Doctor Who is a series featuring the Doctor and his companions in his adventures through time and space in his TARDIS.

~-The Doctor-~
The Doctor is the central character in Doctor Who.  To date, ten actors have officially played the role in the television series (including the 1996 television film), with these changes being explained by his ability to regenerate. Several other actors have played the character on stage and film, in audio dramas, and in occasional special episodes of the series. The character's enduring popularity led the Daily Telegraph to dub him "Britain's favourite alien". The Doctor, in his tenth incarnation, is currently played by David Tennant, who announced in late 2008 that he would leave the role in 2010. Matt Smith is scheduled to assume the role of the Eleventh Doctor in 2010

~-Rose Tyler-~
Rose Tyler is portrayed by Billie Piper and was created by series producer Russell T Davies. With the revival of Doctor Who in 2005, Rose was introduced in the eponymous series one premiere as a new "companion" of series protagonist the Doctor, in his ninth and later tenth incarnations. The companion character, intended to act as an audience surrogate was key in the first series more so than any other to introduce new viewers to Doctor Who, which had not aired regularly since 1989. The series saw Billie Piper receive top billing alongside Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, both of whom portrayed the Doctor. A regular companion of the Doctor for all of series one and series two, Rose also returned in the programme's fourth series having developed much in the interval.

~-Martha Jones-~
Dr Martha Jones is played by Freema Agyeman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. She is a companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, replacing Rose Tyler in the primary companion role. She made her debut in Series 3's "Smith and Jones", broadcast in the UK on 31 March 2007.

~-Donna Noble-~
Donna Noble is played by Catherine Tate. A secretary from Chiswick, London, she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor, appearing in one scene at the end of the final episode of the 2006 series, "Doomsday" (named in the credits only as "The Bride"), and in the second Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride". The character returned as The Doctor's sole full-time companion for the whole of the fourth series in 2008

~-Captain Jack Harkness-~
Captain Jack Harkness is played by John Barrowman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. He first appears in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" and reappears throughout the remaining episodes of the 2005 series as a companion of the ninth incarnation of the series' protagonist the Doctor. Jack goes on to become the central character in Torchwood, an adult-themed spin-off of Doctor Who. He returns in the 2007 series of Doctor Who, reuniting with the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, and returned again for the 2008 series.

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For anyone interested, here are little character introductions to the companions of the Classic era, in order of their arrival on the show. I’ll try not to give away their endings. (By ~JansonKlivian-4-pres)

Susan Foreman: The Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan is in her mid teens and attends a secondary school in London the first time we meet her. She likes music and has a tendency to freak out whenever anything bad happens to the Doctor. Or even when he just wonders off. Or when nothing’s even going on. Let’s just say she’s a little crazy.

Barbara Wright: A history teacher at Susan’s school, Barbara’s curiosity about Susan gets somewhat the better of her and she persuades her colleague Ian to join her in following the girl home one night. Home turns out to be a police box in a junk yard. Barbara is usually cool and collected and takes charge of situations with ease. She also makes the mistake of trying to change history when the Aztecs mistake her for a god.

Ian Chesterton: A science teacher at Susan’s school, Ian is much less ready to believe in time travel and bigger-on-the-inside police boxes than Barbara. Perhaps as a result, he and the Doctor don’t get on terribly well. Ian is a good leader and knows more about the Beatles and hand-to-hand combat than one might expect.

Vicki: I’ll be honest: I don’t know much about Vicki. She comes from the future and seems to share with the first Doctor a childlike joy in traveling and the blowing-up of things.

Steven Taylor: Another one I’m fuzzy on. He’s some sort of starship pilot from the future and is best friends with a stuffed panda teddy bear named Hi Fi.

Dodo Chaplet: Dodo is from 60s England and barges onto the TARDIS looking for the phone.

Polly: Finally, back to companions I’m well-versed in. Polly is a secretary of some sort from 60s England. She’s a bit posh (at least according to Ben), but she seems to really enjoy traveling. She’s much quicker to accept the Doctor’s regeneration than Ben is.

Ben Jackson: A sailor from 60s London, Ben thinks the new Doctor is an impostor. He’s a bit lazy, but is a nice guy. For some reason, he’s more susceptible to mind control than his fellows.

Jamie McCrimmon: Interestingly enough, he’s a Highland piper from 1746 and we meet him on the battlefield of Culloden. Jamie is always a little out of his depth traveling to the future, but he learns very quickly. He approaches situations and problems in a refreshingly earthy sort of way and his plans always work. He and the Doctor have a tendency to cling to each other when frightened and they have an easy sort of best friends relationship wherein they support each other but will be very honest if they think the other is wrong. He also always wears a kilt.

