The Doctor didn't dump Victoria anywhere, she chose to stay on 20th Century Earth because she'd had enough of being terrified all the time and realised she would no longer fit in back in Victorian England. The Harris family offered to let her stay with them, and she accepted. The Doctor didn't want her to go, it was her choice.

The Time Lords didn't wipe the Doctor from their memories, they retained their first adventure with him, but all subsequent ones were removed.

exactly, a lot of what the Doctor did had quite big consequences....in fact the whole Saxon thing goes back to when he disposed of Harriet Jones, due to his Time Lord ego. And this has always been proof to me that the whole RTD making the Doctor into a Christ type figure...doesn't actually exist. what has been done is that this theme of us ordinary beings easily making someone into worthy of worship...when in fact the person doesn't truly deserve it.


That is how I feel too....Martha despite have put up with cr*p, left with a lot of respect and head held high....and whenever she needed to Doctor again....it was never for an emotional reason....she really grew up.

Kamelion has to be the worst. Put in a cupboard and forgotten about.

And then brutally murdered by a homicidal fifth Doctor.

I like the point made earlier about whether the poll means being treated worst by the Doctor, or by the scriptwriters.

I understood this to be about companion treated worst by the scriptwriters... and I voted for other. Leela.

Fearless warrior, always ready to lay her life on the line. Does she go out in a blaze of glory... no.

She gets an uncharacteristicly girly 'falls in love and stays behind' story.

Very unfair. IMHO of course.

Surely if you believe the books to be canon, you acknowledge that Peri has multiple endings, in one of which she forgave the Doctor and returned to Earth!

(Didn't Yrcanos become a wrestler in one account?!)

With Peri as his manager, yes. But personally, I'd still have made the good Doctor suffer a bit-the sod could have gone back for her straight away after the Trial was over!

I could have sworn I once saw him present an episode of Have I Got News For You...

Very little in ToaTL actually makes sense when you look too closely. The Valeyard, the Doctor's evidence from his own future, the Master's involvement, the editing of evidence, the dialogue, the plot, the acting etc etc etc

Dodo! Jackie Lane had a terrible exit from the show!

The fact that Peri had survived was also a last-minute change (originally she died). So I guess the writers didn't have much of a chance to resolve her story properly. That said, within the narrative of the show, it doesn't reflect well on the Doctor that he found out she was still alive and did nothing about it (as far as we know)

Definatly Dodo, never has a character been brushed off so completely in favour of newer more trendy and attractive ones.

Shame!

The trendy and attractive ones got a crap send-off, too. Things were different in the mid 60s ...

I see that "someone else" is currently miles ahead in this poll, which isn't really telling us that much. It would be nice to have this category broken down a little. Perhaps the people who voted for this option (I'm one of them) would like to state which companion they actually had in mind.

I had Dodo in mind when I voted "someone else".

I think most people did. I can't quite work out why such an obvious contender wasn't a poll option.

I feel that the poll was created with new series characters in mind. Even some of us familiar with the old series may struggle to recall Dodo, the poor old thing.

Who is Dodo and why is her exit so bad?

Dodo Chaplet was a teenager introduced in William Hartnell's third series. She travelled with the Doctor from the end of The Massacre to The War Machines, just five stories later, before being unceremoniously dropped from that story halfway through after being brainwashed, and then written out in the final episode with one line about her having gone down to the country to recover. Later, one of the novels (set during her time in the TARDIS ) had her contract an STD, and another (set after she got home) had her murdered by the Master.

Thanks

I too was thinking of Dodo. Unlike the writers or the Doctor for that matter.

Absolutely. Even without the books continuation, she had a rotten exit.

From New Who, probably Jack being left stranded in the future with no-one left alive but at least he was a resourceful boy who was used to looking after himself.

Some of the others aren't very nice (Jamie, Zoe, Peri, Donna, Sarah) but at least they are not the doctors fault (time lords and daleks leaving him with no other choice) whereas Dodo and Jack are which make it worse.

My vote was another and it was Dodo.

Dodo's got a bit of a cult following, I think.

She's like the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of Doctor Who.

Gotta be Peri. At least Dodo would have had peace in the country. Peri married to Brian Blessed. A fate worse than death