Fiction]]... but that's fine, he's got all the same memories of Jamie. Awesome.]]
* ManInAKilt: He's Scottish, what'd you expect?
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Mostly with the Doctor, but sometimes with the female companions as well.
* TheNthDoctor: "The Mind Robber" replaced Frazer Hines, for an episode or two, for Hamish Wilson, who looked nothing like him. The story explained this by having him run afoul of a trap in the Land of Fiction that required the Doctor to try to reconstruct his face from a bunch of options (facial features hung on a blackboard), kind of like a Mr. Potato Head. He got it wrong the first time, and fixed it the second time - bringing back Frazer Hines.
!!Victoria Waterfield (Second Doctor)
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->'''Second Doctor:''' You look very nice in that dress, Victoria.
->'''Victoria:''' Thank you. Don't you think it's a bit...
->'''Second Doctor:''' A bit short? Oh, I shouldn't worry about that. Look at Jamie's.
-->Played by: Deborah Watling (1967-68, 1993)
A well-brought-up young lady from 1866. Taken in by the Second Doctor after the Daleks blew up her home and exterminated her father.
* BreakTheCutie: In her first couple of stories she's plucky, adventurous, and a dead shot with a pistol. By her last, she's been reduced to a nervous wreck who can't sleep for fear of the MonsterOfTheWeek. [[http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/deborah-watling-1988/ According to Deborah Watling]], this gradual shift in character was deliberate.
* DamselInDistress
* TheDulcineaEffect: In her first story, she has this effect on Jamie.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater
* IChooseToStay
* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Daughter]]: She "looks just like" her late mother, and there's a portrait to prove it.
* LettingHerHairDown: She's a proper Victorian woman at the beginning with all the baggage that entails. She loosens up quickly around the other two. She doesn't even seem to have any religious hang-ups, unusually for her time and background - in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]", she even wears a mini-skirt.
* ProperLady
* [[PunnyName Punny First Name]]: Even if it wasn't intentional.
* ScreamingWoman: And how! Her screams are even used to resolve the plot of one serial.
!!Brigadier Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Doctors)
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->''Just once, I'd like to face an alien menace that wasn't {{immune to bullets}}.''
-->Played by: Nicholas Courtney (1968-75, 1983, 1989, 1993)[[hottip:*:and more ExpandedUniverse and {{Whoniverse}} guest appearances than you can shake a stick at]]
Some people consider him a companion, others don't. All acknowledge his significance as a character. The head of UNIT in the 70s ''([[ContinuitySnarl or was it the 80s?]])'', the Brig worked alongside the Doctor and many of his companions in that era and beyond - often defending the Earth from various threats. Retired from UNIT in 1976, though still met up with the Doctor and Sarah Jane (in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') on occasion.
* AgentScully: Has a tendency to keep this up even when up to his eyeballs in aliens. First time in the TARDIS, he dismissed the inside view as "some kind of optical illusion".
* AntiHero: Type IV. Normally he's clearly on the good team but he dives headlong into this in ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'' where he orders the total genocide of a hibernating race, and showed no hesitation about gunning down an unarmed prisoner in Battlefield.
* AscendedExtra: Appeared as simply Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]". Brought back the next season and given a bonus promotion.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard: In old age.
** BadassMustache: Ironically, a fake one in almost all of his appearances outside "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]". This allowed the actor to turn TheBrigadier into the "Brigade Leader" in the MirrorUniverse tale "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]". There, the character sported an [[GoodScarsEvilScars Evil Scar]]-and-[[EyepatchOfPower Eyepatch]] combo. Quite jarring.)
** BadassNormal
** ColonelBadass: Before his promotion to TheBrigadier.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite his constant politeness, stiff upper lip and occasional goofy moments he's probably the most ruthless regular character in televised Who canon.
* TheBrigadier: TropeNamer!
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: He is stated to have passed away offscreen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]", Nick Courtney having died a couple of months before Series 6 began.
* CoolOldGuy: After he retired.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheEeyore: He can snark and be irritated by the Doctor and whatever catastrophe he now has to deal with, but it's clear that beneath it all, he's secretly having the time of his life.
* EyepatchOfPower: His scary alternate-universe self in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]".
* FiveRoundsRapid: Also the TropeNamer.
* GoodLookingPrivates
* {{Pornstache}}: Interestingly, his fascist MirrorUniverse counterpart is clean-shaven.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', he gives modern day UNIT one after a Bane disguised as a UNIT major has the cheek to insinuate that his era had it ''easier''.
--> '''Brigadier''': In my day, we took on Daleks, Cybermen, Autons, Zygons, and all manner of space thuggery! And it doesn't come more hostile than ''that!''
* RetiredBadass: In SJA, just because he retired doesn't mean he won't remind you of just ''why'' he is the Brig.
* RunningGag: In both ''Doctor Who'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', the Brig has a disturbing tendency to be "stranded in Peru" when all the important, UNIT-related alien stuff is going on.
* ShootTheDog: Very much so in ''Doctor Who and the Silurians''.
* TheSnarkKnight
* StiffUpperLip: No matter whatever weird menace the Universe throws against him, the Brig takes it completely in stride.
* YouLookFamiliar: Nicholas Courtney played Bret Vyon in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" before he got the role of the Brigadier, making him the ''only'' actor to act alongside all seven (eight if you count the audio drama "Minuet in Hell") of the original Doctors at some point in his career.
!!Zoe Heriot (Second Doctor)
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-> ''My head has been pumped full of facts and figures which I reel out automatically when needed, but I want to feel things as well.''
-->Played by: Wendy Padbury (1968-69, 1983)
A teenaged astrophysicist from the 21st century ([[{{Zeerust}} as seen from 1968]]). Stowed away on board the TARDIS.
