Flip Jackson Philippa " Flip " Ramon , née Jackson , was a companion to the Sixth Doctor . History . Early life . Her great - grandfather served in the Royal Air Force during World War II . ( AUDIO : " Quicksilver " ) She had a younger brother named Philip . ( AUDIO : " Scavenger " ) When she was in Year Three , she was cast in her school talent show . Having never learned the poem she was assigned as she was given detention and extra homework for talking in class , she froze on stage before running away , and from then on had a phobia of performing on - stage . ( AUDIO : " Stage Fright " ) Flip ' s school did not allow her to take her history , French or geography GCSE exams . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Davros " , " Quicksilver " ) She was riding on a London tube train with her boyfriend Jared Ramon in 2010 when it slipped through a temporal fissure to the sentient planet Symbios , where she met the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe . ( AUDIO : " The Crimes of Thomas Brewster " ) First travels with the Doctor . In 2012 , her mother had a boyfriend named Nigel , whom she considered " creepy . " She was reunited with the Doctor when he was forced to swap bodies with Davros to thwart a Dalek attempt to alter the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 . Despite the fact that the Doctor was in Davros ' body , Flip nevertheless recognised the Doctor ' s good nature from her past meeting with him ; even before she learned that the " Doctor " was Davros , she assured him that he wasn ' t to blame for the deaths the Daleks caused while searching for him . Once she learned the truth about the switch , she helped the Doctor escape Dalek captivity and regain his original body , even tricking the Daleks into thinking that the Doctor was still trapped in Davros despite this forcing her to spend some time locked in a room with Davros . With her flat destroyed and her co - workers back home having been killed by the Daleks , Flip turned down the offer to return to the present with Jared in a Dalek time capsule in favour of spending more time travelling with the Doctor . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Davros " ) During their travels , the Doctor and Flip visited Jago and Litefoot in Victorian London . She thought that London smelt funny . Jago took her on a tour of the New Regency Theatre . After the Valeyard showed her one of his performances , Flip helped in the Doctor ' s investigation . She later followed him to his TARDIS but this was part of his plans . The Valeyard got her to play Zoe Heriot , before he attempted to rejuvenate himself with the Doctor ' s darkest thoughts . Flip successfully saved the Doctor and in turn overcame her stage fright by performing nursery rhymes onstage . ( AUDIO : " Stage Fright " ) Flip reminded the Doctor of himself when he was in his early 500s . ( AUDIO : " Vortex Ice " ) Some time later , she became separated from the Doctor in orbit around Earth in 2071 , and almost became host to a piece of alien space debris named " Scavenger " . After teleporting from its grasp with seconds before her absorption , she became trapped floating in space once again . Realising she was running out of Oxygen , she recorded a message for the Doctor and used her spacesuit thrusters to propel herself to Earth , to either await rescue , or die in the attempt . ( AUDIO : " Scavenger " ) Later , when the Doctor met an older version of Peri Brown on the planet Krontep , she asked about Flip . He told of her fall to Earth , but revealed that he ' d used the TARDIS to bend space and time , slowing her descent to a few hundred metres , thus saving her . He then further revealed that he ' d received an invitation for her and Jared ' s wedding , implying that he had returned her to her native time of 2012 . After Peri declined his offer to attend the wedding with him , he vowed to return for her , one day . ( AUDIO : " The Widow ' s Assassin " ) Travels with the Doctor and Constance . The Doctor never did return for her wedding , but during the reception she was time scooped by an alien race to use as a hostage against the Doctor , sending her to Vienna in 1948 , where she met another of the Doctor ' s companions , Mrs Constance Clarke . After the three had defeated the alien invasion , Flip and Constance , although both planning to return to their old lives , decided to continue travelling with the Doctor , at least until the peace treaty he was currently drawing up was finished . ( AUDIO : " Quicksilver " ) The Valeyard once mockingly offered to tell the Doctor , during his travels with Flip , what would eventually become of her . ( AUDIO : " Stage Fright " )