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In the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, the term "companion" refers to a character who travels with, or shares adventures with, the Doctor. In most Doctor Who stories, the primary companion acts as an audience surrogate by providing the lens through which the viewer is introduced to the story, and often, the series itself.

The companion character often furthers the story by asking questions (which helps the audience understand too) and getting into trouble; also by helping, rescuing, or challenging the Doctor. This designation is applied to a character by the show's producers and appears in the BBC's promotional material and off-screen fictional terminology. The Doctor also refers to the show's other leads as their "friends" or "assistants"; the British press have also used the latter term.

History

In the earliest episodes of Doctor Who, the dramatic structure of the programme's cast was rather different from the hero-and-sidekick pattern that emerged later. Initially, the character of the Doctor was unclear, with uncertain motives and abilities. The protagonists were schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, who provided the audience's point of view in stories set in Earth's history and on alien worlds. Ian in particular served the role of the action hero. The fourth character was the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, who (though initially presented as an "unearthly child") was intended as an identification figure for younger viewers.

Carole Ann Ford, who played Susan Foreman, became unhappy with the lack of development for her character and chose to leave in the show's second series. The character of Susan was married off to a freedom fighter and left behind to rebuild a Dalek-ravaged Earth. Doctor Who's producers replaced Susan with another young female character, Vicki. Similarly, when Ian and Barbara left, the "action hero" position was filled by astronaut Steven Taylor. This grouping of the Doctor, a young heroic male, and an attractive young female became the programme's pattern throughout the 1960s, although season 4 featured an additional male companion after the production team chose to retain the character of Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines).

When the programme changed to colour in 1970, its format changed: the Doctor was now Earth-bound and acquired a supporting cast by his affiliation with the paramilitary organisation United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT). The Third Doctor, more active and physical than his predecessors, made the role of the "action hero" male companion redundant. In the 1970 season, the Doctor was assisted by scientist Liz Shaw and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, along with other UNIT personnel (such as Sergeant Benton). The intellectual Shaw was replaced by Jo Grant in the following season, and as the programme returned to occasional adventures in outer space, the format shifted once more: while UNIT continued to provide a regular "home base" for Earth-bound stories, in stories on other planets, the Doctor and Jo became a two-person team with a close, personal bond. This pattern, the Doctor with a single female companion, became a template from which subsequent episodes of Doctor Who rarely diverged.

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 predecessor. The role went to 40-year-old Tom Baker, and the part of Harry, no longer required for the action role, was dropped after one season.

In the Fourth Doctor's final season, he acquired three companions (Adric, Tegan, and Nyssa), and this situation continued under the Fifth Doctor for much of his first season. Adric was written out by the method, unusual within the series, of being "killed off" in the serial Earthshock. By the time of the Sixth Doctor, a single companion had become standard again.

When the series returned in 2005 a single female companion remained the standard format, though intermittent and short-term companions also featured. More consistent exceptions occurred between series 5 and 7, when the Eleventh Doctor travelled with Amy Pond and Rory Williams, and series 10, where the Twelfth Doctor appeared alongside Bill Potts and Nardole. In conjunction with the introduction of the first female Doctor, the Thirteenth Doctor's era features multiple companions (both male and female) throughout.

Definition

Although the term "companion" is designated to specific characters by the show's producers and appears in the BBC's promotional material and off-screen fictional terminology, there is no formal definition that constitutes such a designation. The definition of who is and is not a companion becomes less clear in the newer series. For instance, Stephen Brook in The Guardian newspaper's Organgrinder blog discounted Michelle Ryan as a likely next companion but said that "what constitutes a Doctor Who companion is no longer clear". During the Doctor's latest incarnations, his primary companions, such as Rose Tyler and Martha Jones, have fulfilled a distinct dramatic role, more significant than other, less prominent TARDIS travellers such as Adam, Jack, and Mickey. The British press referred to Martha as the "first ethnic minority companion in the 43-year television history of Doctor Who" despite the presence of Mickey Smith in the previous series—including several episodes in which he travelled in the TARDIS with the Doctor.

The opening credits do little to clarify the situation. In the first two series of the renewed programme, the only supporting actor to receive a title credit is Billie Piper, although short-term companions Bruno Langley (Adam Mitchell), John Barrowman (Jack Harkness) and Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith) all appear. In the third series, Barrowman receives a title credit for his return to the show alongside permanent cast member Freema Agyeman, and in series four Agyeman is restored to the opening titles for her return arc as Martha Jones. Series four also gives Agyeman, Piper, Barrowman, and Elisabeth Sladen title billing for their reappearances in the final two-parter. Clarke also reprises his role in the series four finale; although listed as a companion alongside the other actors on the BBC Doctor Who website, Clarke is not credited in this way. In "The End of Time", John Simm receives title billing for his antagonist role as the Master, ahead of Bernard Cribbins as companion Wilfred Mott. In subsequent years, Claire Skinner, Nick Frost and Mark Gatiss have received title credits in special episodes for roles that are not considered companions, as does Piper for her non-companion return in "The Day of the Doctor".

Companions in the new series also have a more flexible tenure than their classical predecessors. Several companion characters have returned to the series after leaving the Doctor's company, most notably in the Series Four finale "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" (2008), which features a record eight past, present and future companions: Donna is joined by a returning Rose, Martha, Jack, Sarah Jane, and Mickey, while past companion K9 and future companion Wilfred Mott make appearances. This tendency, plus the increase in "one-off" companions like Astrid Peth and Jackson Lake, has further obscured the matter of who is and is not a companion.

