Category talk:Doctor Who companions

Eighth Doctor's Companions

Are there any plans to add Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Trix Macmillan, Anji Kapoor, Stacy Townsend, & Ssard to this page?

Sam Jones and Fitz Kreiner exist, the others don't yet, please feel free to start them :) --Tim Pope 20:41, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I know that pages for Sam and Fitz exist but what I meant is that although Fitz has been added, Sam has not been added to the companion list. As for Trix, Stacy, & Ssard... well I have very little information on them so it's going to take someone in the know about them to create pages :) -- Alan Kelly 16:44, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Which companion list are you talking about? Sam is on List of supporting characters in Doctor Who as well as in Category:Doctor Who companions. --khaosworks 15:56, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

I couldn't think of the proper title for the List of supporting characters in Doctor Who page so I just called it Companion List. I now see that Sam and Fitz have been added. Great stuff! Just need someone with information on Stacy Townsend, Ssard, Beatrice 'Trix' Macmillan, & Anji Kapoor and it'll be complete :) -- Alan Kelly 1:34, 7 August, 2005 (UTC)

Naming Conventions

Are characters to be listed here by their full names or most frequently used names, e.g. "Charley Pollard" or "Charlotte Elspeth Pollard"? Jdhowens90 11:10, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

The articles appear in the category as the name of the article, to change it you would have to rename the articles. --TimPope 11:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Split?

Could we split this into TV companions and non-TV companions? Would have found a list of TV companions really handy just now. 213.107.21.212 16:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

While we are at it, what about classifying companion by their respective Doctor regenerations (e.g., Ace as a companion of the Seventh Doctor, Peri (IIRC) as a companion of both the Fifth and Sixth, Rose for the nineth)? Luis Dantas 18:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think there's really enough companions to make such a ten-way split viable or needed... Morwen - Talk 18:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC) (same as anonip above)

TV Companions in Other Media

Should each companion have a full listing of their appearences in other media like the books as well as their TV appearences?--Alan-WK 18:49, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Grace?

Does Grace really count as a companion? I know the definition is somewhat difficult to pin down but some combination of 'travelled with the Doctor' and 'appeared in more than one adventure' seems to be the norm. I realise it's nice to have a TV companion to list with the Eighth but if a similar story appeared with any of the others docs nobody would count her. At best she's someone who gets involved for one adventure. I'd be much more willing to classify her if she'd gone with him at the end but she didn't. I realise this maybe suggesting against the tide but I'm intrigued to know what people think. Cheers.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.109.196 (talk • contribs)

Basically, she played the companion role in that story. She assisted him against the Master, she got into trouble, she asked all the stupid questions so the Doctor could answer them and forward the plot. The role of the companion is not a set of hard-and-fast criteria, in my view - it is a metafictional role, and is based more on how the character fits within the structure of a Doctor Who story than anything else. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 15:28, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I can see that but the same can be said of Spandrell in Deadly Assassin or Lightfoot and Jago in Talons. Definitely a companion role but not really a companion. That said, I don't have much hope of changing people's opinions, I'm just interested in having the discussion. I'm kind of the opinion that Grace and (I know this one's contentious) Sara Kingdom don't count. I feel that a companion should at the very least appear in more than one story. Otherwise they're just a guest star.

Would Mickey Smith count as a companion as well by this definition?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.109.196 (talk • contribs)

Mickey Smith was a companion. He joined the crew in "School Reunion," stayed through the girl/fireplace episode, went to another universe and left. He wasn't a companion for long, but he was definitely a companion. Grace gets listed because that Doctor has no one else. She's widely accepted as a special case. Your logic is right that she would just seem to be a guest star, but that one movie is our only canonical adventure for that Doctor, so people just make the exception. If Doctor Who had a canonical theatrical movie that showed a traveling companion who'd been in no TV episodes, that character would have to count to for the sake of consistency, of course. Dr.Who 21:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I just remembered another special case. Sara Kingdom was only in one adventure, and she gets listed as one of the few Dr. Who companions to die. This is another special case because the story she was in was such a long one. Dr.Who 21:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Michael Gough?

Why is Michael Gough the actor listed as a companion? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.206.116.81 (talk) 19:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC).

• That was linked in error through one of the other links on the page - I have removed it, thanks.--Bilbo B 21:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Adam Mitchell

Adam Mitchell should be listed. He was certainly a companion, if a short one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.167.119.236 (talk) 02:53, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Adam Mitchell should be listed. I agree. --162.95.80.214 (talk) 23:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

He is. Under M. • Anakin ^{(contribs • complaints)} 17:49, 28 January 2008 (UTC)