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- Susan, Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Steven, Katarina, Sara,
Dodo
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- Polly, Ben, Jamie, Victoria, Zoe
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- The Brigadier, Liz, Sgt. Benton, Jo, Captain
Yates
4 - Sarah Jane, Harry, Leela, K-9, Romana, Adric
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- Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion, Peri, Mel,
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| Sarah Jane Smith |
| Arrival: The Time Warrior |
Departure: The Hand of Fear |
 Sarah Jane was a young journalist who met The Third
Doctor while impersonating her Aunt Lavinia, an eminent scientist,
to get a story (The Time Warrior). After sharing his final
adventures, Sarah was present when The Doctor regenerated into his
fourth persona, and helped Lethbridge-Stewart convince him to stay
on Earth to investigate a mysterious series of thefts of advanced
technology (Robot). Along with Harry Sullivan, she
accompanied The Fourth Doctor on a number of adventures, including
his mission to Skaro at the time of the creation of the Daleks, and
his first meeting in several years with the Cybermen (Revenge of
the Cybermen). With Harry safely back on Earth, Sarah and The
Doctor continued their travels, meeting such foes as Sutekh
(Pyramids of Mars), Morbius (The Brain of Morbius),
and the Mandragora Helix (The Masque of Mandragora). Sarah
had a cheeky, irreverent attitude to life, and her personality was
perhaps more suited to The Fourth Doctor than that of any of his
other companions. She was a proponent of women's rights (The
Monster of Peladon, Robot, and others). She was also a
crack shot (Pyramids of Mars) and a capable fighter (K-9
and Company). She suffered from vertigo (The Five
Doctors; this may have been the result of an incident in which a
sadistic guard nearly dropped her to her death from a missile
gantry: Genesis of the Daleks). Sarah left The Doctor rather
abruptly following his recall to Gallifrey (The Hand of
Fear), but his presence continued to be felt in her life. In
1981, while working on a book at her Aunt Lavinia's home in Moreton
Harwood, she found a crate containing a gift from The Doctor, a
mobile computer called K-9 Mark III. With K-9's help, she uncovered
the mystery of a coven which was operating in the area (K-9 and
Company). In 1983, she was timescooped into the Death Zone on
Gallifrey, where, to her surprise, she was reunited with The Third
Doctor, and forced to play the deadly Game of Rassilon (The Five Doctors).
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| Lt. Harry Sullivan |
| Arrival: Robot |
Departure: The Android Invasion |
 Harry Sullivan was a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the
Royal Navy who joined UNIT as medical officer during The Third
Doctor's era. He was placed in charge of The Fourth Doctor's
recovery from his regeneration, and found himself locked in a
cupboard when he tried to prevent The Doctor from leaving in the
TARDIS. He proved to be a capable ally, though, first when he
indulged his James Bond fantasies by infiltrating the secret Think
Tank complex, and later, when he helped The Doctor synthesize a
"metal virus" which ended the menace of the K-1 robot
(Robot). Harry joined the TARDIS crew accidentally when he
entered the ship with The Doctor and Sarah and touched one of the
controls. He and Sarah, whom he protectively referred to as "old girl", had several adventures with The Doctor, but after they
returned to Earth and faced the menace of the Loch Ness monster
(Terror of the Zygons), Harry decided to stay behind. He had
another brief encounter with The Doctor (The Android
Invasion), and was later seconded to NATO, where, according to
the Brigadier, he was "last heard of doing something hush-hush at Porton Down" (Mawdryn Undead).
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| Leela |
| Arrival: The Face of Evil |
Departure: The Invasion of Time |
 Leela was a warrior of the Sevateem, a tribe
descended from a Mordee survey team which The Doctor once tried to
help (The Face of Evil). She was a creature of instinct,
whose usual solution to problems was to attack them, either with her
knife or with one of the poisonous janis thorns she carried. At
first The Doctor tried to overcome her superstitious upbringing by
teaching her the ways of science, and attempted to teach her
civilized behavior, taking her to Earth's past to show her how her
ancestors lived (The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Horror of Fang
Rock). After the latter adventure, in which she gloated over the
death of a Rutan scout, he seemed to resign himself to the idea that
Leela would never be completely tamed, and for all his complaints
about her methods, there's no denying that they served his purposes
in most of their adventures. Leela was fond of K-9 Mk I, and it's
fitting that when she left The Doctor, surprisingly remaining on
Gallifrey when she fell in love with guard captain Andred, that the
faithful robotic dog remained with her (The Invasion of
Time). Leela and Andred were married, in what must have been an
interesting ceremony, if we may judge from The Doctor's later
comment that he was sorry to have missed it (Arc of Infinity).
