Charlotte Pollard Charlotte Elspeth Pollard — known to her friends as Charley and to her family as Lottie — was a human companion of the Eighth Doctor . Later , she came to travel with the Sixth Doctor . Her existence was always temporally problematic for the Doctor . When he met her in his eighth incarnation , he saved her from what should have been her natural death , although it was what the Tenth Doctor would later call a " fixed point in time " . This act of compassion was a violation of the Laws of Time . It destabilised the Web of Time and created a rift into the universe of anti - time , eventually forcing the Doctor to exile himself into the Divergent Universe . The Doctor and Charley eventually returned to the true universe , but they became separated in a confrontation with the Cybermen , Charley believing that the Doctor was dead and the Doctor ' s mind scrambled by the Cyber - Controller ' s attempt to take control of him so that he couldn ' t remember their last few hours together . Charley was subsequently rescued when the Sixth Doctor responded to her distress call , staying with him despite knowing that her very presence at this point in his life threatened to break Time Lord law by exposing him to foreknowledge about his own future . Biography . Before the Doctor . Charlotte Pollard was born on 15 April 1912 in Hampshire into a well - to - do family ; her mother was Lady Louisa Pollard and her father was Richard Pollard . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " , " Memory Lane " ) Charley was raised as a Catholic . ( AUDIO : " The Next Life " ) Her blood type was AB negative . ( AUDIO : " Absolution " ) She had two sisters , Margaret and Cecelia . Cecelia was also inadvertently involved in Time Lord politics . ( AUDIO : " A Blind Eye " ) The three sisters grew up in a manor house in Hampshire , looked after by servants . ( AUDIO : " The Chimes of Midnight " , " Zagreus " ) Her maternal grandmother was named Ermentrude Elspeth Pollard . She had died by 1936 . ( AUDIO : " The Fall of the House of Pollard " ) She gave Charley a copy of " Alice in Wonderland " for Christmas 1919 . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) She also had a maternal uncle , Jacques . ( AUDIO : " Memory Lane " , " The Girl Who Never Was " , " The Fall of the House of Pollard " ) When she was a child , Charley ' s grandmother used to bring her and her sisters to an artist to have their portraits painted once a year . ( AUDIO : " The Twilight Kingdom " ) Her childhood hero was the Victorian explorer Pieter Mon Marchè . During her travels with the Doctor , she learned that Mon Marchè was a not real person but a fictional character that she herself had inadvertently created . ( AUDIO : " The Man Who Wasn ' t There " ) When she was a child , Charley went on a holiday to Ostend , Belgium with her family , during which she read " Treasure Island " . ( AUDIO : " The Girl Who Never Was " , " The Fall of the House of Pollard " ) She once attended an orgy , though she didn ' t stay . ( AUDIO : " Seasons of Fear " ) Meeting the Doctor . Making an appointment to meet a young man , Alex Grayle , in Singapore on New Year ' s Eve 1930 , Charley stowed away on the British airship " R101 " , having disguised herself as a male crew member named Simon Murchford . This was known only by the Pollards ' cook , Edith Thompson . ( AUDIO : " The Fall of the House of Pollard " ) On 5 October 1930 , she met the Eighth Doctor and they uncovered the secret mission that the airship was on . She was rescued from the fated crash of the " R101 " by the Doctor and taken on board his TARDIS as his newest companion . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " , " Seasons of Fear " ) Initial voyages with the Doctor . Following their adventures aboard the " R101 " , Charley and the Doctor encountered the Cybermen in 2503 , ( AUDIO : " Sword of Orion " ) visited Venice in 2294 ( AUDIO : " The Stones of Venice " ) and faced the demon Marchosias in Malebolgia in 2003 . ( AUDIO : " Minuet in Hell " ) After travelling with the Doctor for several weeks , Charley realised that she had fallen in love with him . ( AUDIO : " Letting Go " ) In an alternative timeline created by , she met the Fourth Doctor and Leela in the former ' s TARDIS . As the Eighth Doctor had never told her of regeneration , she was at first sceptical of the Fourth Doctor ' s claim to be the Doctor but was soon convinced . As he had detected temporal disturbances in the Time Vortex , the Fourth Doctor realised that Charley must be one of his companions from the future . When she asked how he knew