Doctor Who - Best Companion

needs ballot stuffing for Ace

I don't really get the Ace love, but Leela is forever the best, even if she only got a handful of good stories.

i'd just love to witness the whovian aspie meltdown if she won

Ace is very popular amongst some people.
If you wanna piss off dr who fans then ADRIC should be your vote!

Liz Shaw

hang on which one was bonnie langford?

K9's going to walk this.

roll it, more like

when I saw some old stories recently, I though Adric was endearingly strange, unlike Tegan who was unendearingly annoying.

I heart Adric, he was practically a role model for 7 year old me. It's only having watched his stories more recently that I've come to realise he was actually a bit of a twerp. So now I'm torn between him and SJS.

Bonnie Langford = Mel

Sod it, I've gone for Adric, purely because he's not had a ropy middle-aged comeback. Yet!

It's funny how Turlough ended up a good character. His latter stories are great. There's hope for Mickey yet if he comes back.

Jo Grant.

picture of naked Katy Manning and Dalek to thread!

WHERE IS ADAM

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/thumb/0/01/Adam_Mitchell.jpg/250px-Adam_Mitchell.jpg

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS DREADFUL OVERSIGHT

Oh yeah, Adam. Did he last longer than a single story? Was it just two? Part of me wishes I'd included one-off companions, then we could've voted for Kylie and Gareth Jenkins.

Re: Turlough, I only watched Planet of Fire (his last) this week, and it was the first of his stories I've seen. I wasn't that impressed.

Oh yeah, true that.

This dude was in two? Three? Tried to nick stuff in the end.

oh and yeah, turlough, meh.

Actually, omg, if Gareth Jenkins turns up in next week's episode and really does foil the Sontaran Inavsion (only 7 years lte) that might just be the best thing ever.

ACE

No Sara Kingdom or Grace?

No book companions? (Benny, Wolsey, Roz, Chris, Sam, Fitz, Compassion, Anji, Grant, Trix)

Grace counts as a one-off companion, so was omitted on the same grounds as kylie. Like I said though, I maybe regret that.

Um, have to admit I've never heard of sarah kingdom.

Books omitted due to disputed canonicity issues, Which I think is a fair call, no?

Anyway Dan, stop pretending you would've voted for anyone other than Leela.

I suspect Dan may be with me on Zoe, a companion so cute he once described her as "part kitten".

I was not going to bring up Sara Kingdom.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/mikeyb_137/MindRobber_PDVD_057_400.jpg

^ftw

Actually I might vote for Romana II. Or Jo.

I might give Romana II some love.

No one would've voted for Grace or Kylie anyway, surely?

or Anji

Dan has to choose between girlfriends here.

And I still can't pick one. Prob Ace at this point.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/mikeyb_137/MindRobber_PDVD_057_400.jpg

This is awesome, btw.

^ftw

^ftd!

botw

what is that?

Bum Of The Week?

which one was billie piper?

Billie Piper was Rose Tyler.

I'm no fan of Dr Who but 10 year old me had a crush on Adric. so there it is.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/mikeyb_137/MindRobber_PDVD_057_400.jpg

I think a lot of people sleep on precisely how awesome a companion Zoe actually was. She was like a version of Adric who actually worked as a character (although in fairness, Adric made more sense with the 4th Doctor and Romana II than he did with Nyssa and Tegan).

i think my favorite companion was the totally useless but well-meaning doctor who wore a blue blazer and was always bollixing things up, can't remember his name but he was in the ark of time

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/mikeyb_137/MindRobber_PDVD_057_400.jpg

Harry Sullivan! He was awesome, plus that actor wrote a bunch of the Target novelizations of the original series.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/mikeyb_137/MindRobber_063.jpg

Good grief.

Still haven't voted on this. Zoe or Romana II? There's only one way to find out...
FIIIIGHT!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/mikeyb_137/MindRobber_PDVD_153_400.jpg

I don't know that Romana II would have any chance of winning.

K9 4EVR

Am I the only one with a giant crush on Sarah Jane Smith?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/mikeyb_137/MindRobber_PDVD_057_400.jpg

No, you are not.

