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|image = Craig.png
|image       = CraigOwensFootball.jpg
|alias = The Sofa Man<br />Not-Mum
|affiliation = King's Arms, Colchester{{!}}King's Arms
|name = Craig Owens
|species     = Human
|species=Human
|origin     = [[Earth]]
|origin = [[Earth]]
|partner    = Sophie (The Lodger)
|first = The Lodger (TV story)
|child      = Alfie Owens
|appearances = [[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]''<br />[[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]''<br />[[TV]]: ''[[Up All Night]]''
|birth date  = [[1983]]
|actor = James Corden}}
|first cs    = The Lodger (TV story)
'''Craig Owens''' (born [[1983]]) lived and worked in [[Colchester]], [[England]]. In [[2010]], he rented a room to the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'') In [[April]] [[2011]], Craig helped him defeat the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
|appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]''|[[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Up All Night (TV story)|Up All Night]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lodger (novelisation)|The Lodger]]''|[[GAME]]: ''[[Legacy (video game)|Legacy]]''|[[COMIC]]: {{cs|Doctor Whoah! (DWM 439 comic story)|''Doctor Whoah!'' 439}}}}
|actor       = James Corden
|clip        = DOCTOR WHO CLIP 8
|clip2      = Craig asks The Doctor to leave - Doctor Who - BBC
|clip3      = Alien space ship - Doctor Who - BBC
|bts        = "Best Companion Ever"? {{uc:exclusive}} DW Insider, Ep 12
|bts2        = Exclusive DW Intro to Ep 12, Closing Time
}}
'''Craig Owens''' (born [[1983]]) lived and worked in [[Colchester]], [[England]]. In [[2010]], he rented a room to the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'') In [[April]] [[2011]], Craig briefly became the Doctor's companion and helped him defeat the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
 
With the Doctor's help, Craig was able to confess his feelings to his friend Sophie. She moved in with him and they had a son, [[Alfie Owens|Alfie]]. Craig was valued as a friend so much by the Doctor, that he forwent a literal once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the [[Alignment of Exodor]], on his [[farewell tour]], to clean up the damage he caused to Craig's home on their second adventure.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Before meeting the Doctor ===
Craig shared a flat at [[79A Aickman Road]] with his friend [[Mark (The Lodger)|Mark]], and worked in a call centre. By 2009, he had met [[Sophie (The Lodger)|Sophie]], to whom he was romantically attracted. He and Sophie became friends and spent Fridays together, usually consisting of "pizza, booze, telly". Craig wanted to confess his feelings, but could never find the courage to tell Sophie.
=== First adventure with the Doctor ===
=== First adventure with the Doctor ===
When his old roommate, [[Mark (The Lodger)|Mark]], received an inheritance from a previously unknown uncle and moved out, Craig placed an advert for a flatmate in a local shop window. The Doctor turned up on his doorstep later that day, thanks to a helpful note from a future [[Amy Pond]]. Since Amy was stuck in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] with no way to land it on her own and the Doctor knew the trouble was in the upstairs flat of Craig's building, he wanted to live there.
When Mark received an inheritance from a previously unknown uncle and moved out, Craig placed an [[advert]] for a flatmate in a local shop window. The Doctor turned up on his doorstep later that day, thanks to a helpful note from a future [[Amy Pond]]. Since Amy was stuck in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] with no way to land it on her own and the Doctor knew the trouble was in the upstairs flat of Craig's building, he wanted to live there. Despite thinking the Doctor a bit "weird", Craig agreed to rent the room to him.
 
The Doctor turned up with a paper bag of cash and no luggage. Craig said he was "weird", but after trying one of the Doctor's impromptu omelettes, agreed to let him stay. Craig learned to live with his strange habits and quirks, but was irritated at the Doctor's success at [[football]] and his interruption of an evening with [[Sophie (The Lodger)|Sophie]].


Craig defied the Doctor's recommendation not to touch the dry rot on his living room ceiling. It knocked him out but he was saved by the timely intervention by the Doctor. When he woke, Craig found the Doctor had gone to a planning meeting at his workplace and was working there. He looked in the Doctor's room and found a strange, spinning contraption made of trash. After seeing him talk to a [[cat]] about the upstairs flat, Craig confronted the Doctor on the past three days and his resentment of his popularity, especially with Sophie. The Doctor headbutted Craig to [[telepathy|telepathically]] explain his predicament and gain Craig's help confronting the enemy upstairs. Craig learned about the Doctor's origin on [[Gallifrey]], his earlier incarnations, Amy Pond, that the contraption was a scanner, his [[TARDIS]] and that the upstairs flat was really a disguised time ship.
Craig's friendship with the Doctor had a rocky start, with Craig becoming jealous of the Doctor's popularity with his [[football]] [[King's Arms, Colchester|team]] and his encouraging Sophie to leave London. At one point, Craig became ill from touching dry rot on his ceiling, but was nursed back to health by the Doctor, whom also "covered" for him at work, insulting one of his clients in the process. Craig eventually had enough and ordered the Doctor to leave, but the Doctor convinced him to change his mind by [[telepathy|telepathically]] explaining his predicament. Craig learned about the Doctor's origin on [[Gallifrey]], his earlier incarnations, Amy Pond, his [[TARDIS]], and that the upstairs flat was really a disguised time ship.


