Doctor Who - Best Companion

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?

no

Amy Pond is a srs hottie.

yes

I can't believe Adric got 5 votes!

Also, watched a Fifth Doctor serial, Peri, rrowr. Fancy her being South African, or summat!

I can't believe Adric got 5 votes!

I like to think its just 5 people who knew absolutely nothing about the show but thought 'woah, Adric is a cool name! I'm voting for that!'

Fancy her being South African, or summat!

....why?

Haha oh this thread

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

1980? They were showing reruns of older 4th Doctor stories on our local PBS station so the first episode I saw was "The Android Invasion".

Watched my first Key To Time story last week, quite impressed by Romana 1 actually.

Fancy her being South African, or summat!

....why?

Because that sure as hell isn't any American accent I've ever heard.

"Could be plitinum!"

Watched my first Key To Time story last week, quite impressed by Romana 1 actually.

Romana I is massively impressive; probably the reason why I ended up disliking Romana II so much was because in comparison she was a total personality-free robot.

I'm still amazed leee didn't know there was nudey pics of Katy Manning (jo grant) with a dalek. obv cant post them here. I'm sure Dan will send you them as it's probably his wallpaper.

Hah yeah that is one sexy Dalek in that photo, let me tell you!

kind of tempted to repoll just the nu-Who companions

do it.

If Donna Noble doesn't win I will riot.

Best Doctor Who Companion - nu-Who era

Tegan may well have been the first crush I ever had. I guess I was about 7.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18531461

RIP :(

British actress Caroline John, known to many for playing Doctor Who assistant Liz Shaw, has died at the age of 72.

A funeral was held in south west London on Wednesday for the Yorkshire-born actress, who starred opposite Jon Pertwee's Doctor in the BBC series.

John played Liz Shaw in four Doctor Who adventures in 1970, later reprising her role in 1983's The Five Doctors.

Both she and husband Geoffrey Beevers went on to work on several Doctor Who audio and straight-to-video spin-offs.

Born in 1940, John trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and later toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

As Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw, John made her first appearance alongside the newly-regenerated third Doctor in the story Spearhead from Space.

Her character witnessed the reawakening of an ancient race in The Silurians and stopped an insane scientist from cracking open the Earth's crust in Inferno.

She also got to drive Bessie, the Doctor's canary yellow roadster, despite the actress not having a driving licence at the time.

In recent years, John was seen in episodes of Doctors, Midsomer Murders and Silent Witness.