Jamie McCrimmon James Robert " Jamie " McCrimmon was a Highland Scot from the mid - 18th century who travelled with the Second Doctor , Polly Wright , Ben Jackson , Victoria Waterfield and Zoe Heriot . He also had a couple of adventures with Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart ( TV : " The Web of Fear " , " The Invasion " ) as well as the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " , COMIC : " The World Shapers " ) Jamie travelled in the TARDIS for most of the Doctor ' s second incarnation . His journeys through time and space began when he left 18th century Scotland ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) and continued until the Time Lord s sentenced the Doctor to exile on Earth . Jamie was returned to 18th century Scotland by the Time Lords , with the memory of all but his first adventure with the Doctor erased . ( TV : " The War Games " ) As an old man he had overcome the mindwipe , as the Time Lords held an imperfect understanding of the human mind . This was prior to having an adventure with the Sixth Doctor in which he gave his life saving the universe from Cybermen . ( COMIC : " The World Shapers " ) Biography . Early life . Jamie was born in 1724 . ( AUDIO : " Shadow of Death " ) He was the son of Donald McCrimmon . ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) Jamie learned to play the chanter at his father ' s knee from an early age and became a talented piper like his father and grandfather before him . ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) He grew up with his father and brothers , and they did some farming . He idolised Scottish heroes such as William Wallace . ( PROSE : " On a Pedestal " ) Jamie and his father used to go grouse hunting in the Highlands . ( PROSE : " The Nameless City " ) By the 18th century , Jamie ' s family had been making haggis for hundreds of years . ( AUDIO : " Echoes of Grey " ) Travels . The Doctor , Ben and Polly . Jamie , then 22 years old , ( AUDIO : " Shadow of Death " ) first met the Second Doctor in the aftermath of the English defeat of the Jacobite Rebellion at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 , when he was a piper for the Clan McLaren . Jamie and his fellow Highlanders faced being hanged , butchered by the Duke of Cumberland or sold into unsurvivable seven - year servitude on the plantations in the West Indies . After escaping the gallows , an unsure Jamie was urged to follow the Doctor , Ben Jackson and Polly Wright into the mysterious TARDIS . ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) When he and the others visited Atlantis , Jamie and Ben were sent to the mines , but they escaped with the help of fellow prisoners Sean and Jacko . When Jacko called him " Jock " , Jamie retorted that his name was Jamie , not " Jock " . ( TV : " The Underwater Menace " ) Jamie tried to understand his new experiences in terms of his life in 1746 . When he encountered a Cyberman whilst on his sick bed on the Moonbase , he believed that it was his clan ' s legend of the Phantom Piper and he was dying . ( TV : " The Moonbase " ) Separated from the Doctor in 71 BC , Jamie , Polly and Ben found themselves in the company of Spartacus in Bruttium . Jamie , having early on blocked Polly ' s view of corpses in a torched villa , reacted with weariness to the cause to free slaves from the Roman Empire ( a cause which similarly ended in defeat with the rebels being crucified by Pompey ) . Surprisingly , he simply wanted to get back to the TARDIS . However , he helped against Crassus and protected his fellow companions . ( PROSE : " The Slave War " ) He encountered a train when the TARDIS was hit by one in 1920 s . He was intrigued by the train . When he started to see the soldiers that Ben saw , though they appeared to him as highland soldiers not navy officers . ( AUDIO : " The Mouthless Dead " ) After the TARDIS faltered in the vortex they landed in New Houston . Staying with Ben at Meg Carvossa ' s house he was kidnapped by a Yes Man . He was taken to an underground city of Yes Men . Jamie was then made to wait on the Yes Men in the city . The Yes Men could see that he was different from the other humans so they put him in a machine to analyse his brain . This machine made him see Scotland again . ( AUDIO : " The Yes Men " ) He found the workings of the Galacti - Bank interesting before the Selachian s arrived . He tried to stop a Seleachian by covering it in glue , he later saved the Doctor and the other bankers by smothering a bomb in glue . ( AUDIO : " The Selachian Gambit " ) At the casino he visited and chased a women when an alarm went off to detect time travellers and she vanished . He was chased by the Sidewinder Syndicate for apparently creating mayhem . ( AUDIO : " House of Cards " ) Polly , Ben , Jamie and the Doctor landed in Kenga , Singapore during World War II . When Clive Freeman bought them to the local hotel , he went searching for the kitchen where he found a vision of the Grim Reaper . He later found Andrews dead . With Lawson ' s help he devised a warning system to tell if something was about . He started to act nervously and suspiciously during a search through the Jungle for the Forsaken . ( AUDIO : " The Forsaken " ) The natural acceptance and a desire to rationalise things helped Jamie grasp the worlds he saw . Aeroplane s at Gatwick Airport were " flying beasties " to him . He was fascinated by them and by the airport and stole a ticket from Samantha Briggs so he could take a flight . Unfortunately , having never experienced anything like it , he got airsick . A Chameleon , who spoke with an English rather than Scots accent , assumed Jamie ' s form during this adventure . ( TV : " The Faceless Ones " ) In his investigation of reports of a series of " agent provocateurs " known as " the Doctor " who had been involved in unusual incidents , the journalist James Stevens interviewed Samantha Briggs about the Gatwick Incident . She told him about the Doctor and Jamie ' s involvement in the investigation of holiday fraud . