Doctor Who - Best Companion

SJS has my vote.

In motion!

I vote Sarah Jane. I think. It's kind of tempting to give Benton a vote, even though he wasn't really a companion.

I watched The Face of Evil for the first time this week, and now I'm feeling a bit bad about the fact I didn't vote for Leela.

But also, have started watching The Krotons, and Zoe is very good too.

Apparently the guy who played Harry Sullivan wrote a Who movie that never got produced. "The finale of the film was to have taken place on a giant pinball table, the holes in the table being portals to other dimensions."

sounds like Douglas Adams' cricket-based Who movie.

Yes, except instead of cricket, pinball.

well, yeah

but why cosmic sport the theme for *two* proposed terrible Dr Who movies? was hardly anything that was a feature of the series. it is a bafflement.

Trying to be epic and everyman-intellectual at the same time?

the 3rd Hitchhiker book started out as a Doctor Who story, right? Anybody know what the original script was, or how much he had to change?

I think the Gaiman book had a fairly decent precis.

I think the 3rd one is kind of based on the whole Key to Time season.

Doctor Who Meets Scratchman (the Ian Marter script discussed above) was something him and Tom came up with in the pub and really got quite far up in the planning stage. There was a good article about it in DWM a year or so ago.

Doctor Who And The Krikkitmen got turned into Life, The Universe and Everything; but chunks of it get reused in various places in The Pirate Planet. Ironic, really, since he stole the core idea of the TARDIS turning up at Lords from The Dalek Master Plan.

Of course, Adams' real Who crib was turning City Of Death (to a lesser degree0 and Shada into Dirk Gently.

Doctor Who Meets Scratchman (the Ian Marter script discussed above) was something him and Tom came up with in the pub and really got quite far up in the planning stage. There was a good article about it in DWM a year or so ago.

I read about this years ago in one of those 25th-anniversary books they put out. Apparently the idea got scrapped when they went to see Star Wars and realised that the whole level of audience-acceptable special effects on the big screen had just jumped well beyond the limits set by BBC-style budgets.

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I do not understand Sarah Jane Smith's outfits

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WAIT I CLEARLY FORGOT TO VOTE IN THIS

DITTO

k9 can eat a dick

affirmative

Can he? No wonder so many people voted for him.

Nyssa 2

^why?

From Comedy Central's campaign blog: Which Candidate Makes the Best Sidekick for Which Dr. Who?

Feel free to make your own "but Mccain is older than the doctor!" joeks. Everyone else apparently has.

I'm surprised neither Leela nor Mel got any votes. I mean I certainly wasn't going to vote for either of them but I figured someone would...

Mel?!? In yer Blue Peter demographic maybe.

Watching the Tom Baker episodes right now (I'm about midway through Genesis) I am so down with Harry. Dude rules.

I'm not sure I really get the Sarah Jane love, she seems a bit of a blank slate to me.

What happened to Leela? Was my vote disqualified?

I think the best aspects of Sarah Jane are

1) tends to be a bit cheeky with the doctor, and ribs him affectionately quite often.

2) has a Rose-like enthusiasm for the whole adventure thing, but carries it off less smugly.

3) is good at going off and looking after herself when she needs to

4) is cute.

Also surprised by the Nyssa votes, she really was a black slate. And yes, also surprised by the lack of Leela love too.

Adric 5
Ace 5

Lol trolling.

Oi, my adric vote was legitimate.

LEELA WUZ ROBBED

I would have voted for Leela, despite all of my Zoe-perving upthread.

Leela totally robbed. Donna votes seem mental but haven't seen any of this year's episodes. Ace votes could well be genuine from gentlemen of a certain age, I thought she was the best companion since before JNT when I was a kid (have never seen any McCoys since first airing).

Once, was:

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/5/f/4/highres_386100.jpeg

Then, became...

http://polygamia.pl/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/katy_manning0010.jpg

(Dudes, don't click that at work!)

Ace was good. I voted Liz Shaw as I thought no-one else would. I never thought for a minute Leela would get 0

Am finally watching Castrovalva. This Nyssa is actually kinda hott.

YA RLY

Dan, when exactly did you start watching this show, anyway?

Good lord, the haircuts really do get worse, don't they? The one chick looks like Lisa Ruddy and the cross-eyed doofus kid looks like Alistair. Only the sorta ginger one in the crushed velvet get-ups has anything going on.

http://i-ian.blogspot.com/2007/06/assistants-screamers-and-me.html

neat little rundown

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Terroroftheautons.jpg

http://www.pauseitmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/mighty-booooosh.jpg

best comparative images i could find, unfortunately

needs more blonde in the 2nd

GotDAMN Tegan is annoying; like, moreso than Adric ever could be

the haircuts didn't help things, either. Lisa Ruddy had a better look.

Watching 'The Invisible Enemy' now, and Louise Jameson was hotttttttt

http://www.currybet.net/images/articles/doctorwhoblog/leela_and_4th_doctor.jpg

i love that dan posted that sarah jane pic like 4 times

My dear hoos, the chick in the purple sparkly catsuit predated Sarah Jane by a full doctor

Wendy Padbury was like, what, 21 when she was on the show?

!!1

haha, the set design of this story predates Apple's recent designs by 2.5 decades. Bright white sets, flat-screen monitors, shiney white curved plastic, etc

Finally watching 'City of Death' now. Lalla Ward was fucking adorable.

Why are those pics of Zoe in colour? They're not screenshots, are they?