Role

The Doctor's companions have assumed a variety of roles—involuntary passengers, assistants (particularly Liz Shaw), friends, and fellow adventurers; and, of course, he regularly gains new companions and loses old ones. Sometimes they return home, and sometimes they find new causes—or loves—on worlds they have visited. A few companions have died during their travels with the Doctor, such as the 12th Doctor's companion Bill Potts. Some have taken trips in the TARDIS by accident like Rose's mother, Jackie Tyler.

Most companions travel in the TARDIS with the Doctor for more than one adventure. Sometimes a guest character takes a role in the story similar to that of a companion, such as photographer Isobel Watkins, who plays a significant role in The Invasion (1968), or Lynda in "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" (2005). In the revived era, some guest characters have gained companion status such as Mickey Smith, River Song, Wilfred Mott, and Craig Owens.

Despite the fact that the majority of the Doctor's companions are young, attractive females, the production team for the 1963–89 series maintained a long-standing taboo against any overt romantic involvement in the TARDIS: for example, Peter Davison, as the Fifth Doctor, was not allowed to put his arm around either Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) or Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka). However, that has not prevented fans from speculating about possible romantic involvements, most notably between the Fourth Doctor and the Time Lady Romana (whose actors, Tom Baker and Lalla Ward, shared a romance and brief marriage). The taboo was controversially broken in the 1996 television movie when the Eighth Doctor was shown kissing companion Grace Holloway. The 2005 series played with this idea by having various characters think that the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler were a couple, which they vehemently denied. Since the series revival, the Doctor has kissed many of his companions, including Rose and Jack, although each instance was not necessarily in a romantic context (see also "The Doctor and romance"). In Series 2 of the revival, the Tenth Doctor and Rose develop a romantic connection. Rose mentions sharing a mortgage with him if he were to ever be trapped with her in "The Satan Pit". At the end of Series 2, in "Doomsday", Rose and the Doctor are forcibly separated. The Doctor "burns up a sun to say goodbye" and Rose tells him "I love you". Donna Noble vehemently denied a sexual interest in the Doctor when he invited her to join him and explained, "I just want a mate," which she misheard as "I just want to mate." Rose and Martha each developed romantic feelings toward the Doctor. On the opposite side of the same coin, Amy reacted to the stress of her adventures by very aggressively trying to seduce the Doctor on the eve of her own wedding, despite being in love with her fiancé Rory; the Doctor forcibly pushed her off of himself, though she did not immediately cease her pursuit. The Eleventh Doctor also formed a romantic connection with occasional companion River Song, later marrying her.

Previous companions have reappeared in the series. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart reunited with later incarnations of the Doctor in Mawdryn Undead and Battlefield. He and Sergeant Benton began as returning characters in the first place, having appeared with the Second Doctor in The Web of Fear and again in The Invasion, prior to starting their full-time association with the Third and Fourth Doctors. Tegan Jovanka was the first full-time companion to part from the Doctor and subsequently return to full-time companionship, although the break in her tenure had been pre-planned.

Most reappearances of companions in the original series, however, were for anniversary specials such as The Five Doctors and Dimensions in Time, both of which also featured multiple Doctors. One former companion, Sarah Jane Smith, together with the robotic dog K-9, appeared in four and two episodes, respectively, of the revived series more than twenty years after their last appearances in the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors (1983). The character of Sarah Jane also headed up a Doctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures, with K-9 until Sladen's death. Another companion, Captain Jack Harkness, is the lead character in the spin-off BBC science fiction programme Torchwood. Not only have these former companions continued to make appearances on Doctor Who, they have sometimes been accompanied by some of their own companions from the spin-offs when doing so, including Jack's colleagues Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, and Sarah Jane's 'family' Mr Smith, Luke Smith and K-9 Mark IV. Other former companions from both the classic era and revived series have also returned as guest stars in the spin-offs, including Martha Jones on Torchwood, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Jo Grant on The Sarah Jane Adventures. K-9 Mark I has also been spun off into its own series, albeit with an independent continuity.

When Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, the companion characters played a slightly different role, partly due to a strong focus on the character of Rose Tyler and characters connected to her. For example, although Adam Mitchell was a companion by the standard definition, he appeared in only two episodes and was arguably a less significant part of the 2005 series than Rose's sometime boyfriend Mickey Smith, who was not technically a companion but appeared in five episodes (or six, including a brief appearance as a child in "Father's Day"). Mickey later gained full-fledged companion status when he travelled in the TARDIS in the 2006 episode "School Reunion". In that episode, Sarah Jane Smith referred to Rose as the Doctor's "assistant", a term to which the latter took offence. This exchange might be regarded as indicating the new series' shift in approach to the companion role. Adam was also far less significant than Rose's mother, Jackie Tyler, who was a frequently recurring character who travelled in the TARDIS, yet is not considered a companion.

