The Doctor's Companions

Ben Jamie Victoria
The Highlanders - The War Games & The Two Doctors
Jamie
Jamie
(1966 - 1969 & 1985)
Frazer Hines
 Frazer Hines was born in Yorkshire in 1944 and his first acting performance was at the age of eight. Further stage, film and television work followed including the 1957 Charlie Chaplin film A King in New York. Television roles include The Silver Sword in 1957 and 1958, Emergency Ward Ten in 1963 and Coronation Street in 1965. In 1972 he took on the role of Joe Sugden in the long running soap Emmerdale Farm which he played until 1994. During this time he continued to make the occasional appearances in theatre and on television including as a guest on the word and numbers game show Countdown and two Doctor Who stories "The Five Doctors" and "The Two Doctors". Due to his love of racing horses he became an amateur jockey and he has his own stud farm. He recently made a brief appearance, in the costume of Jamie, on the BBC National Lottery programme which looked into the story of the missing episodes.
 Jamie Robert McCrimmon, a Scottish Laird's piper, is trying to escape with his clan chief from the English Redcoats during the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden in 1746 when he meets up with The Doctor, Ben and Polly.

The Highlanders
The Highlanders
 He was destined to become one of the series most popular and best remembered companion: even though he was originally only cast as a minor one off character, he impressed the production team so much that, upon realising the character’s potential, they hastily rewrote the end of Jamie's first story "The Highlanders" to include him as a companion. The end scene now had The Doctor inviting Jamie to join him for his own safety during this troubled time in history. Possible it is because of this sudden addition to the TARDIS crew that his character failed to receive much development in the next few stories (To the extent that he spent most of "The Moonbase" unconscious after hitting his head in the reduced gravity when jumping on the surface of the moon).

Due to his background, Jamie was a very brave and loyal companion. His fierce courage more than compensated for his lack of intelligence and he was always willing to sacrifice himself to protect The Doctor and his fellow companions. He stubbornly refused to be beaten by anything, challenging such diverse enemies as the omnivorous Androgum Shockeye - despite Shockeye having previously attempted to eat him - ("The Two Doctors") and the dog-like Tyrenians ("The Colony of Lies") in tests of combat, and he was very trusting of The Doctor, especially when faced with something that was beyond his comprehension and understanding.

The Enemy of the World
The Enemy of the World
 The Doctor and Jamie had a very much teacher/pupil relationship - to the point where The Doctor once had Jamie writing lines after he killed the last Gallifreyian woprat in existence when they discovered it in a crashed prototype TARDIS, albeit because it had been about to attack Jamie’s fellow companion Victoria ("Heart of TARDIS") -, and Jamie relied upon The Doctor for explanations of the technology which were mostly beyond his comprehension. However, despite needing to have even the simplest of things explained to him, he took everything in his stride although originally believing most things to be the products of sorcery, such as mistaking a Cyberman for the phantom piper that appeared to members of his clan on their deathbeds ("The Moonbase"). The longer Jamie stayed with The Doctor the more knowledgeable and accepting he became, focusing primarily on the consistencies he experienced in his travels, such as weapons always requiring accurate aim in order to do damage ("The Colony of Lies").

 Jamie's low IQ, however, was sometimes an advantage, as was the case when he was captured by the Krotons who, after testing him, assumed that he would not be a threat, thus giving him the chance to escape and warn The Doctor ("Krotons"), Jamie’s resourcefulness and ability to be overlooked resulting in The Doctor’s first of many victories over his former friend Koschei (The Time Lord who would later become known as The Master) ("The Dark Path"). Even so, The Doctor would sometimes take advantage of Jamie's naiveté when he was clowning around to play his minor jokes. One example was when Jamie announces that he has an idea on how to capture a Yeti in "The Abominable Snowmen" and The Doctor replies while dragging Victoria away 'Victoria, I think this is one of those instances when discretion is the better part of valour. Jamie has an idea. Come on'. However, despite this a lot of his ideas were successful, such as when he disabled a robot Yeti by putting a rock in its chest cavity to stop the control sphere that powered the Yeti reactivating the robot instead ("The Abominable Snowmen"). His background as a warrior meant that he was always ready and able to stand up and fight when the situation required it, once rallying a group of Menoptera - the butterfly-like inhabitants of the planet Vortis - to help them fight off their invading enemies the Rhumon, while also challenging the Rhumons to think about their reasons for fighting with the Menoptera by challenging two captive soldiers to justify their actions to Menopteran children, forcing them to recognise that they had no reason for their attempted conquest of Vortis ("Twilight of the Gods").

