10 Saddest Doctor Who Companion Departures

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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024

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  • @gestaltdude
    @gestaltdude 2 года назад +50

    Have to confess, the bit about the Doctor giving Sylvia and Wilf the lottery ticket, was that he had also managed to make it so much more impactful by borrowing the money from their late husband and son-in-law and, of course, means he was still able to give his daughter something on her wedding day.

    • @andreacook7431
      @andreacook7431 2 года назад +2

      That's the one part of that story that made me tear up.

    • @JPayne95
      @JPayne95 2 года назад +1

      That's why that era was so good cos they gave everyone so much weight to their characters that we actually cared. Now I don't even care about the doctor.

  • @taliesinllanfair4338
    @taliesinllanfair4338 2 года назад +18

    Adric should've been number one. That final credits scene in silence with only his broken badge of mathematical excellence on the screen trumps any other companion finale.

  • @TheHufflepuffSaint
    @TheHufflepuffSaint 2 года назад +24

    Rose, Donna and Amy's departures really brought me to tears. 😥
    And I know it didn't happen in the main show but a spin off and also happened in real life but the news of Elizabeth Sladen's passing (departure), may she rest in peace; was truly heartbreaking. I'm truly thankful that she came back as Sarah Jane for NuWho so much so she got a spin off show that was equally awesome as Torchwood was.

  • @StephenLeGresley
    @StephenLeGresley 2 года назад +33

    One that I feel should be on this list is Sarah Jane's departure. Not just that she got dropped off in the wrong place, but that The Doctor never came back for her and in School Reunion we got to see just how much that hurt her.

    • @edg4441
      @edg4441 Год назад +1

      Good point, but Sarah Jane Smith did return. 1st she was in the failed spin-off pilot "K-9 and Company" in 1981, and then she was in "The 5 Doctors" episode during Peter Davidson's run in 1982. Sarah Jane was paired with Jon Pertwee because Tom Baker refused to participate in the special episode. I also think she was offered to return as a companion to Peter Davidson's Doctor Who but declined. Unfortunately, the David Tennant Series 2 Episode 3 "School Reunion" in 2006 was incorrect because it doesn't take into account her appearance in "The 5 Doctors" episode. It's unclear if the "School Reunion" episode was another attempt at giving Sarah Jane Smith another spin-off series or if her character's return was so popular, that they gave her a spin-off "The Sarah Jane Adventures". I think the former because at the end of the "School Reunion" episode K-9 was left for her fully refurbished. So essentially "The Sarah Jane Adventures WAS the second attempt at "K-9 and Company", IMO. It came full circle.

    • @StephenLeGresley
      @StephenLeGresley Год назад

      @@edg4441 Ok but none of that changes how sad her departure was.

    • @edg4441
      @edg4441 Год назад +1

      @@StephenLeGresley Absolutely agree. It was definitely sad again when Tennant's Dr. Who left her with K-9 at the end of "School Reunion", even though she got her own TV series. It's not the same as traveling as a companion with the Doctor. She was one of the longest companions in Dr. Who History. Sarah Jane Smith will always be my favorite Dr. Who Companion. If she was offered to come back as peter Davidson's Dr. Who Companion, it's a shame, that she didn't accept the opportunity. Thanks for your comment. Have a nice weekend.

  • @andu1854
    @andu1854 2 года назад +8

    Donna Noble was my choice: she had grown so much as a person and it was nice having a companion just be his friend & her losing all
    Memories to save her

  • @friendlyotaku9525
    @friendlyotaku9525 2 года назад +31

    Love to see some appreciation for Tegan's exit, it is heartbreaking and probably the most realistic exit of any companion - she just had enough of all the death and destruction. The adventures had stopped being fun. And Janet Fielding's acting... oof, my heart... I'm really excited to see both Tegan and Ace return later this year, they are two of my favourite companions! (alongside Sarah Jane, Donna and Bill) Ace in particular will be interesting too as she never got an on screen exit so I'm intrigued to see how it will be explained, it is commonly accepted that Ace started A Charitable Earth after she left the Doctor but what are her specific reasons for leaving the Doctor? It is very possibly we will finally find out this year! And I wonder if it will play a role in Dan and Yaz's exits too - I could see it but only time will tell, either way I can't wait!

