Do you think it,s time that the Doctor had a disabled companion?.

For the sake of ticking some PC boxes, or fulfilling some sort of quota? No.

The Doctor's companion(s) should always be good characters first and foremost. If one happens to have a disability then fine, so what? I don't think that the disability should define the companion.

As someone with multiple disabilities I have to ask why? From your wording I am guessing you are suggesting they should have one because of equality.

For me having someone with a physical disability being used to represent disability is the last thing I want. The Paralympics just made idiots think everyone who has a disability is like the athletes which is just as stupid as me comparing everyone who does not have a disability to David Beckham.

What I would love is BBC Worldwide arranging an event for people who have disabilities and getting to meet the cast without having large levels of noise one for high function people with disabilities and another event for people who aren't high functioning ( I feel left out when they go on events such as the world tour never mind having to have work related meetings or other work commitments when tickets are being sold. 10am on a Monday is a silly time to sell tickets in my opinion. I felt they aimed it at university students who finished exams, people who are willing or able to take time off work at that point in the year, the fully retired or the unemployed).

Having people with disabilities for the sake of having someone with a disability won't impress me.

Surely that's not a very widespread belief, though? Isn't the point to show that disabilities, and the people who have them, are as varied and skilled as any other?

As for the original post, shouldn't it be that it would be "interesting" for the Doctor to have a disabled companion, rather than "time"?

How do you know he hasn't?

You're assuming that all disabilities are physical and visible but the fact is that there are many more people who have disabling conditions that are not - or not immediately - noticable.

Both the "War Doctor" and Eccles showed symptoms of severe depression and a number of "companions" have shown signs of ADHD and OCD - any of which would potentially qualify as "disabilities" in most of the western world.

Still, if you want to regard "disability" as being purely physical, I would point out that Davros is in a wheelchair and every Dalek and Cyberman there's ever been in DW has been "disabled" within the sense of that definition - along with hundreds of other characters and whole races - friend and foe - throughout the entire history of the show. In fact, I reckon you'll struggle to name a single episode or plot that ISN'T full of or totally revolves around "disabled" characters.

Short version - you have to define "disabled" before even beginning to go down that sort of track.

Incidentally - it's not just DW. Try naming a James Bond film where the main villain or his chief henchman isn't "disabled" in some way.