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Top 10 Doctor Who Companions – Best of WatchMojo


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I’m a doctor by the way what’s your name
Rose nice to meet you rose run for your
life you can’t embark upon a journey
through time and space alone that’s why
this Time Lord has these friends Martha
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
Doctor Who companions living or dead for
this list we’re looking at those
companions who spent more than one story
with the doctor but not necessarily just
those who’ve traveled on the TARDIS
become any lives that man st. Simon once
we’ve excluded Captain Jack Harkness
because he’s more well known for his
time as the lead character in the
spin-off Torchwood thanks for everything
computer
great oh and there may be some spoilers
regarding the fates of these time
travelling companions so spoiler alert I
came to stay for a week before I left
and during that week she died number 10
Susan Foreman
our first pick is the first doctors
granddaughter and the doctors first-ever
on-screen companion to date she is one
of the only relatives of the doctor that
we’ve seen on screen and it shows it’s
really where you live but it was just a
telephone box perhaps initially
appearing to teachers Barbara Wright and
Ian Chesterton as an enigmatic
schoolgirl she displayed her fear by
yelling for her grandfather but she
turned out to be fiercely opposed to
injustice wherever she found it goodness
me the TARDIS I suggest number nine
Martha Jones story goes the you and you
alone can kill the master stone dead
let’s just drive when the doctor first
met her she was a medical student but
under his wing Martha Jones helped to
save the world
on multiple occasions I’m sorry I’m
really sorry but I’ve got a few alleys
in the two-part episode human nature the
family of blood she took on one of the
hardest tasks of all overcoming the
racism of the 1910s when she went
undercover as the doctors made in an
English boarding school future
concussion I have and I dare say I know
a lot more about it than you she proved
herself more than equal to the challenge
and later used her wits and courage to
rally the world around the doctor when
human race together with all of them
every single person on earth thinking
the same thing at the same time in that
word it’s doctor
number eight Jamie McCrimmon well I’ll
give it a go but I’ll see this so your
security systems rotten I’ll have to be
changes this companion from the Scottish
Highlands is one of the few across
doctor who’s 50 plus year history that
has come from somewhere other than
modern-day Earth specifically the 18th
century well shall we go though his lack
of knowledge of modern concepts and
objects was sometimes played for laughs
he made up for it by being incredibly
loyal to the doctor creating a memorable
pairing that is still fantastic to watch
today I do tend to get you involved
oh you can say that again whenever
there’s any trouble is in it right up to
his name number seven Clara Oswald day
363 the terror continues the young woman
first appeared in the first episode of
the seventh series under the incarnation
Oswin Oswald with a tendency to cook
souffles and was later revealed to be
trapped in the body of a Dalek he
guarding me she then turned up as a
Victorian governess before abruptly
dying and being found as a young nanny
in the present-day which certainly took
the doctor by surprise Doctor Who oh
just the doctor actually sorry could you
just talk to that again could you just
ask me that question again Doctor Who
over the years she was on the show she
matured from a woman who was frightened
by new situations into a brave and
adventurous lady who was not afraid to
tell off the doctor when he needed it
this is why I’ve already done you’ve
already seen me do it I’m the impossible
girl
number six Dorothy Gale ace McShane
right Hugh male chauvinists built back
just you wait
this rebellious lady met the doctor in a
diner and quickly proved herself a
capable equal to the time traveler
making her name as an explosives expert
we destroyed it I aim for the eyepiece
when there was trouble to be
found odds were good that ace was nearby
I’m 16 I’m too young to be freeze-dry
indeed she was so eager to defend the
man she called professor that in one of
the more memorable scenes of the
franchise she beat up a Dalek with a
baseball bat if that doesn’t take guts
we don’t know what does like I could run
forever like I could smell the wind and
feel the grass under my feet and just
run forever Connie’s gone who lives on
inside you
number 5 Amy Pond no have an apple all I
can think about apples this kiss a gram
turned supermodel first met the doctor
as a child before he accidentally left
her behind for 12 years
I mean hey look at me you know this is
all just a story don’t you you know
there’s no such thing as stands for
psychiatrists couldn’t shake her
unwavering belief in this man from the
stars and it was incredibly satisfying
to watch the moment when the adult Amy
first walked into the TARDIS okay kid
it’s complicated eventually travelling
alongside her husband Rory whom we also
considered for this list Amy Rory and
the doctor sought out many adventures
that are worth a lifetime of memories
which made their departure at the hands
of the weeping angels all the more
No All Things Considered she went
through hell for the doctor and still
came out on the other side traumatized
sorry you two should have slipped away a
bit busy enough number for Romana – my
name is Ramona beretta London
I’m so sorry about that is there
anything we can do though the first
incarnation of Romana played by Mary Tam
was a good companion in her own right
it’s the second body of the time lady
but you can’t go around wearing copies
of bodies we’re not going back to
actually played by Lalla Ward she was
the doctor’s companion in the
universally acclaimed story city of
death and multiple others he’s just
having one of his funny times one of my
funny turns the whole world took a funny
turn part of her character was that she
was smarter than or at least as smart as
but in this case book smarts aren’t much
of a setback as she has still placed
highly on our list where are you going I
number three Rose Tyler many of you were
no doubt expecting Rose Tyler to be
number one on our list but she hasn’t
quite made it that far
before I go I just want to tell you you
absolutely fantastic we doubt she’s
losing much sleep over it though she
went from shop worker to working for a
parallel version of Torchwood all in the
span of a year or two so she’s clearly
doing all right for herself
Co team shivered shake which when Shiva
Oh
watch shake played by the lovely Billie
Piper she imbued the first on-screen
companion of the 2005 Doctor Who series
with warmth and compassion while still
being capable of having a laugh I’ve
I could spend it with you come on number
two Donna Noble you want terrified I
mean his companion played by British
comedian Catherine Tate was a special
guest star in the Christmas special the
runaway bride and utterly stole the show
I demand you tell me right now where am
I
inside the TARDIS it’s no surprise that
the producers of the show then invited
her back in 2008 tell me why you like
this I do not understand miss why are
you saying this so I looked sing go back
to the point yeah over the span of
series four she was changed by her
experiences into a kind and humble
person who helped save the day on more
than one occasion he’s been good to us
man what of us all of it
cute brilliant before we unveil our top
live do we all have to repress our
feelings from time to time I suggest you
get back into the habit number one Sarah
Jane Smith I don’t mean to be rude or
anything but he was actually are you
Sarah Jane Smith I used to travel with
the doctor
she’s the companion who kept coming back
initially a companion to Jon Pertwee’s
older third doctor
she left during Tom Baker’s time in the
role she then returned in the 2006 story
school reunion of item smokers say it
please it’s time where she proved wildly
popular and was given a spinoff series
the Sarah Jane Adventures which
continued until actress Elizabeth Sladen
tragic death in 2011 include generation
at last party of yours was he okay a man
who is Hudson Sarah Jane Smith was brave
funny and appealed to all generations in
a way that most other companions just
can’t and she interacted with nine
incarnations of the doctor which is why
she’s at the top of our list you know
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