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) Victoria . Shortly after , in an adventure involving the Dalek s and their quest for the human Factor , the Doctor ' s manipulation of those around him caused Jamie to decide to have nothing more to do with him ; he thought the Doctor was working with the Daleks to save his own skin . However , it was really manipulation by the Doctor to anger Jamie so that he ' d stop at nothing to rescue the young Victoria Waterfield from her captivity by the Daleks . When the humanised Dalek s and regular Daleks had destroyed each other , and with her father , a Dalek collaborator , having sacrificed himself to save the Doctor , the Doctor and Jamie " adopted " the orphaned Victoria . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) The Doctor , Jamie and Victoria landed on Telos , where a archaeological expedition was breaking into the Cyber - tomb s . Jamie and Peter Haydon explored the Weapons Testing Room , where Jamie found a dormant Cybermat , which he thought was a caterpillar . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) In the original timeline , he was covered in nanites , which would have later infected the TARDIS . The Fourth Doctor managed to remove these particles before they could cause any harm . ( AUDIO : " Return to Telos " ) The Doctor , Jamie and Victoria landed on a human spaceship where they aided a Gallifreyan calling himself " Constable Pavo " of Chapter 9 ( who was actually the Doctor ' s old enemy , ) , with his investigation of a nearby artificial black hole . ( AUDIO : " The Black Hole " ) According to one account , the Monk then sent the Doctor and Jamie on a diplomatic mission to Space Station Camera . ( AUDIO : " The Black Hole " ) Here , the Doctor and Jamie intended to have Joinson Dastari stop Professors Kartz and Reimer ' s experiments into time travel . Jamie believed he saw the Doctor killed in a massacre by Sontaran s . After Jamie spent ten or twelve days hiding in the service ducts , he was found by the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown . After letting Jamie rest , the Sixth Doctor deduced that the Second Doctor ' s supposed death was an illusion created by the Sontarans . The Sixth Doctor used telepathy to track the Second Doctor to a hacienda near Seville , where he was being held captive while Dastari tried to isolate the symbiotic nuclei in a Time Lord ' s cells so that the Sontarans could be given the secret to time travel . While Peri distracted the hacienda ' s occupants , a local woman called Anita helped the Sixth Doctor and Jamie find a secret passageway into the cellars . The Sixth Doctor sabotaged a TARDIS copy that was being developed on the space station , and lied to Jamie about its workings while he knew the Sontaran Group Marshal Stike was listening in on them . Jamie wounded Stike , and the two of them escaped . Knowing there was another Time Lord present , the technologically augmented Androgum Chessene changed the plan into having Dastari alter the Second Doctor into Chessene ' s Androgum consort . Chessene also betrayed the Sontarans . The effect on the Second Doctor was not permanent , however , as the condition was not stabilised . The Sixth Doctor , Peri , and Jamie followed the Second Doctor to Las Cadenas restaurant in Seville . Dastari and Chessene had the Doctors and their companions brought back to the hacienda . The Sixth Doctor saved Jamie from being butchered and eaten by the Androgum Shockeye . Dastari then freed the Second Doctor upon realising his mistake in augmenting a primitive Androgum , and was shot by Chessene for betraying her . Jamie disarmed Chessene before she could shoot the Second Doctor and Peri . With Peri ' s help , the Sixth Doctor deceived Chessene into using the faulty prototype TARDIS , and she was killed by molecular disintegration . The Second Doctor used his Stattenheim remote control to return his TARDIS to him , and the Doctor and Jamie left the hacienda in the TARDIS . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) According to another account , this mission happened later , when the Doctor was working for the CIA . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) Before returning to Victoria and " Pavo " , the Doctor and Jamie then had further adventures , and returned to the ship they departed from before they actually first arrived on the ship , and found the real Pavo , helping her defeat the Monk , for which Pavo agreed not to arrest the Doctor . ( AUDIO : " The Black Hole " ) He was worried that he would meet Yeti when they landed in China . He was also suspicious of a monk that appeared in the village where they were staying . ( AUDIO : " The Emperor of Eternity " ) He said that the liked the smells of the new worlds he visited . He was starting to learn how to read and was confused at the book the Doctor was given by Selsey . Whilst the Doctor helped the scientist he and Victoria were sent on supply duty . When they looked for the Doctor they were attacked by the electronic parchment that was used for books in this time . ( AUDIO : " The Story of Extinction " ) Jamie evidenced strong , unspoken feelings for Victoria , which often showed themselves in his teasing her about her new , more revealing clothes . ( TV : " The Ice Warriors " ) While undercover in Salamander ' s guard , Jamie and Victoria posed as boyfriend and girlfriend . ( TV : " The Enemy of the World " ) He showed bursts of bravery and bravado directed at anyone who would harm her . When thinking something had happened to the unconscious Victoria , he worriedly exclaimed that he ' d never forgive himself if anything happened to her . He got angry when he thought she had tricked him and had heard his emotional outburst . Jamie was upset when Victoria stated her intention to stay with the Harrises and tried to get her to change her mind and stay with the Doctor and him . Although he never admitted his feelings for her , during their goodbye , he left her with a kiss . When the Doctor and Jamie left in the TARDIS , he watched Victoria waving goodbye on the scanner and said that