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8. Since When Did Jack Have A Room In The TARDIS?

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As far as we know, Jack hadn’t seen the Doctor since the dying Tenth Doctor set him up with Alonso Frame in The End of Time Part 2. On screen at least, he has never met the Eleventh or Twelfth Doctors. He is surprised when he learns the Doctor has finally regenerated into a woman (Fugitive of the Judoon).

The idea that Jack has a room in the TARDIS will have therefore been as much a surprise to fans, as it was to the Doctor. The Tenth Doctor once invited him to become a crew member of the TARDIS, but Jack turned the offer down in order to continue at Torchwood (The Last of the Time Lords). Prior to that he had effectively been dropped by the Doctor following the events of The Parting of the Ways. There is no hint that he spent enough time with either the Ninth or Tenth Doctor to have been given his own room and cocktail bar.

It is of course possible that Jack has spent time with a future Doctor, not realising that the Jodie Whittaker Doctor came before him. Cue the speculation that the next Doctor will be a male and will have Jack as a full-time companion.

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Paul Driscoll is a freelance writer and author across a range of subjects from Cult TV to religion and social policy. He is a passionate Doctor Who fan and January 2017 will see the publication of his first extended study of the series (based on Toby Whithouse's series six episode, The God Complex) in the critically acclaimed Black Archive range by Obverse Books. He is a regular writer for the fan site Doctor Who Worldwide and has contributed several essays to Watching Books' You and Who range. Recently he has branched out into fiction writing, with two short stories in the charity Doctor Who anthology Seasons of War (Chinbeard Books). Paul's work will also feature in the forthcoming Iris Wildthyme collection (A Clockwork Iris, Obverse Books) and Chinbeard Books' collection of drabbles, A Time Lord for Change.