Companions: Fifty Years Of Doctor Who Assistants (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
The only carry over was UNIT, led by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart – a familiar element to reassure the audience that it was still the same show. However, the Doctor’s companions reverted to purely contemporary characters with not a single male voice amongst them. From a fully-fledged scientist, to a wannabe secret agent, all the way up to an investigative journalist, the Third Doctor was challenged by a very independent kind of companion.   Liz Shaw – Caroline John (Spearhead from Space to Inferno)   We meet Liz as she is being driven from Cambridge to London at the start of Spearhead from Space. Much to her obvious irritation; she is far from impressed with her drafted position as scientific advisor for UNIT. She has important research programmes going on at Cambridge and is an admired member of the scientific community (known, for instance by Professor Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death); an expert on meteorites with degrees in medicine, physics and a dozen different subjects.
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