he couldn ' t care less about where they went next . ( TV : " Fury from the Deep " ) Travels alone with the Doctor . He was temporarily left in 1967 , where he began working at a Scottish radar station . During the Quark invasion , Jamie reunited with the Doctor . Coming up with a plan , the Doctor and Jamie commandeered the flying saucer and opened fire on the Quark invasion force , causing the Quarks to destroy themselves in the confusion . Returning to destroy the Quarks at the castle , Jamie and the Doctor both agreed to accompany each other in the TARDIS again . ( COMIC : " Invasion of the Quarks " ) With Jamie and the Doctor were involved in a battle with the Terrible Zodin that involved multiple incarnations of the Doctor , though he lost his memory of the adventure after Zodin used " mind rubbers " on them . ( PROSE : " The Colony of Lies " , " Cold Fusion " ) While he repaired the TARDIS ' time rotor , the Doctor sent Jamie out to find gold , mercury and Zeiton - 7 . Jamie helped an old man against some bullies , and in return , the old man gave him a book . When he returned , Jamie discovered that he had been given the Necronomicon by , which transported the Doctor and Jamie to the Great Desolation after the Doctor handled it . There , the duo discovered that the Master had been working with the Archon , who wanted to seize a TARDIS to attack the Time Lords . After they repaired the TARDIS , the Doctor defeated the Archon by playing his recorder whilst Jamie played the bagpipes , which confused and destroyed them . ( PROSE : " The Nameless City " ) Landing on Gano after a war on the planet was lost , the Doctor and Jamie were attacked by giant wasps , but were able to evade them in a trench . Utilising a discarded anti - aircraft gun , they were able to shoot down a wasp , until the swarm changed formation and tackled the gun over , but exposed an underground city to the Doctor and Jamie in the process . Escaping into the city , the duo were confronted by the Quarks , but were able to avoid them using some old scooters , until they came upon a dead end . However , the wasps arrived to attack the Quarks and the battle between them enabled the Doctor and Jamie to make a break for the exit . After a close encounter with a wasp near the exit , which resulted the creature ' s demise , the Doctor and Jamie made it to the TARDIS and left . ( COMIC : " The Killer Wasps " ) After the TARDIS was forced to materialise by an explosion in 1970 Antarctica , the Doctor and Jamie discovered that aliens were threatening to detonate explosions to throw Earth off its axis . After evading a group of Ice Ape s , the Doctor and Jamie followed the aliens ' craft down a cave , and , after using dynamite to damage the craft , manoeuvreed the aliens into a fight with the Ice Apes . After the Ice Apes emerged victorious , the Doctor disarmed the aliens ' explosives and , from within the TARDIS , hacked into the world television networks to announce the aliens ' defeat to the world . ( COMIC : " Ice Cap Terror " ) Landing on the edge of a jungle , the TARDIS was buried in a rockslide caused by the Quarks , and the Doctor and Jamie were forced to seek shelter from their flying saucer in the jungle . Outrunning the Quarks to a jungle clearing operation , the Doctor and Jamie took control of a bulldozer and an excavator to battle the Quarks directly . Winning the duel with the bulldozer , the Doctor and Jamie made to leave , but were ambushed by the jungle natives enslaved by the Quarks . Forced behind the bulldozer ' s shovel , the Doctor removed the machine ' s silencer to frighten the jungle animals into stampeding onto the Quarks . Using the bulldozer to free the TARDIS , which had sustained no damage , the Doctor and Jamie departed the jungle . ( COMIC : " Jungle of Doom " ) When the TARDIS landed in the Time Temple , the Doctor and Jamie were greeted by Father Time , who decided they needed to be punished for their time travel , and rendered them unconscious . Jamie awoke to find himself sealed within a giant hour glass . Noticing a loose bolt , the Doctor freeing Jamie . With Father Time after them , the Doctor took shelter in a cuckoo clock , but Father Time cornered him there . The Doctor was saved by Jamie ' s intervention , but broke his ankle in the process . Whilst Father Time summoned robots after them , the Doctor was defended by Jamie , who inadvertently damaged the robots enough to set them on Father Time , giving him and the Doctor the chance to escape the Time Temple . ( COMIC : " Father Time " ) After the Doctor completed constructing a mechanical housemaid named Martha , the TARDIS landed in 1971 New York City , where the Doctor and Jamie went to see C . G . Slattery of the Inventions International Company , who was impressed enough with Martha to put the Doctor on nation - wide television to sell hundreds of thousands of Marthas . After a few weeks of successful business , however , the Marthas were taken over by the Quarks to be used as an invasion force . Though the Doctor was able to bring the Marthas back under his control , the Quarks soon arrived to take New York City by force , but the Doctor was able to turn the Marthas savage again to fight back against the Quarks . ( COMIC : " Martha the Mechanical Housemaid " ) Zoe . While on Space Station W3 in the 21st century , which was being attacked by Cybermen and Cybermat s , Jamie gave the Doctor his oft - used " John Smith " alias . At the conclusion of this adventure , a young scientist named Zoe Heriot joined the Doctor and Jamie . ( TV : " The Wheel in Space " ) In 2724 , two beams of energy from a pulsar hit the TARDIS , causing it to forcibly land on a nearby planet . The TARDIS had landed in a human base where humans in the Fifth Galactic Surveyor Corps could observe an ancient city on the planet orbiting the pulsar . The base was under attack by a force that had killed some of the crew . The Doctor stayed behind to open the door to the surface for the rest of them to escape to , as the outside door could only be opened from the control