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[[File:Doctor Who - Classic Female Companions.jpg|thumb|600px|Oh, and there were a few male companions, too.]]
=== Susan "Foreman" (First Doctor) ===▼
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This is a list of the Doctor's companions during the "classic" run of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
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* [[Thicker Than Water]]: She feels strongly about her duty to her grandfather.
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{{quote|'''Ian''': We'd better keep an eye on [the Doctor]. He seems to have a knack of getting himself into trouble.}}
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* [[Official Couple]]
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{{quote|''Oh, something else I forgot to tell you. I think I've poisoned Nero.''}}
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* [[Teen Genius]]: She can talk to the Doctor at close to his own level about time travel theory.
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{{quote|''This is quite a ship you've got here, Doc.''}}
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* [[You Look Familiar]]: Purves plays a different character in an earlier episode of ''the same story'' in which Steven is introduced.
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{{quote|'''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.}}
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* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]
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{{quote|Played by: Jean Marsh (1965)}}
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{{quote|'''Steven''': If it isn't allowed, Dodo would be first in the queue!}}
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: The [[Expanded Universe]] 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. [[It Got Worse|And that's just the start of it...]]
* [[Oop North]]: Famously invoked ([[Football Pop Music and Flat Caps|Manchester accent]]) and then [[
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Didn't even get a leaving scene.
* [[Totally Radical]]: A 1960s variant of this trope. There's probably a good reason she was forgotten.
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{{quote|'''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.
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* [[No Name Given]]: Polly's surname is never mentioned on screen. It's [[Word of God|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).
* [[Only One Name]]: Polly's last name was never revealed on screen, but the scripts indicated it to be Wright, which has been adopted by the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]. A few reference books in the 1980s gave her last name as Lopez, a mishearing of "Leuppi" as mentioned above.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Polly gets told to "[[You! Get Me Coffee!|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.
* [[Totally Radical]]: Intended by the production team to show the new face of ''Doctor Who'' in the swinging mid-sixties.
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{{quote|''Me? Foreign? ''You're'' the one that's foreign - I'm ''Scottish''.''}}
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* [[Man in a Kilt]]: He's Scottish, what'd you expect?
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Mostly with the Doctor, but sometimes with the female companions as well.
* [[The Nth Doctor]]: "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
* [[Security Cling]]: All the time, especially with the Doctor.
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{{quote|'''Second Doctor:''' You look very nice in that dress, Victoria.
'''Victoria:''' Thank you. Don't you think it's a bit...
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* [[Screaming Woman]]: And how! Her screams are even used to resolve the plot of one serial.
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{{quote|''Just once, I'd like to face an alien menace that wasn't [[Immune to Bullets]].''}}
Some people consider him a companion, others don't. All acknowledge his significance as a character. The head of UNIT in the 70s ''([[Continuity Snarl|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 ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'') on occasion.
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* [[You Look Familiar]]: Nicholas Courtney played Bret Vyon in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3/E04 The Daleks Master Plan|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.
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{{quote|''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.''}}
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* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Same as with Jamie, thanks to those Time Lords. Temporarily removed for the odd [[Big Finish]] adventure; usually returns.
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* [[Little Stowaway]]
* [[Long Bus Trip]]: Much like Jamie above, Zoe is returning to the franchise for a [[Big Finish]] 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.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Her [[Everything's Better with Sparkles|sparkly catsuit]] is particularly fondly remembered, especially that bit in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6/E02 The Mind Robber|The Mind Robber]]".
* [[Photographic Memory]]
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* [[Waif Fu]]
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{{quote|Played by: John Levene (1968-75)<ref>a ''very'' young Darren Plant played the baby incarnation of Benton in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S9/E05 The Time Monster|The Time Monster]]''.</ref>}}
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Yates.
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{{quote|'''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.}}
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* [[Put on a Bus]]: 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 ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story ''Death of the Doctor''. Barry Letts apparently didn't like the character, but she was already under contract, which he didn't renew.
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{{quote|'''Third Doctor:''' I thought you said you took science at [[British Education System|A-Level]].
'''Jo:''' I didn't say I passed. }}
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* [[The Ditz]]
* [[Escape Artist]]: 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.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Was originally meant to be an [[The Avengers (TV series)|Emma Peel]]-[[Expy]]
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Even Rani points it out! (In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'')
* [[Hair of Gold]]: She sports the classic 70's "lion-cut" shaggy hairdo.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]: Not many people can politely tell the Master that they aren't going to let themselves be hypnotized again.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Gigantic invincible intergalactic demon about to wipe out mankind? No problem.
* [[Walking the Earth]]:
* [[The Watson]]
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: 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.
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{{quote|Played by: Richard Franklin (1971-74, 1983)}}
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]/[[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|In ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''}}
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{{quote|'''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.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: One that took around 30 years to land. When we last saw her in [[Tom Baker]]'s day, he'd dropped her off in a place he assured her was Croydon. We find out in [[David Tennant]]'s time that it was actually Aberdeen, Scotland.