Indeed.

Actually I'm putting her, fuck it. I could listen to her speak all day.

SJS has my vote.

In motion!

I vote Sarah Jane. I think. It's kind of tempting to give Benton a vote, even though he wasn't really a companion.

I watched The Face of Evil for the first time this week, and now I'm feeling a bit bad about the fact I didn't vote for Leela.

But also, have started watching The Krotons, and Zoe is very good too.

Apparently the guy who played Harry Sullivan wrote a Who movie that never got produced. "The finale of the film was to have taken place on a giant pinball table, the holes in the table being portals to other dimensions."

sounds like Douglas Adams' cricket-based Who movie.

Yes, except instead of cricket, pinball.

well, yeah

but why cosmic sport the theme for *two* proposed terrible Dr Who movies? was hardly anything that was a feature of the series. it is a bafflement.

Trying to be epic and everyman-intellectual at the same time?

the 3rd Hitchhiker book started out as a Doctor Who story, right? Anybody know what the original script was, or how much he had to change?

I think the Gaiman book had a fairly decent precis.

I think the 3rd one is kind of based on the whole Key to Time season.

Doctor Who Meets Scratchman (the Ian Marter script discussed above) was something him and Tom came up with in the pub and really got quite far up in the planning stage. There was a good article about it in DWM a year or so ago.

Doctor Who And The Krikkitmen got turned into Life, The Universe and Everything; but chunks of it get reused in various places in The Pirate Planet. Ironic, really, since he stole the core idea of the TARDIS turning up at Lords from The Dalek Master Plan.

Of course, Adams' real Who crib was turning City Of Death (to a lesser degree0 and Shada into Dirk Gently.

Doctor Who Meets Scratchman (the Ian Marter script discussed above) was something him and Tom came up with in the pub and really got quite far up in the planning stage. There was a good article about it in DWM a year or so ago.

I read about this years ago in one of those 25th-anniversary books they put out. Apparently the idea got scrapped when they went to see Star Wars and realised that the whole level of audience-acceptable special effects on the big screen had just jumped well beyond the limits set by BBC-style budgets.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I do not understand Sarah Jane Smith's outfits

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

WAIT I CLEARLY FORGOT TO VOTE IN THIS

DITTO

k9 can eat a dick

affirmative

Can he? No wonder so many people voted for him.

Nyssa 2

^why?

From Comedy Central's campaign blog: Which Candidate Makes the Best Sidekick for Which Dr. Who?

Feel free to make your own "but Mccain is older than the doctor!" joeks. Everyone else apparently has.

I'm surprised neither Leela nor Mel got any votes. I mean I certainly wasn't going to vote for either of them but I figured someone would...

Mel?!? In yer Blue Peter demographic maybe.

Watching the Tom Baker episodes right now (I'm about midway through Genesis) I am so down with Harry. Dude rules.

I'm not sure I really get the Sarah Jane love, she seems a bit of a blank slate to me.

What happened to Leela? Was my vote disqualified?

I think the best aspects of Sarah Jane are

1) tends to be a bit cheeky with the doctor, and ribs him affectionately quite often.

2) has a Rose-like enthusiasm for the whole adventure thing, but carries it off less smugly.

3) is good at going off and looking after herself when she needs to

4) is cute.

Also surprised by the Nyssa votes, she really was a black slate. And yes, also surprised by the lack of Leela love too.

Adric 5
Ace 5

Lol trolling.

Oi, my adric vote was legitimate.

LEELA WUZ ROBBED

I would have voted for Leela, despite all of my Zoe-perving upthread.

Leela totally robbed. Donna votes seem mental but haven't seen any of this year's episodes. Ace votes could well be genuine from gentlemen of a certain age, I thought she was the best companion since before JNT when I was a kid (have never seen any McCoys since first airing).

Once, was:

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/5/f/4/highres_386100.jpeg

Then, became...

http://polygamia.pl/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/katy_manning0010.jpg

(Dudes, don't click that at work!)

Ace was good. I voted Liz Shaw as I thought no-one else would. I never thought for a minute Leela would get 0

Am finally watching Castrovalva. This Nyssa is actually kinda hott.

