Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, claimed to have coined the name TARDIS: " I made up from the initials.

* Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter.

The other is Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, although Susan is never explicitly identified as a Time Lady.

Concerned to avoid any possibility of sexual impropriety implicit in having a young girl travelling with an older man, Coburn also insisted that the character of Susan Foreman should be redrawn as the Doctor's granddaughter, rather than simply his travelling companion.

In the commentary to the BBC's DVD release of An Unearthly Child, actress Carole Ann Ford points out that suggestions that Susan was not the Doctor's natural granddaughter were only first put forward in the 1990s.

According to the Telos novella Frayed by Tara Samms ( a pen name for Stephen Cole ), which takes place prior to the serial An Unearthly Child, Jill, a young girl in a besieged human medical facility on the planet Iwa, meets and named the Doctor's granddaughter Susan, after Jill's mother.

Mel is at present the only one of the Doctor's companions ( apart from his granddaughter and original companion Susan ) never to have her actual first adventure with the Doctor chronicled on screen.

It was also his idea for the Doctor's travelling companion, Susan, to be his granddaughter, as he was disturbed by the possible sexual connotations of an old man travelling with an unrelated teenager.

As the history teacher of the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright was the first of the companions to appear in the show in 1963, with Hill speaking the series ' first words.

* This is the first time we meet another member of the Doctor's race besides his granddaughter ( although they are not yet identified as Time Lords ).

The Doctor says " I know the feeling ", a reference to his granddaughter Susan Foreman ( and her unnamed father or mother ), who is implied to have died in the Time War along with the rest of the Doctor's family.

Meddler was also the first time that another member of the Doctor's race, not yet identified as the Time Lords, appeared ( other than his granddaughter, Susan ).

( The name " Zezanne " is a reference to the First Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman ; coincidentally, Carole Ann Ford, the actress who played Susan, has a daughter named Miranda ).

She attends Coal Hill School, the same school the First Doctor's granddaughter Susan attended in 1963.

Other than the Doctor and Susan, the Monk was the first member of the Doctor's race to appear in the programme, and the second Doctor Who villain ( after the Daleks ) to make a return appearance.

After that, he sets off to reunite with the Daleks, hoping to get his final revenge on the Doctor, in Lucie Miller / To the Death, only for his plans to backfire when the Daleks betray him, resulting in the deaths of Tamsin, Lucy, and the Doctor's great-grandson Alex, although the Monk saves the Doctor and Susan to make up for his role in the Dalek attack.

There is also the question of whether the Doctor's grand-daughter, Susan, was by nature a true Time Lord.

Dr. Who ( Cushing ) and his granddaughters, Susan ( Tovey ) and Barbara ( Linden ), show Barbara's boyfriend Ian ( Castle ) the Doctor's latest invention, a time machine called TARDIS.

Changes made before the final version were filmed include a thunderclap sound effect being deleted from the opening theme music ; Susan's dress being changed to make her look more like a schoolgirl than the original costume, which made her appear more alien and sensual ; the Doctor's costume being changed from a contemporary jacket and tie to his familiar Edwardian clothing ; a reference to the Doctor and Susan being from the 49th century was replaced with the line " another time, another world "; the TARDIS door being repaired so that it closed properly ; and a refinement of the TARDIS sound effect.

Susan claims to have coined the name for the TARDIS, the Doctor's time machine, though later episodes seemed to indicate that it was a widely used term among Time Lords.

Susan appears twice during the course of IDW Comics ' " Doctor Who: The Forgotten " series, first in a flashback to the First Doctor's lifetime, then at the end, as the TARDIS ' matrix takes her form at The Doctor's request.

But the Doctor's transfer operation breaks down while Susan, Barbara and the resistance team attack the Dalek force using explosives created by Dortmun.

The Eighth Doctor's former companion, Fitz, now Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox, claims to have killed the Rani as well as the Master ( during the " Second War in Heaven " described in Lawrence Miles ' EDA: Interference: Book One ), and now displays their skulls as trophies.

One of the Doctor's companions, Captain Jack Harkness, originates from the 51st century, although it is unclear whether or not he or his parents participated in the events of World War V described above.

* Dr Aiden MacCarthy ( 1914 – 1992 ) is celebrated for his great courage, resource and humanity while a prisoner of the Japanese during the second world war which he described in his book ' A Doctor's War '.

With reference to Manning's appearance on the cover of Girl Illustrated, British tabloid newspaper The Daily Star described Jo Grant as the Doctor's " sauciest companion from the past ".

" Ahead of the series premiere on Australian Network ABC the Sydney Morning Heralds Robin Oliver described Rose's role in the series as being " more the Doctor's equal than previous companions " and that this was " no mean achievement against Eccleston's acting skills.

Matt Smith, who plays The Doctor, has described Jammie Dodgers as The Doctor's favourite snack, and they are occasionally mentioned in scripts.

Janeway's other interactions with her crew include helping the ex-Borg Seven of Nine reclaim her individuality and humanity and advocating for the Doctor's status as a sentient being.

The Doctor's Time Lady companion Romana constructed a sonic screwdriver of her own similar to the Doctor's, first seen during the City of Death.

Later on we saw that it was smaller and sleeker than the Doctor's, and he was sufficiently impressed with her design that he attempted ( unsuccessfully ) to swap screwdrivers with her in Horns of Nimon.

However, during the events of " The Doctor's Wife " ( 2011 ), the ship's consciousness briefly inhabits a human body, and she reveals that far from being stolen, she left of her own free will.

Also in " The Doctor's Wife ", the TARDIS reveals that much of this " unpredictability " was actually intentional on her part in order to get the Doctor " where needed to go " as opposed to where he " wanted to go ".

In " The Doctor's Wife ," the TARDIS implies that she deliberately unlocked herself so the Doctor could steal her.

Sophie Aldred ( born 20 August 1962 ) is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of The Doctor's companion Ace in the television series Doctor Who during the late 1980s.

The Doctor's attempts at a peace negotiation between humans and Silurians is ruined when Alaya ( Neve McIntosh ) a war hungry Silurian warrior provokes a panicked human mother ( Nia Roberts ) into killing her.

The Rani has opened a hole in time, allowing her access to the Doctor's timeline.

Dr Holloway, who has resigned from her job at the hospital, after the hospital covering up the Doctor's presence there, takes the Doctor home.

Bonnie Langford makes her debut as the Doctor's future companion Mel Bush in the first chapter in Terror of the Vervoids.

When he first came on board the TARDIS, the Sixth Doctor was travelling alone, but in Kane's Story ( DWM # 104 ), the Sixth Doctor's television companion Peri Brown returned, apparently placing Frobisher's stories between the unmade Season 23 and The Trial of a Time Lord ( indicated by Peri's changing hairstyles in the comic strip compared to her television appearances ).

* Thanks to the paradoxes of time travel, since Mel is from the Doctor's future, she has already met him, but from the Doctor's perspective he is meeting her for the first time.

The Doctor's companion for this adventure, Alison Cheney, was voiced by Sophie Okonedo, who a year later would be nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Hotel Rwanda.

Her description of her home planet in The Sensorites ( 1964 ) matches the Tenth Doctor's much later descriptions of Gallifrey, and she is fully familiar with the history and landscape of Gallifrey's Time Lord society when she and the First Doctor are transported to " the Death Zone " in The Five Doctors.

In the Eighth Doctor Adventure Sometime Never ... by Justin Richards, the Eighth Doctor's adopted daughter Miranda reappears with her own daughter Zezanne.