The Krotons
The Krotons
 He became very much attached to Victoria and because of their strong brother/sister relationship he was very distraught, along with The Doctor, when she decided to leave. However, his anguish was to be short lived when they meet up with Zoe, Jamie occasionally demonstrating a strong affection for her even if it never progressed beyond friendship. During this time, The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe were briefly separated when The Doctor was shot and presumed dead after they accidentally materialised on board a restricted military base, Jamie being virtually brainwashed by a charismatic leader on the Earth of the present during his time away from The Doctor to the extent that he initially refused to accept The Doctor’s survival as he otherwise couldn’t cope with the actions he had committed for Mackenzie, although he eventually came to terms with his sins and his friend’s survival ("The Indestructable Man"). Jamie travelled in the TARDIS for three years and throughout most of the Second Doctor's era, notably making him the consistently-longest-running non-Doctor actor in the show. He was forced to leave, along with Zoe, when The Doctor's own people, the Time Lords, caught up with The Doctor and put him on trial for all the meddling he had done. As part of The Doctor's punishment Jamie is returned to Culloden with all his memories of his travels in the TARDIS erased except for his first adventure ("The War Games").

The War Games
The War Games
Jamie would appear in a further two Doctor Who stories; The 20th anniversary special "The Five Doctors", in 1983, where he appeared as a holographic image that was intended to ward off the Second Doctor; and in the 1985 Sixth Doctor story, "The Two Doctors" where he helped the Sixth Doctor and Peri rescue the Second Doctor during the Second’s time working with the Celestial Intervention Agency prior to his exile (The later novel "World Game" established that the Time Lords returned Jamie to The Doctor to act as his assistant on The Doctor’s request, restoring some of Jamie’s memories and adjusting them slightly so that he recalled Victoria leaving to study graphology to account for her absence).

The Five Doctors
The Five Doctors
The Sixth Doctor encountered Jamie again when he apparently arrived in an alternate version of 1780 where the Jacobites were fighting against the mysterious and ruthless ‘Overlord’, Jamie now leading the Jacobites under the alias of ‘the Black Douglas’. Despite Jamie lacking any memories of his previous time with The Doctor, he swiftly decided to trust The Doctor as they investigated the mystery of the Overlord’s presence and the industrial production that was taking place as a result. Further puzzled by various anomalies in the present time period, The Doctor invited Jamie to resume his travels with him, Jamie agreeing to the offer out of curiosity at The Doctor’s talk of their previous time together despite his own disbelief about The Doctor’s references to an old friendship between them. However, their subsequent trip resulted in them arriving on a fake version of the Titanic - The Doctor guessing that it was artificial due to such anomalies as the first officer carrying an incongruous gun or the band playing the same tune over and over again -, where they were rescued from the sinking by none other than Captain Nemo and the Nautilus of Jules Verne’s "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". With this information, The Doctor realised that he was actually in the Land of Fiction, now under the control of Zoe after she had trapped a Cyber-ship in the Land of Fiction when their attempt to convert her restored her memories of her time with The Doctor. Requiring The Doctor’s aid to stop the Cybermen, Zoe had attempted to summon The Doctor, but when he had landed on the outskirts of the Land, she had created a fictional duplicate of Jamie - the Jamie that The Doctor had been travelling with - to help protect the Time Lord until he could reach her. With the Cybermen defeated, The Doctor and Zoe departed from the Land of Fiction, leaving the fictional Jamie to help protect the Land’s new Mistress - Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" - as she assumed control of the Land and recreated it in her image.


