Iris Wildthyme Iris Wildthyme , née Lilith , was a self - styled " transtemporal adventuress " who travelled the multiverse in a double decker bus , often with friends , most notably her best pal Panda . ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " ) She once described herself as a " transtemporal righter - of - wrongs , wronger - of - rights , meddler , artist , writer , glamourpuss , occasional Time ' s champion , and very old flame of the Doctor " . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) Iris spent portions of her life under the aliases Brenda Soobie ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) and Bianca . ( AUDIO : " The Wormery " ) She sometimes used the username " Route22 " , ( PROSE : " Buyer ' s Remorse " ) but her Twitter username was " @ realwildthyme " . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) She was known to the Forge under the codename Jezebel . ( PROSE : " Project : Wildthyme " ) The Poodles referred to Iris as the " evil one in the wonderbra and sensible shoes " ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " ) and " Ka Faraq Kweethri " , which meant " the Oncoming Hangover " . ( PROSE : " A Gamble with Wildthyme " ) Iris didn ' t have a stable timeline , and as such she didn ' t live her life in chronological order . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) Iris was friends with many people across time and space , including the Darlington branch of MIAOW , ( PROSE : " The Dreadful Flap " et al ) the Manleigh Halt Irregulars , Señor 105 , ( PROSE : " The Shape of Things " et al ) Vince Cosmos , ( PROSE : " Hang onto Yourself " et al ) Bernice Summerfield , ( AUDIO : " The Plague Herds of Excelis " et al ) and the Doctor . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " et al ) Origins . Iris had multiple equally true pasts , with details that contradicted each other to varying degrees . ( PROSE : " Wandering Stars " ) Her birthday was 16 August . ( PROSE : " Our Tune " ) The Eighth Doctor suggested Iris may have been a Faction Paradox creation . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) Iris was a lesbian novelist from late 20th century Earth . ( PROSE : " Hospitality " ) Iris was a Greek goddess , possibly the mother of Eros . ( PROSE : " Wandering Stars " ) On Gallifrey . Iris talked about her mother leaving with an older man , an offworlder , when Iris was young , leaving her to grow up with a dozen older , matriarchal " Aunts " in a great house in the mountains of Gallifrey ' s southern hemisphere . They were perpetually kept inside their house , which had hundreds of storeys , by fierce snow . Her favourite Aunt was Baba , who had a shawl made from the feathers of every bird her people knew , with which she could travel anywhere in the world . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) While living in the House , she was called Lilith . ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " ) As a child , Lilith went to the base of the mountains with her friend Alison and found a deserted fishing village . When Liltih stood with Alison at the village ' s pier , she saw dozens of small sharp - toothed white fish and was startled . She fell into the water and quickly grabbed a beam and pulled herself out . While this was going on , Alison laughed at Lilith ' s misfortune . After this incident , Lilith never trusted Alison again . ( PROSE : " First Meetings " ) After Aunts died one by one , Iris travelled to her planet ' s main city to demand a place in the elite society . But she only found bickering old men who knew the secrets of the cosmos but would not do anything , ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " , " The Scarlet Empress " ) and wouldn ' t let a woman like Iris in even though their president was a woman . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) She said that she found her bus abandoned and dying in the mountains and coaxed it back to health , ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " , " Verdigris " ) and that it told her what to do with her life . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) The Third Doctor said that Iris wasn ' t a " proper Time Lady " : she was a commoner , from somewhere like the New Town s under the Capitol . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) She claimed at times to be Gallifreyan , ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) but also that her home was the Obverse . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) The Sixth Doctor noted that he was unable to find any record of her on Gallifrey , because she had erased herself from the records . ( AUDIO : " The Wormery " ) Her bus was a TARDIS . ( PROSE : " Old Flames " ) The Eighth Doctor speculated that Faction Paradox had retroactively injected Iris into his past , or that she was from another reality where all the times she claimed to have met him , and which he didn ' t remember , really did happen . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) She did , in fact , meet him out of the correct sequence , which created events in his past that shouldn ' t technically have happened . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) In the Clockworks . Iris told Panda that she was a kid from the slums miles outside the Clockworks . She managed to inveigle her way into Clockworks society , but she thought it was terribly dull , so she stole her bus and escaped . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) Lilith investigated the forest at the heart of Saga City , where she met a Eliot , a tree containing a map of the multiverse . She went through Eliot and found herself outside Saga City , near Wherewithal House . The House ' s Aunts took her in , hoping that her family would find her and reward them . A boy named Dick discovered Panda and the bus , which had both already travelled with her in her future , out in the desert . Panda helped her get the bus going again and they escaped through the Ringpull to the outside universe , where she first began her travels . ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " ) As fiction . Iris was aware that her life was " a series of stories that involve [ d ] paradox es , time travel , mind control , virtual selves , cloning , regression , reincarnation , talking vegetable s , cybernetics , regeneration , prolepsis , analepsis , alternative dimensional instabilities , metatextuality , allegory , satire , fantasy , revisionism , cliche s , plagiarism , and hoodwinkery " . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) Some parts of her life were missing because the " episodes got junked back in the Sixties " . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Iris knew that she was a deliberate parody of " Doctor Who " . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) Iris had a multi - platform franchise with spin - off audio adventures , original novelisation s , computer game s , and comic strip s . One super - fan hardly knew what was canonical . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) John Cleavis once came up with a story about a " strange old aunt " who " happened to own a double - decker bus that [ could ] travel to [ a ] magical world " . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) In one meta - dimension , Iris existed only as a fictional character . ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " , AUDIO : " Looking for a Friend " ) The seventeen - episode " The Iris Wildthyme Show " inspired a cult franchise with CDs , action figure s , comics , fan conventions , and over 300 tie - in novels . ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " ) In his youth , Arthur Bayer wrote several stories about a woman who travelled through time and space in a double - decker bus with a panda . ( AUDIO : " Looking for a Friend " ) Edith Sitwell Iris . The incarnation of Iris that resembled Edith Sitwell was Iris ' first incarnation . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " , " The Golden Hendecahedron " , " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Iris met the Doctor in his first incarnation shortly after he ran away from Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Iris was involved in the life of novelist Denton Welch and was mentioned in his memoirs . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) On one occasion , Iris was brought to a desolate wilderness with a tower in it by PAND - R . There she encountered four of her other selves and fought the Voodi , the Gaar , the Bummie s , and the Chumbloid s before defeating PAND - R in the tower . During the adventure , Iris cackled they were lucky only the " rubbish monsters " had been pooper scooper ed to the wilderness . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Iris came to August 1984 to track down some alien creatures , but they realised they were being followed and made her bus the size of a toy . She mostly escaped the bus before she could be squished , but found her foot stuck in it . A boy named Andrew wandered by and used a screwdriver he had in his pocket to mess with the bus ' s miniature controls and disconnect the etheric solenoid s . The bus quickly grew back to normal size and Iris invited Andrew into the bus to have lemonade and seed cake . The creatures had already left during the time Iris ' s foot was stuck , so she also left after saying farewell to Andrew . ( PROSE : " Dog Days of Summer " ) Brenda Soobie . Iris ' next incarnation resembled the singer Shirley Bassey in her prime . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) She was either the second ( PROSE : " The Golden Hendecahedron " ) or the third Iris . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) She was skilled at darts . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) Biography . For a while , Iris made money by posing as Shirley Bassey . