K-9
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How do you figure K-9?
Jamie McCrimmon joined the Doctor a few days after the beginning of his second regeneration and traveled with him non-stop until the Time Lords finally caught up with them both and forced the Doctor into his third regeneration.
So Jamie’s time in the Tardis is equivalent to the duration of the doctor’s second regeneration, whatever that is. Years at least, maybe decades. Which makes sense. Jamie was the closest friend the Doctor ever had.
It’s part of the back story. But didn’t Captain Jack Harkness travel with the Doctor for a long, long, long time? The guy is immortal.
He may not count since his adventures with the Doctor are mostly off camera.
No, I’d say it counts for this thread, but I still need a cite that Jack’s tenure was all that long.
Every year K-9 was with him counts for seven.
Idris was with him from the beginning.
Not only at the end of School Reunion. At the end of “Journey’s End,” she helps the Tenth Doctor pilot the TARDIS, towing Earth, back to its correct location in the cosmos, the planet having been stolen by Davros et al (along with twenty-six other planetoids including Adipose III, Pyrovillia, the Lost Moon of Poosh, and Clom.)
At the end of “The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (Part 2),” Sarah Jane, Rani, Clyde, and Luke are all in the TARDIS, and the Tenth Doctor and Sarah spent time together during this story.
Finally, the Eleventh Doctor and Sarah Jane spend time together during the events of “Death of the Doctor,” which also reunites the Doctor with Jo Grant (now Jo Jones, having married Professor Clifford Jones following the end of “The Green Death.”
I don’t see any way the answer is NOT Sarah Jane Smith.
It was always the Doctor and Sarah.
And he even steps in after death.
But he’s not a companion, in the sense that Rose, Martha, Donna, etc. were.
Yes, although she doesn’t count as a companion. She can’t talk, unless she’s been replaced by a house.
In a manner of speaking, the Doctor’s longest companion is the Tardis. It’s alive, after all.
That’s the Idris people keep mentioning, from the episode where she was briefly incarnated in a human(ish) body.
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If we are counting Torchwood as canon, a little over 2000 years pass for him between the time Rose makes him immortal and he rides on the Tardis in Journey’s End.
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Russell T Davies has a strange fixation on the surname Jones.
It has to be Fear, whoever he is. If we know anything, it’s that Fear is a constant companion.
Jo Jones (née Grant) predates Russel Davies tenure as a Who writer by about 32 years. Davies as a human being only predates Jo Grant by about eight years.
But not “in the company of the Doctor.”
Most of that time was spent under Wales.
Yes, although Jo isn’t an example of it. Clifford Jones was created by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts, the writer and showrunner of “The Green Death,” in 1973 – when Davies was ten.
But it’s true that Davies has used both “Smith,” and “Jones,” on different characters, which I actually find kind of refreshing. They are, after all, the first and second most common English surnames. Fiction usually spares us duplicate names[sup]*[/sup] in an effort to avoid audience confusion. I like the multiple Smiths and Jonses.
- See “Silence in the Library,” a Moffat episode, with Proper Dave and Other Dave.