  • @owntmpsn
    @owntmpsn 2 года назад +52

    Hopefully Donna remembers in the 60th anniversary

    • @TheHufflepuffSaint
      @TheHufflepuffSaint 2 года назад +6

      Maybe it has something to do with what the Doctor alluded to in The End Of Time; "It’s all part of the convergence. Maybe… maybe touching Donna’s subconscience. Oh she’s still fighting for it even now. The Doctor-Donna."
      Maybe that convergence is still echoing all the way back from 2009 and that causes her memory to return without causing her head to burn.

    • @jonathanward2527
      @jonathanward2527 2 года назад +2

      I hope she doesn't remember. I hope it occurs at some point before she loses her memories

    • @SCProductions-528
      @SCProductions-528 2 года назад +1

      Yeah!

    • @D50Music
      @D50Music 2 года назад +1

      We can only hope 👌

    • @503Sparky
      @503Sparky 2 года назад +4

      I would've rather seen The Doctor and Martha together

  • @RaggedyDoctor11
    @RaggedyDoctor11 2 года назад +14

    Thanks for reminding me about the day I lost my beloved Pond 😭
    And Rory too I guess.

  • @ab9840
    @ab9840 2 года назад +19

    Another one for the sad list. That scene when the third Dr. left Jo Grant behind since she had just gotten engaged, that was kind of sad. He drove away silently into the night. Jo Grant and the third Dr. worked well together.

  • @bakedpotatoes3499
    @bakedpotatoes3499 2 года назад +6

    Donna's departure made me cry

  • @debshaw680
    @debshaw680 2 года назад +7

    I’m bursting into tears in the first cyber man episode because it’s the beginning of the end of Rose’s time. Donna is devastating too but all the hope and sadness of Rose’s departure are deadly. And the end of Bad Wolf.

    • @suzy1841
      @suzy1841 2 года назад

      Not sure Bad Wolf ever got an ending - in Day of The Doctor, the Moment (a sentient weapon of mass destruction) chooses Rose's form, and tells him that in that form, she's called Bad Wolf. I don't think it's a coincidence, among all the forms of past or future companions that the Moment could have taken, that it picks the one that has been part of the time vortex. Rose as Bad Wolf probably exists eternally as an impression in time.

  • @BaneHuntress
    @BaneHuntress 2 года назад +3

    Yup... Donna was the one I still cant watch without crying... she had it all... then can never remember him... ugg... my heart.

  • @D0ct0rP0p
    @D0ct0rP0p 2 года назад +5

    Sarah Jane Smith. Twice!
    First by Tom "'till we meet again Sarah", then a final reunion and goodbye with David "Goodbye, my Sarah Jane"

  • @DarthJynx115
    @DarthJynx115 2 года назад +19

    I’m confused at how Bill was put higher than Clara and Amy/Rory?

    • @maryandramiller3376
      @maryandramiller3376 2 года назад

      Me too.

    • @wifeoftim
      @wifeoftim Год назад

      I'm confused too!

    • @bakedmomo5693
      @bakedmomo5693 Год назад

      they still managed to live life, albeit on the wrong time period, while Bill was "killed"??

  • @MrMann0123
    @MrMann0123 2 года назад +6

    I thought Tegan would be hard to match. Then I thought Rose would be impossible to top... then Bill. Bloody Bill. That whole... "pain...pain...pain..." just horrific.

    • @MrMann0123
      @MrMann0123 2 года назад +1

      That isn't to say that the whole thing with Donna or Amy... or River weren't bad... but Dammit Bill!