* BrainyBrunette
* EmotionlessGirl: In her first serial.
* FutureSpandex: Her uniform in "The Wheel in Space", and her [[MemeticOutfit sparkly catsuit]] in "The Mind Robber" and "The Invasion".
* GeniusDitz: She doesn't know much history.
* GoodWithNumbers
* HairDecorations: She always wears an Alice band.
* HotScientist
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Same as with Jamie, thanks to those Time Lords. Temporarily removed for the odd BigFinish adventure; usually returns.
** [[spoiler: YankTheDogsChain: In just about any ExpandedUniverse work where this is undone, she's amnesiac again (and stands a good chance of being worse off in other respects) by the end.]]
* LittleStowaway
* LongBusTrip: Much like Jamie above, Zoe is returning to the franchise for a BigFinish story ''27'' years after her last appearance in the franchise and about ''41'' years after the actual character left the TARDIS. Like Jamie, this has to be some sort of a record. [[hottip:*:Unlike Jamie, though, this was the ''real'' Zoe. But [[LaserGuidedAmnesia she doesn't remain.]]]]
* MsFanservice: Her [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkly catsuit]] is particularly fondly remembered, especially that bit in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]".
* PhotographicMemory
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Heriot or Herriot? [[Main/WordOfGod The original script]] used the single-R version.
* StrawVulcan
* TeenGenius
* VagueAge: Depending what source you consult, she's anything from 12 to 21, though WordOfGod tends towards 15 or 16. The only onscreen mention of her age is in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]", where the Brigadier estimates it as 19.
* WaifFu
!!Sergeant John Benton (Second, Third and Fourth Doctors)
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-->Played by: John Levene (1968-75)[[hottip:*:a ''very'' young Darren Plant played the baby incarnation of Benton in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]''.]]
One of two recurring characters during the UNIT years who were subordinate to the Brigadier, Benton was down-to-Earth and often had common sense that others around him seemed to lack. Apparently [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion killed in action]] by an android duplicate, it turns out that he retired from UNIT in 1979 and has since become a used car salesman.
* TheFettered: He even lets the Doctor knock him out in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]] so he doesn't have to break the law to help him.
* GoodLookingPrivates
* NumberTwo: The Brigadier often confers to Benton when he needs something done, even though Mike Yates outranks him.
* OnlyOneName: John Benton was only "Sergeant Benton" until the 1987 spin-off video ''Wartime'', though his first name was decided upon back in the 1970s. The name was simply not used until then, but has subsequently appeared in the ExpandedUniverse as his name.
* RankUp: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath Happens]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot twice]].
* SergeantRock: Eventually became UNIT's Regimental Sergeant Major, and often served as the Brig's senior enlisted man in the field.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Yates.
!!Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw (Third Doctor)
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->'''Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart''': Nonsense. What you need, Doctor, as Miss Shaw herself so often remarked, is someone to pass you your test tubes, and to tell you how brilliant you are.
-->Played by: Caroline John (1970, 1983, 1993)
The Third Doctor's first assistant when he was exiled to Earth. Scientific advisor to UNIT, before the Doctor showed up and casually took her job. Eventually got her own debatably canon direct-to-video spinoff, ''P.R.O.B.E.'', in 1994.
* AgentScully: Initially.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedhead: She could even out-stubborn the Third Doctor.
* HotScientist
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: She holds degrees in medicine, physics, and "a dozen other subjects".
* PutOnABus: Left for Cambridge offscreen in ''Terror of the Autons'', apparently dissatisified with her job of "passing the Doctor test tubes". Returned to UNIT and was stuck in the moonbase as of the ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' story ''Death of the Doctor''. Barry Letts apparently didn't like the character, but she was already under contract, which he didn't renew.
!!Jo Grant[[spoiler:-Jones]] (Third Doctor)
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->'''Third Doctor:''' I thought you said you took science at [[BritishEducationSystem A-Level]].
->'''Jo:''' I didn't say I passed.
-->Played by: Katy Manning (1971-1973)
Assistant to the Third Doctor during his exile on Earth. Ostensibly a scientist, but it's later revealed that a high-placed uncle got her the job.
* BadassDamsel: By virtue of swinging between DistressedDamsel and ActionGirl.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Incredibly charming, equally disarming.
* BunnyEarsLawyer
* [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack]]
* CombatStilettos: Combat Platforms, really; she spends most of her serials tackling mountains, quarries, and open fields in three-to-four-inch platform boots.
* CoolOldLady: In ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]" most prominently.
* CuteClumsyGirl
--> "I've really got off to a terrific start haven't I? I find the man everybody's looking for, I forget where he is, and I end up by trying to blow you all sky-high."
* TheDitz
* EscapeArtist: She's a trained escapologist, and can often wriggle her way out of trouble. Thus, while she was hardly immune to being captured, this rarely did the bad guy any good.
* FauxActionGirl: Was originally meant to be an [[Series/TheAvengers Emma Peel]]-{{expy}} -- traces of this can be seen in her karate-chopping Sgt Benton in "Terror of the Autons", brandishing a gun in "The Mind of Evil" and her talents as an EscapeArtist. Eventually though it became easier for the writers to portray Jo as TheDitz and DamselInDistress. In fairness Jo was a rookie -- she'd been ''trained'' as a secret agent, but had no experience.
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Even Rani points it out! (In ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
* HairOfGold: She sports the classic 70's "lion-cut" shaggy hairdo.
* [[spoiler:HappilyMarried:]][[spoiler: She stayed with Dr. Jones and had seven kids with him. They went on to have thirteen grandchildren.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: A platonic version. Her friendship with the Third Doctor makes him a [[TookALevelInKindness more open and softer]] person, and he's noticeably hurt when she leaves him.
