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Top 10 Doctor Who Companions


I’m the 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 tell
us
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 traveled on the TARDIS become
any lives that man saved how many worlds
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
it’s been 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 number nine Martha Jones
story goes to 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 snap you a tease 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
daresay I know not 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 he really needed it
finding the whole human race together
with all of them every single person on
earth thinking the same thing at the
same time in that word its 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 it’s creating a
memorable pairing that is still
fantastic to watch today I do tend to
get you involved with oh you can say
that again whenever there’s any trouble
is in it right up to his neck
number seven Clara Oswald day three six
three the Tarot 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 virtually 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-dried
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 look like I
could run forever like I could smell the
wind and feel the grass under my feet
and just run forever Pan is gone it
lives on inside you number five Amy Pond
no I 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 let me here look at
me you know this is all just a story
don’t you you know there’s no such thing
as stains 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
eventually traveling 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 tragic
No All Things Considered she went
through hell for the doctor and still
came out on the other side traumatized
but intact sorry you two should know
still a bit busy enough number for
Romana – my name is Ramona for Aetna
Linda I’m 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 that fans really remember
what you called but you can’t go around
wearing copies of bodies we’re not going
back to actually played by Lalla Ward
she was the doctors 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
tear part of her character was that she
was smarter than or at least as smart as
the doctor but wasn’t as experienced
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
don’t know do I
goodbye
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
were fantastic
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 yo team
sherbert Shh
which one 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 only got one life
Rose Tyler
I could spend it with you one number two
Donna Noble
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
hi moms 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 do like
this I do not understand miss why are
you saying this so I look single 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 what
were they
everything we did
cubed brilliant before we unveil our top
pick here are some honorable mentions
let’s do this 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 who exactly 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 vitam smoker Lucia please this
time where she proved wildly popular and
was given a spinoff series the Sarah
Jane Adventures which continued until
actress Elizabeth Slayton’s tragic death
in 2011 means regeneration at last party
of yours was he okay he meant a oh it
hurts
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
you act like such but if you you’ve got
the biggest family on earth do you agree
with our list it’s nothing to do with me
who’s your favorite Doctor Who companion
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