* [[The Bus Came Back]]
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: After "[[Doctor Who/Recap/
* [[Going for the Big Scoop]]: She typically runs into danger in order to get the story, especially early on.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]
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* [[The Watson]]
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{{quote|'''Fourth Doctor''': ''Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!!!''}}
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* [[The Character Died with Him]]: Implied in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
* [[Dude in Distress]]
* [[Informed Ability]]: He's a doctor,<ref>No, a literal one of medicine</ref>
* [[The Medic]]: He certainly does a fair bit of harm for someone who's medically trained, though.
* [[Mildly Military]]: He's a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant, but he rarely ever acts like it.
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* [[You Look Familiar]]: Ian Marter had a minor part in the Third Doctor serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10/E02 Carnival of Monsters|Carnival of Monsters]]" before being cast as Harry.
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{{quote|''Don't worry, Doctor. I found the answer: knife them in the neck!''}}
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Her fate in the Time War is unknown.
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{{quote|''I am not a dog. I dislike the terms "heel", "sit", and "boy".''}}
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* [[Think Nothing of It]]
* [[Zeerust]]: Lampshaded in "School Reunion".
{{quote|'''Rose:''' It looks so...[[Deader Than Disco|disco]].
'''Tenth Doctor:''' ''Oi! In the year 5000 this was cutting-edge!'' }}
{{quote|'''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. }}
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A Time 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 [[Expanded Universe]] added a third.) Sent to assist the Doctor in [[Gotta Catch Em All|the search for]] the [[Cosmic Keystone|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.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[Overly Long Name]]: "Romana" is actually short for "Romanadvoratrelundar".
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{{quote|'''Romana I:''' You have absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever!
'''The Doctor:''' What?
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* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Psst, you are wonderful.
'''Romana II:''' Suppose I am. I've never really thought about it. }}
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* [[You Look Familiar]]: 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.
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{{quote|''Could anyone pass the sodium chloride, please?''}}
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* [[Reality Subtext]]: Adric's older brother Varsh dies in "Full Circle," just two years after Matthew Waterhouse's own older brother Nicholas had commited suicide.
* [[Teen Genius]]
* [[Took a Level
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{{quote|''Do you have any books on telebiogenesis?''}}
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* [[Women Are Wiser]]
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: In her [[Big Finish Doctor Who|Companion Chronicle]] ''The Darkening Eye.'' With Tegan.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: In the [[Big Finish]] 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
* [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]
* [[Hot Scientist]]
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* [[Teen Genius]]
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{{quote|'''Fifth Doctor:''' How do you feel now?
'''Tegan:''' Groggy, sore, and bad-tempered.
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A brash [[Australia (
* [[Eighties Hair]]: The short, Sheena Easton variety.
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 2 with Adric. They seem to care as much as they bicker, especially when one of them gets captured (or killed).
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{{quote|''What is it about Earth people that makes them think a futile gesture is a noble one?''}}
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* [[The So-Called Coward]]
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{{quote|''Unexpected as it may be, I do have a mind of my own.''}}
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* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]
* [[Expanded Universe]]: Actually fleshed-out in several novels.
* [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]]: Never mentioned again, whatsoever.<ref>
** [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]
* [[Mercy Kill]]: The less said about this one, the better.
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* [[Weak-Willed]]: [[Heel Face Revolving Door|Very easily manipulated]] by the willpower of others.
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{{quote|'''The Master:''' I am the Master!
'''Peri:''' So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout just as loud as you can! }}
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Just ask [[Peter Davison]]. Some of her wardrobe is actually modest though.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: The [[Expanded Universe]] 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.
* [[The Ditz]]: Season 22, mostly. Luckily, she improved drastically in her last season, not to mention her [[Big Finish Doctor Who|audio adventures]].
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]
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* [[Tsundere]]: A Type B with the [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Sixth Doctor]]. Also an example of [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] (Type 2).
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{{quote|'''''AAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!'''''}}
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{{quote|'''Seventh Doctor:''' I don't believe you've met my young friend Ace, an expert in calorification,<ref name="fire">setting things on fire</ref>
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** She said "Wicked!" so often that the Doctor himself was inspired to say it once.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: The epitome of this trope, to the point where the type of Doctor Ace really needs is a therapist.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: has established that her full name is [[The Wizard of Oz|Dorothy Gale]] McShane.
* [[Girl of the Week]]: The children's TV [[Word of Gay]] version. Ace appeared in nine stories, and rapidly established a close friendship with an attractive young female character in at least five of them.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Much of the [[Totally Radical]] comes from the writers' attempts to have her insult people or express emotion without swearing.
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* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: In ''Ghost Light''.
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{{quote|''Doctor, I only have ''one'' life. Can you try to keep that in mind?''}}
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* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Ultimately, she decides not to go with the Doctor, and the Doctor refuses to stay on Earth with her.
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