As of the end of the sixth series, Sarah Jane Smith is the only classic era companion to have travelled again with the Doctor in the revived series, and one of two to have done so in the revived era. She declined his invitation in "School Reunion", but subsequently met up with the Doctor aboard a Dalek ship in "Journey's End" and travelled with him, several other companions, and Jackie Tyler in the TARDIS as they towed the Earth back to the solar system. Sarah Jane, her predecessor Jo Jones (née Grant), and their own respective companions subsequently momentarily travelled in the TARDIS with the Eleventh Doctor in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial, Death of the Doctor. The Eleventh Doctor attempted to have Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart travel with him again only to learn of the Brigadier's death months earlier.

Families and childhoods

In the classic era, companions' friends and families were rarely depicted, and almost all were kept unaware of the true nature of the Doctor and the TARDIS.

Conversely, families and friends of most companions in the revived era are extensively depicted, and their adventures with the Doctor are generally not kept secret. The revived era has also featured a number of companions related to other companions by blood or marriage (Donna Noble's grandfather Wilfred Mott; Amy Pond's fiancé (later husband) Rory Williams, and the couple's daughter River Song; former companions Mickey Smith and Martha Jones who married subsequent to their companionship; Graham O'Brien and step-grandson Ryan Sinclair). No such relationships occurred among companions in the classic era, although original companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are reported in the revived era to have married subsequent to their companionship, and Ben Jackson and Polly are likewise reported to be together. The families of some classic-era companions too have been depicted in the revived era, such as Jo Grant (now known as Jo Jones)'s grandson Santiago Jones; and Sarah Jane Smith's parents, adopted son Luke Smith, adopted daughter Sky Smith, and alternate timeline fiancé Peter Dalton; and Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart's daughter Kate Stewart.

Another change in the revived era is the depiction of many companions' pre-Doctor lives, particularly their childhoods; no companion was so depicted in the classic era. Companions Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Adelaide Brooke, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song and Clara Oswald have all been portrayed in their youths by juvenile actors on Doctor Who; the pre-companionship lives of the Pond-Williams-Song family being particularly well-documented. Companions Jack Harkness and Sarah Jane Smith have also been depicted in their youths on their respective spin-off series.

Loss of a companion

A recurring theme of the new series is the toll the loss of companions takes on the Doctor. While they would more or less easily deal with their companions' departures in the classic series, the new series shows the Doctor having a harder time recovering when a companion leaves them, especially when they do so under tragic circumstances and if the Doctor develops a strong emotional tie. After losing Donna Noble, the Tenth Doctor refused to travel with a companion until after his regeneration, unable to cope with them leaving anymore, thus resulting in one-off companions (Jackson Lake, Christina de Souza, Adeleide Brooke and Wilfred Mott). Later, the loss of Amy and Rory Williams – his parents-in-law by way of his marriage to River Song – drives the Eleventh Doctor into a deep depression, and he retreats to Victorian London where he refuses to get involved in the world's affairs anymore.

Additionally, "Let's Kill Hitler" spotlights the Doctor's continuing guilt in relation to several past companions. Series 9 (2015) dealt with the Twelfth Doctor's growing fear over the potential of losing Clara Oswald. Her death in "Face the Raven" leads the Doctor to undertake extreme measures to undo her fate, as depicted in the Series 9 finale "Hell Bent". The impact of the death of his wife, River Song, is a subplot of both "The Husbands of River Song" and "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".

List of companions on television

The "last serial" column only includes the last serial in which they appeared in a companion role and excludes minor roles, cameos, flashbacks, and so forth. Also, the table refers solely to adventures with the respective Doctor. Some companions who appear with two or more Doctors appear in separate tables.

First Doctor

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Susan Foreman	Carole Ann Ford	1, 2, 1983 special	An Unearthly Child	The Five Doctors
Barbara Wright	Jacqueline Hill	1, 2	An Unearthly Child	The Chase
Ian Chesterton	William Russell	1, 2	An Unearthly Child	The Chase
Vicki	Maureen O'Brien	2, 3	The Rescue	The Myth Makers
Steven Taylor	Peter Purves	2, 3	The Chase	The Savages
Katarina	Adrienne Hill	3	The Myth Makers	The Daleks' Master Plan
Sara KingdomШаблон:Efn	Jean Marsh	3	The Daleks' Master Plan
Dodo Chaplet	Jackie Lane	3	The Massacre	The War Machines
Polly	Anneke Wills	3, 4	The War Machines	The Tenth Planet
Ben Jackson	Michael Craze	3, 4	The War Machines	The Tenth Planet

Second Doctor

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Polly	Anneke Wills	4	The Power of the Daleks	The Faceless Ones
Ben Jackson	Michael Craze	4	The Power of the Daleks	The Faceless Ones
Jamie McCrimmon	Frazer Hines	4, 5, 6, 22	The Highlanders	The Two Doctors
Victoria Waterfield	Deborah Watling	4, 5	The Evil of the Daleks	Fury from the Deep
Zoe Heriot	Wendy Padbury	5, 6	The Wheel in Space	The War Games
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	Nicholas Courtney	1983 special	The Five Doctors

Third Doctor

Шаблон:Further Шаблон:Further The final three listed characters, all associated with UNIT during the Third Doctor's exile to Earth, are sometimes considered his companions despite appearing irregularly during his tenure.