YA RLY

Dan, when exactly did you start watching this show, anyway?

Good lord, the haircuts really do get worse, don't they? The one chick looks like Lisa Ruddy and the cross-eyed doofus kid looks like Alistair. Only the sorta ginger one in the crushed velvet get-ups has anything going on.

http://i-ian.blogspot.com/2007/06/assistants-screamers-and-me.html

neat little rundown

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Terroroftheautons.jpg

http://www.pauseitmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/mighty-booooosh.jpg

best comparative images i could find, unfortunately

needs more blonde in the 2nd

GotDAMN Tegan is annoying; like, moreso than Adric ever could be

the haircuts didn't help things, either. Lisa Ruddy had a better look.

Watching 'The Invisible Enemy' now, and Louise Jameson was hotttttttt

http://www.currybet.net/images/articles/doctorwhoblog/leela_and_4th_doctor.jpg

i love that dan posted that sarah jane pic like 4 times

My dear hoos, the chick in the purple sparkly catsuit predated Sarah Jane by a full doctor

Wendy Padbury was like, what, 21 when she was on the show?

!!1

haha, the set design of this story predates Apple's recent designs by 2.5 decades. Bright white sets, flat-screen monitors, shiney white curved plastic, etc

Finally watching 'City of Death' now. Lalla Ward was fucking adorable.

Why are those pics of Zoe in colour? They're not screenshots, are they?

no

Amy Pond is a srs hottie.

yes

I can't believe Adric got 5 votes!

Also, watched a Fifth Doctor serial, Peri, rrowr. Fancy her being South African, or summat!

I can't believe Adric got 5 votes!

I like to think its just 5 people who knew absolutely nothing about the show but thought 'woah, Adric is a cool name! I'm voting for that!'

Fancy her being South African, or summat!

....why?

Haha oh this thread

Dan, when exactly did you start watching this show, anyway?

1980? They were showing reruns of older 4th Doctor stories on our local PBS station so the first episode I saw was "The Android Invasion".

Watched my first Key To Time story last week, quite impressed by Romana 1 actually.

Fancy her being South African, or summat!

....why?

Because that sure as hell isn't any American accent I've ever heard.

"Could be plitinum!"

Watched my first Key To Time story last week, quite impressed by Romana 1 actually.

Romana I is massively impressive; probably the reason why I ended up disliking Romana II so much was because in comparison she was a total personality-free robot.

I'm still amazed leee didn't know there was nudey pics of Katy Manning (jo grant) with a dalek. obv cant post them here. I'm sure Dan will send you them as it's probably his wallpaper.

Hah yeah that is one sexy Dalek in that photo, let me tell you!

kind of tempted to repoll just the nu-Who companions

do it.

If Donna Noble doesn't win I will riot.

Best Doctor Who Companion - nu-Who era

Tegan may well have been the first crush I ever had. I guess I was about 7.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18531461

RIP :(

British actress Caroline John, known to many for playing Doctor Who assistant Liz Shaw, has died at the age of 72.

A funeral was held in south west London on Wednesday for the Yorkshire-born actress, who starred opposite Jon Pertwee's Doctor in the BBC series.

John played Liz Shaw in four Doctor Who adventures in 1970, later reprising her role in 1983's The Five Doctors.

Both she and husband Geoffrey Beevers went on to work on several Doctor Who audio and straight-to-video spin-offs.

Born in 1940, John trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and later toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

As Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw, John made her first appearance alongside the newly-regenerated third Doctor in the story Spearhead from Space.

Her character witnessed the reawakening of an ancient race in The Silurians and stopped an insane scientist from cracking open the Earth's crust in Inferno.

She also got to drive Bessie, the Doctor's canary yellow roadster, despite the actress not having a driving licence at the time.

In recent years, John was seen in episodes of Doctors, Midsomer Murders and Silent Witness.

Oh no, RIP

Mary Tamm RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18995370

<fires up Stones of Blood>

RIP Time Lady. Half your stories are brilliant, which is a pretty high hit rate.

RIP, you were always the best Romana