room . The Doctor eventually left the base , and explained he had made contact with the force , the Quiet One s , and agreed to a truce in which Sophie ' s team could continue to safely learn about and communicate with the Quiet Ones , if they did it more quietly . While minutes had passed outside , for the Doctor it was a few years . ( AUDIO : " Shadow of Death " ) Jamie got along with her very well , despite her teasing him for his intelligence , even though Zoe came from a 21st century background very much unlike his own . The Doctor , Jamie and Zoe later landed on Dulkis which was being attacked by the Dominator s and the robotic Quark s . Jamie and the Dulcian Cully destroyed several of the Quarks , delaying the Dominators ' plan . ( TV : " The Dominators " ) In the Land of Fiction , Jamie temporarily changed into a different youth of the same age when the Doctor failed to put together his facial features correctly in a test . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " ) When Zoe and Isobel Watkins were abducted by Tobias Vaughn , the Doctor and Jamie investigated him and evaded Packer , whom Jamie tackled to the ground . Jamie was pleased to have been given a small radio and didn ' t want the Doctor to break it when he suspected the gift . The Doctor and Jamie reunited with Lethbridge - Stewart , now a Brigadier . Jamie was later convinced by Zoe and Isobel to go into the sewers to photograph the Cybermen , but were soon cornered by three of them . While escaping the sewers after Captain Turner rescued them , the surviving Cyberman grabbed Jamie ' s leg , but was destroyed by a grenade . Jamie ' s leg was later injured by after being shot by one of Vaughn ' s men After a stay in the hospital , Jamie left with the Doctor and Zoe to stunned surprise at the sight of the appearing and disappearing TARDIS . ( TV : " The Invasion " ) After the Doctor tracked a Cybership to Isos II , he became trapped in the nearby city after the escalators started working and he slid down them . Looking through the city he saw empty cyberpods . Jamie watched one of the Slugs kill a Cyberman before it was killed . He was later rescued by Enab in the bowels of the city . He had to keep defending him wearing a kilt . Eventually , he managed to tell the Doctor what he found . He sense that something was coming towards them on the monorail track . The Cyber - Controller ordered his conversion . As Hislee was the one to put him in the pod he didn ' t fasten him in which allowed her to escape . ( AUDIO : " The Isos Network " ) Jamie and Zoe had an argument about there being no peaceful aliens in the universe . He decided to exit the TARDIS in a humph because of this to try and prove Zoe wrong . When he entered Aspen Base he initially became calm , but this soon worn off . This was due to the Integral ' s suppression field . Because his anger was suppressed he started to feel bad because he couldn ' t use it to help protect Zoe if needed . When Elm was killed he had to fight to protect Zoe but was almost killed but Zoe helped him . After this adventure he had some proof that aliens were good . ( AUDIO : " The Integral " ) He found the city of Sanctuary which was carved out of a mountain . In a cave he met Quadrigger Stoyn who knew of his travels . When a ship crashed near the city he went with the locals to save the crew . ( AUDIO : " The Dying Light " ) After fighting the Krotons , where Jamie nearly died to save the Doctor and Zoe , ( TV : " The Krotons " ) he battled the Ice Warriors again , helping prevent them from turning Earth into their new home through spores , saving the Doctor from Slaar while on the Moon . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) When they landed in Tromesis , he immediately sprang to motion to protect the Doctor when he was attacked by a local . He had to explain to the locals of the city about the two version of the city and how to get the version of the city where they could be saved . ( AUDIO : " The Apocalypse Mirror " ) He later helped defeat Maurice Caven and his argonite pirates after he , the Doctor and Zoe were almost killed when the pirates destroyed Space Beacon Alpha 4 , which they had landed on . ( TV : " The Space Pirates " ) At some point during his travels with the Doctor and Zoe , they investigated some mysterious robberies . This was helped by the fact that he was unconscious when the Doctor and Zoe was involved the robberies . ( AUDIO : " Tales from the Vault " ) He saved pilot John Finney after his plane was shot down during the Korean War , ( PROSE : " Prelude First Frontier " ) and visited Bob Dovie at 59A Barnsfield Crescent in Totton , Hampshire on 23 November 1963 . ( AUDIO : " The Light at the End " ) The group landed in the Frenko Bazaar , a famous intergalactic trading post where one could buy " just about anything " . The Doctor , in an attempt to take down the slave market , placed a homing device on Jamie , and followed some Voraxx into Stellar Imports & Exports to gain their attention . A member told the Doctor that Jamie , coming from the past , was worth a mint . When he said Jamie wasn ' t for sale , the Voraxx members followed them , whispering to themselves . The Voraxx kidnapped Jamie , and took him aboard a slaver ship in orbit . Following Jamie ' s signal , the Doctor and Zoe found the trans - mat that led to the ship and found Jamie . They then awoke some Ice Warrior s , who started an uprising . The slaves took over the ship , forcing the slavers to leave . As the trio teleported back to the shop , the Doctor was shocked to find his companions missing , having been captured by an entity . ( COMIC : " Bazaar Adventures " ) The Doctor later rescued how companions . ( COMIC : " Endgame " ) He didn ' t like to try and understand the " " gizmos " " of the TARDIS . He thought on learning that the Edge was a scientific research facility and thought he would end up being there for weeks . He didn ' t want to join the Doctor and Zoe in the labs so waited for them to come back . After Provost Curtis wanted the Doctor and Zoe to join him