With the so called dearth of Clara, it got me thinking about the fate of previous companions, especially the ones in the first run if the series that ended in 1989.

Now I know Adric died, as did Katerina and Sara Kingdom, and then there was Peri 'fake death', but the majority of the other companions went on to happy endings, or at least lived.

I know that Big Finish have addressed some of the companions lives after their time with the Doctor, and where I own, and have listened to many of the stories, I just have the time to get through them all, especially at the rate they churn them out.

So my question is,have any if the companions that we have met again after their time with the Doctor ended up brown bread? I know Tegan had an alien brain tumour that's going to kill her, but what about anyone else?

I also believe the sixth Doctor went and saw Peri the events of The Trial of a Timelord, how did that work out?

Not Big Finish but

Dodo Chaplet

Rose Tyler:Lives with the Meta-crisis Doctor in a parallel universe, possibly still alive.

Martha Jones:Gets married, keeps fighting aliens, possibly still alive.

Donna Noble:Memory wiped, gets married, possibly still alive.

Amelia and Rory Williams:Get zapped to the past, live to their mid / late 80s.

Original Clara OswaldDead aged 28.

Astrid Peth died and Adelaide Brooke committed suicide (one-time companions but still)

K9 Mark III blew himself up ten minutes before the end of School Reunion. He zapped the Krillitaine Oil with his nose blaster and the school exploded.

This was the version of K9 that the Fourth Doctor left for Sarah in K9 and Company. A one-off episode shown on 28th December 1981, that was intended to be the pilot for a series, but JNT decided against it.

oops mustn't forget K-9 (love him and i have seen K-9 and Company) what about Handles, he was on Trenzalore with the doctor for hundreds of years until he stopped working (im counting him)

This fits very well with Modern Clara's death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OARtcY0tQ2o

Also this is a good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z87fD1PvUmQ

You can if you want, but I'm not. He was a cyberman, and in Doctor Who, you don't call cybermen companions.

Katarina, Astrid and Clara were all very selfless, they died saving other people

I would argue that Clara's death wasn't selfless. She took the countdown away from Rigsy with full knowledge (according to her misguided logic) that she wouldn't die. Ashildr had no intention to go through with Rigsy's death as it was simply a rouse to tea the Doctor. Therefore her death was pretty pointless and in vain. Yes she faced death bravely but it wasn't selfless Imo.

Does anyone have any info about what I asked in my original post? Companions fates via Big Finish?

According to The Five Companions Ben and Polly eventually got married

I still think Donna's is a really cruel one.
having expanded her outlook so much and then to gain all that power to have it all taken away again.

So, the closest BF have come to a classic companion brown breadification is marriage?

And according to Sarah Jane Smith in SJA, Ian and Barbara got married. I'm sure she said Ian and Barbara Chesterton.

I listened to the one with Tegan in it a couple of months ago. I haven't listened to all the BF stories yet but she had the brain tumor but in the story I listened to she hadn't died of it at the story's conclusion.

I'm listening to one where Jamie is in a story with the Sixth Doctor. Haven't listened to it all yet but he can't remember The Doctor for obvious reasons.......

Am looking forward to the one mentioned about Peri meeting The Doctor again post-trial though

She did say that, she also said Ace was now a billionaire philanthropist

She also said they were alleged not to have aged since the 60s


In that same scene she said Ben and Polly were running an orphanage in India. I wonder if that might have been a sideways reference to Anneke Wills own interest in eastern spirituality

But beautiful because it shows how much our memories mean to us, exposing at the same time the possibilities and the limits of the human brain. It also provided a fascinatingly sensical reason why our two protagonists must part ways. It's becoming quite clear now that no companion departure will ever come close.

I didn't read the original post properly

However although it's not BF I do know that a classic companion death was shown in a comic story in Doctor Who Magazine

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wor...s_(comic_story)

That is an excellent summary of the most, for me, emotional departure of any companion. The fact that Donna had grown as a person so markedly during the course of the series to have it all taken away was a kind of death and the scenes between Wilf and the Doctor were heartbreaking. I doubt any other companion departure will ever match this.

Never knew that companion had been killed off.


Another companion whose current whereabouts we know from The SJA's is Liz Shaw. She's still with UNIT (or back with them since she left at one point) and was last heard of working on the UNIT Moonbase (which had presumably been shut down before the Moon hatched ).

Some people feel that there wasn't enough of a 'dearth' of Clara...

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I'm quite behind on my listening so I may not be entirely up to date but here's what I remember:

Romana went on to become President of Gallifrey. She, Leela and K9 had a number of adventures in alternate universes. The last we heard, I believe Romana has regenerated and is no longer President.

Leela is no longer married to Andred (I think he died) and got a certain amount of extended lifespan and enhanced strength and senses as well as being made blind! It all got a bit complicated

I remember they revisited Susan. She had made a life for herself on Earth and had a son.

Barbara and Ian returned to Colehill School where they got into a bit of hot-water, IIRC, being questioned by police about the disappearance of Susan.

Sarah Jane had her own audio series at one point as an investigator before SJA started.

Nyssa settled down and had children and the 5th Doctor met up with her again many years later and took her on board the TARDIS again.

I just listened to the Peri one. I'll put it in spoiler tags as it's a little more recent and there's a bit of a twist:

Ace adventured some more with Seven and a new companion called Hex. After Hex left, Ace was dropped off at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey, and in the end got her own TARDIS and started working for the CIA. Unfortunately, she and Romana (who yes, has regenerated by this point) went on a job together and both lost their TARDISes (Ace's was stolen by Omega, Romana's ran out of power), leaving them stranded. One of the other Time Lords has said that Ace isn't truly one herself.
This was also seen in a comic story where they meet 11.