Who is the best companion in Doctor Who?

Doctor Who: The 15 Best Companions, Ranked
  • 6 Dorothy "Ace" McShane (Sophie Aldred) ...
  • 5 Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) ...
  • 4 Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) ...
  • 3 Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) ...
  • 2 Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) ...
  • 1 Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen)
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Who's the best companion in Doctor Who?

Here are Doctor Who's greatest companions, ranked
  • Martha Jones. Martha had a tough job following Rose Tyler but proved to be a great asset during one of the show's strongest series. ...
  • Nyssa of Traken. ...
  • Wilfred Mott. ...
  • Dorothy “Ace” McShane. ...
  • Clara Oswald. ...
  • Bill Potts. ...
  • Romana. ...
  • Susan Foreman.
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Which companion did the Doctor like the most?

To some, companion Rose Tyler was the greatest love of the Doctor's life. He seemed to have a closer bond with her than almost anyone he'd travelled with before, and as time went on it was increasingly clear that she was deeply in love with him.
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Who was the longest companion on Doctor Who?

In terms of who has been in the most stories the clear winner is Amy Pond. She was with the Eleventh Doctor in 25 separate television adventures. Rose Tyler is the only companion to travel with a Doctor on every single one of his televised (and in Nine's case prose as well) outings.
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Why Rose Tyler is the best companion?

Her loyalty to him was to the point where she was willing to say goodbye to her mother forever just so she could be with him. This also meant that Rose was perfectly willing to die for the Doctor, and there was no situation that would make her back out.
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Who was the youngest Doctor Who companion?

He was a confirmed Doctor Who fan and had had at least one letter printed in Doctor Who Weekly before he took up the role. Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and remains the youngest male to have done so.
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Is Rose the Doctor's favorite companion?

2) Rose Tyler

She embraced his world, lived for the adventure of it all and is many peoples' favourite companion of all time. She's fiercely loyal to the Doctor and her family, the grief over losing her father never overdone but influencing constantly who she is and her compassion, even for Daleks.
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Did the Doctor love Rose or river?

4 The Doctor And Rose Tyler

Rose also did the same, forming a relationship with the Meta Doctor, who looked like the Tenth but was now human. The last time they appeared on the show together, they shared a passionate kiss, and the human Doctor presumably confessed his love for Rose.
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Does the Doctor love Clara?

Both of them had ties to each other since their childhoods ⁠— thanks to time travel ⁠— and their relationship blossomed as she was the companion of his eleventh and twelfth incarnations. Soon enough, it became clear that Clara and the Doctor were most definitely in love with each other, despite not becoming lovers.
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Why does the TARDIS not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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Does the Doctor ever kiss Clara?

The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald (The Snowmen, 2012)

But it's Clara, in her Victorian governess mode, who delivers a proper Christmas kiss, attaching herself to the Doctor's face for so long he must be grateful Time Lords come with a respiratory bypass system. Now that's the way to do it.
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Does Dr Who ever fall in love?

In almost every episode, characters make choices because of love, for love. And perhaps the biggest lover of them all is The Doctor himself, lover of a lot of loves. He loves his wife, and he loves his other wife. He loves a French mistress and a British nurse.
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Was Clara a good companion?

Clara was a strong-minded and smart companion. She wasn't afraid to tell the Doctor off when he crossed the line, and he did it a lot, even if he thought it was a loving gesture. In season 8 episode "Kill The Moon," Clara told the Doctor to shut up because she was sick of listening to him.
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Did the Doctor ever kiss Rose?

Rose and the Doctor remain one of the most iconic Doctor Who couples. But funnily enough, the Tenth Doctor and Rose never actually kissed - even though she told him she loved him. Nevertheless, Rose got her happy ending thanks to the human version of the Doctor who regenerated out of his severed hand.
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What did the Doctor whisper to Rose?

In the Doctor Who Confidential episode End of an Era, executive producer Julie Gardner confirmed that the intention was that the new Doctor did indeed say "I love you" when he whispered in Rose's ear.
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Was Rose pregnant with the Doctor baby?

Two years after "Journey's End," Rose Tyler is pregnant with the Meta-Crisis Doctor's child. The Doctor now goes by Corin because Rose decided she wanted him to have a name and refused to call him "the Doctor." Corin works as a general practitioner, while Rose is working toward a diploma in Early Years care.
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Why are the Doctor's companions female?

There have been male companions sprinkled throughout both the classic and modern eras, but current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat believes that the main companions should always be ladies because it's important to provide representation for both males and females on the series.
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Which Doctor Who companions died?

A gravestone reveals they died, Amy at the age of 87 and Rory age 82. In The Trial of a Time Lord, Peri Brown is killed by King Yrcanos in Mindwarp, after her brain has been replaced by that of Kiv, a member of the Mentor race.
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Who is the companion after Rose?

Martha Jones is a fictional character played by Freema Agyeman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. She is a companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, after Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and before Donna Noble (Catherine Tate).
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Is Clara River Song's daughter?

Clara is a future regeneration of River Song who's had her memory erased. River is, after all, a Time Lord. We've seen her regenerate before.
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Was Martha a good companion?

Martha Jones was an awesome companion of the Tenth Doctor. In fact, she was the best he ever had. After the tragic departure of Rose at the end of season two, The Doctor wasn't really in the market for a new companion. He'd only just lost the one he loved (even if he didn't tell her) after all.
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Does the TARDIS love the Doctor?

The TARDIS and the Doctor have been together forever since they have met. One could say the TARDIS is the Doctor's true wife. One could also say she is his oldest companion; she was always there for him and she always will be.
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Why did the Doctor marry river?

But rather than let that happen—she went to school to learn to love the guy, come on! —she decides that she'd rather destroy the universe than fulfill that function. But the universe has to be righted, so to appease her, the Doctor agrees to marry her.
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Is Amy in love with the Doctor?

Although Amy and the Doctor never stopped loving each other, they were never in love with each other and their friendship blossomed because of this.
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Is the Doctor in love with River Song?

River makes a point of it that she knows the Doctor doesn't love her, but the Doctor never confirms that. It also seems that anytime River claims the Doctor doesn't love her, the Doctor looks rather uncomfortable (or at least 12 did).
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