* MsFanservice: Arguably one of the Doctor's hottest companions - her wardrobe of mini-skirts, majorette boots and occasional panty-shots help out....''a lot''. That and the time Manning posed naked with a Dalek.....
* NiceGirl
* ObfuscatingStupidity
* PluckyGirl: Not many people can politely tell the Master that they aren't going to let themselves be hypnotized again.
* ThePowerOfLove: Gigantic invincible intergalactic demon about to wipe out mankind? No problem.
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler: It's what she's been doing since she got married. She travels everywhere and stages protests with her huge family]].
* TheWatson
* WideEyedIdealist
* WillTheyOrWontThey: She enjoys a mild flirtation with Mike Yates and in "The Curse of Peladon", she's all ready to go out on a date with him, until the Doctor whisks her away.
!!Captain Mike Yates (Third and Fourth Doctors)
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-->Played by: Richard Franklin (1971-74, 1983)
A recurring character during the UNIT years, Mike Yates was one of several subordinates to the Brigadier over the years. He left UNIT in shame, however, after being brainwashed and forced to assist with the destruction of the modern era with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs dinosaurs]] of all things. Yates returned once more for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders the final Third Doctor tale]], but it is currently unknown if he rejoined UNIT after or simply faded into obscurity.
* AbortedArc: Franklin currently believes that the original intention of the serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" was to kill off Mike Yates. This is indeed quite possible, though his appearance in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders a subsequent story]] might suggest otherwise.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Whether or not he's straight, gay, or bi depends both on how you interpret his behavior and on [[AllThereInTheManual which spinoff material you think is canon]].
* {{Brainwashed}}
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Flirted on and off with Jo Grant for his time on the show, and looks utterly crestfallen when she announces her marriage...according to an interview with Richard Franklin, the stage directions actually called for this.
* GoodLookingPrivates
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Benton.
* WellIntentionedExtremist[=/=]HeelRealization: [[spoiler:In ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'']]
!!Sarah Jane [[hottip:*:Frequently called Sarah in the classic series, but insists on "Sarah Jane" by ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' series 2]] Smith (Third, Fourth and Tenth Doctors [[hottip:*:After a guest appearance in series 2, she briefly returns as a companion for the series 4 finale. Also technically a companion of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'']])
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->'''Sarah Jane:''' So, providing we don't burn up on re-entry and aren't suffocated on the way down, we'll probably be smashed to a pulp when we land.
->'''Fourth Doctor:''' Exactly. Sarah, you've put your finger on the one tiny flaw in our plan.
->'''Sarah Jane:''' ''Our'' plan? It's your plan!
-->Played by: ElisabethSladen (1973-76, 1983, 1993, 2006, 2008, 2010)[[hottip:*:Plus two spin-off shows, and more ExpandedUniverse appearances than we can list sensibly...]]
A journalist from South Croydon, who met the Doctor while posing as her virologist aunt Lavinia. Perhaps the most archetypal companion (many older fans grew up with her as their companion), and the longest-serving if you count by number of serials. So popular that she got ''two'' spinoffs: the didn't-go-anywhere ''Series/{{K-9 and Company}}'' (1981), and the much more successful ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' (2007-2011).
* {{Brainwashed}}: Holds the companion record for most times hypnotized. It seemed like she was hypnotized in ''every'' episode. Lampshaded in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]" and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''.
* BrickJoke: One that took around 30 years to land. When we last saw her in TomBaker's day, he'd dropped her off in a place he assured her was Croydon. We find out in DavidTennant's time that it was actually Aberdeen, Scotland.
* TheBusCameBack
* CoolOldLady: After "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]".
* GoingForTheBigScoop: She typically runs into danger in order to get the story, especially early on.
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave
* HotScoop: Sarah Jane features highly in the sexy companion polls on a regular basis.
* IntrepidReporter
* LadyOfAdventure
* OlderAndWiser: She's become increasingly Doctor-like.
* PluckyGirl
* RummageSaleReject: The Andy Pandy outfit from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]".
* StrawFeminist: In her early appearances; this got toned down later.
* TheWatson
!!Harry Sullivan (Fourth Doctor)
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->'''Fourth Doctor''': ''Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!!!''
-->Played by: Ian Marter (1974-75)
A brief companion of the Fourth Doctor, the character was brought in just in case the Doctor cast was an elderly Doctor rather than… well… TomBaker. As such, Harry was fairly redundant in some ways, but the bumbling naval officer is still fondly remembered for his chemistry with Tom Baker and Lis Sladen, making up one of the most memorable TARDIS teams.
* BadassNormal
* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Implied in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''.
* DistressedDude
* InformedAbility: He's a doctor[[hottip:*:No, a literal one of medicine]], but always seems out of his element. Then again…
* TheMedic: He certainly does a fair bit of harm for someone who's medically trained, though.
* MildlyMilitary: He's a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant, but he rarely ever acts like it.
* TheNicknamer: Continually referred to Sarah Jane as "Old Thing" and had similar nicknames for other characters.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: "I say!"
* StrawMisogynist: Can be pretty sexist and condescending towards Sarah Jane. Although this was deliberate by the production team in order to contrast with Sarah Jane's StrawFeminist traits.
* YouLookFamiliar: Ian Marter had a minor part in the Third Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival of Monsters]]" before being cast as Harry.
!!Leela of the Sevateem (Fourth Doctor)
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->''Don't worry, Doctor. I found the answer: knife them in the neck!''
