Showing posts with label Doctor Who Series One Characters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctor Who Series One Characters. Show all posts

Monday, 17 August 2015

Jamie (Doctor Who Series One)


First Mentioned: Doctor Who Series One Episode Nine: "The Empty Child"

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series One Episode Ten: "The Doctor Dances"

Played By: Albert Valentine

Born in London in the year of 1937 to a young woman called Nancy, Jamie never knew that she was his mother, who out of shame for giving birth to him as a teenager told him that she was his sister. 

Scared of the bombs and being on his own, Jamie followed Nancy one evening of the London Blitz during 1941 and was crushed by the Chula Ambulance (that had been thrown away by Captain Jack Harkness). His injuries included a "massive head trauma in his left side, a partial collapse in the chest cavity and a scar on the back of his right hand". Being the Blitz Jamie wore his gas mask for fear of a gas attack. He had been resurrected by nanogenes, who took him to be a model example of a human and created a virus that would infect  humans to make them look like he did. The last thing he wished for before his death was his mother.

He was later cured by Nancy and the nanogenes, which recognised her parental DNA and restored his body to what it had been before he had been "killed".


"The Doctor Dances"

When the nanogenes disperse from both Nancy and "The Empty Child", the Doctor runs over to him and expresses his desire to "give me a day like this". He reaches forward and laughs as he finds he can detach the gas mask from Jamie's face to reveal that he is alive and well. The Doctor picks him up and tells him that he will love the future in "twenty years" for the "pop music". Nancy asked what happened and the Doctor tells her that the DNA was registered and identified as having a similar match, joking that "mother knows best" and giving Jamie to his mother, who cries and hugs him tightly to her. 

Jamie has his back to the falling bomb and is oblivious to the space ship flying above them and catching the bomb whilst it is hurtling towards them. 

Later the Doctor comments to Rose in the Tardis that Nancy and Jamie would go to Doctor Constantine for "help."

Mrs. Harcourt (Doctor Who Series One)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series One Episode Ten: "The Doctor Dances"

Played By: Vilma Hollingbery

Living during the 1941 London Blitz, Mrs. Harcourt was an elderly woman who had at some point lost her leg. She was transferred to the Albion Hospital under the care of Doctor Constantine, where she had come into contact with an infected individual and became one of the gas mask zombies. The transformation also managed to grow her leg back due to the nanogenes that were part of the virus.

She was cured at the abandoned rail way line along with the other zombies, by the Doctor and nanogenes that understood what humans were supposed to look like (unlike the ones that were infecting people).


"The Doctor Dances"

After the Doctor compliments Doctor Constantine for his dedication to his patience and explains that "whatever was wrong with them in the past, you will probably gonna find they are cured", Mrs. Harcourt hobbles over to him and addresses him warmly. Constantine comments that she is looking much better. Mrs. Harcourt expresses her surprise to find that her "leg's grown back" since she had only gone to the hospital with "one leg". He asks her if she had "possibly miscounted" due to all the confusion of the war. 

She watches the Doctor as he prepares the Chula Ambulance for self destruction and clears the area with all the other cured victims. 

Mr and Mrs Pakoo (Doctor Who Series One)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series One Episode Two: "The End of the World"

Played By: ??

A married couple of bird-like aliens born years before 5,000,000,000 (the date of planet Earth's destruction), Mr. and Mrs. Pakoo had built up a vast wealth and bought tickets to observe "Earth Death" aboard Platform One.


"The End of the World"

Mr. and Mrs. Pakoo were welcomed into the "Maximum Hospitality Zone" by the Steward along with the other guests. They stand and listen to Cassandra's speech and the presentation of her gifts: a jute box and an Ostrich egg. 

They both were talking to each other by the door when Cassandra calls all the guests to "come gather" due to their being only "10 minutes till Earth Death." 

They witness the Doctor's revelation that Cassandra had used robotic spiders and androids in the guise of the Adherence of the Repeated Meme to sabotage Platform One and the plan to use the destruction of Earth to kill them all and gain the shares of their "rival companies." 

They watch in horror as the sun's heat cracks the glass of the Hospitality Sweet, but survive the attempt on their life. They mourn with the remaining survivors for all those who had died, before leaving Platform One after the "death" of Cassandra.