Victoria Waterfield
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| Doctor Who character | |
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 Victoria Waterfield |
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| Victoria | |
| Affiliated with | Second Doctor |
| Race | 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.
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[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. 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 his then-current companion 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. In 1970, Watling married Frazer Hines who played Jamie a year after his departure from the show in 1969. But after 16 years of marriage they divorced in 1986.
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, but in the spin-off video and novel Downtime, an older Victoria comes to grapple with the Great Intelligence once more, with the help of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sarah Jane Smith. She is mentioned, but not seen to be travelling with the Second Doctor in the 1985 serial The Two Doctors (see Season 6B). In Downtime, her middle name is revealed to be Maud, being born in 1849 to Edward Joseph Waterfield and Edith Rose Waterfield. Like all spin-off media, the canonicity of this information is debatable.
Deborah Watling reappeared as Victoria in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time.
[edit] Other Mentions
In the Tom Baker 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.
[edit] List of appearances
[edit] Television serials
- Season 4
- Season 5
- The Tomb of the Cybermen
- The Abominable Snowmen
- The Ice Warriors
- The Enemy of the World
- The Web of Fear
- Fury from the Deep
- 30th anniversary special
[edit] Video
- Downtime (also novelised by scriptwriter Marc Platt as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures line)
[edit] Audio
[edit] Novels
- Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards
- Heart of TARDIS by Dave Stone
- Combat Rock by Mick Lewis
[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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