-->Played by: Louise Jameson (1977-78, 1993)
A human NobleSavage, descendant of an ill-fated colonization expedition. Primarily remembered for her FanService leotard and trying to kill anything that looked hostile - however, though she was (initially) quite ignorant, she was ''not'' stupid and made up for her inferior intellect with her own insights and SimplemindedWisdom.
* AntiHero: Type III. Unlike [[TechnicalPacifist the Doctor]], Leela [[CombatPragmatist doesn't have any qualms]] about hurting or killing others.
* {{Badass}}: With one of her most notable moments beign when she killed a Sontaran by stabbing its probic vent with a throwing knife.
** ActionGirl
** BadassNormal
* TheBusCameBack: Though Leela gets name-dropped by the Doctor in a couple episodes (and in an "I wonder how Leela's doing" context), she doesn't return for real until [[BigFinishDoctorWho the audio plays]], notably ''Zagreus'' where she teams up with Time Lady President Romana and later go on to star in [[{{Gallifrey}} their own spin-off]].
* DetectEvil
* FurBikini: More precisely, a leather leotard and knee-high boots. Actress Louise Jameson once showed off a letter she received from a young girl viewer asking if Leela would "please wear more clothes". In a scene filmed for the Series 5 DVD release, Amy Pond comes close to uttering the trope name when she asks if Leela (seen in a photograph) is wearing a "leather bikini".
* IChooseToStay: She remains on Gallifrey and marries a Time Lord named Andred after the events of "The Invasion of Time."
* NobleSavage
* NubileSavage
* OnlyOneName
* ParentService: Conceived as such.
* PsychoSidekick: She kills or inflicts potentially-lethal violence on quite a number of mooks, and the Doctor's protests often seem only token.
* PygmalionPlot: The original idea ([[NoHuggingNoKissing without the "falling in love with her" bit]]).
* ScreamingWoman: Subverted. ''Hard.'' She screams exactly once, and that was when a [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant mutant rat]] started chewing on her leg. This does not count war cries.
* WeaponOfChoice: Her knife.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her fate in the Time War is unknown.
!!K-9 (Fourth Doctor)
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->''I am not a dog. I dislike the terms "heel", "sit", and "boy".''
-->Voiced by: John Leeson (1977-79, 1980-81, 1983, 1993, 2006, 2008); David Brierley (1979-80)
The first robot-buddy of the franchise, hailing from the 51st century. Shared a [[Series/{{K-9AndCompany}} spinoff]] with Sarah Jane Smith and is a recurring character on ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', being a regular for series 3. Also got his own Australian-made [[{{Spinoff}} spinoff]], ''{{K9}}''.
* TheCatCameBack: The first K-9 (Mark I) was left with Leela on Gallifrey, the second K-9 (Mark II) was left with Romana II, a third and fourth K-9 (Mark III and IV) were given to Sarah Jane Smith...
* BadassAutomaton; With a dash of BadassAdorable.
* CatchPhrase: "Affirmative." "Negative." "Master/Mistress?"
* DoAnythingRobot: Laser beam, hacking computers, defensive protocols, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers beating the Doctor]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E4TheAndroidsOfTara at Chess]], being a DeusExMachina...
* [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms Family Friendly Firearm]]: K-9's ever-convenient laser beam has a kill option, but is always set on [[StunGuns stun]].
* TheNthDoctor: Largely subverted in that each K-9 unit is essentially the exact same thing as the previous model (except the version in the ''K-9'' spinoff, which looks drastically different).
* TheOtherDarrin: Leeson wound up replaced by Brierly in Season 17 for one reason or another, but came back for the other appearances.
* PunnyName: Get it? K-9? [[DontExplainTheJoke Because it looks like a dog!]] K-9! As in '''CA-NINE'''.
* RobotDog [[RobotBuddy Buddy]]
* ThinkNothingOfIt
* {{Zeerust}}: Lampshaded in "School Reunion".
-->'''Rose:''' It looks so...[[DeaderThanDisco disco]].
-->'''Tenth Doctor:''' ''Oi! In the year 5000 this was cutting-edge!''
!!Romana (1978-81, 1983, 1993) (Fourth Doctor)
->'''Fourth Doctor:''' Well, here we are. We've tracked him to his lair.
->'''Romana I:''' Yes, we've got him exactly where he wants us.
A Time Lord, like the Doctor, and therefore has multiple regenerations. (Two were seen onscreen, dubbed Romana I and Romana II by fans; the ExpandedUniverse added a third.) Sent to assist the Doctor in [[GottaCatchEmAll the search for]] the [[CosmicKeystone Key To Time]], she was initially what one would call "book-smart": extremely well-educated (her academic record trounced the Doctor's), but quite young and with little practical experience.
!!!Tropes common to both incarnations
* DeadpanSnarker
* DistaffCounterpart: To the Doctor.
* TheFashionista
* HotScientist
* OnlyOneName
* OverlyLongName: "Romana" is actually short for "Romanadvoratrelundar".
!!!Romana I
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->'''Romana I:''' You have absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever!
->'''The Doctor:''' What?
->'''Romana I:''' You're capricious, arrogant, self-opinionated, irrational, and you don't even know where we're going!
->'''The Doctor:''' ''Exactly!''
-->Played by: Mary Tamm (1978-79)
A tall, leggy, dark-haired woman; the initial concept of her was a "GraceKelly" sort of character. Could be called "the skirt Romana", preferring these.
* ActionGirl: occurs unexpectedly in "The Pirate Planet" when she gets into a laser gun fight and wins.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She relaxes ''a lot'' over the course of her tenure.
* LoveRedeems: The whole thing with the Shadow.
* PimpedOutCape: Made of [[FluffyFashionFeathers white feathers]]
* PutOnABus: Without actually getting rid of the character. Since she's the same race as the Doctor, she could regenerate and stay on as a character. However, the regeneration comes with basically no explanation and is a lot like a standard PutOnABus.
