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She wonders why this Doctor reminds her of her fictional Doctor. Anna returns, and Tegan questions Anna about the Doctor, but Anna is vague with her answers. The two women go out to see a play at the Loft Theatre. It is sparsely attended, with only three others there.

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Tegan finds the play weird, with four of the five actors speaking in gibberish and using wheelchairs by the end of the play. A sixth actor then "balloons" up and the rest of the actors gather around the lead. After the play, the actors invite Tegan and Anna out for a drink. At the pub, Anna becomes nervous about the strangeness of the actors. She and Tegan decide to leave, but the actors don't want them to. They speak of seeing Anna again, sensing her "temporal trail". Anna sends Tegan home one way, hoping to divert the actors to herself. Tegan arrives at the house and waits in the library.

She falls asleep, and when she wakes, Anna is there. Of the actors and actresses making up the ensemble, Neve McIntosh is the senior. She is ten and a half years older than Matt Smith, though Capaldi is fourteen years older than her.

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And then there are the characters introduced into the modern series who have a significant back-story of their own. Captain Jack Harkness and River Song have both accompanied the Doctor during some critical moments in the new series - both featuring in episodes where the Doctor has regenerated. River and the Doctor have obviously had many adventures together on screen and, it is implied, off screen, but River Song has her own backstory and timeline that intersects with the Doctor in a way that is impossible to understand - possibly even for Steven Moffat who invented her.

But there has been one age gap even greater than that, during The Day of the Doctor.

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At 42 years, eight months and one day, the gap is days more than that between Tennant and Cribbins. Aside from their companions, David Tennant and Matt Smith in particular have been all kissy-kissy with several guest stars. Matt Smith seems to have specialised in kissing older women. That kiss with Tasha Lem was problematic and not welcomed by many fans — the Doctor forces his affections upon her, which seems a very un-Doctorish thing to do.

Peter Capaldi, on the other hand, suffered the reverse when Missy landed a very passionate kiss on him in the Nethersphere, during last year's season finale episodes. Bizarrely, your chances of becoming a Doctor Who companion seem to be greatly increased by being born towards the end of the year.

Nobody born in August had fulfilled the role until Sophie Aldred joined the cast in , and it wasn't until Catherine Tate appeared in a regular run as Donna Noble that somebody born in May had ever taken up residence as a companion in the Tardis. Ok, this isn't actually the First Doctor.


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It's Brighton Rock Pic: Mainly because they didn't travel on the Tardis. K9 — He was a robot dog.

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Robot dogs are great and all that, but still, robot dog. Kamelion — Due to difficulties operating the prop, Kamelion only appeared in two stories. One to introduce him and one to write him out. This is not heroic companion material. Chang Lee — Although he comes good in the end, he spends most of the TV movie helping out the Master and the Doctor doesn't invite him into the Tardis at the end. Any of the companions that Paul McGann named during his 50th anniversary mini-episode Night of the Doctor.

We've never seen them on screen, even though we've heard them on the audio stories produced by Big Finish.

It made the maths way too complicated. River Song — She's also a time-traveller in her own right, with her own complex storylines. Peter Purves Travelled with: The Myth Makers Played by: Adrienne Hill Travelled with: Dodo Chaplet First Story: Jackie Lane Travelled with: Ben Jackson First Story: The War Machines Played by: Michael Craze Travelled with: Polly Wright First Story: Anneke Wills Travelled with: Jamie McCrimmon First Story: The Highlanders Played by: Frazer Hines Travelled with: Victoria Waterfield First Story: The Evil of the Daleks Played by: Deborah Watling Travelled with: Zoe Heriot First Story: The Wheel in Space Played by: Wendy Padbury Travelled with: The Web of Fear Played by: Nicholas Courtney Doctors helped: John Benton First Story: The Invasion Played by: John Levene Doctors helped: Liz Shaw First Story: Spearhead from Space Played by: Caroline John Doctors helped: Mike Yates First Story: Terror of the Autons Played by: Richard Franklin Doctors helped: Katy Manning Travelled with: Sarah Jane Smith First Story: The Time Warrior Played by: Elisabeth Sladen Travelled with: Harry Sullivan First Story: