Sexterminate! Sexterminate!
- Publication: Daily Star
- Date: 2005-03-24
- Author: Kate Jackson
- Page: 33
- Language: English
IF YOU CAN RUN LIKE CRAZY TO AVOID SLOBBERING ALIENS YOU CAN BE THE DOCTOR'S ASSISTANT
DR WHO WEEK
SEXY Billie Piper will be the latest babe battling intergalactic baddies when Doctor Who returns to our screens on Saturday.
The 22-year-old beauty is sure to be a big hit as she takes on the role of Rose Tyler —the Time Lord's young assistant alongside the new Timelord Christopher Eccleston, 41.
But she's not the first sexy side-kick to act as the time traveller's gorgeous right-hand woman.
Since the show first began back in 1963. there's been plenty of ballsy babes who have taken on awful aliens and scary monsters. So, to mark the return of the show, we've turned back the clock to remind you who played all the other Dr Who girls...
KATY MANNING
Played: Jo Grant
Doctor: Jon Pertwee
This sexy companion can't r.
have been too terrified of
the Daleks - because she
posed naked with one of
the Exterminators for a
magazine photo shoot.
After appearing in
Doctor Who in the
early 1970s. she emi-
grated to Australia in
1989. married, and.
aged 56, is still acting.
HONOR BLACKMAN
Played: Prof Lasky
Doctor: Colin Baker
The Bond girl, now 78.
once played a botanist in
a 1986 episode.
JANET ELLIS
Played: Teka
Doctor: Tom Baker
Before going on to pre-
sent Blue Peter, the mum of
pop star Sophie Ellis Bexter, aged
49, actually got her big break in
Doctor Who in the 1979 episode The
Horns of Nimon.
BONNIE LANGFORD
Played: Melanie Bush
Doctor: Colin Baker
Had to wear three-inch high heels to
appear in camera shots with the
Doctor between 1986 and 1987. She
became a big star of the West End.
Now, aged 40. she says: "You really
do become part of a family tree."
RULA LENSKA
Played: Dr Styles
Doctor: Peter Davison
The Rock Follies actress, 57. starred
in a 1984 episode.
LALLA WARD
Played: Romana
Doctor: Tom Baker
She married Baker in real life but the
pair were later divorced. Now aged
52 and living in Oxford.
WENDY PADBURY
Played: Zoe Herriot
Doctor: Patrick Troughton
Clad in a leather cat suit. Wendy spiced up the show between t968 and 1969. Now living in London and aged 56. she also starred in Emmerdale and says: "I have absolutely wonderful memories." LOUISE JAMESON
Played: Leela
Doctor: Tom Baker The former EastEnders actress starred as a scantily clad companion
between 1977 and 1978. Louise. who played Rosa di Marco in the soap. is
now 53. but was recently voted the sexiest Doctor Who companion of all time. NICOLA BRYANT Played: Peri
Doctor: Tom Baker Often caused outrage because of her scenes in a
bikini. Nicola, now 43, is still an actress. She lives in London's Notting Hill and says: -1 always seemed to be wearing revealing clothes." ,ROLINE JOHN
iyed: Liz Shaw
ctor: Jon Pertwee
peared on the show in 1970. cently starred in the movie Love tually. Caroline. 54. lives in Surrey :BORAH WATLING
- wed
- Victoria Waterfield 'ctor: Patrick Troughton e battled both the Cybermen and Daleks between 1967 and 1968. w 57 and living in Essex. she has me advice for Billie in the new 'ies: "No matter how ridiculous monsters are. you've got to keep traight face."
QUELINE HILL
wed: Barbara Wright
ctor: William Hartnett er appearing on the show tween 1963 and 1965. she it to raise a family and died 1993 from cancer.
k ROLE ANN FORD
iyed: Susan Foreman
ctor: William Hartnell
e was the Doctor's
inddaughter and first
'ekick back in 1963. w aged 64. she rks as a voice coach d lives in north ndon. She says: )u have to remem-that it was the 'y first of this kind thing. Much as I ored it. it became lurden."
XUREEN
G BRIEN
• lyed: Vicki
• ctor: William
irtnell
er appearing in the ow in 1965 as the ctor's second corn-
, Mon, she left to move Canada. Now back in tl • UK and aged 61
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THE WHO GIRLS: Mary Tamm top. Rula Lenska. above left, Louise Jameson. above right, Daphne Ashwood with Paul McGann. left, and Bonnie Tyler. righ she has starred in TV
drama Casualty and
is a crime writer.
ANNEKE WILLS
Played: Polly
Wright
Doctor: William
Hartnell
Played a secretary
before setting up a
design company.
Now 63, she says of
the sidekicks in Doctor
Who: -I was the first in a long
line of beautiful sexy ladies.-
ELISABETH SLADEN
Played: Sarah Jane Smith
Doctors: Jon Pertwee and Tom
Baker
A mini-skirted beauty who was in
the show between 1973 and 1976.
She returned for a spin off series
and. now 57. says: "Dr Who just did-
n't let me go and kept coming back
into my life."
SARAH SUTTON
Played: Nyssa
Doctor: Peter Davison
After Doctor Who, Sarah
worked in the theatre but
still goes to Doctor Who
conventions. Now 43, she
laughs at the costumes she
had to wear during her
appearance on the series
between 1981 and 1983.
MARY TAMM
Played: Romana
Doctor: Tom Baker
After her stint in Doctor Who
between 1978 and 1979. she
went on to appear in Jonathan
Creek. Now aged 54 she says:
"I quite fancy Christopher
Eccleston so I'll be watching
the new series avidly."
JANET FIELDING
Played: Tegan
Doctor: Tom Baker and
Peter Davison
Played an air hostess who
became the Doctor's compan-
ion between 1981 and 1984.
Now aged 48. she went on to
work as an agent.
SOPHIE ALDRED
Played: Ace
Doctor: Sylvester McCoy
The last Doctor's com-
panion before the show
was axed in 1989.
Now 42, she works
doing voice-overs
and lives in
London.
ty DAPHNE
ASHBROOK Played: Dr
A.., Holloway
Doctor: Paul
McGann
American-born
actress who starred in a 1996
Hollywood movie version. Now aged 38. she is a regular on American TV shows.
Caption: DALEK, YOU WERE WONDERFUL: Katy Manning poses with a dalek during her days on the show in the mid 70s
Caption: NEW WHO. IT'S ME: A Billie Piper is the latest assistant to Dr Who. Above inset. Honor Blackman
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