# Which Doctor Who Companion would you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516 "2001-08-28T14:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/1 "2001-08-28T14:04:45Z")
The obvious choice is Sarah-Jane, but there are SO many options. Tegan is definately a contender. Time was when I’d say Nyssa, but she hasn’t aged that well. But I think my number one choice would probably be Victoria. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/2 "2001-08-28T14:44:20Z")
Tegan was really hot, in an early 1980’s way. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/3 "2001-08-28T14:45:50Z")
Peri! ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/4 "2001-08-28T15:11:58Z")
Oooh I forgot about Peri. She’s gonna seriously skew the results. I’m concerned for the folks here who prefer men - there’s not a lot to offer them. I’ll open up actual incarnations of the Doctor for those folks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/5 "2001-08-28T15:25:55Z")
Ooh yeah Peri. But also Leela, Romana and Jo. Sarah Jane was a cow, wouldn’t touch her with a ten foot pole. But Leela, she’s at the top of the list. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/6 "2001-08-28T15:33:23Z")
Isn’t the second Romana married to Richard Dawkins? And yeah, Peri. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/7 "2001-08-28T15:39:44Z")
Talk about an adolescent geek-boy fantasy that I can’t shake, lo these many years later! Peri alone may make the Colin Baker episodes my favorite–up until she left the Tardis to marry BRIAN BLESSED! Horrors! Didn’t she and the Doctor know that they were supposed to land in _MY_ backyard in Garland, Texas, and whisk me away in the Tardis and that _I’D_ marry Peri soon thereafter? ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/8 "2001-08-28T15:40:31Z")
Romana number II. No question… and Nyssa… and Jo… especially Jo… Hmm… Excuse me, I have to go… um… powder my nose. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/9 "2001-08-28T15:51:50Z")
Another vote here for Sarah-Jane. With Liz Shaw running her a _very_ close second. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/10 "2001-08-28T16:20:52Z")
Leela. End of discussion ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/11 "2001-08-28T16:26:06Z")
I would have said Leela until I found a video clip of Louise Jameson topless. That’s a terrible thing to say, but it’s true. I think it’s interesting that people often say Romana II (who I believe IS married to Richard Dawkins) but no one ever says Romana I. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with her. And I’m sure you Jo fans are aware she posed nude with a Dalek. ---
**Author:** ![Swede\_Hollow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Swede\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swede_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/12 "2001-08-28T21:43:28Z")
Top three would be Romana II, Leela, and Romana I. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/13 "2001-08-28T22:17:08Z")
> [@](#): > > And I’m sure you Jo fans are aware she posed nude with a Dalek. !!! _faints dead away_ :eek: 🙂 🆒 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/14 "2001-08-28T22:17:28Z")
Zoe, Zoe, Zoe… Yeah, I know she looked about fourteen (babyfaced), but I know she was 20 - 21 when she did her two seasons, so I don’t feel so bad. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Semp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Semp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Semp)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/15 "2001-08-28T22:55:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*And I’m sure you Jo fans are aware she posed nude with a Dalek. \*\* And, unfortunately, the Dalek looked much better. Much, much better. Especially the shots of it giving that _come hither_ look with its eye-stalk-thingy. While Katy whatshername looked almost _go thither_. Truly, some things are better left to the imagination. That said, I’d say Nyssa first, then Peri, and maybe Ace if the other two were busy. I’d have to figure out a way to keep Peri from actually speaking, though. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/16 "2001-08-28T23:06:00Z")
Actual companions? Probably the Scotsman of the first doctor’s reign. There was one character, though, that I thought would have made an excellent companion, and right up until the last minute I thought he was going to join the Doctor, but didn’t. It was Sylvester McCoy’s first episode (“Time and the Rani?”), and the aliens there had big orange and yellow mohawks and scales on their faces. The young guy who was the “main local character” (for lack of a better term) of the episode was HOT. I’d loved to have seen him out of that makeup. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/17 "2001-08-28T23:38:42Z")
Esprix, Not to be picky, but are you referring to the young lad in a kilt named Jamie who was a companion of the Second Doctor? He did have that cute 60s shag cut going, didn’t he? Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![urban1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d07c76/32.png) [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/18 "2001-08-28T23:42:39Z")
I always liked Turlough, slime-ball that he was. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/19 "2001-08-29T00:22:53Z")
The most underutilized companion, and my favorite, is definitely Adric. As for doing (I’ll shoot the guy who just shouted K-9), probably Leela. She actually advised the doctor on shooting a bow, that was cool. And also the smartest one of all, and The Doctor’s daughter Susan. I wondered what happened to her? Did she wind up ruling the future Earth or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-doctor-who-companion-would-you-do/78516/20 "2001-08-29T00:42:36Z")
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