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The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further the story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.)
To make up for his lack of a practical name, the Doctor often relies upon convenient pseudonyms. In The Gunfighters (1966), the First Doctor uses the alias Dr. Caligari. In The Highlanders (1966–67), the Second Doctor assumes the name of "Doctor von Wer" (a German approximation of "Doctor Who"), and signs himself as "Dr. W" in The Underwater ...
List of The Sarah Jane Adventures minor characters. List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs. List of Doctor Who supporting characters.
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Multiple actresses were considered to play the Doctor's next companion, with Billie Piper announced as the frontrunner to star as Rose Taylor. [5] The role ultimately went to Piper, with the characters name changed to Rose Tyler. [6] Eccleston and Piper made their debut in "Rose."
Doctor Who logo (2023) This is a list of fictional creatures and aliens from the universe of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series first aired in 1963 [ 1 ] before being cancelled in 1989, with a brief attempt to revive the show in 1996 being unsuccessful. [ 2 ] The show was successfully revived in 2005 ...
20th and 21st centuries (born c. 1970, [ 2] leaves Earth c. 1987 [ 3]) Ace is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. [ 4] A 20th-century Earth teenager from the London suburb of Perivale, she is a companion of the Seventh Doctor and was a regular in the series from ...
A still from the 1964 Doctor Who episode ‘The Aztecs’, starring from left to right: John Ringham, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, William Hartnell and Keith Pyott (Moore/Fox Photos/Getty)