Amy told them someone was currently upstairs and they realised it was Sophie. After saving her and learning the ship's intention, the Doctor was chosen as its pilot. Craig realised the ship had refused his help because it needed someone to pilot it away and he wanted to stay. He put his hand on the ship's controls and said what made him want to stay, blurting out his love for Sophie. Sophie told him she loved him too and they kissed.
When Sophie was lured into the time ship, Craig helped deactivate it with his desire to stay where he was, as the ship needed a pilot who wanted to leave. It was while doing this they he finally admitted his feelings for Sophie. Sophie told him that she loved him too, and the pair [[kiss]]ed.


After their escape from the ship, Craig and Sophie decided to visit Paris and begin a serious relationship. The Doctor tried to leave quietly, but they noticed and stopped him to say goodbye. Craig gave him his keys to the flat and the Doctor said he would visit them. Having been inside his head, Craig knew the Doctor would never visit them again, but wanted him to keep them as a memento.
After their escape from the ship, Craig and Sophie decided to visit Paris and begin a serious relationship. Upon saying goodbye, Craig gave the Doctor his keys to the flat and the Doctor said he would visit them. Having been inside his head, Craig knew the Doctor would never visit them again, but wanted him to keep them as a memento.


After the Doctor left, Craig remembered their time together fondly. He kept a photograph of him on his fridge and spelled out "THE DOCTOR ROCKS" with magnetic letters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')
After the Doctor left, Craig remembered their time together fondly. He kept a photograph of him on his fridge and spelled out "THE DOCTOR ROCKS" with magnetic letters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')


=== Return of The Doctor ===
=== Return of the Doctor ===
Some time later, Craig and Sophie had moved into a new house (after checking both the top floor and the neighbors) and had a child, [[Alfie Owens|Alfie]], although they had not wed. He also suffered nightmares about the Doctor's "noticing face", as a side-effect of having the Doctor's memories forced into his head. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
Some time later, Craig and Sophie had moved into a new house (after checking both the top floor and the neighbours) and had a child, [[Alfie Owens|Alfie]], although they had not wed. He also suffered nightmares about the Doctor's "noticing face", as a side-effect of having the Doctor's memories forced into his head.


Because Sophie was exhausted from constantly taking care of Alfie, she took a holiday with a friend. This meant Craig would have to care for their son alone. Sophie left emergency numbers in case he had trouble and Craig called them all, saying he didn't need their help. By this point Craig had put Alfie to bed. Craig answered a knock at the door to find the Doctor outside. He thought Sophie had called him. Once the Doctor cleared up his confusion, Craig tried to keep him quiet. However, he was unable to prevent him from waking Alfie.
Craig was visited by the Doctor again while Sophie was on a short holiday, leaving him to look after Alfie. Despite Craig's insistence that he could handle Alfie alone, the Doctor spent the night helping him, wanting to spend time with Craig as part of his "farewell tour". The next day, Craig found the Doctor working in a local shop, and realised he was investigating something. Craig insisted on helping and together they discovered that [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] had been kidnapping people and converting them with power stolen by a [[Cybermat]]. Finding the Cybership, Craig was captured and almost converted into a [[Cyber-Controller]], but when Alfie began to cry, the upsurge of emotions allowed him to overcome the conversion. The emotional feedback made the Cybermen and their ship explode. He escaped with the Doctor via a teleport.


