10 Worst Doctor Who Companions Ever
1. Kamelion
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Producer John Nathan-Turner was always keen to innovate in his early days on Doctor Who. A more up-to-date electronic theme tune and score? Check. A more advanced robot companion than K9? Erm... not quite.
Introduced in The King's Demons, the shape-changing robot Kamelion was welcomed into the TARDIS and travelled with the Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough for a whole season. The only problem was that he never left his room! Granted there are some tragic behind-the-scenes reasons for this, as Kamelion's software designer Mike Power died in a boating accident before committing the operating instructions to pen and paper. But just in general, the character was an absolute wet blanket.
And so, Kamelion was left in a TARDIS cupboard to gather dust, and eventually betrays the Doctor and Turlough in Planet of Fire.
But hang on a second, Kamelion was a shape-shifting android for goodness sake, so surely they could've just cast an actor to play the robot in human form? Clearly nobody had faith in the character, and if they couldn't be bothered to make him work, then why should we accept him as anything other than the worst companion to ever enter the TARDIS.