Perpugilliam (Peri) Brown [Nicola Bryant]

First TV Story: "Planet of Fire" [with 5th Doctor]

Last TV Story: "Trial of A Timelord: Mindwarp"

Perpugilliam Brown was a wealthy, teenage Botany student from Pasadena. Her mother, Janine, remarried a man that Peri disliked, Howard Foster. Peri still treasured the memory of her father, who died when she was 13, and this was probably why she decided to travel with the Fifth Doctor, as a father substitute as the Doctor appeared to be the age that her father died at. On Androzani Minor, Peri fell into a Spectrox nest, and infected both herself and the Doctor with Spectrox Toxaemia, and as there was only enough antidote for one of them, the Doctor sacrificed himself. Why Peri stayed with the unstable, volatile Sixth Doctor is never explained. Maybe she felt guilty for his regeneration. For a long time, their relationship was one of continual arguments, but by the time their travels took them to Ravalox, the relationship seemed to have calmed down. However, it was all too late. On finding themselves on Thoros Beta, Peri found a drugged Doctor betraying her, and finally ended up as a bald husk into which Lord Kiv, a Mentor, was transferred.

Or did she ? The Doctor is pleased to learn that Peri is not dead, merely living on Krontep with King Ycarnos (not on Earth as his wrestling manager - vicious rumours). However, the marriage seems to have broken down by the time, Peri meets the Seventh Doctor and Chris Cwej ("Bad Therapy") and she is living on Earth again. Following her meeting with the Seventh Doctor, Peri returns to America, where she meets up with the Sixth Doctor who is now travelling with Frobisher (see below), accompanying him for several adventures.

[Nicola Bryant: Nicola was born in Surrey, and attended Webber Douglas drama school, from where she went directly into the part of Peri. After leaving the programme, on television she has appeared in "Blackadder's Christmas Carol", "The 10%ers", "Animal Ark", "Casualty" and as Martine in three series of "The Biz", a children's series. Nicola also appeared in the recent Michael Winner film "Parting Shots" with Peter Davison, and in the "Stranger" series of videos with Colin Baker. Nicola has also returned to Peri & "Doctor Who" in the new Big Finish Audios. Nicola lives in Notting Hill, where her understanding neighbours allow her to write music at all hours of the day and night.]

Links: The Official Nicola Bryant Website , The Cavern of Nicola Bryant

Jamie McCrimmon [Frazer Hines]

TV Story: "The Two Doctors"

Travelling with the Second Doctor, Jamie was separated from him when the Doctor was captured by the Sontarans and two Androgums. He was found by the Sixth Doctor, and accompanied him and Peri to Seville to rescue the Second Doctor. Working closely with the Sixth Doctor, he managed to help free the Second Doctor, and left with him.

However, many years later, he again teamed up with the Sixth Doctor, this time with Frobisher (see below) ("The World Shapers") and sacrificed himself to destroy a device that was turning Voords into Cybermen.

[Frazer Hines: Frazer was born in Yorkshire, and after studying acting at the Corona Academy, made his professional debut at the age of eight. His first major television role was in "The Silver Sword", followed by appearances in "Emergency Ward 10" and "Coronation Street". After leaving "Doctor Who", he got the part of Joe Sugden in "Emmerdale Farm". He currently manages his own horse stud farm.]

Links: Jamie McCrimmon

Grant Markham

First Story: "Time of Your Life"

Last Story: ??

Grant, a computer-programmer met the Doctor on the Network, a space station that broadcast entertainment to the planets of the Meson system, where the Doctor had run trying to escape his destiny of becoming the Valeyard. Having survived Death-hunt 3000, the two of them left together to visit Grant's home planet, Agora. However, the planet was being used as a factory for Cybermen, and local people were being cyberised. The Doctor having been captured, Grant joined a gang of rebels to defeat the Cybermen and their aides. At the end (of "Killing Ground"), Grant and the Doctor leave together, for unknown adventures.

Dr. Evelyn Smythe [Maggie Stables]

First Story: "The Marian Conspiracy"

Last Story: ??

Dr. Evelyn Smythe, a 65 year-old historian working towards her professorship met the Doctor when he was tracking a nexus point in time, and he discovered that she was intimately involved, as her family was being erased from time. Her eccentricities made her fit in perfectly with the Doctor, and she welcomed the chance to travel with him, as her University (Sheffield Hallam) was trying to pension her off. However, more recently she is beginning to fidn the horrors that she experiences more difficult to bear.

[Maggie Stables: When not travelling through time and space with the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables is a magistrate in Haringey, North London. She has also appeared in "The Sirens of Time", in the Bernice Summerfield adventure, "Just War", and in the Tomorrow People adventure "The Ghosts of Mendez"]

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart [Nicholas Courtney]

Stories: "The Spectre of Lanyon Moor" [Big Finish]

"Business Unusual" [BBC Book]

"Dimensions In Time"

The Brigadier despite having appeared with the Second to Fifth and Seventh Doctors, took his time before he appeared with the Sixth ("Dimensions in Time" aside). He first met up with him, whilst the Sixth Doctor was travelling with Evelyn, where they encountered murder, mayhem, and mystery whilst investigating an ancient burial mound. The two met up again, when the Brigadier was captured in Ashdown Forest whilst investigating a software company's new interactive games console, and it was up to the Doctor and his new assistant Mel (see below) to save him.