  • @brendangatenby8066
    @brendangatenby8066 2 года назад +5

    My top 3 companion departure:
    3: adric
    2: rose
    1: sarah jane smith

  • @BeAGoodDoga
    @BeAGoodDoga 2 года назад +12

    Where’s Peri? Her goodbye was a sad one, even if it wasn’t entirely true…

  • @oneofmanyintheworld
    @oneofmanyintheworld 2 года назад +10

    STOP HATING ON ADRIC!

  • @michaelpettitt8656
    @michaelpettitt8656 2 года назад +3

    Totally awesome video. I am so excited for the 60th special but this time I avoiding any and all attempts from spoilers.

  • @thechillindude4478
    @thechillindude4478 2 года назад +8

    Ellie, I'm surprised at you. Sure you didn't write this but as you are such a massive fan of hers, I'd of thought you'd have pushed for River to be included. Yes her death is the first time we see her, but if you watch her whole story/Husbands of river song and then go back to the library episodes, her death is heartbreaking

  • @blueknight07
    @blueknight07 2 года назад +3

    Jo Grants departure was very sad.

  • @13thwho
    @13thwho 2 года назад +3

    The First Doctor’s companion Sara Kingdom in “The Daleks’ Master Plan” died tragically when the Daleks’ Time Destructor aged her until she was just a skeleton. Granted, no episodes of her exist, but there must be stills or telesnaps that could have been used.

  • @stuartcork1249
    @stuartcork1249 2 года назад +3

    Personally I would have included Nyssa ahead of Tegan, though perhaps that is because I felt a greater connection to Nyssa out of the two.
    And maybe Amy and Rory as my No.1. The characters had no intention of leaving the Doctor (and River), in Rory's case he never got to say goodbye and Amy to all intents and purposes took her own life. She didn't know that the angel would send her back to the same point rather than just kill her, and her grief at the prospect of living without Rory meant she didn't care which one happened so long as she would not live on without him.

  • @mikesmith05
    @mikesmith05 2 года назад +6

    No love for Martha’s exit, I suppose!

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 2 года назад +1

      didn't she end up with Ricky?

    • @neptune04
      @neptune04 2 года назад +4

      Why? hers wasn't sad she left on her own terms and found love with someone else.

  • @bentarbuck6161
    @bentarbuck6161 2 года назад +6

    One of my biggest issues with Dr Who is when they undo things. Dr who should have stakes, it should have consequences. Bill being a cyberman could have been an iconic end but they spent the following episodes just showing the actor and then had her become whatever she did

  • @danthemeegs8751
    @danthemeegs8751 2 года назад +7

    Amy and Rory for me, I skip The Angels Take Manhattan on rewatches cos I just can't deal with the sadness!

  • @Kmangod
    @Kmangod 2 года назад +2

    Susan and the First Doctor (played by a different actor since Hartnell had died) ARE reunited in the Peter Davison's 'The Five Doctors'. They even play that speech that he will one day return at the beginning of the episode. And not sure who rated these but Potts, Tegan, Adric, Terlo and Noble were not likable characters (complete conflict does not make for a good series...there's banter and then there's just being an a..). Peri, Clara, K-9, Amy, Susan, Rose, Sara and both Romana's were great companions.

  • @martinhavelock5106
    @martinhavelock5106 2 года назад +5

    Sarah-Jane should have been No 1. The chemistry between Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen has never been equalled. And never will be.

    • @edg4441
      @edg4441 Год назад

      Absolutely. How Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) didn't make this list is mind-boggling. Both should have been 1 and 2. I think this video concentrated on the new Dr. Who companions, especially for the top 5.

  • @downburst3236
    @downburst3236 2 года назад +4

    Rose and Donna's should be swapped in ranking. And Sarah Jane is completely missing, and should rank at least 6.

  • @spikefertar7733
    @spikefertar7733 2 года назад +10

    Doctor who is still the best show

    • @TheHufflepuffSaint
      @TheHufflepuffSaint 2 года назад +2

      I must agree, kinda though. While I must admit Flux was quite a good series; Jodie's era has been somewhat hit and miss. I honestly wish Chibnall brought his writing style from the Torchwood episodes he wrote even his episodes before his era have been serviceable but his writing fell flat most of the time.
      But at least we're getting RTD back now and hopefully things will get back on track.