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Liz Shaw	Caroline John	7	Spearhead from Space	Inferno
Jo Grant	Katy Manning	8, 9, 10	Terror of the Autons	The Green Death
Sarah Jane Smith	Elisabeth Sladen	11, 1983 special	The Time Warrior	The Five Doctors
UNIT
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	Nicholas Courtney	7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Spearhead from Space	Planet of the Spiders
Sergeant John Benton	John Levene	7, 8, 9, 10, 11	The Ambassadors of Death	Planet of the Spiders
Captain Mike Yates	Richard Franklin	8, 9, 10, 11	Terror of the Autons	Planet of the Spiders

Fourth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Sarah Jane Smith	Elisabeth Sladen	12, 13, 14	Robot	The Hand of Fear
Harry Sullivan	Ian Marter	12, 13	Robot	Terror of the Zygons
Leela	Louise Jameson	14, 15	The Face of Evil	The Invasion of Time
K9	John Leeson / David Brierly (voices)	15, 16, 17, 18	The Invisible Enemy	Warriors' Gate
Romana I	Mary Tamm	16	The Ribos Operation	The Armageddon Factor
Romana II	Lalla Ward	17, 18, 1983 special	Destiny of the Daleks	The Five Doctors
Adric	Matthew Waterhouse	18	Full Circle	Logopolis
Nyssa	Sarah Sutton	18	Logopolis
Tegan Jovanka	Janet Fielding	18	Logopolis

Fifth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Adric	Matthew Waterhouse	19	Castrovalva	Earthshock
Nyssa	Sarah Sutton	19, 20	Castrovalva	Terminus
Tegan Jovanka	Janet Fielding	19, 20, 21	Castrovalva	Resurrection of the Daleks
Vislor Turlough	Mark Strickson	20, 21	Mawdryn Undead	Planet of Fire
Kamelion	Gerald Flood (voice)	20, 21	The King's Demons	Planet of Fire
Peri Brown	Nicola Bryant	21	Planet of Fire	The Caves of Androzani

Sixth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Peri Brown	Nicola Bryant	21, 22 23	The Twin Dilemma	Mindwarp
Mel Bush	Bonnie Langford	23	Terror of the Vervoids	The Ultimate Foe

Seventh Doctor

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Mel Bush	Bonnie Langford	24	Time and the Rani	Dragonfire
Ace	Sophie Aldred	24, 25, 26	Dragonfire	Survival

Eighth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Seasons	First serial	Last serial
Grace Holloway	Daphne Ashbrook	–	Doctor Who

Ninth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First episode	Last episode
Rose Tyler	Billie Piper	1	"Rose"	"The Parting of the Ways"
Adam Mitchell	Bruno Langley	1	"Dalek"	"The Long Game"
Captain Jack Harkness	John Barrowman	1	"The Empty Child"	"The Parting of the Ways"

Tenth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First episode	Last episode
Rose Tyler	Billie Piper	2, 4	"The Christmas Invasion"	"Journey's End"
Mickey Smith	Noel Clarke	2, 4	"School Reunion"	"Journey's End"
Donna Noble	Catherine Tate	2006 special, 4	"The Runaway Bride"	"Journey's End"
Martha Jones	Freema Agyeman	3, 4	"Smith and Jones"	"Journey's End"
Captain Jack Harkness	John Barrowman	3, 4	"Utopia"	"Journey's End"
Astrid Peth	Kylie Minogue	2007 special	"Voyage of the Damned"
Sarah Jane Smith	Elisabeth Sladen	2, 4	"The Stolen Earth"	"Journey's End"
Jackson Lake	David Morrissey	2008 special	"The Next Doctor"
Rosita Farisi	Velile Tshabalala	2008 special	"The Next Doctor"
Lady Christina de Souza	Michelle Ryan	2009 Easter special	"Planet of the Dead"
Adelaide Brooke	Lindsay Duncan	2009 Autumn special	"The Waters of Mars"
Wilfred Mott	Bernard Cribbins	2009–10 specials	"The End of Time Part One"	"The End of Time Part Two"

Eleventh Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First episode	Last episode
Amy Pond	Karen Gillan	5, 6, 7	"The Eleventh Hour"	"The Angels Take Manhattan"
Rory Williams	Arthur Darvill	5, 6, 7	"The Vampires of Venice"	"The Angels Take Manhattan"
River Song	Alex Kingston	6	"The Impossible Astronaut"	"The Wedding of River Song"
Craig Owens	James Corden	6	"Closing Time"
Clara Oswald	Jenna Coleman	7, 2013 specials	"The Snowmen"	"The Time of the Doctor"

Twelfth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First episode	Last episode
Clara Oswald	Jenna Coleman	8, 9	"Deep Breath"	"Hell Bent"
River Song	Alex Kingston	2015 special	"The Husbands of River Song"
Nardole	Matt Lucas	2016 special, 10	"The Return of Doctor Mysterio"	"The Doctor Falls"
Bill Potts	Pearl Mackie	10, 2017 special	"The Pilot"	"Twice Upon a Time"

Thirteenth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First episode	Last episode
Graham O'Brien	Bradley Walsh	11, 12, 2021 special	"The Woman Who Fell to Earth"	"Revolution of the Daleks"
Ryan Sinclair	Tosin Cole	11, 12, 2021 special	"The Woman Who Fell to Earth"	"Revolution of the Daleks"
Yasmin Khan	Mandip Gill	11, 12, 13, 2022 specials	"The Woman Who Fell to Earth"	"The Power of the Doctor"
Captain Jack Harkness	John Barrowman	2021 special	"Revolution of the Daleks"
Dan Lewis	John Bishop	13, 2022 specials	"The Halloween Apocalypse"	"The Power of the Doctor"
Ace	Sophie Aldred	2022 specials	"The Power of the Doctor"
Tegan Jovanka	Janet Fielding	2022 specials	"The Power of the Doctor"