this , he told her that if she was one of his previous companions , he would be able to recognise her . He soon came to believe that Charley was very clever . When these events were wiped , so were all of her and the Doctor ' s memories of said events . For a reason unbeknownst to them , the Doctor suddenly felt the need to visit Bob Dovie at 59A Barnsfield Crescent in Totton , Hampshire on 23 November 1963 . There they were surprised to learn that Bob had already been visited by all of the Doctor ' s past incarnations , and was very irate . ( AUDIO : " The Light at the End " ) In New York City in October 1938 , they met Orson Welles and repelled the Laiderplacker invasion by using " The War of the Worlds " broadcast to convince the aliens that another invasion was already ongoing . ( AUDIO : " Invaders from Mars " ) While attempting to take Charley to her rendezvous in Singapore 1930 , the Doctor met the immortal Sebastian Grayle , who was working for the Nimon s and gloated about having killed the Doctor . The Doctor and Charley went back in time to 305 , 1055 , and 1806 , each time meeting Grayle , and in the end stopping him and the Nimons . ( AUDIO : " Seasons of Fear " ) While trying to investigate the disappearance of sun in the Cimmerian System , Charley and the Doctor went to a Throxillian mining base . The Cimmerian s , descendants of the Solarians and inhabitants of the system , feared light because it would allow the Solarians to track them , and burned out the eyes of everyone on the base , including Charley . When the Doctor got the artificial suns working , the Solarians came to the system and cleared up the misunderstanding . The Cimmerians healed the crew ' s eyes . ( AUDIO : " Embrace the Darkness " ) In 2050s New Britain , the Doctor and Charley stopped a Dalek plot involving time travel and a young William Shakespeare . ( AUDIO : " The Time of the Daleks " ) During her adventures with the Doctor , she was trapped by the Celestial Toymaker , not remembering who she was , and forced to play games , with the spirit of the Doctor stuck inside a ventriloquist puppet , only able to talk with her voice . She finally defeated the Toymaker and fled in the TARDIS with the Doctor inside . ( AUDIO : " Solitaire " ) By that time , Charley ' s existence was causing problems to the Web of Time , culminating in a confrontation with the Time Lord s . Charley had become a gateway to the Antiverse , causing anti - time to flow through and infect the Universe . When Charley helped save the Web of Time these events became part of the Web , resolving the paradox . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) However , the Doctor was infected by anti - time and so was forced to leave the universe and enter the Divergent Universe . Charley stowed away on board the TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) In the divergent universe . Charley and the Doctor ' s initial landing in the Divergent Universe was within a strictly designed experiment to study evolution . As such , Charley and the Doctor merged to create an evolved life form , and their sound evolved to the point of achieving sentience . ( AUDIO : " Scherzo " ) Not long after landing in the Divergent Universe , Charley and the Doctor met C ' rizz when they entered the Eutermes Zone on Bortresoye . Charley was transformed into a giant hybrid insect and later saved by the Doctor and reversed to her normal self . ( AUDIO : " The Creed of the Kromon " ) While in the Divergent Universe , the three of them visited Light City , a dictatorship where their memories were preserved and used as an experiment . ( AUDIO : " The Natural History of Fear " ) The Kro ' ka sent them to a tropical jungle , where she betrayed the Doctor to military forces because she didn ' t trust him very much in this universe . She became very upset with the Doctor , her mind being influenced by a living organism in the form of a cave system . ( AUDIO : " The Twilight Kingdom " ) Following their visit to different experimental zones of the Divergent Universe , they arrived at the Multihaven , a city run as a religious forum with innumerable faiths having set up churches , temples and retreats . C ' rizz was still grieving over the loss of L ' da and in a moment of madness , he mistook Charley for L ' da and tried to strangle her . The Doctor arrived just in time to save Charley by overpowering C ' rizz with his Venusian aikido . ( AUDIO : " Faith Stealer " ) Trapped on a dying world , Charley became critically injured and her body was totally paralysed . She asked C ' rizz to kill her but he didn ' t want to do it . She later was murder ed by the Excelsior , the dictator from the planet in ruins . The planet had been looking after itself , killing everybody and starting the cycle all over again , so finally Charley didn ' t die and continued travelling with the Doctor and C ' rizz to the next zone . ( AUDIO : " The Last " ) In the Caerdroia world , the Doctor ' s personality became split in three ( innocent , normal and grumpy ) ; to Charley ' s annoyance , she got teamed up with the " nasty " side of the Doctor , while the others went on different paths to investigate and try to solve the puzzle . Reunited , they finally solved the mystery of this place and were able to regain the TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " Caerdroia " ) Once the travellers were reunited with the TARDIS , the ship was plunged uncontrollably into the atmosphere of a mysterious blue planet , where the Doctor was forced to take emergency action and they became separated . Charley found herself visited by her mother and had to come to terms with how hardened to death she had became in her travels with the Doctor . She also had an encounter with Simon Murchford , whose identity she stole to board the " R101 " all those years ago . Charley was forced by Rassilon to live in an artificial reality , until she discovered the truth about Zagreus and the anti - time virus . Charley felt extremely jealous for not having the Doctor for herself anymore and resented C ' rizz . Faced with the opportunity to return to our universe , the Doctor only was willing to do so if Charley and C ' rizz resolved their differences . ( AUDIO : " The Next Life " ) Back home again . Just after they landed on our universe , the Doctor , Charley and C ' rizz found themselves on the new Dalek homeworld — where Davros awaited them imperiously and looking for revenge . Separated from the Doctor and C ' rizz , Charley made a startling discovery — the TARDIS had materialised on Earth , colonised by the Daleks . ( AUDIO : " Terror Firma " ) Having returned to her universe , Charley was grateful to be back on more familiar territory , despite some initial tension between her and C ' rizz due to his past as an assassin . As time progressed , however , the two became good friends , Charley recognising that morality could be more complicated than her initial perceptions after such experiences as an encounter with serial killer Eunis Flood , who was about to be killed as part of an experiment to research the nature of evil . Charley concluded that Flood didn ' t deserve such treatment no matter what he ' d done in the past or would do in the future . ( AUDIO : " Scaredy Cat " ) Charley also experienced an interesting historical encounter when she met the Duke of Wellington during a trip to the Great Exhibition of 1851 , Charley forced to pose as a French ambassador after the original ambassadors were briefly trapped in the TARDIS . While talking with the Duke , Charley assured him that he personally would be remembered as a great hero even if Britain itself still had problems in the future . ( AUDIO : " Other Lives " ) In the end , however , C ' rizz was killed when the TARDIS was trapped on a planet resembling Hell and was forced to serve as a spiritual storage facility for the souls of the entire planet ( a purpose that the Doctor speculated C ' rizz had been intended to serve for the Foundation ) , only for C ' rizz to burn himself out when he acted to restore the planet to normal . His last words being to describe Charley as his sister before he died . ( AUDIO : " Absolution " ) Angry at the Doctor ' s apparent lack of concern for the loss , Charley ordered the Doctor to take her to Singapore once and for all . However , although Charley changed her mind after she arrived in Singapore , a subsequent confrontation with the Cybermen during their latest attempt to harness time travel resulted in the Doctor and Charley being separated as the Cybermen ' ship collapsed . After a battle with the Cybermen , she was stranded on a desert island in 500 , 002 , believing that the Doctor had been killed by the Cybermen , while the Doctor returned to Singapore in 2008 after the TARDIS ' HADS activated when the ship they were on disintegrated ; his recent memories so scrambled by the attempted conversion that he was unable to precisely recall what had happened to Charley . ( AUDIO : " The Girl Who Never Was " ) Meeting the " other " Doctor . When the TARDIS arrived in response to her distress signal , Charley found the Doctor , but in an earlier incarnation . ( AUDIO : " The Condemned " ) Because of her travels with the