  • @kenthomas505
    @kenthomas505 Год назад

    I understand how most people think Hell Bent undoes everything about Clara's death and sacrifice in Face the Raven, but that moment in the diner when the Doctor says if he saw Clara again he would recognoze her immediately and she turns away holding back tears knowing he has truly forgotten about her still gets to me. It's truly sad when your dearest friend has no memory of you whatsoever. It's strange though that he would remember her name still or that she even existed. That's kind of selective amnesia there.

  • @ladycplum
    @ladycplum 2 года назад +11

    1-As sad as Rose's departure was, it came at a welcome time. She had really become unbearable during Series Two. 2-Susan didn't leave of her own choice, she had her choice taken away from her when her grandfather literally locked her out of the TARDIS. 3-Where in the WORLD did you get the idea that Ace was LGBTQ+??? 4-Where in the world is Jo Grant? She should've been in the top 3 at least.

    • @obiwankenobi687
      @obiwankenobi687 Год назад

      Unbearable? She was iconic. Also Ace is bisexual, that’s how she played it and was supposed to even share a scene with a woman with romantic subtext but classic who writers didn’t want to make her a lesbian due to attitudes at the time. So any interest in women was just slightly hinted at

  • @SerathDarklands
    @SerathDarklands 2 года назад +2

    Didn't you do this one already? I could swear that I've seen this video before.

  • @nigelhickman2274
    @nigelhickman2274 Год назад

    In 50 years of viewing DR Who I have only had tears twice and neither made this list
    2. River Song @ the Singing Towers
    1. Sarah Jane being dropped off @ Aberdeen

  • @LunaWho47
    @LunaWho47 2 года назад +3

    While I agree with every entry on this list, the lack of Peri's presence on it makes me think the whole list invalid. While I can't disagree that Donna's ending is the most heartbreaking thing, Peri's ending always hurts me more upon every rewatch. I mean, her whole essence was erased and an alien being took over her body, and the Doctor only found out about it after the Time Lords let it happen. And Colin Baker's reaction? Gives me goosebumps every time.

  • @thomasjohnson8391
    @thomasjohnson8391 2 года назад +3

    Next do top 10 unit members then the Sarah Jane adventures episodes even torchwood

  • @sothisishowusernameswork.2043
    @sothisishowusernameswork.2043 2 года назад +2

    suggestion: I'm not sure if you have done this yet but do the dumbest things that companions have ever done.

  • @BOTHthosearetaken
    @BOTHthosearetaken 2 года назад +4

    I'd love Adric to return older, bitter, and villainous after being rescued by The Master. Why? Just because The Master is a dick.

    • @andreacook7431
      @andreacook7431 2 года назад +1

      My husband wants that as a story arc in the audios, where The Master explains that The Doctor didn't save him. (Not telling him that the cyberman had damaged the console)

  • @SCProductions-528
    @SCProductions-528 2 года назад +5

    Bill Potts and Susan are really good companions, it’s sad they left. Bill could’ve had more Seasons if she didn’t get, killed! She shouldn’t of gotten killed she didn’t get lots of time. And Susan didn’t ever get that long ever, it was sad she left too. I can’t really say anything about Susan because she just left and decided to go with (Steven) I think it was. 🧐

    • @FrostyFate
      @FrostyFate 2 года назад +1

      Bill was the hardest for me because imo being "upgraded" is the worst, most terrifying way to exist/go out

  • @thetasigmagallifreyan
    @thetasigmagallifreyan 2 года назад +3

    I wonder if the lottery winning will be touched upon in the specials currently filming?

