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Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 37
When Mel was 18 months old, she accidentally caused her older sister Anabel to fall down the stairs, which ended up killing her. Mel repressed the memories of her sister's death, and her parents decided to keep Anabel a secret from her. (Novel: Spiral Scratch)
When Leela eventually died, she was reborn as a girl named Emily. (Audio: The Child)
The Seventh Doctor visited Ace when she was a baby to apologize for many of the manipulations he would one day put her through (and that he would continue to put her through) because he thought it was easier talking to a baby than a teenager. He stole a baby picture of Ace and replaced it with a playing card while he was there. (Short story: Ace of Hearts)
Oliver Harper joined the First Doctor and Steven on the TARDIS because he was running from the police, who were chasing him because he had been outed as homosexual. (Audio: The Perpetual Bond)
Martha Jones met the Thirteenth Doctor while she and the Tenth Doctor were stranded in the 1960s after being attacked by the Weeping Angels. (Comic: A Little Help from My Friends)
The Fifth Doctor can go between referring to the TARDIS as "old girl" and as "flying deathtrap" incredibly quickly. (Audio: Zaltys)
Dodo Chaplet's funeral was attended by only two people: James Stevens and the Doctor. Her entire life after leaving the TARDIS was a shitshow and became dark enough that I will not elaborate here. Feel free to do some digging, but it is not for the faint of heart. (Novel: Who Killed Kennedy)
However, there are other accounts of Dodo's post-TARDIS days that do not end as terribly for her!!!! :D
The Doctor's frequent trips in a damaged TARDIS during the 1970s and 80s disrupted Earth's timeline to such a great extent that the two decades folded in on each other, making 20 years worth of events happen in 10. This is how the UNIT Dating Controversy was addressed. (Short story: The Enfolded Time)
The Brigadier once bullied the Third Doctor into getting his metabolism checked over because he didn't believe the Doctor would be safe in Bessie or the Whomobile. While this was all happening, Sarah Jane helped foil a Dalek plot. (Audio: Glorious Goodwood)
Adric does not speak English. He hears Alzarian through the TARDIS translation circuits. (Audio: Zaltys)
Ace has a younger brother named Liam but didn't remember he existed for a long while because their father took him when their parents separated. (Audio: The Rapture)
While on a school trip to the Natural History Museum, Ryan and Yaz helped the Second Doctor fight Myriapods, which are insect like in nature. (Short story: The Myriapod Mutiny)
For a while, the Tenth Doctor traveled with Heather McCrimmon, descendant of Jamie McCrimmon. (Comic: The Chromosomal Connection, et al...she's in a lot of comics)
Rory Williams became Caesar of Rome as an Auton after the death of the Empress Augusta. (Audio: The Unwilling Assassin)
Why didn’t anyone tell me the Highlanders had one of the best one off Who characters?
This dude, Lt. Algernon Ffinch, is just a lot of fun. You feel bad (or at least I did) for how many times Polly keeps ruining his day, stealing all his money, blackmailing him, and even Ben has him at knifepoint towards the end. Then the dude finds out he’s been helping some this greedy asshole prison warden trick/sell the rebels he’s been fighting into slavery and just switched sides. Even lets the tardis team leave INCLUDING JAMIE!
Granted it’s sorta implied he did it cuz he liked Polly too, but that just means that despite her constantly treating him like crap, once he figured out why she was doing all of this he started to like her. Also it’s not like he proposes or anything. She just gives him a kiss on the cheek and he leaves. Never to be heard from again.
But I’ll remember him.
Idk I get James Norrington but more of a doofus vibes from this guy and so I can’t help but like him. Overall fun side character I wanted to highlight.
Okay, so I think the people animating these lost Doctor Who adventures are doing a disservice to the queer community. The whole time I'm watching it I'm like "Why aren't Jamie and the Doctor touching? Why aren't they putting their faces stupidly close when they talk? That's not like them." Then I got to a scene that they have a surviving clip of and I realize THEY REMOVED ALL THE TOUCHING. Maybe because this style of animation doesn't have the full range of motion rather than bc of homophobia but STILL