Throughout the long-running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely been alone - his companions are essential. This collection of new essays examines the role of the companion as an intermediate between viewers and the Doctor. The contributors discuss who travels with the Doctor and why, how the companions influence the narrative, and how their journeys change them.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction—Comrade, Confidante, Companion, Chum: A Friend by Any Other Name (Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch) With Whom He Travels: The Companions of the Doctor (Gillian I. Leitch) “It’s bigger on the inside”: Verisimilitude and Companion Reactions to the TARDIS (Craig Owen Jones) “The ­battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can’t control”: Disability and the Female Bodies of the Doctor’s Companions (Kimberley ­McMahon-Coleman) “There’s nothing only about being a girl”: Learning to “Play” the Doctor’s Companion (David Boarder Giles and Amy Peloff) Life ­Post–TARDIS? The Case for Jo Grant and Sarah Jane Smith (Sherry Ginn) Rose Is England: Nationhood, British Invasion Anxiety and Why the Doctor Will (Almost) Always Rescue His Companions (Tanja Nathanael) Rory Williams: The Boy Who Waited (Teresa Forde) A Muted Melody: The (Dis)Empowerment of River Song (Tom Powers) Companions Who Weren’t: The Pompadour and the Pauper (Pamela Achenbach) When No One Can Hear You Scream: Doctor Who Companions on the Printed Page (Aaron John Gulyas) Selected Filmography Selected Bibliography About the Contributors Index

“Who Travels with the Doctor? is an international eight author examination of a sampling of the various people who have traveled with a certain Time Lord”—SFCrowsnest; “scholars of television and other media and of narrative in any media explore secondary characters in the 50-year British television science fiction series”—ProtoView.