Fourteenth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First episode	Last episode
Donna Noble	Catherine Tate	2023 specials	"The Star Beast"	"The Giggle"

Fifteenth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First episode	Last episode
Ruby Sunday	Millie Gibson	14, 15	"The Church on Ruby Road"	Шаблон:N/a
scope="row" Шаблон:N/a	Varada Sethu	15	Шаблон:N/a	Шаблон:N/a

List of companions from other media

The Doctor Who spin-off media have seen the creation of new characters acting as new companions to the Doctor. Most of them have been created to feature as companions for the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctor, in the new products presenting themselves as a prosecution of their adventures beyond the TV series, but there also are new companions for other Doctors. None of them have been featured on television, except for the mention of some Big Finish Productions original characters in the minisode The Night of the Doctor; however, some of them have passed from one media to another.

First Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
John and Gillian	Шаблон:N/A	TV Comic strips	The Klepton Parasites (1964)	The Experimenters (1966)
Oliver Harper	Tom Allen	Big Finish Productions audios	The Perpetual Bond (2011)	The First Wave (2011)

Second Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
John and Gillian	Шаблон:N/A	TV Comic strips	The Extortioners (1966–67)	Invasion of the Quarks (1968)

Third Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Jeremy Fitzoliver	Richard Pearce	BBC Radio dramas	The Paradise of Death (1993)	The Ghosts of N-Space (1996)

Fourth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Sharon Davies	Rhianne Starbuck	Doctor Who Magazine strips	Doctor Who and the Star Beast (1980)	Dreamers of Death (1981)
Fenella Wibbsey	Susan Jameson	BBC audiobooks	The Stuff of Nightmares (2009)	Survivors in Space (2011)
Ann Kelso	Jane Slavin	Big Finish Productions audios	The Sinestran Kill (2019)	The Perfect Prisoners (2019)

Fifth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Gus Goodman	Шаблон:N/A	Doctor Who Magazine strips	Lunar Lagoon (1983)	The Moderator (1984)
Erimem	Caroline Morris	Big Finish Productions audios	The Eye of the Scorpion (2001)	The Bride of Peladon (2008)
Thomas Brewster	John Pickard		The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (2008)	A Perfect World (2008)
Abby	Ciara Janson		The Judgement of Isskar (2009)	The People Made of Smoke (2021)
Hannah Bartholomew	Francesca Hunt		Moonflesh (2014)	Masquerade (2014)
Brooke	Joanna Horton		The Lady in the Lake (2018)	The Furies (2018)
Marc	George Watkins		Tartarus (2019)	Nightmare of the Daleks (2021)

Sixth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Frobisher	Robert Jezek	Doctor Who Magazine strips	The Shape Shifter (1984)	The World Shapers (1987)
Grant Markham	Шаблон:N/A	Virgin Missing Adventures	Time of Your Life (1995)	Killing Ground (1996)
Evelyn Smythe	Maggie Stables	Big Finish Productions audios	The Marian Conspiracy (2000)	Thicker than Water (2005)
Charley Pollard	India Fisher		The Condemned (2007)	Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
Thomas Brewster	John Pickard		The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (2011)	Industrial Evolution (2011)
Flip Jackson	Lisa Greenwood		The Curse of Davros (2012)	Шаблон:N/A
Constance Clarke	Miranda Raison		Criss-Cross (2015)	Шаблон:N/A
Hebe Harrison	Ruth Madeley		The Rotting Deep (2022)	Шаблон:N/A

Seventh Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Frobisher	Robert Jezek	Doctor Who Magazine strips	A Cold Day in Hell! (1987–88)
Olla	Шаблон:N/A		A Cold Day in Hell! (1987–88)	Redemption! (1988)
Bernice Summerfield	Lisa Bowerman	Virgin New Adventures	Love and War (1992)	Happy Endings (1996)
Roz Forrester	Yasmin Bannerman		Original Sin (1995)	So Vile a Sin (1997)
Chris Cwej	Travis Oliver			Lungbarrow (1997)
Hex Schofield	Philip Olivier	Big Finish Productions audios	The Harvest (2004)	Signs and Wonders (2014)
Elizabeth Klein	Tracey Childs		A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010)	Daleks Among Us (2013)
Lysandra Aristedes	Amy Pemberton		Project: Destiny (2010)	Gods and Monsters (2012)
Raine Creevy	Beth Chalmers		Crime of the Century (2011)	UNIT: Dominion (2012)
Sally Morgan	Maggie O'Neill		House of Blue Fire (2011)	Afterlife (2013)
Will Arrowsmith	Christian Edwards		Persuasion (2013)	Daleks Among Us (2013)
Naomi Cross	Eleanor Crooks		London Orbital (2022)	Шаблон:N/A