  • @thomasstevens2746
    @thomasstevens2746 2 года назад +2

    If Ace had a proper departure scene
    It would have broke

  • @thesagebrushkid1
    @thesagebrushkid1 9 месяцев назад

    Before watching: Bill Potts must be top followed by the Ponds.
    During watching: Aaah I forgot about ClassicWho
    After watching: fair enough, but I still say Bill. She got shot in the first few minutes of the episode and dragged it out with a “will she survive? Come on Doctor, save her!” vibe over the first episode, and then everyone recoiling in fear when she’s a cyber, and then the big battle at the end where nobody really survives… it still hurts.
    I’m glad some form of her is still alive because I’d really like to see more of her. We had too little time with her.

  • @adriansherlockdamondark.1094
    @adriansherlockdamondark.1094 2 года назад +2

    1 Tegan, 2, Adric, 3 Susan, 4 Jamie and Zoe, 5 Jo, 6 Sarah Jane. The rest are debatable.

  • @RustyShackleford101
    @RustyShackleford101 2 года назад +5

    Errr no, Susan did not leave on her own terms. The Doctor went "Oh you're DTF with that David guy? lolbye". She begged him to let her stay.

    • @mrdr0161
      @mrdr0161 2 года назад +1

      Well she wanted to stay, but thought the Doctor needed her. It's a kind of a tough love situation

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 2 года назад +2

      No, he could see Susan was really struggling with the decision of whether to stay on Earth with David, or to stay in the TARDIS with her Grandfather. The Doctor took it upon himself to make the decision for her.

    • @neptune04
      @neptune04 2 года назад

      @@DrWhoFanJ And if we count tv canon only it ended up being a blessing in disguise.

  • @DanBrizuela
    @DanBrizuela 2 года назад +3

    I for one love hell bent. The whole point is that the doctor is going too far after being pushed to his limits. It’s 12s take on time lord victorious.

  • @jellybabiesarecool4657
    @jellybabiesarecool4657 2 года назад

    With Ace it's important to note the VNAs, Big Finish and At Childhood's End do a splendid job of continuing her character.

  • @tanyairwin3695
    @tanyairwin3695 2 года назад +3

    I wasn't sad when Rose left.

  • @jamramgaming8052
    @jamramgaming8052 9 месяцев назад

    I think donna was the saddest as i know rose got trapped and did get her own doctor and Martha did get used as a rebound but all of them kept there memories but donna practically died when she became normal again she thought she was nobody but she saves the universe and she would never know till the 60th of corse

  • @mikemcguckin8596
    @mikemcguckin8596 2 года назад +2

    Will have to rewatch Earthshock tomorrow. I don't remember Adric's death being all that sad.

  • @gilbertopuente4240
    @gilbertopuente4240 2 года назад +2

    Way to down play Clara’s true exit.

  • @christianschoenewald
    @christianschoenewald 2 года назад

    Jo Grant should have been in the top 10. Jo leaves the doctor, because she is moving onto the next part of her life, but she has left him affectively completely alone. The way that he leaves the happy engagement party and drives off on his own is very well done, conveys the doctors absolute sense of loss, and shows an uncertainty about what’s coming in his future. Jo’s departure also signals the beginning of the disbanding of the UNIT Family.

  • @chymera45
    @chymera45 8 месяцев назад

    Turns out all Donna had to do to be ok was (possible spoilers below)
    let it go...

  • @deanwinchester822
    @deanwinchester822 Год назад

    Didn’t Donna get her memories back when the master took over people bodies and turned them all into him coz I remember that so clearly her falling on the floor screaming

  • @david6294
    @david6294 2 месяца назад

    Sarah Jane and Jo Grant should both be here. Victoria is sadder than Jamie and Zoe too.

  • @jellybabiesarecool4657
    @jellybabiesarecool4657 2 года назад

    I think Tegan's exit is the best in the entire show.

  • @InimicalWit
    @InimicalWit 2 года назад +1

    Sorry, but I dislike that you failed to give a spoiler warning, when you mentioned behind the scenes developments, during the introduction. I tapped on this link, trusting by the title that this would only contain past information.
    Someone’s going to flame me, rudely, for “demanding” a spoiler warning; but I haven’t lost my shit. Neither should you. Love be with you

  • @frankharr9466
    @frankharr9466 2 года назад +1

    What, no Victoria? Well, it's only 10. But still!