Memorable Moment
 Although he faced many diverse enemies in his time with The Doctor, Jamie’s most memorable moment occurred in the novel "The Indestructable Man", when he was briefly convinced that The Doctor had been killed and was essentially brainwashed to side with the charismatic Mr Mackenzie in his rebellion against the government of the year 2069. He was so traumatised by The Doctor’s death that he refused to accept The Doctor’s survival even after he saw his old friend, convincing himself that The Doctor was only an android duplicate because otherwise he couldn’t justify the terrible things he’d done earlier. However, when he saw The Doctor attempting to fight Captain Taylor - a Myloki duplicate, known as ‘Captain Death’ for his apparently inexhaustible ability to cause death and destruction while being virtually indestructible himself -, Jamie finally accepted that The Doctor was real, explaining his reasoning as being that Captain Taylor had been evil, and The Doctor always fought evil ("The Indestructible Man").

Jamie "The Other Leader"
Jamie "The Other Leader"
 Another memorable moment occurred during the "The War Games" when Jamie and Zoe find themselves at a chateau. With night falling everyone sleeps. In the darkness and silence, a group of men make their way inside. Zoe suddenly wakes up to find a big man with a moustache and a sombrero pointing a gun at her. He demands to speak to the head of the resistance. Zoe tries to take charge and to prevent Arturo Villar from leaving. But he is not interested in listening to a woman. Zoe realising that she needs to do something and so announces that the resistance group has another leader.

 Jamie then appears, kitted out in a mishmash of military paraphernalia including a bullet-laden bandolier, a hat, and hand grenades. Jamie does his best to look imposing and in charge and somehow manages to pull it off so saving the situation.