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| K-9 |
Arrival (K-9 Mk 1): The Invisible Enemy
(K-9 Mk II): The Ribos
Operation |
Departure (K-9
Mk 1): The Invasion of Time
(K-9 Mk II): Warrior's Gate |
 K-9 Mark I was a mobile computer constructed by
Professor Marius of the Bi-Al Foundation as both a database and a
surrogate for the dog he'd left on Earth. Marius, who was going home
soon after his encounter with The Doctor and Leela, gave K-9 to them
after the dog, which was equipped with a laser in his nose, had
proven invaluable in helping to defeat the Swarm (The Invisible
Enemy). K-9 Mk I began to break down almost immediately,
suffering from corroded circuitry, and being unsuited to the terrain
in which many of The Doctor's adventures took place. The Doctor, who
had already been secretly working on an improved model, allowed K-9
Mk I to remain on Gallifrey with Leela. K-9 Mark II was built
by The Doctor, presumably after he obtained a set of blueprints from
the first K-9's memory banks. While similar to his predecessor in
most respects, the new version had better mobility, and its
programming, improved by The Doctor, included the ability to sense
danger. This K-9 assisted The Doctor and Romana during their search
for the Key of Time, but began to suffer a series of malfunctions
soon afterwards, including corrosion in his voice circuitry
(Destiny of the Daleks), which the Doctor didn't fully repair
until sometime after their adventure with his old friend Professor
Chronotis (Shada). Soon after this, K-9 Mk II was shorted out
when he was accidentally immersed in the English Channel (The
Leisure Hive), and was further damaged during The Doctor and
Romana's adventure on Alzarius (Full Circle). Finally, the
computer was severely injured by the time winds surrounding the
Gateway between E-Space and N-Space, a condition that could only be
reversed if he remained behind in E-Space with Romana (Warriors'
Gate). K-9 Mark III never served as The Doctor's
companion. He was, instead, a gift to former companion Sarah Jane
Smith, which The Doctor constructed using late 20th-century
technology (thus avoiding the temporal paradox of creating the
computer 30 centuries ahead of its time, which certainly would have
gotten The Doctor into serious trouble). This K-9 and Sarah shared
an adventure against a coven of witches (K-9 and Company).
Their further exploits are undocumented, aside from an incident in
which Sarah ignored K-9's danger warnings and left him behind on the
day she was reunited with The Third Doctor (The Five Doctors).
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| Romana |
| Arrival: The Ribos Operation |
Departure: Warrior's Gate |
  Romanadvoratrelundar was a young Time Lord
assigned to help The Doctor in his search for the Key of Time by the
White Guardian, who appeared to her in the guise of the Lord
President of Gallifrey. Romana was a recent Academy graduate with no
field experience, who often chided The Doctor for his disregard for
proper procedure, especially when it came to operating the TARDIS.
As their quest for the Key continued, she came to appreciate that
The Doctor's unorthodox methods had their advantages. During their
acquisition of the final segment of the Key, Romana was tortured by
the Shadow, an agent of the Black Guardian (The Armageddon
Factor). Soon after this, she regenerated, assuming the likeness
of the Princess Astra of Atrios, the woman who had been that final
segment. In this form, Romana acquired a quirky, dry sense of humor
which made her more compatible with The Doctor, though she never
quite lost the air of superiority which characterized her prior
form. Romana and The Doctor shared a number of adventures, including
one on the planet Skonnos in which she took the lead in their
investigations, leaving The Doctor to assume the unfamiliar role of
companion (The Horns of Nimon). Eventually the High Council
became aware of her involvement with The Doctor and ordered her to
come home, a prospect that filled her with dread, since she'd become
used to being a free agent. While en route to Gallifrey, the TARDIS
was swept off course into the pocket universe called E-Space. After
a series of adventures there, which culminated in the Time Lords
finding a way back to their own universe, Romana announced that she
was staying in E-Space to help free the enslaved Tharils, a race of
time sensitives. The Doctor gave her K-9 Mk II as a companion, and
he and their new companion, Adric, left Romana and K-9 to find their
destiny (Warriors' Gate).
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| Adric |
| Arrival: Full Circle |
Death: Earthshock |
 Adric was a young native of the planet Alzarius who
encountered The Fourth Doctor, K-9, and Romana soon after their
arrival in E-Space. The boy, who didn't fit into the ordered
Alzarian society, stowed away in the TARDIS after the death of his
brother Varsh (Full Circle), and stayed with The Doctor when
he returned to the N-Space universe after the departures of Romana
and K-9. He got along well with The Fourth Doctor, perhaps because
his curiosity and willingness to learn reminded The Doctor of
himself as a boy. But as other companions joined the TARDIS crew, he
felt neglected, and when The Doctor regenerated into his fifth
persona, the problem became worse. The Fifth Doctor seemed to be
reminded of his own childhood awkwardness and lack of social graces,
and despite the affection he felt for the boy, he was frequently
exasperated by him. Sadly, just as Adric and The Doctor were
patching up their relationship, the boy became a pawn in The
Doctor's ongoing struggle with the Cybermen. He remained on a
freighter after its crew evacuated, in an attempt to prevent the
ship from crashing into Earth. He failed, and died, never knowing
that all of Earth's history would have changed had he succeeded
(Earthshock).
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