[Nicholas Courtney: Following National Service, Nicholas Courtney did several temporary jobs until he was accepted by the Webber Douglas drama school. He left after two years, and worked in repertory in Northampton, before moving to London. In 1965 he was first cast in "Doctor Who", as Brett Vyon in "The Daleks' Masterplan", and from 1967 he played the recurring role of the Brigadier. His stage appearances include "The Rocky Horror Show" and "The Mousetrap", and his television includes "Minder, "Juliet Bravo", and "Harry Hill".]

Frobisher [Robert Jezek in "The Holy Terror" & "The Maltese Penguin"]

First Story: "The Shape Shifter"

Last Story: "A Cold Day in Hell"

Frobisher, a shape-shifting Whifferdill, met the Doctor on , where they teamed up to trick Josiah W. Dogbolter, a ruthless froglike tycoon to whom the Fifth Doctor refused to sell the TARDIS, out of the bounty that he has put on the Doctor's head. Finding that they make a good team, the two of them left together in the TARDIS, Frobisher now in the form of a 3-foot high penguin. Travelling the galaxy, being dragged into almost every space war, the two of them found themselves in New York, where the Doctor met up with Peri again. The three travel together until the Doctor returned Peri to America, leaving Frobisher with the Seventh Doctor. Having saved a planet from the Ice Warriors, Frobisher decides to stay there.

[Robert Jezek: Robert appeared in the television "Doctor Who" adventure, "Battlefield" as Sergeant Zbrigniev. He has also appeared in the Big Finish adventures "Red Dawn", "The Ratings War" & "Minuet in Hell". Robert also had a small role in the sci-fi film "Event Horizon".]

Jason [Graeme Smith/David Bingham]

First Story: ??

Last Story: "Face Value" (so far)

Having met the Doctor in eighteenth-century France, the Marquis de Saint Evremonde D'Isigny de la Tour (Jason for short), an aristocrat threatened with the guillotine, travelled away in the TARDIS with him. He and the Doctor were summoned to Downing Street by Mrs. Thatcher, who asked them to foil a plot to kidnap a US envoy. The two of them found themselves battling Daleks, Cybermen and Vervoids, as well as an amorous bar owner, and a mercenary. With the envoy safe, Jason left Earth with the Doctor, Crystal & Zog (see below) for Leisureworld on Krennos.

[Graeme Smith: Born and bred in Australia, Graeme studied drama at Sydney's Theatre of Youth. His professional debut was in an Australian tour of "Oliver!", which was followed by "Pal Joey". Soon after arriving in London, he appeared in "Peter Pan - The Musical", "My Fair Lady", "Hello Dolly" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". On television, he appeared in "The Young Doctors", "Prisoner" and "Kings".]

Crystal [Rebecca Thornhill]

First Story: "The Ultimate Adventure"

Last Story: "Face Value" (so far)

Crystal, a twentieth-century nightclub singer, met the Doctor and Jason on their quest to rescue the envoy, and fell in love with him, causing her to accompany him, the Doctor and Zog to Leisureworld. She had a tendency to scream, but was Jason's equal in defending herself against the myriad of monsters that they encountered.

[Rebecca Thornhill: Rebecca was born in Dartford, and trained at the Arts Educational School until 1988. Her first professional engagement was at a Dougie Squires Spectacular in Cannes. She appeared in a cinema advertisement for Levi jeans, and a TV film "Eye on L.A.!". Her other stage appearances include "Me and My Girl", "Cats", "The Witches of Eastwick", and the touring show "Beyond the Barricades" ("Songs from the shows") ]

Zog [Stephanie Colburn]

First Story: "The Ultimate Adventure"

Last Story: "Face Value" (so far)

Zog, a small furry Aldeberian, met the Doctor, Jason & Crystal in Delilah's bar, proving himself to be less than effective at fighting, travelling to Earth with them, and then on to Leisureworld. However, his cute, fuzzy exterior, hides a dark secret.

[Stephanie Colburn: Stephanie returned to Doctor Who in 2002, when she played Nintaru in Big Finish's "The Sandman", again opposite Colin Baker.

Zog: Zog can be found at the Doctor Who Exhibition in Blackpool ]

Melanie (Mel) Bush [Bonnie Langford]

First TV Story: "Trial of a Timelord: Terror of the Vervoids"

Last TV Story: "Dragonfire" [with 7th Dr]

Mel, a computer programmer from Pease Pottage, first met up with the Doctor, when the Master was attempting a massive computer fraud, involving all the banking houses in the world. ("Business Unusual") The Doctor begrudgingly teamed up with her, aware that he is on track to become the Valeyard, and finally admitted defeat as she stowed-away on the TARDIS. Mel soon took it upon herself to help the Doctor lose weight, much to his chagrin. Mel had the same sense of curiosity as the Doctor, and therefore, often found herself in trouble, to which her response was to scream. She aided the Doctor in his genocide of the carnivorous Vervoids, and was quick to leap to his defence during his trial. When the TARDIS was knocked off course by the Rani, she was merely stunned, unfortunately the Doctor hit his head on the console and regenerated. She remained with the Seventh Doctor, until they met up with Ace on Iceworld, when she left with Sabalom Glitz.

[Bonnie Langford: Bonnie was born in Hampton Court, Surrey. By the age of six, she had won "Opportunity Knocks", and went on to train at the Arts Educational and Italia Conti stage schools in London. By her early teens she had starred on Broadway, in the West End and in her own television show. In the mid-seventies, she was famous for playing Violet Elizabeth Bott in "Just William", a role which fixed her in the minds of the public as a precocious child star. Since then, before and after "Doctor Who", she has appeared in many more musicals and television variety shows. More recently she has toured in the title role of "Sweet Charity", and with her one-woman show "My West End and More...". She has recently released several albums of songs from the shows.]

Links: Bonnie Langford.co.uk

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