Television Stories
Format Story Doctor Fellow Companions Season Episodes
Television The Highlanders The 2nd Doctor Polly & Ben Jackson Season 4 4
Television The Underwater Menace The 2nd Doctor Polly & Ben Jackson Season 4 4
Television The Moonbase The 2nd Doctor Polly & Ben Jackson Season 4 4
Television The Macra Terror The 2nd Doctor Polly & Ben Jackson Season 4 4
Television The Faceless Ones The 2nd Doctor Polly & Ben Jackson Season 4 6
Television The Evil of the Daleks The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 4 7
Television The Tomb of the Cybermen The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 4
Television The Abominable Snowmen The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 6
Television The Ice Warriors The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 6
Television The Enemy of the World The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 6
Television The Web of Fear The 2nd Doctor Victoria & The Brigadier Season 5 6
Television Fury From the Deep The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 6
Television The Wheel in Space The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 5 6
Television The Dominators The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 5
Television The Mind Robber The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 5
Television The Invasion The 2nd Doctor Zoe, The Brigadier & Sergeant Benton Season 6 8
Television The Krotons The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 4
Television The Seeds of Death The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 6
Television The Space Pirates The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 6
Television The War Games The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 10
Television The Two Doctors The 2nd Doctor & The 6th Doctor Peri Season 22 3
Total Stories:   21 Total Episodes:   116
Other Stories
Format Story Doctor Fellow Companions Season Source
Book The Slave War The 2nd Doctor Polly & Ben Jackson Season 4 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Roundheads The 2nd Doctor Polly & Ben Jackson Season 4 The Past Doctors Stories
Audio The Three Companions The 2nd Doctor Polly, Ben Jackson & Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Season 4 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Forbidden Time The 2nd Doctor Polly Season 4 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Selachian Gambit The 2nd Doctor Polly Season 4 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio House of Cards The 2nd Doctor Polly Season 4 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Book Heart of TARDIS The 2nd Doctor & The 4th Doctor Victoria, The Brigadier, Sergeant Benton & 1st Romana Season 5 The Past Doctors Stories
Book The Age of Ambition The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Farmer's Story The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book On a Pedestal The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Dreams of Empire The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Past Doctors Stories
Book Twilight of the Gods The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Missing Adventures
Book The Last Emperor The 2nd Doctor & The 6th Doctor Victoria & Frobisher Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Face-Painter The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Dark Path The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Missing Adventures
Book Combat Rock The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Past Doctors Stories
Book The Lost The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Screamager The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Urania: The Astronomer’s Apprentice The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Saint Nicholas's Bones The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Cutty Wren The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Audio The Emperor of Eternity The 2nd Doctor Victoria Season 5 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Book Gemini: Twin Piques The 2nd Doctor   Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Revolutionaries The 2nd Doctor   Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Time Eater The 2nd Doctor   Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Across Silent Seas The 2nd Doctor   Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Christmas Presence The 2nd Doctor   Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book One Step Forward, One Step Back The 2nd Doctor & The 5th Doctor Turlough Season 5 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book (3:17) Undercurrents The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Outstanding Balance The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Audio Helicon Prime The 2nd Doctor   Season 6 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Glorious Revolution The 2nd Doctor   Season 6 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Jigsaw War The 2nd Doctor   Season 6 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio Echoes of Grey The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Book Goodwill Towards Men The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Mirth, or Walking Spirits The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Fallen Angel The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 Decalog
Book Please Shut the Gate The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 Short Trips and Side Steps
Book The Avant Guardian The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book One Small Step… The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book (19:25) Visiting Hours The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Lepidoptery for Beginners The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Homework The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Audio The Memory Cheats The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Audio Stories
Book Vortex of Fear The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 Decalog 2 - Lost Property
Book Leo: Constant Companion The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Final Sanction The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Past Doctors Stories
Book The Colony of Lies The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Past Doctors Stories
Book The Indestructable Man The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Past Doctors Stories
Book The Menagerie The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Missing Adventures
Book Foreign Devils The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 Miscellaneous Stories
Book Aliens and Predators The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 Decalog 3: Consequences
Book uPVC The 2nd Doctor and The 7th Doctor Zoe and Ace Season 6 and Season 25 More Short Trips
Book Mercury The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book Wrath: That Which Went Away The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book War Crimes The 2nd Doctor Zoe Season 6 Short Trips
Book All of Beyond The 2nd Doctor   Season 6 The Big Finish Short Trips
Book The Wheel of Ice The 2nd Doctor Zoe - The Past Doctors Stories
Audio The Rosemariners The 2nd Doctor Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Apocalypse Mirror The 2nd Doctor Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Queen of Time The 2nd Doctor Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio Lords of the Red Planet The 2nd Doctor Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Dying Light The 2nd Doctor Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Book The Anti-Hero The 2nd Doctor Zoe - Miscellaneous Stories
Book That Time I Nearly Destroyed The World Whilst Looking For a Dress The 2nd Doctor Polly and Ben Jackson - The Big Finish Short Trips
Audio Night's Black Agents The 2nd Doctor   - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Book Independence Day The 2nd Doctor and The 7th Doctor Ace Season 26 The Past Doctors Stories
Book The Eight Doctors of Christmas The 1st Doctor, The 2nd Doctor, The 3rd Doctor, The 4th Doctor, The 5th Doctor, The 6th Doctor, The 7th Doctor and The 8th Doctor  Susan, Zoe, The Brigadier, Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Leela, K9, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, Turlough, 2nd Romana, Peri, Dr Grace Holloway and Chang Lee - The Big Finish Short Trips
Audio City of Spires The 6th Doctor   - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Wreck of the Titan The 6th Doctor   - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio Legend of the Cybermen The 6th Doctor Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio Last of the Cybermen The 6th Doctor Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Audio The Destroyers   Zoe - The Big Finish Audio Stories
Total Stories:   73
 
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