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The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further the story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.)
This pattern, the Doctor with a single female companion, became a template from which subsequent eras of Doctor Who rarely diverged. In 1974, the character of Harry Sullivan was created by the production team when it was expected that the Fourth Doctor would be played by an older actor who would have trouble with the activity expressed by his ...
Whittaker's first series as the Thirteenth Doctor began its broadcast in late 2018. [87] Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill replaced Mackie and Lucas as the companions for the show. [88] The twelfth series saw the reintroduction of the Master, this time played by Sacha Dhawan who recurred across the series. [89]
Martha Jones is a fictional character played by Freema Agyeman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood.The show's first female black companion, she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, after Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) but before Donna Noble (Catherine Tate).
The Doctor will be travelling with two companions come 2025, when the sci-fi series serves up its second season starring recently introduced front man Ncuti Gatwa. Two-and-a-half months after word ...
Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw is a fictional character played by Caroline John in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-offs. A civilian member of UNIT, an international organisation that defends Earth from alien threats, she was the companion of the Third Doctor for the 1970 season.
Incoming Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, beloved for his Bafta-nominated turn as the sunny, quip-tastic Eric Effiong in Netflix’s Sex Education, is the first Black actor to take on the role in the show’s ...
Bryant's tenure on the show was met with raised eyebrows in some quarters as series producer John Nathan-Turner admitted (in his book Doctor Who: The Companions and elsewhere) that his intention was to pump up the sex appeal of the ageing series by casting the young actress who was often seen wearing low-cut outfits in the show. As the Doctor ...