permanently , Jamie was to be killed . He decided to destroy the circuits in the mine to stop Curtis from kidnapping his friend , eventually destroying its Relative Dimensional Stabiliser . ( AUDIO : " The Edge " ) A reluctant farewell . The Doctor and his companions landed on a planet where the War Lord s planned to use human soldiers as an army to conquer the galaxy by picking them out of various periods of Earth ' s history with the War Chief ' s space - time vessel technology that had been given to them . The Doctor , Jamie and Zoe helped unite the various resistance movements on the planet to fight the War Lords . When the Doctor asked the Time Lord s to intercede to return the victims of the War Lords , Jamie desperately urged the Doctor to escape his sentencing in the TARDIS , but submitted when they could not , promising to never forget the Doctor . After the dematerialisation of the War Lord for his crimes , a tribunal of Time Lords told the Doctor that they would return Zoe and Jamie to their homes . They would also alter Zoe and Jamie ' s memories , allowing them to only remember their first adventures with the Doctor , but not their travels with the Doctor in the TARDIS . The Doctor watched Jamie , now back in 1746 at the Battle of Culloden , come to the momentarily confused realisation of where he was . Jamie was fired at by a Redcoat , whom he then ran after with a sword , proudly yelling , " Creag an tuire ! " for the Clan McCrimmon . ( TV : " The War Games " ) Further travels . According to one account , the Doctor undertook a mission for the Time Lords and blackmailed them into having Jamie by his side . The Time Lords consented , altering Jamie ' s memories to make him believe that he was still travelling with the Doctor and Victoria , who had in fact left the TARDIS to live out the rest of her life on Earth . This account stated it was at this point that Jamie accompanied the Doctor on a diplomatic mission to Space Station Camera . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) Here , the Doctor and Jamie intended to have Joinson Dastari stop Professors Kartz and Reimer ' s experiments into time travel . Jamie believed he saw the Doctor killed in a massacre by Sontaran s . After Jamie spent ten or twelve days hiding in the service ducts , he was found by the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown . After letting Jamie rest , the Sixth Doctor deduced that the Second Doctor ' s supposed death was an illusion created by the Sontarans . The Sixth Doctor used telepathy to track the Second Doctor to a hacienda near Seville , where he was being held captive while Dastari tried to isolate the symbiotic nuclei in a Time Lord ' s cells so that the Sontarans could be given the secret to time travel . While Peri distracted the hacienda ' s occupants , a local woman called Anita helped the Sixth Doctor and Jamie find a secret passageway into the cellars . The Sixth Doctor sabotaged a TARDIS copy that was being developed on the space station , and lied to Jamie about its workings while he knew the Sontaran Group Marshal Stike was listening in on them . Jamie wounded Stike , and the two of them escaped . Knowing there was another Time Lord present , the technologically augmented Androgum Chessene changed the plan into having Dastari alter the Second Doctor into Chessene ' s Androgum consort . Chessene also betrayed the Sontarans . The effect on the Second Doctor was not permanent , however , as the condition was not stabilised . The Sixth Doctor , Peri , and Jamie followed the Second Doctor to Las Cadenas restaurant in Seville . Dastari and Chessene had the Doctors and their companions brought back to the hacienda . The Sixth Doctor saved Jamie from being butchered and eaten by the Androgum Shockeye . Dastari then freed the Second Doctor upon realising his mistake in augmenting a primitive Androgum , and was shot by Chessene for betraying her . Jamie disarmed Chessene before she could shoot the Second Doctor and Peri . With Peri ' s help , the Sixth Doctor deceived Chessene into using the faulty prototype TARDIS , and Chessene was killed by molecular disintegration . The Second Doctor used his Stattenheim remote control to return his TARDIS to him . Jamie left with the Second Doctor in the TARDIS , intending to someday rejoin Victoria , who he had been told was studying graphology . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) According to another account , this happened earlier in the Doctor and Jamie ' s timeline , and they were sent there by , pretending to be Pavo . ( AUDIO : " The Black Hole " ) They travelled to Helicon Prime to relax whilst on their missions for the CIA . Whilst there was a set of murders . He started to think that the murderer was the ambassador of the planet but was in fact the singer Mindy Voir . ( AUDIO : " Helicon Prime " ) Another mission was to travel to Earth in 54 , 010 to rescue a tribe of Stone Age humans from a bio - dome . ( PROSE : " All of Beyond " ) He was later deposited back in the Scottish Highlands , his memories altered once more by the Time Lords . Life after the Doctor . Jamie went on to marry Kirsty McLaren and they had " more bairns than there are days in the week " , with numerous grandchildren by 1788 . In order to correct a mistake that was made in 1688 , where Jamie tried to help King James II and ensure a victorious future for Scotland and Bonnie Prince Charlie , a visitor from the CIA came to help alter history back to its original course . However , Jamie chose to once again forget the memories of his adventures with the Doctor that were brought back , as he and Kirsty had a good life together . ( AUDIO : " The Glorious Revolution " ) One of their distant descendants was a 21st century history student at the University of Edinburgh named Heather McCrimmon , who became a companion of the Tenth Doctor . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) While out on the moors , Jamie appeared to have been struck by lightning on a bright , clear day . The men who found him noted that the heather around him had been dotted with flame and that his head had been smoking . Nurse Muir watched over him , with him only remembering her bandaging his head when he was first brought in seemingly days earlier . He began to remember travelling in the TARDIS with the Doctor , including the incident on Helicon Prime , and told the nurse of his adventure . The nurse was revealed to be Mindy Voir , who wanted the Fennus treasure from him , as he had the knotted pendant that was stolen by the Doctor . She began to sing with her deadly voice . As he began to unwind the knot , voices whispered to him from within it . Mindy became trapped inside the pendant when he finally undid the knot . When Jamie awoke , he knew his identity , but did not know how he came to be under the bed in the wrecked , burnt room . ( AUDIO : " Helicon Prime " ) The death of Jamie . When the Sixth Doctor next met him , he had miscalculated and arrived forty years later than he had intended to . Jamie lived as an elderly pariah in his village and lamented that the Doctor shouldn ' t have had to see him as an old man . Jamie had managed to retain memories of his travels using tricks the Doctor had taught him and because the Time Lords had a less - than - perfect understanding of the human mind . After he told others about them , the locals believed his wartime experiences had driven him slightly mad . Jamie vindicated himself by vanishing in the TARDIS before the whole village and then helped the Doctor , Peri and Frobisher fight the Cybermen on Marinus . He saved the universe using his sword to destroy the Worldshaper device ; this let out a blast that aged him to death . ( COMIC : " The World Shapers " ) Characteristics . Appearance . More often than not , Jamie wore a traditional Scottish kilt with a red tartan . He was often teased for continuing to wear his kilt , even in situations where it was too cold to wear it . ( TV : " The Abominable Snowmen " ) After initially changing out of his battle - ragged 18th century clothes into a wet suit during the course of an adventure , ( TV : " The Underwater Menace " ) he began to include more modern clothes in his dress — including several turtlenecks of varying colours , a tan leather vest with a reversible cow - patterned fur lining , a Nehru jacket , a sleeveless pullover , neckerchiefs , anoraks and a laced black shirt . While he usually wore his fur - covered sporran , there was a stretch of time early on during which he didn ' t . ( TV : " The Highlanders " through the start of " The Web of Fear " ) He would , when necessary , wear a space suit ( TV : " The Moonbase " , " The Wheel in Space " , " The Seeds of Death " ) or sometimes a disguise . ( TV : " The Enemy of the World " ) The kilt was sometimes jokingly referred to as a " dress " or " skirt " , to which he would take mild offence . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " , " The Enemy of the World " , " The Two Doctors " ) When deciding who would have the task of dressing in drag as a disguise in a society where women were in power , the Doctor mentioned his youthful , androgynous appearance in contrast to the rest of the male prisoners , despite his masculine gait , and his comfortability with wearing a " skirt " as reasons that he should be the one to go undercover to retrieve their confiscated clothing . ( AUDIO : " Prison in Space " ) He and the Doctor also dressed as washerwomen with wool padding while smuggling King James II into a rowboat . After correcting the Doctor on calling his kilt a " skirt " , Jamie mentioned that he thought they looked like " a pair of old fishwives " . ( AUDIO : " The Glorious Revolution " ) One of the flustered , half - hearted insults levelled at him by the Doctor was being referred to as a " hairy - legged Highlander " . Later , he reverted to his 18th century dress , including a white ruffled shirt , a black jacket and a red tartan sash . When Jamie cleaned himself up after living rough in the ducts of Space Station Camera , the Sixth Doctor unkindly suggested to Jamie that he perhaps could use a bath more often in general . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) Much later , back in his old time , he grew a long beard and carried a claymore . ( COMIC : " The World Shapers " ) Personality . Jamie had a very strong connection to his Scottish homeland . When presented with the sound of bagpipes and the misty sight of Scotland on the scanner , he was lured out of the TARDIS , as this was what he wanted most . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " ) Despite having viewed the English for a long time as his mortal enemy , he teamed up later in his travels with a Redcoat from the Forty - Five , who had also been displaced in time and space , in order to rebel against the War Lord s . ( TV : " The War Games " ) The Doctor and Zoe both often teased or insulted Jamie about his intelligence . Zoe expressed relief that Jamie hadn ' t thought of x - rays before her , which would have been " awful " , ( TV : " The Wheel in Space " ) and the Doctor even suggested that they run away because of Jamie having an idea . ( TV : " The Abominable Snowmen " ) Jamie was simple and straightforward , but he was also practical and full of common sense , despite having no formal education . It was these qualities which often put him ahead of his companions . He came a long way from questioning why the Doctor hadn ' t bled the wounded and having never heard of " germs " before ( he assumed the word came from " German " ) . ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) When Jamie and Victoria were undercover at the Virtor - run New York Supplementary Education Institute in 1982 , Jamie needed Victoria to fill out his sign - up forms , as he did not know how to write . Victoria made him promise to practice writing once they got back to the TARDIS . ( PROSE : " The Lost " ) Later , he read stiltedly on several occasions . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " , " The Invasion " ) Rago assessed Jamie and discovered that his brain showed signs of recent rapid learning . It was his idea to dig through to a borehole and intercept the seed device which saved the travellers . Later , while the Doctor and Zoe were revelling in their rescue of Dulkis with only a minor volcanic eruption , it was Jamie who pointed out that they happened to be standing on the island that would erupt . ( TV : " The Dominators " ) While trapped without the Doctor or Zoe , Jamie had to order a complicated series of events . He was able to defeat Moran by thinking outside of the box , rather than solving the puzzle . ( AUDIO : " The Jigsaw War " ) Although he didn ' t understand the TARDIS , he was enthusiastic about it . His journey was a voyage of discovery ; almost everything he experienced was new to him . The few times when Jamie showed worry or concern were when his companions were in danger — particularly Victoria . When the unconscious Doctor was threatened by an Ice Warrior , Jamie attempted hand - to - hand combat with it , despite being unevenly matched and at great risk to himself , to protect him . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) Jamie saw the Doctor as a friend and mentor . He was extremely loyal to the Doctor and they were nearly inseparable . He learnt a lot through his experiences , but also believed the Doctor needed his help . When Ben and Polly left the TARDIS , Jamie reassured them that he would look after the Doctor . ( TV : " The Faceless Ones " ) Jamie was initially very shy around girls and awkward in situations where they were forward . In one case , he wanted the ladies who were primping him called off because he was afraid of what they might do to him if he looked " charming " . ( TV : " The Macra Terror " ) He kissed Sam in order to steal her plane ticket . ( TV : " The Faceless Ones " ) When he was being flirted with by girls in a 1960s coffee bar wearing plaid miniskirts — to which he exclaimed , " Oh , if only the Laird could see that ! " — he hurried back to the Doctor . He was not comfortable with having been given the difficult task of questioning them , despite the Doctor stating that Jamie was so much better at it than he . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) Jamie seemed intrigued with the short dresses that he had seen the ladies wearing . He teased Victoria about whether she saw herself wearing something similar , a thought for which she admonished him . ( TV : " The Ice Warriors " ) Despite his early shyness , Jamie began to flirt more , but was always gentlemanly and chivalrous . Jamie apologised when he realised that it was Rapunzel ' s hair that he had climbed and assured her that he was quickly passing through when she expressed wariness at inviting him inside her castle . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " ) Jamie expressed old - fashioned values about the roles of men and women , often seeing it as his duty to protect the ladies , even when they rebuked him with modern concepts of feminism and women ' s suffrage . ( TV : " The Invasion " , " The War Games " ) When Zoe misidentified his Scottish origin , calling his kilt a barbaric form of garment and asking whether he was a Scandinavian or a Dane , he told her to watch her lip or else he ' d put her across his knee and larrup her . ( TV : " The Wheel in Space " ) He later gave Zoe a spanking over his knee when she had been taken over by female superiority brainwashing . ( AUDIO : " Prison in Space " ) After having been ignored by Anita earlier , he gave Peri a peck when he was about to leave with his Doctor . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) He had previously shared two kisses with Sam ( TV : " The Faceless Ones " ) and one with Victoria . ( TV : " Fury from the Deep " ) He later shared one with Peri Brown . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) The Second Doctor considered Jamie to be the most reliable friend that he had ever had . ( AUDIO : " The Jigsaw War " ) During their travels together , Ben and Polly thought of Jamie as being like their " baby brother . " ( AUDIO : " The Forbidden Time " ) Jamie considered Zoe to be " a nice enough lassie " but was irritated by her occasional smugness . ( AUDIO : " The Edge " ) On 31 December 1986 , twenty years after they left the TARDIS , Ben described Jamie as " a good bloke " to Polly . ( PROSE : " Mondas Passing " ) In the 2000s , Polly described Jamie as being " brawny and reckless but lovely " and " a bit slow on the uptake " to Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart . ( AUDIO : " The Three Companions " ) The Fourth Doctor claimed that Jamie could be very fierce on occasion . ( AUDIO : " The Fate of Krelos " ) The Sixth Doctor told Peri that he was " always very fond of Jamie . " ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) Habits and quirks . Jamie had a habit of pretending to understand technology beyond his ken with a shrug and a nonchalant , " Oh , aye . " He often used analogies to describe the new things he was seeing — he compared Space Station Camera to " twenty castles in the sky " and called the Sontarans " knights " ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) and aeroplanes " flying beasties . " ( TV : " The Faceless Ones " ) He referred to the Cybermen and the Dalek s as " metal beasties . " ( AUDIO : " House of Cards " , " The Rosemariners " ) If he couldn ' t understand or compare something , he would simply ignore it . He had a particular fascination with gadgets such as Polly ' s secretarial dictaphone , which she kept his recordings on for many years after ( AUDIO : " The Forbidden Time " ) and the small radio that he was given by Tobias Vaughn . ( TV : " The Invasion " ) Although he didn ' t know how they worked , he was able to figure out how to get these simple devices to function . Jamie carried a sgian dubh , though he rarely ever used it , and only then in self - defence , as when he stabbed a Sontaran in the leg . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " , " The Two Doctors " ) He also wielded a sword or claymore on occasion , particularly while in his own time . ( TV : " The Abominable Snowmen " , " The War Games " , COMIC : " The World Shapers " ) On several occasions , he used or expressed interest in weapons such as explosives , grenades , rock - throwing , and guns , both historical and futuristic . ( TV : " The Dominators " , " The War Games " ) Good in a fight , he was also known to tackle enemies to the ground ( TV : " The Invasion " ) and get into physical altercations . ( TV : " The Underwater Menace " , " The Krotons " , " The Seeds of Death " , " The War Games " ) He often took it upon himself to go after beasties . ( TV : " The Macra Terror " , " The Dominators " ) He enjoyed a high degree of familiar physical contact , such as friendly shoving , prodding , pulling , hand - holding , climbing on top of or being climbed upon , and hugging . When stressed for any reason he would often grab on to his companions for reassurance , with a marked preference for grabbing the Doctor . Skills and abilities . Jamie had the ability to sense and reject subconscious mental manipulation while asleep , ( TV : " The Macra Terror " ) as well as sense danger . ( TV : " Fury from the Deep " ) He was also the first to be affected and detect that something was wrong after they had exited the TARDIS upon first arriving in the Land of Fiction . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " ) The young piper had musical ability , though he rarely displayed it . When his family legacy of piping was mentioned , he noted that all he had left of his bagpipes was the chanter . The Doctor wanted him to teach him how to play the bagpipes in return for being invited aboard the TARDIS . ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) He later found some bagpipes in the TARDIS , which he planned to mend . ( TV : " The Abominable Snowmen " ) At one point , he danced the Highland Fling in an attempt to dance out of the room and escape . ( TV : " The Macra Terror " ) The Doctor remarked that Jamie often attempted to hide his recorder from him . ( COMIC : " The Forgotten " ) He also was able to ride horse s and used this skill to escape a Confederate soldier after knocking him off of his horse . ( TV : " The War Games " ) He was also adept at rock climbing . He scaled steep rocks with the aid of Rapunzel ' s rope of hair . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " ) However , he wasn ' t particularly good at tying knots and the Doctor wanted to be reminded to give him a lesson sometime . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) Jamie expressed worry about being drowned and said that he couldn ' t swim when Ben suggested that they escape by swimming . ( TV : " The Highlanders " ) The Doctor also mentioned that a member of their group might not know how to swim . At the time , Jamie and Polly were fleeing the rising water which was quickly engulfing the underwater city of Atlantis . ( TV : " The Underwater Menace " ) The Doctor and Jamie occasionally paddled a kayak ( TV : " The Invasion " ) or a rowboat together on the River Thames in November 1688 . ( AUDIO : " The Glorious Revolution " ) Before travelling with the Doctor , Jamie did not know how to read ( PROSE : " The Dark Path " , " The Story of Extinction " ) or write . ( PROSE : " The Lost " ) He did , however , demonstrate a very basic understanding in both fields . He was able to read Kemel ' s name when it was spelled out for him , for example , even before he received proper lessons . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) Victoria agreed to teach Jamie how to write ( PROSE : " The Lost " ) and read during her time travelling with him . She once attempted to teach him " Robinson Crusoe " ( PROSE : " The Dark Path " ) after explaining to him each letter of the alphabet . After Victoria ' s departure , the Doctor continued to teach Jamie in her place , ( AUDIO : " The Story of Extinction " ) getting him to read in his spare time . ( AUDIO : " The Jigsaw War " ) Soon Jamie demonstrated adequate reading abilities , ( TV : " The Mind Robber " ) although he remained suspicious of both skills . ( PROSE : " The Indestructible Man " ) He was soon able to write a letter for Victoria which was eventually delivered to her by the Seventh Doctor . ( AUDIO : " The Story of Extinction " ) References . Illusions of Jamie and Zoe appeared to the Second Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart in the Death Zone on Gallifrey . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) A fictional version of Jamie was created in the Land of Fiction by Zoe after she faced the Cybermen . ( AUDIO : " Legend of the Cybermen " ) After Jamie ' s death , a shapeshifting Gwanzulum took the form of the youthful Jamie to trick the Seventh Doctor . ( COMIC : " Planet of the Dead " ) Experiencing trauma from his recent regeneration , the Fifth Doctor imagined that he was with Jamie . ( TV : " Castrovalva " ) When under the influence of a Dalek mind - draining device , the Fifth Doctor recalled Jamie among other companions . ( TV : " Resurrection of the Daleks " ) Before she had ever met him , Peri Brown mentioned that the Sixth Doctor had absentmindedly called her " Jamie . " ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " ) The Sixth Doctor later fondly recalled Jamie when he met a man of the same name in Edinburgh , 1828 , telling him that Jamie was an honourable name . ( AUDIO : " Medicinal Purposes " ) Izzy Sinclair tried on one of Jamie ' s sweaters and kilts , which she had found in the TARDIS wardrobe . ( COMIC : " Ophidius " ) When introducing himself to Queen Victoria in 1879 , the Tenth Doctor used the alias Doctor James McCrimmon . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) A version of Jamie appeared in a " hellscape " dream the Eleventh Doctor created while the mind parasite Mr Waites fed off the worst thing Doctor could imagine . In the dream , the Doctor worked in the Mediation Section of the Department of Commonality . He turned away Jamie when he was to be sent to a work camp . The Doctor said it was above his authority . ( COMIC : " John Smith and the Common Men " )