* RichBitch
* TallDarkAndBishoujo
!!!Romana II
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->'''The Doctor:''' Psst, you are wonderful.
->'''Romana II:''' Suppose I am. I've never really thought about it.
-->Played by: Lalla Ward (1979-81, 1983, 1993)
Shorter, with strawberry blonde hair. Preference for trousers rather than skirts.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: At times.
* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: Wears a very StTrinian's style uniform in the "City of Death" serial. Lalla Ward, judging by interviews and the production notes, came up with the idea and had no concept it was a fetish.
* ExpandedUniverse: several novels and audio dramas have attempted to explain why Romana regenerated into the Lalla Ward version. These range from the short story "The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe" suggesting the TARDIS forced her to in a fit of jealousy (after impersonating Romana during the events of Destiny of the Daleks), to other ideas.
* GenderedOutfit: Wore a pink version of The Doctor's outfit.
* IChooseToStay: After three serials of trying to get out of E-Space, she decides to stay at the end of "Warriors' Gate" to help a race of [[KingOfBeasts enslaved time-traveling lion people.]]
* LadyOfAdventure: More keen on adventuring than her first incarnation.
* NeverFoundTheBody
* RomanceOnTheSet: With TomBaker.
* SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness: She gets a 1.833333.
* WholesomeCrossDresser: Although she just likes men's clothes rather than actually being a transvestite. Described in one DVD extra as the only woman who could pull off wearing a fruit salad on her head.
* YouLookFamiliar: The actress was a guest star as Princess Astra of Atrios in the story immediately preceding her debut. This was referenced in-story as Romana choosing that form to regenerate into.
!!Adric (Fourth and Fifth Doctors)
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->''Could anyone pass the sodium chloride, please?''
-->Played by: Matthew Waterhouse (1980-82)
A snotty teenage maths geek from E-Space, annoying in the way that snotty teenage geek-boys usually are, but a well-meaning kid all the same. He is most notable for being the longest serving companion to be killed off.
* AntiHero: Type II
* TheArtfulDodger: It's even part of his character concept.
* BerserkButton: Adric ''puts a girl in a stranglehold'' for trying to take his math badge. ''In his first scene.''
* {{BFG}}: Used for a ''very'' weakly executed but surprisingly effective one-man BigDamnHeroes moment near the end of "Warriors' Gate."
* BizarreAlienBiology: In addition to his HealingFactor, the [[BigFinishDoctorWho Companion Chronicles]] reveal that Alzarians' hearts are on the ''right'' side of their chest cavity.
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Older Brother]]: Varsh. He keeps his belt as a memento.
* DyingAlone: On a crashing spaceship, thinking he just failed to save the world.
* FakeDefector: And '''HOW.''' Considering he does this ''three times'' over the course of his time in the TARDIS ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay State of Decay]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]," and "[[Recap/DoctorWhos19E3Kinda Kinda]]"), it's not surprising that a lot of fans accuse him of "always siding with the villain."
* FamousLastWords: "Now I'll never know if I was right..."
* AGodAmI: In BigFinish's ''The Boy That Time Forgot.'' Courtesy of [[GoodWithNumbers applied mathematics]], [[TimeyWimeyBall timey-wimey stuff]], and alien technology that helps Adric ''bend an alternate reality to his will.''
* GoodWithNumbers
* GuileHero
* HeroicSacrifice: Or it would have been, had it actually achieved anything.
** SenselessSacrifice
** The ExpandedUniverse audio adventures by BigFinish ''did'' wind up giving him one, though.
* HealingFactor: You'd think it'd be a massively useful trait for a companion to have, given the scrapes they get into, but Adric's HealingFactor is only mentioned twice - in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle Full Circle]]" (his introductory story) and again in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation The Visitation]]".
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Towards [[AffablyEvil Monarch]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E2FourToDoomsday Four to Doomsday]]." [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Turning the entire population of Earth into androids to rid them of disease]] sound like a ''good'' idea to you?
* HumanAliens: Adric's species has three forms, only one of which is humanoid.
* IconicItem: His mathematical excellence badge. Seeing it shattered on the floor of the TARDIS at the end of "Earthshock" makes the SilentCredits all the more powerful.
* InformedAbility: For a supposed genius, Adric doesn't come off as being particularly intelligent.
* InsufferableGenius: Most fans place the emphasis firmly on 'insufferable'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: To an extent. The "jerk" part doesn't really emerge until season 19, but ultimately he still cares.
* LittleStowaway: how he got on the TARDIS in the first place.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: In ''The Boy That Time Forgot,'' he tells Nyssa that he had the entire City of Excellence built so that he could bring her back to him and make her his bride.
* MrViceGuy: Driven by a desire for approval and acceptance.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Ability-wise, Adric is a surprisingly well-equipped companion, demonstrating proficiency in lock-picking, sleight-of-hand, and knife-throwing, amongst [[GoodWithNumbers other]] [[HealingFactor things]]. The catch? Most of them only get used in one story, two if it's really lucky.
* TheOtherDarrin: Adric was played by Andrew Sachs in ''The Boy That Time Forgot'' because Matthew Waterhouse didn't want to work for BigFinish.
** This will apparently be the case for any subsequent appearances of Adric as Waterhouse has stated that him returning to the role would be "ridiculous" by this point, even for audios, seeing as he was 18 when he played him and is pushing 50 now.
* PromotedFanboy: Matthew Waterhouse had a letter published in ''Doctor Who Magazine'' mere weeks before he was cast as Adric.