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) She took to the life of a singer and began calling herself Brenda Soobie . Under this alias , she performed in places such as Las Vegas and Vega and released " a ton " of records . ( PROSE : " The Golden Hendecahedron " ) Brenda visited 1960s Las Vegas where she met the Eighth Doctor , along with his companions Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor . It was also here where she met Noël Coward for the first time . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) Iris travelled to Scotland in 1447 and helped a burly warlord get out of a well he had fallen into . She beat the warlord in a caber toss ing contest and posed for an oil painting called " " Posing with unknown Scottish warlord " " . ( PROSE : " Iris at the V & A " ) Accompanied by " a black boy in a silver , figure - hugging spacesuit " , Iris encountered a mustachioed incarnation of the Doctor in the City of Glass on Valcea . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) Appearance . Iris " famously " had a beehive hairstyle . She was known to wear an evening dress with a feather boa . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) Beryl Reid Iris . The next Iris resembled Beryl Reid . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) She was either the third ( PROSE : " The Golden Hendecahedron " ) or the fifth Iris . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Biography . Iris encountered the Fourth Doctor in 1764 . She was trying to obtain a house in every century and had brought Edwin Turner to marry Bella Huntingdon , thereby gaining the Huntingdon estate . In fact , the Huntingdons were of an alien species and Lady Huntingdon wanted Iris ' TARDIS so she could return to her home world . When Iris refused , Lady Huntingdon raced to the TARDIS and attacked Iris when she got there . The Doctor was able to trap Lady Huntingdon in a message pod . With her plan failed , Iris simply left 1764 , leaving Turner trapped in the past . ( PROSE : " Old Flames " ) Iris was part of the Sisterhood of Karn for a couple of years and was one of those present crying ' Death ! ' when the Fourth Doctor paid Karn a visit . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) Jenny Winterleaf . When Iris parked her bus in a side street in Sunderland in 1991 , a traffic warden named Jenny Winterleaf wandered onto the bus thinking it was a normal bus . Iris left before Jenny could get off and the two were stuck together for several years of adventures . ( PROSE : " The Dreadful Flap " ) The first place that Iris took Jenny to was ancient Mexico , where Iris stole a ceremonial bracelet . This enraged the locals and Montezuma swore that he would have his revenge on Iris . ( PROSE : " Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta " ) Iris and Jenny fought Spiritus Mundi , ( PROSE : " Only Living Girls " ) visited the Super Hotel Miramar , ( PROSE : " Enter Wildthyme " ) and helped the Second Doctor defeat the Dalek Supreme in the diamond mines of Marlion . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " , " Bafflement and Devotion " , AUDIO : " Excelis Dawns " ) After four years of travels , Iris landed in 1996 England . Jenny took this chance to stop travelling with Iris and return to her native time and place . ( PROSE : " The Dreadful Flap " ) Tom . Many years after meeting her other selves in the Death Zone and sometime after her travels with Jenny , Iris parked her bus in London somewhere between Piccadilly and Old Compton Street in early November 2000 . Tom came into her bus wanting to go to Putney Common . A month into their travels , Iris and Tom visited 1973 and aided the Third Doctor in defeating Verdigris . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) Tom left Iris when they got into an argument during an adventure in the 1990s . Tom refused to continue travelling with Iris and left her . He went on to write a series of books based on his adventures with Iris . ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " ) Final adventure . Iris ate a Kaled mutant during this period , which proved harmful and forced her to regenerate . She encountered the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones on Hyspero and participated in a quest across the planet to reunite the Four . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Personality . Iris was not fond of the Doctor ' s seventh incarnation . She once described him to the Eighth Doctor as " a portentous little feller , swaggering around , thinking he ' s got all the world ' s darkest secrets under his hat . " Furthermore , she thought that he was " a pretentious old thing " who " got on [ her ] nerves " as he regarded himself as the Guardian of Forever and Time ' s Champion . She held in a similarly low regard , referring to him as " that pitiful , deluded phallocentric dope . " ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Jane Fonda Iris . Iris ' new body resembled the actress Jane Fonda in her prime . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Accounts differ as to whether she was the fourth Iris , ( PROSE : " The Golden Hendecahedron " , " Wandering Stars " et al ) the sixth Iris , ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " , " Femme Fatale " , " The Blue Angel " ) or a " future " incarnation . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Biography . Solo adventures . One of the first things Iris did after regenerating was send a video of her regeneration to the Eighth Doctor and Sam . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Iris met the Eighth Doctor in Paris , 1934 and also in the Obverse . ( PROSE : " Femme Fatale " , PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) During a time in which the Eighth Doctor was travelling with Iris in her omnibus , she chatted with him over how similar their lives were . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) Iris took Marlene Dietrich and Carlos Esteban to 4281 , where they fought a Tarixion Gas Fiend . ( PROSE : " Iris at the V & A " ) Iris had several adventures with the crew of the " Anathema " in the 79th century . They visited Pyras , encountered robots in a historical theme park , and got captured by Duke Anubis . During this time , she developed a bond with Captain Rex Halidom . ( PROSE : " Battleship Anathema " ) Iris visited 17th century Samhain and married Michael Drake , a man who had already married one of Iris ' future incarnations . ( PROSE : " Michael Drake " ) Working for UNIT . Iris worked part - time as UNIT ' s special scientific advisor in the mid - 1990s . During this time , " a couple of people in Geneva " repeatedly asked how easy it would be to put a base on the Moon . In 1996 , the Remote sold a dangerous alien weapon at COPEX . Iris asked UNISYC to tell her what was going on , but they refused . After the Eighth Doctor dealt with the situation , Iris was interviewed by Sarah Jane Smith for the documentary " Voodoo Economics " . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) In early 1997 , Iris went on vacation . ( PROSE : " Bullet Time " ) Post - War universe . In the post - War universe , Iris visited the Eighth Doctor and his daughter Miranda at his house in Kent in the 1980s . The Doctor was suffering from amnesia at the time , so Iris tried to explain to him a few things . She only succeeded in confusing him . The Doctor let Iris sleep in a spare bedroom of his house for a couple nights . During this time the Doctor walked in on Iris while she was taking a bath . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) The Eighth Doctor and Marnal saw a vision of the four surviving elementals that included a " young woman with long blonde hair in an extraordinary piece of haute couture " . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) Travelling with Panda . For a while , Iris travelled with Panda . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Many of their adventures involved the planet Mars . ( PROSE : " Green Mars Blues " et al ) Fifth Iris . Iris ' fifth incarnation had an easy going personality . She dyed her hair red and wore clothing similar to a rock star from the 1970s . On one occasion , Iris had to explode something in space . Due to the fact that sound couldn ' t travel in the vacuum of space , Iris closed one of her eyes , but kept the other open to make sure the explosion happened . The explosion caused a dispersal of pigment in Iris ' open eye and it changed colour from brown to blue . ( PROSE : " The Golden Hendecahedron " ) However , other accounts indicate that the fifth Iris was the one that resembled Beryl Reid . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " , " The Blue Angel " ) Sixth Iris . The incarnation of Iris that travelled mainly with Panda was Iris ' sixth body . ( PROSE : " The Golden Hendecahedron " ) By the time of this incarnation , she was at least 900 years old . ( AUDIO : " The Two Irises " ) According to one account , Iris was incapable of regeneration and this was her only body left . ( AUDIO : " The Elixir of Doom " ) Biography . Alone . Iris had an adventure with the Doctor ' s fifth incarnation on Artaris . ( AUDIO : " Excelis Dawns " ) Iris travelled to Artaris again in the 27th century , where she met Bernice Summerfield . She showed Benny some of the local hot spots . She came to Artaris to get the Relic back so she could wear it as an accessory . She got drunk with Benny . She worked out that Snyper was manipulating the situation . She later helped Benny to escape her cage and then to discover the truth about the plagues . ( AUDIO : " The Plague Herds of Excelis " ) After this adventure , Iris dropped the drunken Bernice on the space liner the " Empress " to take her home , telling her to act like she owned the place . ( AUDIO : " The Dance of the Dead " ) Iris decided to take a drink in Bianca ' s Bar where she met the Sixth Doctor and faced Bianca , her own evil future self , who attempted to steal her remaining regeneration s . ( AUDIO : " The Wormery " ) Iris met Robin Hood and his Merry Men and introduced them to time travel . ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " ) Tom & Panda . Iris found herself being pursued by a powerful being from the higher dimensions who wanted her knowledge of the multiverse . For several months , she hid from the being in a variety of realities . Eventually , she put her memories into a mind crystal from Marlion to protect them from the being . She then landed in Sherwood Forest and met up with Robin Hood and his merry men , who took Iris to the 2000s . Iris learned that her old companion Tom had written a book series based on his adventures with her and attended one of Tom ' s book signings . After the signing , Iris had dinner with Tom and gave him the crystal with her memories . Before the meal ended , Robin Hood ' s merry men came to the restaurant and took Iris back to their time . The Sheriff of Nottingham had kidnapped Maid Marian and Fiar Tuck and wanted Robin Hood to give him Iris in exchange for them . Iris was taken to the sheriff ' s castle where she discovered that the higher being was responsible for the kidnapping . The being learned that Iris didn ' t have the knowledge he wanted with her , so he took control of Iris and made her pilot her bus directly to Tom . Iris landed in the office of Satan & Satan , a publishing company and secret offshoot of MIAOW , where Tom and his sentient toy panda had been trying to convince Mida Slike to cancel the Iris Wildhtyme book series . The higher being mind controlled everyone in the office and tried to make Tom give him the mind crystal , but Panda wasn ' t affected because he didn ' t have a brain and took the crystal from Tom . Under instruction from Iris , Panda shattered the crystal and Iris ' memories were seemingly lost forever . With this , the higher being left . Iris offered the chance to travel with her again to Tom and he accepted . Tom ' s toy panda Panda also wanted to travel with Iris so she took him with her as well . ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " ) Her memories started to appear in Panda . She said that she learned medicine from Lister . Iris thought she was becoming the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz . ( AUDIO : " The Devil in Ms . Wildthyme " ) Shortly afterwards , the trio attended the unveiling of the Hendecahedron , an eleven - sided power source created as part of a collaboration between Allis and Ballis and Zelopan . Due to the temporal residue on Iris and her companions , the Hendecahedron became unstable . Iris shut down the Hendecahedron , but during the process was hit by a bolt which pinched her timeline . She split into two Irises : one that aged backwards and regressed through Iris ' past selves and one that aged forwards and turned into several possible future incarnations . During this confusion , Zelopan tried to steal Iris ' bus by impersonating the sixth Iris . The two Irises stopped Zelopan from tricking Tom and Panda and unpinched their timeline by holding hands . ( PROSE : " The Golden Hendecahedron " ) Iris , Tom , and Panda visited Xanadu and encountered Kubla Khan , who gave Iris a hookah . ( PROSE : " Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta " ) The trio decided to go to relax by going to an acupuncturist in Lowestoft , but their acupuncturist turned out to be the Acupuncturist , an evil retired Clockworks who was going by an alias that was an anagram of his name . Iris used a lighter and some fireworks she had in her handbag to defeat the Acupuncturist . Iris discovered an old freighter spaceship that was going to crash onto prehistoric Earth and kill all of the dinosaur s . Tom almost died on the spaceship , but after seventeen attempts Iris was able to get him off of it before it crashed . She eventually prevented it from crashing into Earth , although she accidentally left Panda on the ship and came back for him two weeks after she left . ( PROSE : " Future Legend " ) Tom left to be with a man with whom he had fallen in love during one of the trio ' s adventures on Earth circa 2008 , leaving Iris and Panda travelling without him . ( AUDIO : " The Sound of Fear " , " The Dreadful Flap " ) Adventures with Panda . Iris and Panda then travelled to Radio Yesterday and met her husband Sam Gold . ( AUDIO : " The Sound of Fear " ) The pair continued travelling together for a long time though the two often fell out . ( PROSE : " Couch Potatoes " , PROSE : " Future Legend " ) She was rather found of using logic bombs in her investigations . She could fix vehicles better than her bus . She was exiled by the people of the Clockworks to 1972 . She travelled to wonderland . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) During their travels , the two encountered George W . Bush , ( PROSE : " Chicken Fried Banana Republic " ) Marlene Dietrich , ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Shadow " ) Professor Challenger ( PROSE : " The Found World " ) and Sherlock Holmes . ( PROSE : " The Shape of Things " ) She met Hilary Wildthyme after Panda opened his hipflask . She went into rehab and created Hilary as a decoy . ( AUDIO : " The Two Irises " ) Iris dropped her gin and tonic into the vortex and caused a rip . After Iris lost Panda when he jumped into a rift to save the multiverse , ( AUDIO : " The Panda Invasion " ) she spent many years searching for him and eventually turned to Santa Claus for help . Iris and Santa found that Santa ' s ex - wife , Mary Christmas had kidnapped Panda . Iris used Clockworks technology to regress Mary ' s mind to a time when she and Santa were happy together . She then left with Panda for new adventures . ( AUDIO : " Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa " ) For an extended period , Iris and Panda were pursed by a Monstron time destroyer piloted by an unknown enemy . ( AUDIO : " The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society " ) Iris installed a randomiser in the bus to evade the craft , but its pursuit continued until the pilot - a bitter future version of Iris - caught up with them in the town of Midwinter Leys in Warwickshire and attacked them . ( AUDIO : " Iris Rides Out " , AUDIO : " Midwinter Murders " ) The future Iris captured Panda and her younger self and sent them to a Pleasure Prison , where the pair were immersed in separate virtual realities designed to provide their greatest desires . Iris and Panda were able to escape the program after remembering how much each needed the other . ( AUDIO : " Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme ? " ) After this , Iris met Ted Taylor , an up - and - coming professional darts player who fulfilled his prophesied destiny by becoming a quantum superbeing and waging war on the Bovian s , a cow - like alien race . ( AUDIO : " Iris at the Oche " ) A jingle got in her head and she passed it on to Panda . Iris then decided to go an find the source the single and tracked it to Jupiter . It turned out the Lift was trying to wipe the minds of humanity . ( AUDIO : " A Lift in Time " ) Iris and Panda attended a book launch party at Shaftsbury Avenue in 2010 . Afterwards , they relaxed in the omnibus with Elspeth May . George Mann drew a picture of them while this was going on . ( PROSE : " Iris at the V & A " ) Jo Jones . After dropping Panda off somewhere to complete a mission for her , Iris met Jo Jones while on Earth in 2010 and took her to meet the Third Doctor in the 1970s . After this , Jo and Iris began to travel together . ( AUDIO : " Find and Replace " ) On one occasion , Iris and Jo arrived in Los Angeles , 1930s . While there , they encountered the Eighth Doctor , and together defeated a movie star who was turning her husbands into monstrous characters using an elixir left behind by Iris on a previous misadventure . ( AUDIO : " The Elixir of Doom " ) Returning to Turner . Iris returned for Captain Turner , whom she had left trapped in the past , and travelled with him on many new adventures . She took him to 2015 where she wanted to buy him some derivatives of Jane Austen ' s work . Here she discovered a book by Kronos Vad which didn ' t exist . She went back in time to stop Sherlock Holmes from being killed in an explosion . ( AUDIO : " Kronos Vad ' s History of Earth ( Vol . 36 , 379 ) " ) She had a crush on Brian Bonamy and often went into the 1980s to see him . She met him again in Margate in 2015 , where she found out he was under contract by the Scorchie s . ( AUDIO : " Comeback of the Scorchies " ) Iris then took him to Pink Gables , her house on the Moon . ( AUDIO : " Dark Side " ) . When she visited Fergusons she found Cassie Burdock who told her future . ( AUDIO : " Oracle of the Supermarket " ) She didn ' t think that Chloe Fothergill died by accident so proceeded to investigate her death . She was good at picking locks . ( AUDIO : " Murder at the Abbey " ) Iris took Turner to the Giza . ( AUDIO : " The Slots of Giza " ) She then took Turner to her favourite place in the universe the Garden in the Clouds . ( AUDIO : " High Spirits " ) She battled Nora . After meeting a werewolf , she placed Turner back with Chloe Fothergill . ( " An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium " ) After she parted ways with Turner again , she went searching for Panda , not able to find her most faithful companion . She met a human version of Panda named Arthur Bayer . ( AUDIO : " Looking for a Friend " ) Later years . Many years after her adventures with Panda and Simon , Iris encountered them while investigating a Vince Cosmos concert in 1973 . ( PROSE : " Enter Wildthyme " ) Appearance . Iris had a tattoo of a " bumblebee riding a bike . " ( AUDIO : " Iris Rides Out " ) Other Irises . Iris once proposed to the Doctor in Venice , when she appeared to be a woman in her sixties , with long white hair that reached to the ground . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) The Doctor , in his third incarnation , had recently left Jo behind . He suggested they team up to defeat a common foe ; Iris misinterpreted this as seduction . ( AUDIO : " The Wormery " ) The first seven incarnations of Iris faced Morbius in the Death Zone , facing aliens such as the Quark s and the Zarbi . ( AUDIO : " Excelis Dawns " , PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) One of Iris ' future incarnations starred in a successful television series as well as several films . Panda only appeared in the pilot episode of the series before he was replaced by a kangaroo named Hoppy . ( AUDIO : " The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society " ) Iris ' Celestial Omnibus once generated a projection of a male incarnation of Iris . ( AUDIO : " The Two Irises " ) Bianca acted as Iris ' equivalent of the Valeyard . Working with a group of psychic worm s , Bianca rebuilt her TARDIS as a nightclub at a dimensional nexus . From there she endeavoured to bring ultimate harmony to the universe , and to steal the remaining regenerations from Iris . The plans failed when her club was destroyed , and she faded out of existence . ( AUDIO : " The Wormery " ) Undated events . On one occasion , Iris spent Christmas with the Fifth Doctor , Adric , Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka . Iris adored the Fifth Doctor but also worried about him being so serious lately , stating that he didn ' t seem as fun as he used to be . Iris was fond of Adric and was devastated to hear of his untimely death . However , she was not fond of Tegan , describing her as " that shrill Australia n woman . " ( AUDIO : " Excelis Dawns " ) She claimed to have been present for the Great Fire of London in September 1666 . ( AUDIO : " Excelis Dawns " ) She was in London in March 1868 when the Doctor and Nyssa were stranded there due to Thomas Brewster accidentally sending the TARDIS on a solo flight . The Doctor decided against requesting Iris ' assistance in retrieving it . ( AUDIO : " The Boy That Time Forgot " ) She once shared breakfast with US President Abraham Lincoln on the White House lawn in the 1860s after saving the United States from Martian invaders for the third time . She told George Strangeways that they had " such a laugh . " She also met Napoléon Bonaparte on the Russia n front in 1812 and claimed that , in spite of what the history books said , he was " anything but small . " ( AUDIO : " The Panda Invasion " ) Iris dealt with Cephalopod s in Venice with the help of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart and one of the Doctor ' s early incarnations . Iris also encountered Lethbridge - Stewart when they fought the Terrible Zodin on Mars . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) Iris requested entry to the City of the Saved in order to remove various friends from the Civil War . First she claimed she had a strand of human DNA in her sixth incarnation ; when that didn ' t work , she drove her vehicle directly at the Uptime Gate . ( PROSE : " A Hundred Words from a Civil War " ) Iris ' TARDIS . Iris Wildthyme ' s TARDIS was usually known as the " Celestial Omnibus " or simply " the Bus , " resembled a red London double - decker bus , specifically the Number 22 to Putney Common . Lacking the standard dimensional transcendence exhibited by other TARDISes , it was smaller inside than out . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Iris ' s companions . Jenny Winterleaf . A Traffic warden , who once helped Iris fight the Dalek Supreme alongside the Second Doctor , used to get diarrhoea whenever they went through the vortex . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) Martha . A poodle from dogworld . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) Tom . Tom and his talking panda travelled with Iris for some time , before he returned to Earth , Iris came looking for Tom once more . While on Earth , Tom wrote mildy successful books about his travels with Iris , although most people regarded the books as fiction . ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " ) Panda . He looked like a stuffed panda , liked more than a drop of alcohol ( any really ) and was a freelance journalist in 1972 . He would often get self - conscious at any mention of him being stuffed or looking like a toy panda . He continued to travel with Iris even after Tom departed . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) Jo Jones . Iris befriended the Doctor ' s former companion Jo Jones ( née Grant ) in 2010 . Jo joined Iris on her travels , happy to once again be a time traveller . ( AUDIO : " Find and Replace " , " The Elixir of Doom " )