Know The Companion: Martha Jones

 

Fact File

Companion of: Tenth Doctor

Origins: London

First Appearance: Smith and Jones (2006)

Aliases: Samantha Jones, Greyhound 6, The Woman Who Walked The Earth

Parents: Francine and Clive Jones

Finest Hour: Last of the Time Lords

 

Martha is often overlooked by fans when asked who there favourite companion is. Martha was always going to have a hard job replacing Rose but I think she did it very well and I was happy to see her return in Torchwood and later, Doctor Who (Twice!).

 

Adventures With The Doctor

 Martha first met the Doctor at the Royal Hope Hospital when it was stolen and taken to the moon by the Judoon Platoon to extract the Plasmavore from the establishment. Martha helped the Doctor save everybody so they could return home. After this, the Doctor promised her one trip - they went to 1599 to meet William Shakespeare and save him from some rather nasty Carrionites. The Doctor then took her to the future - to New Earth; here she witnessed a traffic jam longer than the one on the M6 on the last week of summer and the death of the Face of Boe. On the way home they stopped off in Manhattan, 1930, to all but destroy the Cult of Skaro.

 Back on Earth, the duo went to Professor Lazarus' experiment and witnessed him 'change what it meant to be human'. Lazarus' plan failed though and he ended up a monster that was stopped by some rather rubbish organ playing by the Doctor. After weeks of speculation, Martha became the Doctor's companion and they travelled to save a crew from falling into the sun in "42". The Doctor and Martha then had to hide in 1917 to escape the Family of Blood, in doing so the Doctor had to become human and Martha was left on her own. The pair then got trapped in the 1960s - zapped back by the Weeping Angels but were saved by Sally Sparrow.

 Martha met Captain Jack for the first time in "Utopia" and they formed an amazing friendship as she later joined his Torchwood team. They evaded the future-kind but the TARDIS was stolen by the Master, leaving them with only Jack's vortex manipulator. The gang then went home to England where the mysterious Harold Saxon, the new PM, turned out to be the Master. Martha's family was taken, so was the Doctor and Jack. So, she walked the Earth, spreading an idea about the Doctor to stop the Master's plans. After the ordeal, Martha left the Doctor because she couldn't travel with him anymore because she needed to help her family. She later joined Torchwood, followed by U.N.I.T. and appeared in three more episodes of Who: "The Sontaron Strategem/ The Poison Sky", "The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End" and briefly in "The End of Time".