  susan foreman is a fictional character in the british science fiction television series doctor who. the granddaughter and original companion of the first doctor, she was played by actress carole ann ford from 1963 to 1964, in the show's first season and the first two stories of the second season. ford reprised the role for the feature-length 20th anniversary episode the five doctors (1983) and the 30th anniversary charity special dimensions in time (1993). susan appeared in 10 stories (51 episodes). ==appearances== ===television=== susan is introduced in the first doctor who story, an unearthly child (1963), with the first episode focusing on her as an unusual teenager with an advanced knowledge of history and science. this catches the attention of her teachers at coal hill school, ian chesterton (william russell) and barbara wright (jacqueline hill), who follow her home to a junkyard. it is revealed that she and her grandfather, the doctor (william hartnell), are exiles from their own people in "another time, another world" and have been travelling through space and time in a machine she named the tardis from the acronym "time and relative dimension in space". as ian and barbara have gained this knowledge, the doctor whisks them away on the tardis against their will, and he cannot accurately fly the machine. through the run of the series, it is learned the doctor, aided by susan, stole the tardis. susan continued to travel with the doctor and her two teachers until the 1964 serial, the dalek invasion of earth. during the events of that story, susan falls in love with david campbell, a young freedom fighter in the 22nd century. however, susan feels that she has to stay with and take care of her grandfather. the doctor, realising that susan is now a grown woman and deserves a future away from him, locks her out of the tardis and leaves after a tearful farewell.{{cite s
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