* RealitySubtext: Adric's older brother Varsh dies in "Full Circle," just two years after Matthew Waterhouse's own older brother Nicholas had commited suicide.
* TeenGenius
* TookALevelInBadass: His TARDIS-induced cameo in the comic ''The Forgotten'': Saves the Doctor from one of the clockwork robots from "The Girl in the Fireplace." [[HeroicSacrifice By throwing himself at it and blowing it up.]] ''With a can of'' ''[[IconicItem Ace's Nitro-9.]]'' And he goes out ''smiling.''
!!Nyssa of Traken (Fourth and Fifth Doctors)
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->''Do you have any books on telebiogenesis?''
-->Played by: Sarah Sutton (1981-83)
Daughter of Tremas, who got his body possessed by the Master at the end of Fourth Doctor serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken The Keeper of Traken]]''. Famous for the skirt removal bit in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]'', which the actor herself has described as "[[{{Fanservice}} a gift to the fans]]". One of the more accomplished TARDIS pilots among the companions; she was even able to fly it solo (with assists from Tegan in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]'' and Adric in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation The Visitation]]'').
* EightiesHair
* AngstWhatAngst: The implications of her tragic backstory are barely mentioned in the show, but the ExpandedUniverse would make use of all her emotional baggage. [[invoked]]
* AscendedExtra: Was never intended to be a companion, until producer John Nathan-Turner decided otherwise.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity Arc of Infinity]]". She ''pulls a gun'' on the ''Time Lord President,'' amongst many others. Sarah Sutton notes in the DVD commentary how unusually trigger-happy Nyssa was in this story.
* BrainyBrunette
* TheBusCameBack: She rejoins Five, Tegan, and Turlough for a few audio adventures 50 years later (for her) and immediately after the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E5Enlightenment Enlightenment]]" (for them).
* WomenAreWiser
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: In her [[BigFinishDoctorWho Companion Chronicle]] ''The Darkening Eye.'' With Tegan. Naturally, [[IGotBetter She Got Better.]]
* ExpandedUniverse: In the BigFinish audio series, teenaged Nyssa travels for a long time with the Doctor (presumably between the TV stories "Time-Flight" and "Arc of Infinity", during which interval Tegan as been kicked to the curb). Later, she rejoins the Doctor at a period after "Terminus", but [[spoiler: while it has been only a few weeks or months for the Doctor and his companions, it has been decades for Nyssa. This plot twist allows actress Sarah Sutton to play the character closer to her real age.]]
* GiantPoofySleeves
* HotScientist
* HumanAliens
* IChooseToStay: She leaves the TARDIS crew to stay on [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]] and try to restructure it into a proper hospital.
* InnocentAliens
* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: The rest of Traken died in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]".
* NiceGirl
* OddFriendship: With Tegan, who is almost her polar opposite.
* PluckyGirl
* PrettyInMink: One of her outfits had a fur-trimmed jacket
* TheQuietOne: In comparison to Adric and Tegan.
* TeenGenius
!!Tegan Jovanka (Fourth and Fifth Doctors)
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->'''Fifth Doctor:''' How do you feel now?
->'''Tegan:''' Groggy, sore, and bad-tempered.
->'''Fifth Doctor:''' Almost your old self, then!
-->Played by: Janet Fielding (1981-84)
A brash UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}n, inadvertently kidnapped from 1981 just as she was about to start a new job as a flight attendant. Created to help sell the show to Australia. Once described herself as "just a mouth on legs". One of a very few companions seen to pilot the TARDIS, albeit not very well. Longest-serving companion if you count by consecutive years active.
* EightiesHair: The short, Sheena Easton variety.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Tegan's supposed fondness for using "Rabbits!" as a swear word. She actually only uses it twice.
* TheCatCameBack: The Doctor eventually got her back to where she wanted to be (Heathrow, about to start her new job), but several months too late. She returns in the next season, having lost her job before she even arrived and managed to find the TARDIS again (by accident).
* DemonicPossession: Guess who becomes the Mara's host ''both'' times it shows up?
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "How do we find the index file? Of course, if we had an index file, we could look it up in the index file under 'index file'! What am I saying?!"
* LineOfSightName: How the character was named. Nathan-Turner was either going to choose Tegan, for an Australian friend's niece, or Jovanka, after the wife of Yugoslavian president JosipBrozTito. Script-editor Christopher H. Bidmead read Tegan as the first name and Jovanka as the last name. The rest, as they say, is history.
* OddFriendship: With Nyssa.
* PluckyGirl
* SexyStewardess
* {{Tsundere}}: ''Heavily'' Type A, the ''deredere'' being nearly vestigial.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Type 2 with Adric. They seem to care as much as they bicker, especially when one of them gets captured (or killed).
!!Vislor Turlough (Fifth Doctor)
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->''What is it about Earth people that makes them think a futile gesture is a noble one?''
-->Played by: Mark Strickson (1983-84)
An alien noble exiled to Earth after a revolution on his planet, Turlough is posing as an English schoolboy when the Doctor meets him. While the Doctor and Turlough have had their differences, Turlough eventually grew to consider the Doctor his closest friend. Just don't expect him to admit it.
* AntiHero: Type IV
* AwesomeMcCoolname
* ChivalrousPervert: He even gets some in various ExpandedUniverse tales. Lord knows it'd never happen on camera.
* DeadpanSnarker: Particularly towards Tegan, who's [[{{Tsundere}} just as capable]] of snarking right back.
* DealWithTheDevil
* DistressedDude: Done often because the writers couldn't figure out what to do with Turlough.
* {{Fanservice}}: He sure took a lot of clothes off in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E5PlanetOfFire Planet of Fire]]"...
* HeelFaceTurn: He starts out plotting to kill the Doctor for the Black Guardian, but eventually becomes the Doctor's loyal friend.