future Doctor she knew not to let him find out anything about her past , but he grew suspicious of her mysteriousness . After landing on an unnamed planet which looked like a manor house with servant cottages , Charley and the Doctor were chased by werewolves . She devised a plan to get the werewolves to follow her and not the Doctor but fell into a pit trap . The police werewolves captured her and took her to Dr Paignton . Paignton wanted extra human urges , thinking she was a werewolf . Charley thought that this would make her a lettuce . The Valeyard stopped this process , and threatened to tell the Doctor that she travelled with his eighth incarnation . The Valeyard also explained to her the history of the colonists . He tried to convince her to change the Web of Time . ( AUDIO : " The Red House " ) Eventually , the Doctor demanded to know Charley ' s secret , but before she could answer him , she was infected with a virus that had slipped through the TARDIS ' defences . Charley discovered the virus had come from an entity called Mila , a human guinea pig in experiments by the Daleks to create a virus to transform all lifeforms into Daleks . When the experiments failed , the Daleks attacked her , making her phase into another dimension . She had slipped aboard the TARDIS in the Doctor ' s first incarnation and remained there since , invisible to everyone . Unbeknownst to the Doctor , Mila had used the virus to transform Charley into herself and vice versa , leaving Charley out of phase with reality and allowing her to take Charley ' s place at the Doctor ' s side . ( AUDIO : " Patient Zero " ) Charley was found and cured by the Viyran s , whom she helped for several millennia in their quest to expunge all the viruses which had escaped from the Amethyst station . Finally they crossed paths with the Doctor and Charley / Mila in an alternate timeline created by the Viyrans ' attempt to remove a virus from Earth ' s population . After Mila sacrificed herself to save the Doctor and the Earth , Charley revealed her identity to the Doctor . To make him want to forget his travels with her , she told him that when he met her , he would die ( still believing that the Eighth Doctor had not regenerated ) . She used the Viyrans ' memory - altering technology to replace Mila with herself in the Doctor ' s memories of their travels together . ( AUDIO : " Blue Forgotten Planet " ) After the Doctor . For years , Charley travelled with the Viyrans , helping them find and destroy various Amethyst viruses . Eventually , she decided to escape their custody , and ended up travelling through a space - time anomaly known as the Ever - and - Ever Prolixity . ( AUDIO : " The Lamentation Cipher " ) She eventually found herself in a Scottish forest infected with another of the viruses , and was found by Viyrans again . ( AUDIO : " The Shadow at the Edge of the World " ) She again decided to leave through the Prolixity , and was briefly reunited with her parents in 1936 . However , she was found and taken prisoner by the Viyrans , while her parents ' memory of her ever existing was erased . ( AUDIO : " The Fall of the House of Pollard " ) When she was returned to the Viyran ship , she found out that she was infected with a virus that would return the Viyrans to factory settings . ( AUDIO : " The Viyran Solution " ) Travelling through the Ever - and - Ever Prolixity with Robert Buchan and a Rogue Viyran , Charley and her friends ended up in Embankment tube station in the early 21st century . ( AUDIO : " Embankment Station " ) Legacy . The Eighth Doctor saluted Charley , along with his other companions , just prior to regenerating . ( TV : " The Night of the Doctor " ) The Tenth Doctor , put on trial by the Shadow Proclamation , cited the saving of Charley Pollard as an example of his saving the life of someone who had been declared a " fixed point in time " and destined to die . ( COMIC : " Fugitive " ) Whilst travelling through the Time Vortex , Cindy Wu saw Charley alongside other companions of the Doctor . ( COMIC : " The Good Companion " ) The Twelfth Doctor saw Charley , among other companions , when Bernice Summerfield was hit by temporal energy in the Pyramid Eternia . ( PROSE : " Big Bang Generation " ) Appearance . Charley had blonde hair . ( AUDIO : " The Next Life " , " The Viyran Solution " ) Personality . Charley believed that all war was a crime . ( AUDIO : " The Last " ) She rebelled against her upper class upbringing . Styling herself an Edwardian adventuress , she ran away to find excitement . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " , " Zagreus " )