Every Classic Doctor Who Companion Ranked From Worst To Best

Victoria was orphaned during her first encounter with the Doctor, as the Daleks murdered her father in front of her. The Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon immediately decided to bring her with them and, at only 15 years old, she was one of the youngest people to have ever travelled in the TARDIS.

However, it wasn’t to be a long stay. Despite coming from an upper-class 19th-century background, Jamie quickly developed feelings for her and the relationship between the two blossomed. However, given that she was effectively only travelling with both him and the Doctor because of her father’s death, she did come across as something of an unwilling companion.

That's not to say he had an uneventful run on the show, though. She showed great courage against the Cybermen, held her own against an Abominable Snowman, and was offered sanctuary with the monks of Tibet... though she declined. In the end, she remained on Earth in 1968 after defeating the Weed Creature on the Euro Sea Gas pipeline that the travellers visited. Electing to remain with Maggie and Frank Harris, bidding farewell to Jamie and the Doctor on a lonely beach.