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List of supporting characters in Doctor Who

Over the course of its twenty-six years on television, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has not only seen changes in the actors to play Doctor Who, but in the supporting cast as well. This is not an attempt to make a comprehensive list of all supporting characters or alien races in Doctor Who, but merely the most significant.

Contents
1 Companions

1.1 with the First Doctor
1.2 with the Second Doctor
1.3 with the Third Doctor
1.4 with the Fourth Doctor
1.5 with the Fifth Doctor
1.6 with the Sixth Doctor
1.7 with the Seventh Doctor
1.8 with the Eighth Doctor
1.9 with the Ninth Doctor
1.10 with the Tenth Doctor
1.11 Notes

2 Recurring or significant villains

2.1 Notes

3 Other recurring or important characters

3.1 Notes

4 Significant alien species
5 Characters from Doctor Who spin-offs
6 External links

Companions

with the First Doctor

with the Second Doctor

with the Third Doctor

with the Fourth Doctor

with the Fifth Doctor

with the Sixth Doctor

with the Seventh Doctor

with the Eighth Doctor

with the Ninth Doctor

with the Tenth Doctor

  • Rose Tyler (Series 2, 2006)

Notes

  1. Sara Kingdom died in the same story in which she first appears. Some fans define her as a companion and others do not. Similiarly, there is dispute over the companion status of Dr. Grace Holloway from the 1996 telemovie, who is offered the chance to travel with the Doctor but declines and therefore appeared only once. Another character from the telemovie, Chang Lee, is sometimes described as a companion as well, although to be accurate he was actually a companion of the Master.
  2. Of the companions, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Adric and Kamelion have died on-screen.
  3. Kamelion, an actual robot which had chronic technical problems on the set, appeared in only one story in Season 20 and a second in Season 21, the latter in which it was destroyed. Because Kamelion could change shape into anyone, a number of actors played it. Since it only appeared in two stories (a third appearance was filmed but not aired), its status as a companion is a matter of debate.
  4. Susan, Jamie, Harry and Sarah Jane have guest-starred in later stories. Zoe, Liz, Adric, Tegan, Nyssa, Turlough and Kamelion have reappeared in cameo roles, played by the original actors rather than in stock footage or still photos. K-9 Mark III has also made a cameo.
  5. Spin-off media have established Ace's surname as McShane. The production team had intended that if revealed in the course of a story Ace would either have the last name Gale (an allusion to the movie version of The Wizard of Oz) or whatever would suit the story. Various novels and audio dramas have offered at least three possible explanations as to how Ace's life progressed after the end of the series.
  6. Among characters likely to have last names, none were ever established for Vicki or Polly. Mel's last name was never mentioned on-screen but comes from official background literature for the character. Turlough's first name was not established until his final story.
  7. The series never establishes how The Doctor first meets Mel; she just appears midway through The Trial of a Time Lord.
  8. Billie Piper, who plays Rose Tyler, the most recent addition to the list of actors who have co-starred in the series, was only seven years old when Doctor Who last aired as a weekly first-run series in 1989.

Recurring or significant villains

Notes

  1. The Master appeared as a regular in Season 8 and has many guest appearances in subsequent seasons and the television movie. The Valeyard appeared in every episode of the Season 23, a season which contained just one long story - The Trial of a Time Lord.

Other recurring or important characters

Notes

  1. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is thought to be a companion by some, though by others he is not. The argument over whether he is an acceptable companion continues to this day, although he is on the list of companions listed on the BBC Doctor Who site.
  2. Some fans also consider UNIT era regulars Sergeant Benton and Captain Mike Yates to be "companions" although they do not fit the accepted definition. Benton and Yates appeared as regulars in Seasons 8, again making other appearances before and after.
  3. Lethbridge-Stewart appeared as a regular in Seasons 7 and 8 (as well as making guest appearances before and since). Nicholas Courtney, along with his role as Brett Vyon in The Daleks' Master Plan, his appearance in the charity special Dimensions in Time and his participation in the Eighth Doctor audio play Minuet in Hell, has the distinction of having acted with every screen Doctor.
  4. The Inquisitor appeared in every episode of Season 23.

Significant alien species

Characters from Doctor Who spin-offs

External links

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