Craig told the Doctor about his doubts and the Doctor told him he could speak "baby" and Alife preferred to be called "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All". The Doctor said he was off to see the [[Alignment of Exodor]] and that he was on a farewell tour. Before he could question the Doctor further, Craig was shushed. He spent the entire night singing to Alfie to try getting him to sleep; Alfie thought he was crying and neither got any sleep.
Craig learned [[Val (Closing Time)|one of the staff]] had mistaken himself and the Doctor for a [[gay]] couple. Before he could clear up her confusion, the Doctor had left. Craig returned home to find the Doctor used what was left of his farewell tour to clean up his house, which had suffered from an earlier fight with a Cybermat. As a parting gift for the Doctor, Craig gave him a [[Stetson]]. When Sophie returned, both were shocked by Alfie's first word: "Doctor". ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')


The next day, Craig found the Doctor working in a local shop. Realising he was investigating, Craig insisted on helping. They discovered [[Cybermen]] had been kidnapping people and converting them with power stolen by a [[Cybermat]]. Craig entered a life-and-death battle with the little Cybermat once it stopped playing possum and subdued it with the Doctor's help. Though the Doctor tried pushing him away by explaining how dangerous he is, Craig comforted him by explaining how Earth would be in ruins if he didn't help.
At some point, Craig was taken to the [[Black Archive]] by [[UNIT]] to have his record as a companion of the Doctor taken. His memories of the visit were subsequently erased and he was sent on his way. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')


The next morning, Craig found the Doctor had left to find the Cybermen without his help. Following "the idiot" back to the department store, Craig learned the Doctor had gone to the changing rooms to search. Finding the tunnel the Doctor uncovered, Craig followed it to the Cybership. The Cybermen tried turning him into their [[Cyber-Controller]], but when Alfie began to cry, the upsurge of emotions allowed him to overcome the conversion. The emotional feedback made the Cybermen and their ship explode. He escaped with the Doctor via a teleport.
== Personality ==
The Eleventh Doctor stated that Craig possessed a strong will, and he was able to resist the Cybermen's upgrading process, albeit only because he heard his son crying. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')


Craig learned one of the staff had mistaken himself and the Doctor for a gay couple. Before he could clear up her confusion, the Doctor had left. Craig returned home to find the Doctor used what was left of his time to clean up the mess created by their fight with the Cybermat. As a parting gift for the Doctor, Craig gave him a [[Stetson]]. When Sophie returned, both were shocked by Alfie's first word: "Doctor". ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
He was initially nervous about revealing his feelings for Sophie, but during his first meeting with the Doctor they admitted their feelings for each other. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'') The pair moved in together, and had a son, Alfie. They didn't marry, however, as they regarded marriage as "just a bit of paper". Despite the difficulties of being a father, Craig loved his son very much. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')


== Personality ==
Craig was uncomfortable about the Doctor's presence during their first meeting, considering him to be a laugh but also weird, and was jealous about the Doctor's superior football abilities and Sophie's apparent interest in him. However, after the Doctor allowed him to see inside his head using his telepathic abilities, Craig, although initially shocked, grew to trust and respect him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'') During their second meeting, Craig was much more comfortable around the Doctor, considering him to be a friend and trusting him enough to bring his son on their mission to stop the Cybermen since he believed that the Doctor would keep them both safe. One of the staff members in a shop thought that the Doctor and Craig were a [[gay]] couple because they got along so well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')


The Eleventh Doctor stated that Craig possessed a strong will, and he was able to resist the Cybermen's upgrading process, albeit only because he heard his son crying. Despite the difficulties of being a father, Craig loved Alfie very much. He was initially nervous about revealing his feelings for Sophie but during his first meeting with the Doctor they admitted their feelings for each other in a dangerous situation. Like the Doctor, Craig sometimes used the word "Geronimo", saying it just before slamming his hand onto the control panel of the fake upstairs apartment.
Like the Doctor, Craig sometimes used the word "Geronimo". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')


Craig was uncomfortable about the Doctor's presence during their first meeting, considering him to be a laugh but also weird, and was jealous about the Doctor's superior football abilities and Sophie's apparent interest in him. However, after the Doctor allowed him to see inside his head using his telepathic abilities, Craig, although initially shocked, grew to trust and respect him. During their second meeting, Craig was much more comfortable around the Time Lord, considering him to be a friend and trusting him enough to bring his son on their mission to stop the Cybermen since he believed that the Doctor would keep them both safe. One of the staff members in a shop thought that the Doctor and Craig were a gay couple because they got along so well.
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Latest revision as of 14:49, 17 May 2024

Craig Owens (born 1983) lived and worked in Colchester, England. In 2010, he rented a room to the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Lodger) In April 2011, Craig briefly became the Doctor's companion and helped him defeat the Cybermen. (TV: Closing Time)

With the Doctor's help, Craig was able to confess his feelings to his friend Sophie. She moved in with him and they had a son, Alfie. Craig was valued as a friend so much by the Doctor, that he forwent a literal once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the Alignment of Exodor, on his farewell tour, to clean up the damage he caused to Craig's home on their second adventure.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Before meeting the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Craig shared a flat at 79A Aickman Road with his friend Mark, and worked in a call centre. By 2009, he had met Sophie, to whom he was romantically attracted. He and Sophie became friends and spent Fridays together, usually consisting of "pizza, booze, telly". Craig wanted to confess his feelings, but could never find the courage to tell Sophie.