* ThickerThanWater
* TokenEvilTeammate: Even after he becomes a trusted companion and friend of the Doctor, he's just as liable to abandon or betray the Doctor as he is to rescue him and his companions. Turlough's morality remains slightly dubious, even up to his last episode, but he always seems to redeem himself in the end.
* HumanAliens
* LastNameBasis
* LongLostSibling
* MarkOfShame
* TheMole: Initially.
* MysteriousPast: And we learn what it is in his ''final episode''.
* RedHeadedHero
* ShirtlessScene: Actually, more like a male WetSariScene - with speedos.
* TheSoCalledCoward
!!Kamelion (Fifth Doctor)
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->''Unexpected as it may be, I do have a mind of my own.''
-->Voiced by: Gerald Flood (1983-84)[[hottip:*:Over 6 episodes.]]
A shape-changing robot that the Master acquired as a sort of souvenir from the planet [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7Time-Flight}} Xeriphas]], this character quite literally vanished into the TARDIS rather than becoming a Companion, and is almost always forgotten. This, in itself, is not necessarily a bad thing. Showed up in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E6TheKingsDemons The King's Demons]]" as a ''villain'' and puppet of the Master, got cut from an appearance in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E2TheAwakening The Awakening]]" and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim made a final appearance]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E5PlanetOfFire Planet of Fire]]".
* DroppedABridgeOnHim
* ExpandedUniverse: Actually fleshed-out in several novels.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Never mentioned again, whatsoever.[[hottip:*: Paul Cornell did bring back Kamelion for the Big Finish "Circular Time" audio drama, in a short episode that delves into the Fifth Doctor's rather unusual Regeneration scene.]]
** WeHardlyKnewYe
* MercyKill: The less said about this one, the better.
* PunnyName
* RobotBuddy: Literally.
* ShapeShifting
* ShooOutTheNewGuy: Technically he was a companion for nearly a full year. In practice, he only showed up in 2 stories, the one where he joined and the one where the writers DroppedABridgeOnHim.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Was conceived as a successor to K-9, just not looking like a dog.
* WeakWilled: [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Very easily manipulated]] by the willpower of others.
!!Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown (Fifth and Sixth Doctors)
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->'''The Master:''' I am the Master!
->'''Peri:''' So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout just as loud as you can!
-->Played by: Nicola Bryant: (1984-86)
The series' only regular American companion ([[FakeAmerican supposedly]]), Peri was a botany student who stumbled into the TARDIS while she was on holiday. Has developed a lot of attention from male fans due to her tendency to wear [[FormFittingWardrobe tight clothes]].
* EightiesHair
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Peri has an unfortunate knack for attracting lustful weirdos, such as Sharaz Jek and the Borad.
* AbusiveParents: She has a nightmare about her step-father in her first appearance: fans were left to draw their own (generally unpleasant) conclusions.
** In at least one bit of the ExpandedUniverse, it's canon that she was molested as a child. BreakTheCutie indeed.
* AbsoluteCleavage: Just ask PeterDavison. Some of her wardrobe is actually modest though.
* BreakTheCutie: The ExpandedUniverse seems to delight in doing this to poor Peri. One tale winds up killing off her entire family. And not just that, but it was an utter afterthought in a story's epilogue where Peri had ''already'' lost some people who were like family to her.
** Another "perfect" example deals with the alternate possibilities coming from her final appearances. [[spoiler: Resurrected from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp her death on Thoros Beta]] by the Time Lords and accidentally copied from her ending with King Yrcanos. Now, Peri was returned to her life on Earth with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia only the memories of her first trip with the Doctor]]. ''This'' Peri wound up marrying her high school sweetheart... and is abused repeatedly by her 'perfect husband.' Unable to have children, Peri slowly gets used to the idea of having a messed-up life... only to have it dragged out by a run-in with her old self. It's a real mood-switcher. For those who care, there are four others out there - including the Peri who wound up with King Yrcanos]]. Not only does the EU like screwing with Peri, but BigFinish likes messing with continuity.
* TheDitz: Season 22, mostly. Luckily, she improved drastically in her last season, not to mention her [[BigFinishDoctorWho audio adventures]].
* FormFittingWardrobe
* KnowYourVines: Peri is a botanist, but [[InformedAbility rarely gets the opportunity to show it.]]
* MaleGaze: Her introduction.
* MsFanservice: Her aforementioned tight wardrobe. Which was a bit unfair on poor Ms. Bryant, as both she and Colin have pointed out in more than one commentary that England can be ''[[CaptainObvious really cold]].''
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A lot. Really hard. To the point that some American viewers have had to Google her to figure out where she was meant to be from.
** The accent was also problematic because the production team had Nicola Bryant present herself as being an American just like Peri.
* ParentService: Another blatant example like Leela before her.
* PluckyGirl
* [[ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow Shouldn't Peri Be Back In School Right Now?]]: Depending on what her fate really is. See the alternate possibilities above.
* {{Tsundere}}: A Type B with the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Sixth Doctor]]. Also an example of VitriolicBestBuds (Type 2).
!!Melanie "Mel" Bush (Sixth and Seventh Doctors)
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->'''''AAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!'''''
-->Played by: Bonnie Langford (1986-87)
A computer programmer from Brighton, Mel was well known both for having a particularly piercing scream and being obsessive about her health (and the Doctor's, for that matter).
* EightiesHair
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her obsession with the Doctor's health. Possibly justified as he did end up changing physically, just [[TheNthDoctor not in a way]] she expected.
* FieryRedhead: Without the typical fighting capability.
* GiantPoofySleeves
* IChooseToStay: With Sabalom Glitz, for some reason.
