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Sabalom Glitz (Sixth and Seventh Doctors)

I do hate it when people get lucky. It really offends my sensibilities.

Played by: Tony Selby (1986-87)

A recurring character (not a companion) referred to by Selby as "an intergalactic car salesman", Glitz is essentially a con-man who crossed paths with the Doctor on three occasions. The first two times were deep in the tale of "Trial of a Time Lord", where he attempted to kill the Doctor and teamed with the Master, respectively, though he did have a grudging respect for the Doctor. His third appearance was also the final showing of companion Mel, as she stayed behind with him. For some reason.

  • Anti-Villain: Though the Doctor doesn't punish him (unless you count saddling him with Mel), Glitz does, or at least tries to do some pretty evil things, like sell his crew into undead slavery.
  • Brainwashed: Subverted, in that he's actually immune to the Master's hypnotic charms. It helps that the Master was using a fancy piece of jewlery: Glitz was more concerned with how much the item was worth!
  • Con Man: Glitz and his partner Dibber are another example of Robert Holmes' criminal double-acts, much like Garron and Unstoffe and Vorg and Shirna.
  • Greed: Gaining any sort of profit is his main motivation in life.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Arguably.
  • Selfish Neutral: Has allied himself with good and evil for his own gains, but whatever side he takes, Glitz always looks out for himself.
  • Unwitting Pawn: His first two appearances arguably fall under "performing the whims of the Master or Valeyard", even if he doesn't know about it.

Jacqueline "Jackie" Tyler (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

Rose's mum. When Doctor Who was revived in 2005, the show began to focus a bit on the Companions' families for the first time ever. Jackie still stands out over most family members and got plenty of Character Development. Her daughter was also the first Companion of the new series, and until 2011 the only one who's lasted longer than one season.

Played by: Camille Coduri (2005-2006, 2008, 2010)

Harriet Jones, MP, Flydale North / Prime Minister (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

There's an act of Parliament banning my autobiography.

Played by: Penelope Wilton (2005, 2008)

MP for a small constituency from the 21st century and later Prime Minister during the Sycorax invasion before being deposed by the Tenth Doctor. She later appeared at the end of series 4, along with pretty much everyone else.

Peter "Pete" Tyler (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

Trust me on this.

Played by: Shaun Dingwall (2005-2006)

Rose's dad. The version native to "our" universe died in a car accident in 1987 when Rose was just a baby. Though very clever, he was also an idealistic dreamer whose schemes never amounted to anything much; after his death, Jackie would describe him to Rose as an ideal husband and father.

In the parallel universe seen in "Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel", that universe's version of Pete (dubbed Alt!Pete or Re-Pete) actually made his schemes work and became fabulously rich.

Jenny (Tenth Doctor)

Played by Georgia Moffet (2008)

Appeared for one episode (so far) as the Doctor's daughter (more accurately, Opposite Gender Clone) and the Doctor thinks she's dead.

Dorium Maldovar (Eleventh Doctor)

No, not me! Not me! You don't need me! Why would you need me? I'm old, I'm fat, I'm blue! You can't need me!

Played by: Simon Fisher-Becker (2010-11)

Owner and operator of the Maldovarium, a commercial/black market outpost in the 52nd century, Dorium made a brief cameo in "The Pandorica Opens" before being recruited by the Doctor to fight in the Battle of Demon's Run in "A Good Man Goes to War" to repay the Doctor's debt. He's back, post-mortem, in "The Wedding of River Song".

  • Chekhov's Gunman: His first episode was a very brief cameo with nothing to indicate we'd ever see him again. In his second episode, he had a major role to play before he was beheaded. Later, it turns out his head still lives.
  • Fat Bastard: Subverted. Cunning, cowardly, corrupt and corpulent he may be, but he's definitely on the Doctor's side.
  • Fiction 500
  • Friend in the Black Market: Gave River her Vortex Manipulator in "The Pandorica Opens". Fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent.
    • He said off the wrist!
  • Genre Blind / Idiot Ball: After he points out that the Headless Monks are chanting their "Attack Prayer", and after Rory points out that Dorium had just sold them out to the Doctor, Dorium wanders over to attempt peace negotiations. It doesn't work.
  • Heel Face Revolving Door: Subverted. He makes it very clear that he only aided the army at Demon's Run because they threatened to kill him. He warned them against taking action because they didn't scare him half as much as the Doctor does.
  • Losing Your Head
  • Lovable Coward: Freely admits this on Demon's Run — and it's this deeply-ingrained sense of self-preservation that lets him know the Doctor's victory was too easy.
  • Oracular Head
  • Secret Keeper: He enthusiastically promises to keep the Doctor's secrets after learning that the Doctor didn't really die by Lake Silencio.
  • Title Drop: Turns the show's occasional Running Gag into Arc Words. "Doctor who?"

Canton Everett Delaware III (Eleventh Doctor)

A Silent: This world is ours. We have ruled it since the wheel and the fire. We have no need of weapons.
Canton: Yeah. [shoots the Silent] Welcome to America.

1969 Canton played by: Mark Sheppard (2011)
2011 Canton played by W. Morgan Sheppard (2011)

A former FBI agent, fired for wanting to get married before being rehired by President Richard Nixon to investigate a mysterious girl who calls Nixon no matter where he goes. Is teamed up with the Doctor for one story.

Madame Vastra and Jenny (Eleventh Doctor)

Vastra played by: Neve McIntosh (2011)
Jenny played by: Catrin Stewart (2011)

Vastra is a Silurian warrior living in Victorian London with her human maidservant and lover Jenny. They were recruited by the Doctor to fight in the Battle of Demon's Run.


The Teselecta (Eleventh Doctor)

Played By: Philip Rham, Karen Gillan, Niall Greig Fulton, Matt Smith (2011)

The Teselecta was a Justice Department Vehicle, staffed by a crew who had been miniaturised by a compression field. It could travel through time, and was used to locate people who were deemed to have committed crimes but had escaped punishment. After finding them near the end of their respective timelines (so as to avoid changing history), the crew would administer their own punishment - usually in the form of some non-lethal painful torture, so that afterwards they could die in the manners recorded by history.

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