Kate Creevy

## Biography

Kate was born in 1967 to Sam Creevy and Raina Kerenskya, with the Seventh Doctor acting as her obstetricia. While dealing with the Ice Lord Sezhyr who had possessed Raina, Kate was left with her grandmother. (TV: Ice Time (TV Story))

She meet the Doctor at a garden party, where he was hiding in a safe. Thanks to the stories told to her by her parents she knew all about him, although still had a hard time believing it all at first. She would travel to the kingdom of of Kefiristan and battling the Metatraxi. The Doctor later defeated the Metatraxi and asked Kate to travel with him to which she accepted. (TV: Crime of the Century (TV Story)

Her first trip in the TARDIS was to the year 2003 where she and the Doctor helped UNIT investigate a university run by Amanda Richardson, there they found a cult called The Seekers of Doom who plan to spread a virus across the world to cause the human race to go extinct, the Doctor destroyed the virus as he let it absorb him which destroyed his immune system, Richardson caused the university to self-destruct where she was shot by Bambera, they escaped the university where Kate took care of the Doctor as he regenerated into his next incarnation. (TV: The Outbreak (TV Story))

Kate became scared and confused when the Doctor regenerated into his Eighth incarnation and Bambera tried calm her down, the Doctor later explained to her that as a Time Lord he can survive fatal injuries but as a result his appearance will change. After defeating Davros and the Daleks, the Doctor checked with Kate to see if she was ok with his new appearence to which she realised he was the same man and continued their adventures (TV: Survival of the Daleks (TV Story))

The TARDIS materialised in a wood, where Kate accidentally fell into a lake. Taking her to a nearby cabin, the Doctor discovered a series of murders and that the people there were experimenting with time. Ten years earlier, a girl had been killed as a result of a misdiagnosis and the scientists were trying to send a message back to warn their past selves. This interference with the timeline caused the girl to become alive again in a state of zombie-like limbo. To correct their mistake, the Doctor travelled back and undid the damage. (TV: Night Thoughts (TV Story))

In 1941 Kate and the Doctor met Cody McBride, an American private eye, who had seen a sphear crash land in 1941 London, which had been traced to that location by the Doctor, during that adventure they thwarted an invasion by the Cybermen. (TV: Illegal Alien (TV Story))

The Doctor and Kate travelled to the Doctor's home planet, where the Doctor faced members of his House and many dark secrets were revealed. (Lungbarrow (TV Story))

In December 1968, the Doctor and Kate landed near Crook Marsham where Kate met with Robin Yeadon. She tried to convince the Doctor not to retire. She went to the radio telescope nearby and saw a dead body there. She tried to persuade the Doctor to help with the mysterious goings-on. When Robin's stepfather Lawrence Yeadon died, she consoled him. She witnessed the attack on Jill Mason. After the Doctor arrived, she was still being attacked and tried to stop the being but that made it stronger. After the Doctor defeated the Sentience, she debated whether or not she should leave the Doctor. (TV: Nightshade (TV Story))

The Doctor and Kate arrived in World War One and discovered a race of aliens known as the Kalron were trying to divert the path of history so an intergalatic war would be started with Earth, the Doctor managed to convince them that the real enemy was in fact the German army and once they were defeated the Doctor banished the Kalron from Earth. (TV: The Angels of Mons (TV Story))

After Kate opened a chest in a castle on an un-named woodland planet, Kate opened a chest which was inhabited by paranormal spirits after the house was exorcised by three priests, the Doctor ended up performing an old Gallifreyan ritual to banish the ghosts from the house., the Doctor was mad with Kate for doing something so silly but eventually forgave her but Kate felt guilty as a few people died because she opened the chest. (TV: The Nefarious Castle (TV Story))

Visiting Salcombe in 1965, the Doctor and Kate found the people to be un-eased due to all the graves being empty, where they found an alien race known as the Zangrox were responsible. The Zangrox fed off madness and they found the best way to make people go mad was by re-animating the dead so people would see their dead loved ones walk around the town, the Doctor defeated the Zangrox by blowing up their main ship which also killed the deceased who were brought back to life. (TV: The Returned Lives (TV Story))

The Doctor took Kate to the Solar system in 2109, her past. They met Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, a descendant of the Doctor's long-time associate the Brigadier, and stopped the destruction of the Sol Transit System by "Fred", the ruler of another dimension. (TV: Transit (TV Story))

After saying goodbye to her old friend Julian at his funeral, the Doctor brought her and the TARDIS to Heaven in the year 2570. She met a young Traveller by the name of Jan Rydd and fell in love with him. Along with a psychic named Christopher, she helped free the Doctor from being trapped in Puterspace by the Vacuum Church and wanted Jan to travel with her in the TARDIS. However, Jan was infected by Hoothi fibres. Through the Doctor's manipulations, Jan put Kate to sleep with a drug and tried taking a shuttle on his own to the Hoothi sphere, but Máire woke Kate and they followed Jan.

On board the shuttle, Máire betrothed Kate and Jan to be wed. Thinking that they would set the shuttle on a collision course with the sphere, Kate and Máire ejected their pods. Jan instead ignited the sphere with his pyrokinesis, killing three of the four Hoothi and sacrificing himself. Landing on Heaven, Kate spoke to the part of the Hoothi group mind containing Julian, killing the last Hoothi and freeing the dead minds from the group mind. Angered by him causing Jan's death, Kate asked the Doctor to be returned home and she left the Doctor on bad terms. (TV: Love and War (TV Story))

## Behind the Scenes

With Ace's departure in Season 27, John Nathan-Turner and Andrew Cartmel needed to create a new companion and Cartmel created the character of Raine Creevy, an upper class cat burglar, Nathan-Turner liked the idea but had one request change the name to Kate Creevy to which Cartmel agreed. A few actresses were considered and among them were Julia Ormond, Julia Sawalha and Elizabeth Hurley, Sawalha was not keen on taking it as she considered the role of a Doctor Who companion as an ‘actress graveyard’, Ormond also declined as she didn’t feel committed to taking a role on Doctor Who, so in the end Elizabeth Hurley was approached and after a superb audition she was given the role of Kate Creevy, Cartmel said that for the character of Kate he wanted ‘a posh English-rose type of actress’ to play her and many fans and the press would dub her ‘an Emma Peel for the nineties’.

## List of Appearances

### Doctor Who

#### Season 27

* *Crime of the Century*
* *The Outbreak*

#### Season 28

* *Survival of the Daleks*
* *Night Thoughts*
* *Illegal Alien*
* *Lungbarrow*

#### Season 29

* *Nightshade*
* *The Angels of Mons*
* *The Nefarious Castle*
* *The Returned Lives*
* *Transit*
* *Love and War*