So recently there's been a couple of "definitive" rankings of the companions, either voted for in a completely unfair way OR chosen by one person.
So I thought as a community we could do our own "definitive" companion ranking!
I thought to make it fair, I'd do two polls and then combine the results at the end.

So, go and rate each companion out of ten at this link:

http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=j0eqfr8aukvdt6r427645

THEN comment below with a ranking of your top ten companions

*I'll publish the results here on DS and ONLY on DS This isn't a plug for my blog or anything, I promise! :P*

My top ten companions are:

1. Barbara Wright
2. Donna Noble
3. Liz Shaw
4. Leela
5. Rose Tyler
6. Ian Chesterton
7. The Brigadier
8. Sarah Jane Smith
9. Romana I
10. Clara Oswald (This season she's been incredible)

Just from what I know: (inc the not proper companions)

1. Amy/Amelia Pond/Williams
2. Donna Noble
3. Rory Williams
4. Sarah Jane Smith
5. River Song
6. Jo Grant
7. Madame Vashtra
8. Capt Jack Harkness
9. Rose Tyler
10. Jackie Tyler

Donna Noble will probably always be my favorite.

1. Rose Tyler
2. Captain Jack
3. river song
4. Donna noble
5. Amy pond
6. Martha Jones
7. Madame Vastra ( reoccures about as frequently now as river/jack did in their day so I think she qualifies)
8. Kate stewart ( haven't seen much on the brig, only really know him from talk on here, but as his equal for our generation, I think kate Stewart does a good job and we should see more of her)
9. Wilfred Mott
10. Adelaide Brooke (only 'companion' for one episode, but what an impact she made)

Done.

Bonus points for remembering the oft-overlooked Kamelion, and for including disputed companions. But I would question where Wilf is...

Oooo a list.


Donna Noble
Sarah Jane Smith
Rose Tyler
Martha Jones
The Brig
Liz Shaw
Nysa
Leela
Romanadvoratrelundar II
Barbara

1 Jo Grant
2 Sarah Jane Smith
3 The Brigadier
4 Peri Brown
5 Donna Noble
6 Nyssa
7 Harry Sullivan
8 Romana 2
9 Liz Shaw
10 Clara Oswald

Oh my goodness, can't believe I forgot Wilf! It's because I put him on the first list initially then changed my mind and moved him; but forgot to move him!

I've just added an extra bit for Wilf - don't know if you can still get on the poll to do that?

Thanks for the votes so far guys - interesting results piling up

Don't have a top ten as I don't do top tens
Rated Classic Who ones as 10s and no-who as 1 but zero would make me happy

Have done my vote.
Look forward to seeing the result!

My top ones were Donna, Wilf Mott and captain Yates.

This is a positive thread for talking about favourites, not one for you to register your obvious deep dislike for new who, as you have on other threads. Some people prefer new who to classic who but most on here don't tend to make out that either is better than the other to purposely offend people the way you seem to.

1: Romana mark 1 (Mary Tamm) I was SOOOO gutted at the end of the Key To Time series, when she morphed into Lalla Ward (no offence to Lalla!)
2: Leela
3: K-9
4: Sarah Jane
5: Jo Grant
6: the Brigadeer

Thats all really, sticking to my era (THE BEST!)

1 Sarah Jane
2 Jo Grant
3 Liz Shaw
Can you tell I'm a child of the late 60s, early 70s?!
4 Donna Noble
5 Rose Tyler
6 Jack Harkness
7 Rory
8 Amy
9 Tegan
10 Turlough

Omg forgot the first romana and the brigadier. Shameful!
Never mind ...

zero as in no comment but take offence if you like
I could easily give reasons why i liked each companion

He he..when I first saw your post I was surprised you hadn't included the Brig.
I love the 70's early 80's Who. Jon and Tom were my era. But loving the series since it came back in 2005.

Mostly new but added one of the classics because she was and allways will be popular.
10 Mickey Smith
9 Captain Jack Harkness
8 Rory Williams
7 Vastra
6 Martha Jones
5 Donna Noble
4 River Song /Melody Pond
3 Amelia "Amy" Pond, Williams
2 Rose Tyler
1 Sarah Jane Smith

1 Barbara
2 Liz
3 Sarah Jane
4 Tegan
5 Mel
5 Peri
6 Ian
7 Rose
8 Romana I
9 Adric
10 Dodo

You should have just created a thread poll the way you have done it is very long winded people like things simple!

Here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2018198 is what I have done using the names on the link you provided.

1. Victorian Clara
2. Oswin Oswald
3. Modern Clara
4. Sarah Jane
5. Tegan
6. Martha
7. Jenny
8. Madame Vastra
9. Peri
10. Rose

Hopefully it's okay to split the Claras. I resisted the temptation to fill the whole list with versions of Clara

It's not really long-winded; people are under no obligation to vote, it's just a bit of fun, and as there's over 100 votes so far, no-one else has had a problem with it; your opinion has been noted though.

I've always thought ranking out of ten was a much more accurate representation of opinion as it works out an average based on number of votes, not just the one who gets the most; usually resulting in a top ten dominated with purely new-Who characters, and not necessarily a fair survey. DS doesn't give the option of a ranking system unless I did it on a character by character basis; now that would be long-winded.

I imagine your poll will probably result in the same kind of top ten we always see, whereas mine will hopefully be a bit different because companion polls are rarely done this way.

But, each to their own I suppose. You enjoy your poll, and I'll enjoy mine.

Hey everyone, forgot about this completely! Got a nice number of votes atm, so I'm gonna leave the poll open for another week in case anyone else wants to vote, then I'll post the whole list in a new thread!

Thanks for voting! And remember, it's just a bit of fun!

Only going to list the main companions from NuWho here...I have opinions on some of the old companions I've seen but too little to compare with to make a substantial list from them.

1 - Donna Noble
2 - Clara Oswald
3 - Rose Tyler
4 - Martha Jones
5 - Amy Pond
6 - Rory Williams

There is a substantial gap between 2 and 3 in terms of how much I like them, and then another substantial gap between 5 and 6.