
Steven soon became bitter towards the Doctor, blaming him for the several deaths of their travelling companions Katarina and Sara Kingdom, but eventually forgave him. Vicki eventually left the Doctor's company as well, also after falling in love with a man she met on one of their travels.

Soon after the departure of Ian and Barbara, the Doctor and Vicki had gained a new companion in Steven Taylor, with whom the Doctor had a relatively uneasy relationship. Later, during a confrontation with the Daleks, the Doctor used one of their time machines to return Ian and Barbara to their proper time - something he had been unable to manage with his TARDIS. She reminded him of Susan, and the Doctor saw her as a surrogate to fill her spot in his travels with Ian and Barbara. Here, he invited a new travelling companion to join him, Vicki. After much travel with Ian and Barbara, he bade Susan farewell to allow her to live a happier life with a man with whom she had fallen in love.įollowing Susan's departure, the Doctor travelled for a short time with Ian and Barbara, before happening upon the planet Dido, a planet he knew from previous journeys. He was forced to abruptly depart from Earth with Susan's teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, kidnapping them from their own time after they went to investigate their unusual pupil. They settled for a time on Earth in 1963, where Susan was a student at Coal Hill School. Initially, he travelled only with his granddaughter Susan Foreman. His happier, kinder characteristics fostered when he began to acquire an entourage of companions to accompany him throughout the wonders of the fourth dimension and learned to be a caregiver with a sense of justice in a universe afflicted by evils.īeginning after he fled his home world of Gallifrey, his travels through time and space were mostly random owing to faulty components in his TARDIS.

Originally a very difficult and curmudgeonly person, the First Doctor matured from an apparent selfishness and became more inviting. However, he possessed compassion, warmth, and wit that made up for his egocentric nature, serving to act as a mentor and guardian figure in his elderly years. ( TV: The Five Doctors) Holding himself in high regard, he was prone to criticising those whom he felt were naïve or primitive compared to his intellect. The First Doctor was, by his own statement, the "original" incarnation of the Doctor.