Eighth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Stacy Townsend	Шаблон:N/A	Radio Times strips	Dreadnought (1996)	Coda (1997)
Ssard	Шаблон:N/A
Izzy Sinclair	Jemima Rooper	Doctor Who Magazine strips	Endgame (1996)	Oblivion (2002–03)
Fey Truscott-Sade	Шаблон:N/A		Tooth and Claw (1997)	Wormwood (1998)
Destrii	Шаблон:N/A		Ophidius (2001)	The Flood (2004–05)
Bernice Summerfield	Lisa Bowerman	Virgin New Adventures	The Dying Days (1997)
Sam Jones	Шаблон:N/A	Eighth Doctor Adventures	The Eight Doctors (1997)	Interference – Book Two (1999)
Fitz Kreiner	Matt Di Angelo		The Taint (1999)	The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005)
Compassion	Jackie Skarvellis		Interference – Book One (1999)	The Ancestor Cell (2000)
Anji Kapoor	Шаблон:N/A		Escape Velocity (2001)	Timeless (2003)
Trix MacMillan	Шаблон:N/A		Time Zero (2002)	The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005)
Charley Pollard	India Fisher	Big Finish Productions audios	Storm Warning (2001)	The Girl Who Never Was (2007)
C'rizz	Conrad Westmaas		The Creed of the Kromon (2004)	Absolution (2007)
Lucie Miller	Sheridan Smith		Blood of the Daleks (2007)	To the Death (2011)
Mary Shelley	Julie Cox		The Company of Friends (2009)	Army of Death (2011)
Tamsin Drew	Niky Wardley		Situation Vacant (2010)	To the Death (2011)
Molly O'Sullivan	Ruth Bradley, Sorcha Cusack		The Great War (2012)	Rule of the Eminence (2014)
Liv Chenka	Nicola Walker		The Traitor (2014)	Шаблон:N/A
Helen Sinclair	Hattie Morahan		The Red Lady (2015)	Шаблон:N/A
Josie Day	Шаблон:N/A	Titan Comics	The Pictures of Josephine Day (2015)	A Matter of Life and Death (2016)
Bliss	Rakhee Thakrar	Big Finish Productions audios	The Starship of Theseus (2017)	Restoration of the Daleks (2020)
Tania Bell	Rebecca Root		Lost Property (2020)	Best Year Ever (2022)
Andy Davidson	Tom Price		Must-See TV (2020)	Best Year Ever (2022)
Alex Campbell	Sonny McGann		Meanwhile, Elsewhere (2023)	Шаблон:N/A

War Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Cinder	Шаблон:N/A	New Series Adventures	Engines of War (2014)
Cardinal Ollistra	Jacqueline Pearce	Big Finish Productions audios	The Innocent (2015)	The Enigma Dimension (2017)
Case	Ajjaz Awad		Consequences (2021)	Шаблон:N/A

Ninth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Tara Mishra	Шаблон:N/A	Titan Comics	Official Secrets (2016)	The Bidding War (2017)
Nova	Camilla Beeput	Big Finish Productions audios	Sphere of Freedom (2021)	Food Fight (2021)

Tenth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Majenta Pryce	Шаблон:N/A	Doctor Who Magazine strips	Thinktwice (2008)	The Crimson Hand (2009–10)
Heather McCrimmon	Шаблон:N/A	Doctor Who Adventures strips	The Chromosome Connection (2009)	Dead-line (2010)
Wolfgang Ryter	Шаблон:N/A		Flight of the Giurgeax (2009)	Bad Wolfie (2009)
Matthew Finnegan	Шаблон:N/A	IDW Publishing comics	Silver Scream (2009)	Final Sacrifice (2010)
Emily Winter	Шаблон:N/A
Gabby Gonzalez	Шаблон:N/A	Titan Comics	Revolutions of Terror (2014)	The Good Companion (2018)
Cindy Wu	Шаблон:N/A		Arena of Fear (2014)
Anubis	Шаблон:N/A		Breakfast at Tyranny's (2017)
Anya Kingdom	Jane Slavin	Big Finish Productions audios	Buying Time (2021)	The Triumph of Davros (2021)
Mark Seven	Joe Sims

Eleventh Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Kevin	Шаблон:N/A	IDW Publishing comics	When Worlds Collide (2011)	Space Squid (2011)
Decky Flamboon	Шаблон:N/A	Doctor Who Adventures strips	Meteorite Meeting (2012)	The Tail of Decky Flamboon (2013)
Alice Obiefune	Шаблон:N/A	Titan Comics	After Life (2014)	Without a Paddle (2018)
John Jones	Шаблон:N/A		What He Wants... (2014)	The Scream (2017)
ARC	Шаблон:N/A		Whodunnit (2014)	The Comfort of the Good (2015)
Abslom Daak	Шаблон:N/A		The Then and the Now (2015)	Physician, Heal Thyself (2016)
The Squire	Шаблон:N/A		The Then and the Now (2015)	Gently Pulls the Strings (2016)
The Sapling	Шаблон:N/A		The Scream (2018)	Hungry Thirsty Roots (2018)
Valarie Lockwood	Safiyya Ingar	Big Finish Productions audios	The Inheritance (2022)	Шаблон:N/A

Twelfth Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Hattie Munroe	Шаблон:N/A	Titan Comics	"The Twist" (2016)	"Beneath the Waves" (2017)
Jess Collins	Шаблон:N/A	Doctor Who Magazine strips	"The Pestilent Heart" (2016)	"Doorway to Hell" (2017)
Maxwell Collins	Шаблон:N/A		"Moving In" (2016)
Jata	Шаблон:N/A	Doctor Who Adventures strips	"From the Horse's Mouth" (2016)	"Killer App" (2017)
Alex Yow	Шаблон:N/A	Big Finish Productions audios	"The Lost Angel"	"The Lost Flame"
Brandon Yow	Шаблон:N/A
Keira Sanstrom	Bhavnisha Parmar		"Flight to Calandra" (2021)	"The Weight of History" (2021)