First adventure with the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

When Mark received an inheritance from a previously unknown uncle and moved out, Craig placed an advert for a flatmate in a local shop window. The Doctor turned up on his doorstep later that day, thanks to a helpful note from a future Amy Pond. Since Amy was stuck in the TARDIS with no way to land it on her own and the Doctor knew the trouble was in the upstairs flat of Craig's building, he wanted to live there. Despite thinking the Doctor a bit "weird", Craig agreed to rent the room to him.

Craig's friendship with the Doctor had a rocky start, with Craig becoming jealous of the Doctor's popularity with his football team and his encouraging Sophie to leave London. At one point, Craig became ill from touching dry rot on his ceiling, but was nursed back to health by the Doctor, whom also "covered" for him at work, insulting one of his clients in the process. Craig eventually had enough and ordered the Doctor to leave, but the Doctor convinced him to change his mind by telepathically explaining his predicament. Craig learned about the Doctor's origin on Gallifrey, his earlier incarnations, Amy Pond, his TARDIS, and that the upstairs flat was really a disguised time ship.

When Sophie was lured into the time ship, Craig helped deactivate it with his desire to stay where he was, as the ship needed a pilot who wanted to leave. It was while doing this they he finally admitted his feelings for Sophie. Sophie told him that she loved him too, and the pair kissed.

After their escape from the ship, Craig and Sophie decided to visit Paris and begin a serious relationship. Upon saying goodbye, Craig gave the Doctor his keys to the flat and the Doctor said he would visit them. Having been inside his head, Craig knew the Doctor would never visit them again, but wanted him to keep them as a memento.

After the Doctor left, Craig remembered their time together fondly. He kept a photograph of him on his fridge and spelled out "THE DOCTOR ROCKS" with magnetic letters. (TV: The Lodger)

Return of the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Some time later, Craig and Sophie had moved into a new house (after checking both the top floor and the neighbours) and had a child, Alfie, although they had not wed. He also suffered nightmares about the Doctor's "noticing face", as a side-effect of having the Doctor's memories forced into his head.

Craig was visited by the Doctor again while Sophie was on a short holiday, leaving him to look after Alfie. Despite Craig's insistence that he could handle Alfie alone, the Doctor spent the night helping him, wanting to spend time with Craig as part of his "farewell tour". The next day, Craig found the Doctor working in a local shop, and realised he was investigating something. Craig insisted on helping and together they discovered that Cybermen had been kidnapping people and converting them with power stolen by a Cybermat. Finding the Cybership, Craig was captured and almost converted into a Cyber-Controller, but when Alfie began to cry, the upsurge of emotions allowed him to overcome the conversion. The emotional feedback made the Cybermen and their ship explode. He escaped with the Doctor via a teleport.

Craig learned one of the staff had mistaken himself and the Doctor for a gay couple. Before he could clear up her confusion, the Doctor had left. Craig returned home to find the Doctor used what was left of his farewell tour to clean up his house, which had suffered from an earlier fight with a Cybermat. As a parting gift for the Doctor, Craig gave him a Stetson. When Sophie returned, both were shocked by Alfie's first word: "Doctor". (TV: Closing Time)

At some point, Craig was taken to the Black Archive by UNIT to have his record as a companion of the Doctor taken. His memories of the visit were subsequently erased and he was sent on his way. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eleventh Doctor stated that Craig possessed a strong will, and he was able to resist the Cybermen's upgrading process, albeit only because he heard his son crying. (TV: Closing Time)

He was initially nervous about revealing his feelings for Sophie, but during his first meeting with the Doctor they admitted their feelings for each other. (TV: The Lodger) The pair moved in together, and had a son, Alfie. They didn't marry, however, as they regarded marriage as "just a bit of paper". Despite the difficulties of being a father, Craig loved his son very much. (TV: Closing Time)

Craig was uncomfortable about the Doctor's presence during their first meeting, considering him to be a laugh but also weird, and was jealous about the Doctor's superior football abilities and Sophie's apparent interest in him. However, after the Doctor allowed him to see inside his head using his telepathic abilities, Craig, although initially shocked, grew to trust and respect him. (TV: The Lodger) During their second meeting, Craig was much more comfortable around the Doctor, considering him to be a friend and trusting him enough to bring his son on their mission to stop the Cybermen since he believed that the Doctor would keep them both safe. One of the staff members in a shop thought that the Doctor and Craig were a gay couple because they got along so well. (TV: Closing Time)

Like the Doctor, Craig sometimes used the word "Geronimo". (TV: The Lodger)

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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