12 Ridiculous Ways TV Characters Were Brought Back From The Dead

3. An Alien Brain Has Been Implanted In My Head...Oh No Wait, I Married Brian Blessed €“ Peri (Doctor Who)

An example of turning one of the most shocking companion departures into one of the worst. The Trial Of A Timelord series was an ambitious undertaking; some elements worked such as the non-linear approach to the Doctor's off-trial adventures and the revelation of the Valeyard himself (even though we still don't know where he fits in moving forward). Yet some elements didn't work at all €“ the introduction of shrieking, hyperactive red-head Mel and the rubbish ending that didn't make a whole load of sense. In all of this we have the departure of equally irritating Peri and she fits into both categories. Companions deaths had been far and few between, with only Adric biting the dust in recent years. That supposedly changed with the shock fate of Peri on the planet Thoros Beta. The Doctor was stolen away before he could rescue his companion from the villain Kiv and placed on trial. With no one to help her, Peri was strapped to a bed, gagged and murdered as Kiv replaced her brain with his own. It was brutal and brilliant at the same time and stands as one of the greatest companion departures of all time... ...Well it would have if it hadn't been so spectacularly retconned in the closing moments of The Trial Of A Timelord saga. Turns out, the Timelords pulled her out of that time stream just in time, allowing her to stay on the planet and marry warrior king Yrcanos. Leaving all her adventures with the Doctor behind and despite having no ounce of chemistry between them, she lives out her life married to Brian Blessed. This makes Leela staying on Gallifrey to marry Andred in The Invasion Of Time the most epic Doctor Who romance of all time!