Free Doctor Who by Alan Kistler

afraid of Daleks after finishing “The Chase,” concluding that their presence meant someone in the cast was leaving. The next Dalek adventure followed suit.
    â€œJacqueline Hill and I left together, and Billy was absolutely furious,” William Russell told Doctor Who Magazine. In another interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Hill added:
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    We’d done two years of it, which was a strain . . . Everything that we wanted to do in the series had been accomplished, and we felt, and I think Verity sneakingly agreed with us, that it was time for the series to try and see if it could do something new. As for the question of going together, well, it all just seemed to come together at the right time for both of us. I think it had always been felt that Ian and Barbara, who had this slightly romantic side to their relationship, should go together much as they came—back to the London they left. They wrote us out well.
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    Russell often spoke fondly of his time on Doctor Who and continued acting on a regular basis, with roles in TV shows such as Breaking Point, Harriet’s Back in Town, Black Adder, and Coronation Street, as well as a minor role as an elder of Krypton in Superman: The Movie. Hill left acting to raise a family, but returned to television roughly a decade later. She came back to Doctor Who in the Fourth Doctor adventure “Meglos,” playing the character Lexa.
    Unlike today, there wasn’t much media attention surrounding the show’s cast changes. As Russell told Doctor Who Magazine, “We all got up early, drove into London and rehearsed, and then went home; life went on.” A Fifth Doctor TV story called “Mawdryn Undead” intended for Russell to return as Ian, but the plan didn’t work out and the character’s role was replaced.
    Though tie-in media sometimes revisited Ian and Barbara, saying they married, the characters were never mentioned again in Doctor Who (although Barbara’s photograph appeared in a scene cut from the 2010 adventure “The Vampires of Venice”). Just over forty-five years after last seeing them with the Doctor, fans finally got an answer during The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2010. In the two-part “Death of the Doctor,” Sarah Jane Smith reveals that she has learned about two married professors in Cambridge, named Ian and Barbara Chesterton, neither of whom appears to have aged since the 1960s.
    New Crew, New Doctor
    â€œHe’s the crew. We’re just the passengers.”
    â€”Vicki, from “The Time Meddler” (1965)
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    â€œThe Chase” also introduced Steven Taylor, a combat pilot from Earth’s future (some time after the Dalek invasion of the twenty-second century). Before meeting the Doctor, Steven has spent two years as a prisoner on the planet Mechanus, with only a toy panda called HiFi for company. During the story’s last episode, he wanders into the TARDIS, seeking safety before he collapses from weakness, unintentionally becoming a stowaway as the ship takes flight.
    Peter Purves (Steven Taylor)
    Peter Purves, a young actor who had appeared in Armchair Theater and BBC’s Play of the Month, played Steven Taylor. He originally appeared as Morton Dill, a minor character, in an early episode of “The Chase” and impressed the director enough that he was asked to be the new companion. Purves was first in a long line of actors who appear in Doctor Who and then return as a different character.
    With Steven’s addition to the TARDIS crew, the next story, “The Time Meddler,” served both as season finale and the first chapter of a new era. Originally, the Doctor had traveled with three people who all longed for home.Now, he had two companions happy to embark on unpredictable adventures. As Vicki and Steven both recognized the Doctor’s leadership rather than challenge it, they seemed to inspire the character to fill that role better, truly making him the