Victoria Waterfield Victoria Maud Waterfield ( PROSE : " The Age of Ambition " ) was the daughter of Edward Waterfield , and companion of the Second Doctor ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) and an acquaintance of the sixth . ( AUDIO : " Power Play " ) . She primarily had adventures with Jamie McCrimmon , and her contact with other companions was limited . She was known to be at least acquainted with Peri Brown . One of the youngest companions ever to travel with the Doctor , the 14 - or 15 - year - old was made an orphan by her mother ' s early death and her father ' s murder by the Dalek s . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ; PROSE : " Downtime " ) The Doctor and Jamie , by mutual agreement , immediately chose to bring her along with them upon the death of her father . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) Thereafter , the duo were very protective of her , to an extent that the two did not typically exhibit towards their other female companions , Polly and Zoe . The two acted as a substitute father and brother to her , and patiently took the time to help her get over her sense of loss over her parents , and the great fear she experienced in some of the more dangerous parts of their adventures together . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " , " The Abominable Snowmen " ) Indeed , she often displayed her fear by screaming with much greater frequency than the other female companions of the Second Doctor . Her reasons for leaving the Doctor and Jamie were unique , and a consequence of her youth . She decided to live with the childless Frank and Maggie Harris in 1968 . Though no details were known about the " formality " of this arrangement , it was apparent that Victoria stopped travelling in the TARDIS because she valued the comfort of family . While the Doctor saw the decision as very much a matter of her own choosing , Jamie was significantly distressed — much more so than he had been when Ben and Polly departed . ( TV : " Fury from the Deep " ) Biography . Early life . Victoria was born in 1852 . When she was five years old , she was photographed by Charles Dodgson , the author of " Alice in Wonderland " , who was better known by his pseudonym " Lewis Carroll " in later years . Her mother , Edith Rose Waterfield , died on 23 November 1863 ( PROSE : " Downtime " ) from pneumonia at the age of 37 . ( PROSE : " The Age of Ambition " ) According to her father , Edward Waterfield , Victoria bore a strong resemblance to her mother as a teenager . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) . She was a Protestant . ( PROSE : " Screamager " ) Meeting the Doctor . Edward Waterfield and his colleague , Theodore Maxtible , were experimenting with a method of time travel utilising mirror s and static electricity . They accidentally established a link between Maxtible ' s house and the Dalek city on the planet Skaro . The Daleks used Victoria as a hostage to control her father and Maxtible . Taken prisoner and transported to Skaro , Victoria was stranded on the alien planet — her father having died to save the Second Doctor ' s life . Drawing on this experience , she was prepared to encounter civilisations more advanced than her own . Now an orphan , she chose to join the Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon on their travels — a decision made more through necessity than choice . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) Travels with the Doctor . Victoria looked for the humanity in the circumstances in which she found herself . Rather than wonder at the TARDIS , Victoria worried about the Doctor ' s age . Until her abduction by the Daleks , Victoria had apparently led the sheltered life usual for women from wealthy British families in the 19th century . She was , however , quite capable of looking after herself and held her own in a verbal spar with Captain Hopper . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) . She also coped well with Jamie ' s teasing over such things as short dresses . ( TV : " The Ice Warriors " ) Victoria ' s sheltered life before encountering the Doctor had not made her gullible . She was a clever and intelligent young woman , who got the better of Kaftan twice after having been tricked into drinking drugged coffee . Her first ploy had been to scream as if a dead Cybermat were attacking again and the second was to tell Kaftan and Eric Klieg that the testing room , where the Doctor ' s group had been locked , contained another weapon . Victoria seemed such an innocent young woman that Kaftan believed her each time . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) Although Victoria loved the Doctor and Jamie , she missed her home and father . Since she had joined the TARDIS crew only as a result of her father ' s death , she was something of an unwilling adventurer . Having told the Doctor this , he taught her to keep the memory of lost loved ones in the subconscious , where they could be recalled at will , but did not harry the mind at all times . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) Her gleeful recollection of the recipe for Kaiser pudding when working in Salamander ' s kitchen was a manifestation of her longing for home . ( TV : " The Enemy of the World " ) Right from the start of her adventures , Victoria was defiant and could show great courage . Though frightened of the Daleks who had held her captive , she defied their orders and continued to feed the pigeons at the window of her room . She was also inquisitive , which made her travels with the Doctor and Jamie more bearable . Victoria could be stubborn ; when offered the opportunity of safety with the Monks in Tibet , she refused . Perhaps her courageous spirit also had a hand in this . ( TV : " The Abominable Snowmen " ) Jamie , Victoria and the Doctor landed on a space station orbiting a black hole . She didn ' t know what a black hole was . When the Doctor told them that the only people that could control black holes were his people , she asked him what made him leave them . She stayed with when he and the Doctor tried to stabilise the black hole . She tried to help him when he started to convulse but she started to disappear . She soon reappeared but she wasn ' t herself and stayed behind when the Doctor went to visit Joinson Dastari . She discovered that there was a fake history about the black hole . She found it weird that there was books in the future and Flail told her but had to then wipe her memory . ( AUDIO : " The Black Hole " ) She started to teach Jamie how to read . She helped Jamie to collect provisions for the archaeological dig they were part of on Amyryndaa . She became nervous when the Doctor left them in the TARDIS thinking they would be safe in there . 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 " ) When they landed in China she was appalled at the sight of a burned out village . She was annoyed when the villagers of the neighbouring village thought she was the Doctor ' s concubine . She tried to convince the villagers to respect the strange monk that had arrived in the village . ( AUDIO : " The Emperor of Eternity " ) Departure . Victoria may have been courageous , but she was certainly a screamer . Never afraid to scream at danger , it was this which , ultimately , provided the solution to the weed creature on the Euro Sea Gas refinery the travellers visited . Leading up to this adventure , Victoria had begun speaking with greater frequency of her dislike of the dangers she , the Doctor and Jamie encountered in their travels . Unsurprisingly , she took her first opportunity to settle down with an established , caring family . With no family to return to and realising that her travels had changed her outlook and expectations , Victoria chose to stay with Maggie and Frank Harris rather than continue her travels , despite the fact that Jamie , who had feelings for her , tried to persuade her to stay . ( TV : " Fury from the Deep " ) Victoria left some of her belongings in the TARDIS after she left , including a dress which was later found and worn by Sarah Jane Smith . ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) Life after the Doctor . Victoria settled down in the 20th century with her foster parents , before being visited once more by the Doctor , who was in his seventh incarnation . He took her to London in February 1868 , where Victoria took care of her father ' s fortune and visited her aunt , Margaret Waterfield , before returning to the 20th century . ( PROSE : " Prelude Birthright " ) In 1909 , her aunt was murdered by thugs in the employ of Jared Khan . ( PROSE : " Birthright " ) At some point , Victoria was taken to the Black Archive by UNIT to have her record as a companion of the Doctor taken . Her memories of the visit were subsequently erased and she was sent on her way . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) In 1980 , she returned to Tibet and the Great Intelligence for a third time . It manipulated her into establishing the New World University , preparing the way for it to manifest in Earth ' s computer networks . In 1995 , its plan almost came to fruition ; a ghostly version of the long - dead Professor Edward Travers got her to realise that she was being manipulated and she joined the fight against the Intelligence ' s plan . ( HOMEVID : " Downtime " ) Victoria married and had several children . As of , presumably , 2008 , one of her children was expecting Victoria ' s first grandchild . By this time , she considered her days travelling with the Doctor as the most exciting , vivid and terrifying of her life . She never told her family of her travels in the TARDIS or that she was from the 19th century . ( AUDIO : " The Great Space Elevator " ) In the early 21st century , Victoria became involved in the protests against nuclear energy . At that time , she was reunited with the Doctor , by then in his sixth incarnation , and met his latest companion , Peri Brown . ( AUDIO : " Power Play " ) Personality . Despite her obvious distress in many situations , Victoria quickly adapted a role where she could actively help the Doctor and Jamie . She was eager to participate in any current adventure . She attempted to force her way past Kaftan to open the tombs on Telos . Victoria showed no qualms about using force either , taking the seemingly - dead Kaftan ' s gun and using it to kill a Cybermat . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) Victoria eventually forgave the Daleks for killing her father . ( AUDIO : " The Emperor of Eternity " ) Behind the scenes . That which survives . Until the 9 - episode find in 2013 , Victoria was the companion hardest - hit by missing episode s , discounting those like Katarina and Sara Kingdom who only appeared in one or two serial s . She had the lowest percentage of surviving material of any companion to appear in more than two stories . Before the 9 episodes were found , only 24 % of her episodes existed . Afterwards , that number was raised to 53 % . Casting . The circumstances under which Deborah Watling won the part are somewhat mysterious . She does not appear on the audition paperwork , and appears to have quietly replaced first choice Denise Buckley for reasons unknown . Records indicate that Buckley won the role after a camera test on 11 April 1967 , but lost it by 13 April , when Innes Lloyd officially confirmed Watling in the role . ( REF : " The Second Doctor Handbook " )