Fugitive Doctor

Companion	Actor	Series	First story	Last story
Taslo	Шаблон:N/A	Titan Comics	Origins (2022)

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Several companions have died during the series. In The Daleks' Master Plan, Katarina sacrificed herself by opening her airlock to save the others from the mad fugitive Kirksen and was blown into the vacuum of space. In that serial, Sara Kingdom was rapidly aged to dust by a Time Destructor. While Adric tried to divert a spaceship from crashing into Earth, a Cyberman destroyed the controls; they hurtled through time and crashed into the planet, creating the Chicxulub crater and causing the K-Pg extinction event (this fulfilled the Silurians' prophecy and facilitated the evolution of mammals). The android Kamelion, after coming under the Master's control, convinced the Doctor to destroy him, and the Doctor complied. Astrid Peth sacrificed herself to kill Max Capricorn, saving the lives of millions on the interstellar space liner RMS Titanic and in the greater London area. Before River Song's companionship began, she sacrificed herself to save those trapped in the library computer servers' simulations. The Doctor uploaded her "data ghost" to the library servers, from which she can later communicate across time and space with Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, Strax, and Clara Oswald in "The Name of the Doctor". Adelaide Brooke killed herself after the Doctor altered the timeline by rescuing her; this ensured that her descendants would explore the galaxy and the wider universe, as originally destined. Rory Williams is touched by a Weeping Angel in 2012 and sent back in time. With the encouragement of her daughter, River Song (and against the Doctor's pleas), Amy Pond allows herself to be touched by the angel in the hope of being reunited with her husband in the past. She is successful; they grow old together in New York City, die, and are buried in Queens on the spot from which they will be sent back in time in 2012. In fighting the Ice Governess in the final hour of Christmas Eve 1892, a Victorian-era incarnation of Clara Oswald falls off the cloud on which the TARDIS was parked. Another incarnation of Clara Oswald, Oswin Oswald, dies in "Asylum of the Daleks"; Oswin disables the planet's shielding, enabling the Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams to escape.

Not all companion deaths have been permanent. Jack Harkness resurrects after each death after being made immortal by Rose Tyler in "The Parting of the Ways". Rory Williams dies several times, each death negated by alternate timelines, paradoxes, resurrection by advanced alien medicine, or the rebooting of the universe. Clara Oswald dies in "Face the Raven", but in a subsequent episode ("Hell Bent") her time stream is frozen at the moment of death by the Time Lords so they can interrogate her about the Hybrid. The Doctor takes advantage of this to save her life, but she remains technically neither alive nor dead; she does not age or have a pulse. After her departure as a companion of the Twelfth Doctor, she teams with the immortal Ashildr and travels in a stolen TARDIS.

Other companions died in alternate timelines or alternate lives. Brigade leader Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, section leader Liz Shaw, and platoon leader John Benton died in the destruction of their universe's Earth. Sarah Jane Smith, her son Luke, Maria Jackson and Clyde Langer perished while trying to stop the Plasmavore and the Judoon in Royal Hope Hospital on the Moon in the parallel universe of "Turn Left". In that story, Martha Jones suffocated after giving her oxygen to classmate and co-worker Oliver Morgenstern on the Moon. Teenaged Sarah Jane Smith died after falling from a pier in place of her friend, Andrea Yates; Maria Jackson convinces the adult Yates to correct the timeline, restoring Sarah Jane to life. After surviving decades in an alien hospice that is deadly to humans, Amy Pond compels Rory Williams to lock her out of the TARDIS to protect her younger self and allow her to have the life with Rory that she missed. Amy and Rory jumped off of a high-rise in New York on a hunch that doing so would create a paradox and deliver them from that timeline.

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During the show's history, several companions died on adventures with the Doctor:

• Katarina, killed in episode 4 of The Daleks' Master Plan when she opens the airlock of a spaceship after being taken hostage by a convict.
• Sara Kingdom is killed in episode 12 of The Daleks' Master Plan when she undergoes extreme aging as a side effect of the First Doctor's activation of a Time Destructor device.
• Adric dies at the end of Episode 4 of Earthshock while trying to prevent the explosion of a bomb-laden space freighter in Earth's atmosphere.
• Kamelion, an android companion, is destroyed by the Fifth Doctor in Episode 4 of Planet of Fire as an act of mercy after Kamelion is taken over by the Master and asks the Doctor to destroy him.
• K9 Mark III sacrifices himself in "School Reunion" to save the Doctor and his friends from a group of aliens. The subsequent K-9 Mark IV that the Doctor leaves with Sarah Jane tells her that the Mark III's files have been transferred to the new machine.
• Astrid Peth sacrifices herself to kill Max Capricorn by driving him into a reactor core at the end of "Voyage of the Damned". The Tenth Doctor partially resurrects her, and sends her atoms into space.
• Adelaide Brooke kills herself in "The Waters of Mars" to preserve a fixed point in time.
• In "The Angels Take Manhattan", Rory Williams and Amy Pond are displaced in time by a Weeping Angel; Amy allows the angel to send her back so she can be with Rory. A gravestone indicates that they died, Amy at age 87 and Rory at 82.
• Clara Oswald is killed by a Quantum Shade in "Face the Raven". In "Hell Bent", the Doctor uses Time Lord technology to "extract" Clara from the moment before her death but it remains a fixed event to which she must eventually return.
• Bill Potts is killed by a technician on a Mondasian colony ship in "World Enough and Time". Bill is then taken to the bottom deck of the ship by half-converted Cybermen and a life-support implant is placed in her chest. She is later converted to a Cyberman by The Master. In "The Doctor Falls", Bill fights the Cyber-programming and retains herself (and her personality) to cope with the trauma of the conversion process. She helps the Doctor destroy the Cybermen (including herself) and is turned into a sentient oil creature by Heather, with whom she begins traveling the universe. Bill's memories were kept intact by The Testimony Foundation "Twice Upon a Time".

