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Doctor Who character
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Victoria
Affiliated with	Second Doctor
Species	Human
Home planet	Earth
Home era	1866
First appearance	The Evil of the Daleks
Last appearance	Fury from the Deep (official series); Downtime (spin-off media)
Portrayed by	Deborah Watling

Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A native of Victorian England, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1967 to 1968.

[edit] Character history

Victoria first appears in the 1967 serial The Evil of the Daleks. She is the daughter of scientist Edward Waterfield (played by John Bailey), who in 1866 is experimenting with time travel and has attracted the attention of the Daleks. In order to assure Waterfield's collaboration with their capture of the Doctor and their experiments with the Human and Dalek Factors, the Daleks with the help of Theodore Maxtable took Victoria as a prisoner. To measure his emotional responses, they then manipulated Jamie McCrimmon into rescuing, although they ultimately re-captured her and took her to Skaro'. At the conclusion of the adventure, Waterfield is killed saving the Doctor's life, and asks him to take care of Victoria. The Doctor and Jamie take her in as part of the TARDIS crew.

On the outside, Victoria is a typically fragile lady of her era, frequently screaming when faced with the creatures the Doctor and his companions encounter in their travels, such as the Cybermen and the Yeti, the latter which are automatons of the disembodied Great Intelligence. However, this exterior hides an inner strength that crops up when needed. Victoria may be young, but she has an instinct for when she is being lied to, and her sensibility is a contrast to the recklessness of Jamie and the curiosity of the Doctor. Jamie, in particular, is very protective towards and fond of Victoria, and is heartbroken when she chooses to leave.

Despite being a good match to her two companions, Victoria eventually finds herself unsuited to extended travel with the Doctor. At the conclusion of the serial Fury from the Deep, she decides to leave the TARDIS, settling with a family named Harris in the 20th century. Her subsequent life is not shown in the television series. She is mentioned, but not seen to be travelling with the Second Doctor in the 1985 serial The Two Doctors (see Season 6B).

[edit] Other mentions

In the Fourth Doctor serial Pyramids of Mars, Sarah Jane Smith finds one of Victoria's dresses in the TARDIS's wardrobe and wears it for the duration of the storyline. She is mentioned by the 4th Doctor in Pyramids of Mars, and the 7th Doctor in The Curse of Fenric. A vision of Victoria is seen along with every other companion aside from Leela on the scanner screen in Resurrection of the Daleks.

[edit] List of appearances

[edit] Television serials

Season 4

The Evil of the Daleks

Season 5

30th anniversary special

Dimensions in Time

[edit] Video

Downtime (also novelised by scriptwriter Marc Platt as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures line)

[edit] Audio

[edit] Novels

Virgin Missing Adventures

Twilight of the Gods by Christopher Bulis
The Dark Path by David A. McIntee

Past Doctor Adventures

[edit] Short stories

"Face-Painter" by Tara Samms (Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors)
"The Astronomer's Apprentice" by Simon A. Forward (Short Trips: The Muses)
"The Farmer's Story" by Todd Green (Short Trips: Repercussions)
"The Age of Ambition" by Andrew Campbell (Short Trips: Life Science)
"Screamager" by Jacqueline Rayner (Short Trips: Monsters)
"The Last Emperor" by Jacqueline Rayner (Short Trips: 2040)
"The Cutty Wren" by Ann Kelly (Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas)
"On a Pedestal" by Kathleen O. David (Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership)

[edit] Comics

"Freedom by Fire" by David Brian (Doctor Who Annual 1969)
"Atoms Infinite" by David Brian (Doctor Who Annual 1969)
"Bringer of Darkness" by Warwick Gray and Martin Geraghty (Doctor Who Magazine Summer Special 1993)

[edit] External links

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