  • @andrewgold-qu1bl
    @andrewgold-qu1bl Год назад

    I like Donna and Amy because both of them are my favourite companions I miss them both

  • @Rip_Lime1
    @Rip_Lime1 2 года назад

    Rose Tyler was the saddest Donna noble was second

  • @monkeybeasts
    @monkeybeasts 2 года назад

    amy and rory was the saddest for me

  • @wifeoftim
    @wifeoftim Год назад

    Amy and Rory should be at least number. I my top was never a fan of Bill so as for my top 5 would be 1. Rory and Amy 2. Rose Tyler 3. Donna Noble 4 Teagan 5.Clara Oswald

  • @Juice866
    @Juice866 7 месяцев назад

    I don't know how Amy and Rory didn't take first place

  • @thedoctorwho73
    @thedoctorwho73 2 года назад +3

    Now how many times have you already done this video? 😂

  • @robinbarrett5301
    @robinbarrett5301 2 года назад +2

    2 and 1 should be turned in my opinion.

  • @Scott_Burton
    @Scott_Burton Год назад

    Sadly, my least favorite companions all made this "list"
    Absolute worst companions, from my personal reaction as I watched them... Bill, Tegan, Turlough, then Donna. Favorites Nyssa, Jo, Rose, then Leela.
    Everyone has their own favorites and everyone has their own least favorite.

  • @jellybabiesarecool4657
    @jellybabiesarecool4657 2 года назад

    Jo is another one to note

  • @itsmistermarkus
    @itsmistermarkus 2 года назад

    It says Mark Donald is the writer of this? But it’s actually an article it’s word for word an article on your website written by some else…? What’s that about?

  • @booksavailabletoMe
    @booksavailabletoMe Год назад

    Rose for me 😭 I sobbed so hard couldn't breathe 😭😭😭😭

  • @basilbrush9075
    @basilbrush9075 2 года назад +6

    What's this about Ace being LGBTQIA+ ?

    • @andreacook7431
      @andreacook7431 2 года назад

      I've been trying to decide for years if she was Queer Coded, with how she seemed to get her own attractive female "companions" in most of her stories, or if she was an example of Queer Baiting.

  • @timecontroller8800
    @timecontroller8800 10 месяцев назад

    Where is Ianto’s death? Where?!

  • @FrostyFate
    @FrostyFate 2 года назад +1

    Are you my mummy?

  • @dalektorgo2973
    @dalektorgo2973 2 года назад

    Pardon my phrasing but Ryan could have been so much more.

  • @Donnagata1409
    @Donnagata1409 Год назад

    Adric is rather like Wesley in TNG.
    Teenagers and endearing...

  • @thomasnieswandt8805
    @thomasnieswandt8805 2 года назад

    I dont get Tegan or even why people care about that character. She (well all of 5th Doctor companions tbh) are the main reason, why i rank him last on my Doctors list. It never clicked for me and tbh most of the time the companions do feel bad mooded and forced to be there. In every story there is a line of one or two of them complaining about the adventure and i watch it like "WTF?? Again??? If its always bad just walk away and make space for companions who want to be there"

  • @meropetied
    @meropetied Год назад

    Ugh, terrible writing here. Many places, many times. I get that this was written by a fan, but it would help if that fan has actually seen or thought much at all about the stuff being discussed. Ace was LGBTQ? Really? Bill and 12 were as popular as Donna and 10? Really? The companions see the universe through our eyes? Huh! Interesting!

  • @tomcarpenter1801
    @tomcarpenter1801 2 года назад

    A. Hated the romance with ten and rose
    B. Best thing the doctor did was wiping Donna's memories because she was the worst one of them I hate her

  • @uzairismail9913
    @uzairismail9913 Год назад

    Bill was the most annoying companion

  • @jamesmatthew2236
    @jamesmatthew2236 2 года назад +4

    No no no Donna was horrible