Victoria Waterfield: She’s from 1866 and comes traveling in the TARDIS after her father is killed by Daleks. She’s rather a dear and likes to adventure a bit, but is easily frightened by all the alien and monstrous threats she has to deal with on a daily basis. She has a spectacular scream.

Zoe Heriot: Zoe is a genius of all sorts who works on a space station in the future, probably around the last half of the 21st century. She has a tendency to look down on people not as bright as her and also to be overly logical. She develops a sibling-type rivalry with both the Doctor and Jamie. She does not approve of violence but enjoys blowing up the occasional unhelpful computer.

Liz Shaw: Liz has degrees in about half a dozen science-related subjects and works at Cambridge until she is recruited to be UNIT’s scientific advisor. When the (third) Doctor shows up, she is relegated to the position of his assistant. She helps save the world by finding a vaccine for a horrible disease and also assists the Doctor in his futile attempts to fix his TARDIS. Sadly, she never gets to travel in it.

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart: The Doctor actually meets the Brigadier back when he was Colonel and fighting Yeti in the Underground. However, the Brig plays a larger part on the show when it is stranded on Earth. He runs a branch of UNIT, investigating the unexplained and alien. The Brig may be brave, but he had a habit of shooting before asking questions that causes many disagreements between him and the Doctor.

Josephine Grant: Jo is a bit useless, really, as a member of UNIT, but she tags along after the Doctor anyway. She’s a dab hand at escaping from anything from handcuffs to locked rooms and is a real sweetheart who counters in niceness the Doctor’s grumpy arrogance.

Sarah Jane Smith: She’s a journalist who meets the Doctor because she starts poking around in some UNIT business. Sarah has the rather wonderful talent of being terrified and yet still dong all she can to help the Doctor. She’s very curious and has an unerring ability to get into trouble.

Harry Sullivan: UNIT’s doctor, a Surgeon-Lieutenant from the Navy, Harry isn’t the sharpest crayon in the box, but is competent enough to be of great help to the Doctor at times. He may be a bit old fashioned when it comes to things like feminism, but we can’t help falling in love with him all the same.

Leela: Although technically human, Leela hails from a planet that was colonized sometime in the future and has since degraded socially to a tribal and superstitious level. Leela has a tendency to wear skins and threaten people with her knife. Her relationship to the Doctor is vaguely hostile because they are so different, although she also sees herself as his protector. His attempts to civilize her are largely unsuccessful.

Romanadvoratralundar: Known as Romana, she is the Time Lord equivalent of a grad student who is assigned to help the Doctor find the segments to the Key to Time. Initially they don’t get along—he makes fun of her name, she psychoanalyzes him—but their bickering relaxes into banter after a few adventures. Later, she regenerates into a woman who is less aloof and has a slightly better sense of humor. Towards the end of her tenure on the show, it becomes clear that eventually she will be able to take on the Doctor’s role in the universe, though in her own slightly more logical way.

Adric: A teenaged mathematical genius who stows away on the TARDIS. He sides with the bad guys a lot, likes to eat, and is generally annoying.

Nyssa: Before she even properly joins up with the Doctor, Nyssa’s father’s body is taken over by the Master and her home planet of Traken is destroyed (unraveled?) by entropy. Nyssa is an alien teenager whose major field of study is biology. She is quiet, calm, and considerate and is often overshadowed by her louder fellow travelers.

Tegan Jovanka: A loud and argumentative Australian air hostess who comes into the TARDIS and then gets lost in its corridors quite by accident. She never really meant to stay and complained a lot about the Doctor’s constant failure to get her to Heathrow for her job. However, she seems pretty eager to come back to traveling after he dumps her there at the end of one adventure. He taste in clothes is bright and colorful once she gets out of that purple air hostess thing.

Vislor Turlough: Turlough is an exiled alien stuck in a British boys school (the worst place in the universe, according to him). In an attempt to get off Earth, he agrees to kill the Doctor, but doesn’t actually end up doing so, obviously.

Peri Brown: An American botany student who is saved from drowning by Turlough, weirdly enough. She had terrible fashion sense and a nasally voice and didn’t seem to enjoy herself very much. Understandable, given that the sixth Doctor tried to strangle her once and that she was routinely lusted after by every creepy bad guy she ran into.

Melanie Bush: She’s an English computer programmer who starts traveling with the Doctor before he meets her. Or something. Time travel is confusing.

Dorothy (Ace) McShane: Although we meet Ace working as a waitress on some sort of future space station, she’s actually from the London burbs in the 80s. She’s ‘street wise,’ with a bomber jacket and homemade explosives. She defeated a Dalek with a baseball bat once.

Grace Holloway: An American cardiologist who accidentally kills the Doctor because she’s convinced there’s something wrong with his heart without knowing he has two. She loves the opera and her ex-boyfriend was a jerk.


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