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In the final season for the Fourth Doctor, he acquired three companions Adric , Tegan , and Nyssa , and this situation continued under the Fifth Doctor for a while. Adric was written out by the unusual method within the series of being "killed off". By the time of the Sixth Doctor, a single companion had become standard again. 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. The British press referred to Martha as the "first ethnic minority companion in the year television history of Doctor Who " [5] and the "first black assistant", [6] despite the presence of Mickey Smith in the previous season—including several episodes in which he travelled in the TARDIS with the Doctor. Similarly, some characters who appear to qualify as companions are never awarded the title, as in the case of Canton Delaware, who assisted the Doctor for several weeks, traveled in the TARDIS, and was even invited to witness the Eleventh Doctor's supposed death.
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. In subsequent series, Freema Agyeman , and Catherine Tate are credited in all episodes in which they appear.
In the third series, John Barrowman receives a title credit for his return to the show. Noel Clarke reprised his role in the Series Four finale; although listed as a companion alongside the other actors on the BBC Doctor Who website, [8] Clarke is not credited in this way.
Companions in the new series also have a more flexible tenure than their classical predecessors. 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. 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.
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A few companions have died during their travels with the Doctor. 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 , or Lynda in " Bad Wolf " and " The Parting of the Ways " Despite the fact that the majority of the Doctor's companions are young, attractive females, the production team for the —89 series maintained a long-standing taboo against any overt romantic involvement in the TARDIS: The taboo was controversially [10] broken in the television movie when the Eighth Doctor was shown kissing companion Grace Holloway.
The 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—3 of the revival, David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Rose have significant sexual tension.
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 responds to Rose saying "I love you" with a cut-off sentence that is almost certainly "I love you too". 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.
Previous companions have reappeared in the series.
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 [16] more than twenty years after their last appearances in the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors 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.
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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 , 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 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 ".
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. The Eleventh Doctor attempted to have Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart travel with him again only to learn of the Brigadier's death months earlier. 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.
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Conversely, families and friends of most companions in the revived era are extensively and continually depicted, and their adventures with the Doctor are generally not kept secret. 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, aside from John Benton being temporarily 'de-aged' by The Master.
Companions Jack Harkness [48] and Sarah Jane Smith [49] have also been depicted in their youths on their respective spin-off series. In addition to having been de-aged once in the classic era, John Benton was the first companion whose childhood was chronicled. A recurring theme of the new series is the toll the loss of companions takes on the Doctor. While he would more or less easily deal with his companions' departures in the classic series, the new series shows the Doctor having a harder time recovering when a companion leaves him, especially when they do so under tragic circumstances and if the Doctor develops a strong emotional tie beyond friendship.
After losing Donna Noble, the Tenth Doctor refused to travel with a companion until after his regeneration, unable to cope with them leaving anymore. 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.
An ongoing subplot of Series 9 dealt with the Twelfth Doctor's growing fear over the potential of losing Clara Oswald. The 'last serial' column only includes the last serial in which he or she 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.
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The following three characters, all associated with UNIT during the Third Doctor's exile to Earth, are sometimes considered his companions despite appearing irregularly during his tenure. A few of the companions have died during the course of the series. Katarina sacrificed herself by opening her airlock to save the others from the mad fugitive Kirksen, and was blown into the vacuum of space.
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.
She is successful, and they grow old together in New York City, die, and are buried in Queens on the spot from which they will later be sent back in time in Not all companion deaths have been permanent however. Rory Williams suffered several deaths, each of which was 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 that 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, does not age or have a pulse.
Other companions died in alternate timelines or alternate lives. Teenaged Sarah Jane Smith also 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. Several other companions have died subsequent to their companionships.
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