* InformedAbility: Mel supposedly had a PhotographicMemory, but this never came up.
* LoveFreak: In the audio play ''[[BigFinishDoctorWho The Juggernauts]]'' she tries to redeem ''Davros''. Of course, she doesn't exactly have the long history with him the Doctor has, but ''still''...
* MakeMeWannaShout: Possible real-world example; it has been mentioned that she was hired because she had a scream "that could tear the paint off walls". It's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8928yni-Cl0 not far from the truth]].
* NiceGirl
* NoIndoorVoice
* NoNameGiven: Mel's last name is never mentioned on screen. It was established as Bush in studio documents and a book written by the series' producer at the time, and made "official" in [[DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse the Expanded Universe]].
* ScreamingWoman: And how! The actress was hired for her scream which could "tear the paint off walls".
!!Dorothy, aka "Ace" (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Seventh Doctor:''' I don't believe you've met my young friend Ace, an expert in calorification[[hottip:*:setting things on fire]], incineration[[hottip:*:setting things on fire]], carbonization[[hottip:*:setting things on fire]], and inflammation[[hottip:*:setting things on fire]].
-->Played by: SophieAldred (1987-89)
A "typical" [[TheEighties late-eighties]] teenager rescued from an ice planet where she was working as a waitress (long story). Notable as one of the relatively few classic series girls who actively attempted to beat up the monsters rather than scream at them. She also liked to deploy her favourite weapon, a homemade explosive she called Nitro-9. Always called the Doctor "Professor", even after he asked her not to. This started out as an example of her anti-authority bent, then turned into an affectionate nickname between them.
* EightiesHair
* AbortedArc: According to WordOfGod, had the show not been placed on hiatus, the Doctor would have enrolled Ace in ''the Time Lord Academy'' so she could undergo training to become a Time Lord. Oh yes.
** Her [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse eventual fate]] is finally alluded to in the Sarah Jane Adventures. When listing what her research has revealed about various companions, Sarah Jane mentions a woman named Dorothy who runs a charity called [[FunWithAcronyms A Charitable Earth]] which has raised billions.
* AntiHero: Type II
* {{BAD ASS}}: She once beat up a Dalek. ''With a baseball bat''. Inspired the CrowningMomentOfAwesome trope.
** ActionGirl
* BrokenBird: The girl had "issues".
* ButchLesbian: [[WordOfGay According to writer Rona Munro, anyway.]] Ace occasionally has chemistry with male guest stars (notably Captain Soren in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]"), but it's much more common with the ladies.
* CatchPhrase: Enjoyed shouting "Ace!" (meaning "cool"). Since this is also her nickname, it almost seems like she is engaging in PokemonSpeak.
** She said "Wicked!" so often that the Doctor himself was inspired to say it once.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The epitome of this trope, to the point where the type of Doctor Ace really needs is a therapist.
* ExpandedUniverse: has established that her full name is Dorothy Gale [=McShane=].
* GirlOfTheWeek: The children's TV 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.
* MadBomber: She's very quick to whip out those homemade explosives of hers. The Doctor is more than aware of this.
--> '''Seventh Doctor:''' "ACE! Hand me some of that Nitro-9 you're not carrying."
* MeaningfulName: Her name's Dorothy, and she ends up in the future by a "time storm". Does this [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz remind you of anything]]?
** Taken further via WordOfGod: her middle name is "Gale".
* TheNicknamer: She's best known for calling the Doctor "Professor", but she invented names for other characters as well. Mel ended up as "Doughnut".
* NoNameGiven: Her surname is not given in any canon source, but audios use Dorothy Gale [=McShane=].
* PsychoSidekick: Subverted, in that a vague description of the dynamic between them would make Ace seem like a Psycho Sidekick, but the Seventh Doctor is much more ruthless than she is, in a less personally violent way.
** Especially in "The Curse of Fenric" where the Doctor cruelly calls her an "emotional cripple". It's in order to [[CruelToBeKind save her life]] by forcing her to lose faith in him so the big bad can't destroy the world. But it's still a pretty nasty thing to do to a character established as carrying a lot of emotional baggage.
* ReallyGetsAround: Not on television, but in the Expanded Universe books, Ace seems to shag someone in every novel.
* StableTimeLoop: She meets her grandmother, causing her own existence.
* SupportingProtagonist: When Andrew Cartmel tried to re-instil some mystery into The Doctor and made him a conniving Chessmaster, Ace ended up getting the most character development of any companion from the classic series.
* {{Tomboy}}
* TotallyRadical: Try and listen to some of the dialogue and the slang she uses without cringing. Go on. We dare you.
* WeaponOfChoice: Explosives!
* WholesomeCrossdresser: In ''Ghost Light''.
!!Dr. Grace Holloway (Eighth Doctor)
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->''Doctor, I only have ''one'' life. Can you try to keep that in mind?''
-->Played by: Daphne Ashbrook (1996)
Only on-screen companion of the Eighth Doctor, Grace also has the dubious distinction of having ''killed'' the Doctor. She's a cardiologist from 1999 with a fondness for opera.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited
-->''"I finally meet the right guy...and he's from another planet!"''
* AtTheOperaTonight: She's attending the opera when she's called to operate on the Doctor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Due to being hit by the Master's poison/acidic saliva.
** BlackEyesOfEvil: When she's possessed by the Master's influence.
** PeoplePuppets
* [[HeroesWantRedheads The Doctor Wants Redheads]]: As far as companions go.
* HospitalHottie
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempt to save the Seventh Doctor was the ''cause'' of his death, forcing him to regenerate into Eight.
* RedHeadedHero
* RefusalOfTheCall - Ultimately, she decides not to go with the Doctor.