Only Adric, Amy, Rory, Clara, and Bill were long-term companions of the Doctor; the others appeared for the first time and died in the same storyline (Sara, Astrid, Adelaide) or died in their second on-screen appearance in a Doctor Who storyline (Katarina, Kamelion, K-9 Mark III).

Others are implied (or said) to have died years after parting company with the Doctor:

• The Eleventh Doctor learns of the death of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in "The Wedding of River Song" via phone call, coinciding with the death of actor Nicholas Courtney.
• Sarah Jane Smith is confirmed to be dead by 2023 in "The Giggle" by the Fifteenth Doctor when talking to the Fourteenth Doctor about what they had lost, adding that they "loved her".

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• In The Trial of a Time Lord Peri Brown is killed by King Yrcanos in Mindwarp after her brain is replaced by that of Kiv, a member of the Mentor race. In The Ultimate Foe, however, it is revealed that Peri had not been killed and had become Yrcanos's consort.
• Grace Holloway is killed by the Master, but revived by the TARDIS's link to the Eye of Harmony during the 1996 television movie.
• Jack Harkness is killed by Daleks, but is brought back to life and given immortality by Rose Tyler in "The Parting of the Ways". He died a number of times in Doctor Who and Torchwood, always returning to life soon afterwards. In "Last of the Time Lords" it is implied that Harkness becomes the Face of Boe, who dies peacefully in "Gridlock" after living for billions of years.
• River Song sacrifices herself in "Forest of the Dead" to save the Doctor's life, but he uploads a digital copy of her consciousness to the data core. River continues to appear in the series at earlier points in her life, and her post-death consciousness reappears in "The Name of the Doctor".
• Sarah Jane Smith dies as a teenager in an alternate timeline in Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
• Rory is killed by the Silurian Restac at the end of "Cold Blood", sacrificing himself to protect the Doctor. He is consumed by a crack in time, which wipes him from existence. Rory reappears in "The Pandorica Opens" as an Auton duplicate created from Amy Pond's memories, and is restored to his old life with the rest of the universe in "The Big Bang". He is shown dying of old age in "The Angels Take Manhattan", in front of himself, Amy, the Eleventh Doctor and his daughter River Song. He and Amy negate the timeline by jumping off a roof, preventing him from being sent further back in time to die of old age downstairs. This kills them both, but they are resurrected when the timeline where they died is negated.
• An older version of Amy Pond is killed by a handbot in "The Girl Who Waited" when it gives her medicine it does not know will kill her, but her existence is erased when the Doctor and Rory convince her to help them rescue the younger Amy (allowing them to erase the older Amy's timeline).
• Bill Potts is shot and killed by the colony ship's last crew member to halt the advance of the Cybermen in "World Enough and Time" She is converted into an original Mondasian Cyberman and, during "The Doctor Falls", is restored to human form and transformed into a water-like creature by her former love interest Heather. Heather promises to wander the universe with her, and she accepts.

Spin-off media

A number of TV companions have died in spin-off media:

• Liz Shaw dies in the 1997 Virgin New Adventures novel Eternity Weeps by Jim Mortimore, the victim of an extraterrestrial terraforming virus contracted while part of a UNIT team investigating an alien artefact on the Moon. This is contradicted by the Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Death of the Doctor", which indicates that Liz Shaw is alive and working on the Moon in 2010; the novel is set in 2003.
• Ace is killed by an explosion in the comic storyline Ground Zero while a companion of the Seventh Doctor. This is also contradicted by the Sarah Jane Adventures storyline "Death of the Doctor" that indicates she is still alive in 2010, no longer travelling with the Doctor, and running a charity called ACE. Ace then appeared in 2022's "The Power of the Doctor".
• Jamie McCrimmon dies an elderly man in the comic storyline The World Shapers.
• Adam Mitchell is killed by an explosion in the comic storyline Prisoners of Time, sacrificing himself to thwart the Master's attempt to destroy reality and saving all eleven Doctors and their companions.
• Leela dies long after Gallifrey is destroyed (it is implied that she survived the Time War) in a trilogy of Big Finish's Companion Chronicles stories, where she is held prisoner by an alien race called the Z'nai.
• In the 2020 web story "Farewell, Sarah Jane", Sarah Jane Smith is said to have died.

See also

• List of Doctor Who supporting characters
• List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs
• List of Doctor Who cast members

Bibliography

• David J. Howe, Mark Stammers (1995). Doctor Who: Companions. Virgin Publishing. Шаблон:ISBN.

External links

• Guide to classic series companions on the BBC's Doctor Who site