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|image         = Charley These Stolen Hours.jpg
|alias = Charlotte Smith
|alias         = {{il|[[Simon Murchford]]|Charlotte Bute|Charleyostiantayshius|Daisia Daisia|Libuse|[[Madeline de Roche]]|Charlotte Smith|Charlotte Doomwood|Gypsy Charlotte}}
|species=Human
|species       = Human
|origin = [[Earth]]
|origin         = [[Hampshire]]
|mother = Louisa Pollard
|mother         = Louisa Pollard
|father = Richard Pollard
|father         = Richard Pollard
|sister = Cecelia Pollard
|sister         = Margaret Pollard
|sister2 = Margaret Pollard
|sister2       = Cecelia Pollard
|grandparent = Ermentrude Pollard
|grandparent   = Ermentrude Saviltride
|first = Storm Warning (audio story)
|grandparent2  = Louisa Pollard's father{{!}}Mr Saviltride
|appearances = [[Charley Pollard - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|child          = Edward Grove
|actor = India Fisher
|child2        = sound creature
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|child3        = Daqar Keep
'''Charlotte Elspeth Pollard''' — known to her friends as '''Charley''' and to her family as '''Lottie''' — was a [[human]] [[companion]] of the [[Eighth Doctor]]. Later, she came to travel with the [[Sixth Doctor]]. Her existence was always legally problematic for [[the Doctor]].
|birth date    = [[15 April]] [[1912]]
|death date    = [[5 October]] [[1930]]
|first cs      = Storm Warning (audio story)
|appearances   = {{appears}}
|voice actor   = India Fisher
|soundcloudclip = https://soundcloud.com/sy-oneremoved/sound-design-for-dw-enemy
}}{{you may|Charlotte Pollard (audio series)|n1=the audio series|Madeleine Fairweather|n2=someone who once took Charley's name}}
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'''Charlotte Elspeth Pollard''', also known as '''Charley''' to her friends, was a [[companion]] of the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] and [[Sixth Doctor]]s.


When he met her in his eighth incarnation, he saved her from what should have been her natural death, although it was what the [[Tenth Doctor]] would later call a "[[fixed point in time]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Fugitive]]'') This act of compassion was a violation of the [[Laws of Time]]. It destabilised the [[Web of Time]] and forced the [[Time Lord]]s to send him into [[exile]] in the [[Divergent Universe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')
After her death aboard the ''[[R101]]'' was averted by the Eighth Doctor, Charley became a danger to the [[Web of Time]] and created a rift into the [[universe]] of [[anti-time]]. Her status as a temporal anomaly was later rectified and she and the Doctor travelled the [[Divergent Universe]], where they met [[C'rizz]], who later died in their universe. Charley and the Doctor were ultimately separated in a confrontation with the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], with Charley believing that the Doctor was dead and the Doctor incapable of remembering their last few hours together.


Later, when she accidentally met the [[Sixth Doctor]], her very presence with him again threatened to break Time Lord law by exposing him to foreknowledge about his own future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet]]'')
Charley was subsequently rescued by the [[Sixth Doctor]], with whom she travelled for a time (keeping her past with his future self secret from him) before replacing his memories of her with [[Mila]]. She served the [[Viyran]]s for a time before escaping by travelling through the [[Ever-and-Ever Prolixity]].


Even as late as his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], the Doctor still had to explain his actions with respect to Charley in a court of law. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fugitive]]'')
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Neverland (audio story)}}) known to her family as "Lottie" ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') and to her friends as "Charley", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') was born on [[15 April]], [[1912]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') to [[Richard Pollard|Lord Richard]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]'') and [[Louisa Pollard|Lady Louisa Pollard]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') She had an older sister, [[Margaret Pollard|Peggy]], and a younger sister, [[Cecelia Pollard|Sissy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]'')


== Biography ==
Charley was raised as a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') in a manor house, looked after by servants. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'', ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') She sneaked some of the [[Romany|gypsies]] who camped on their property, and whom Lady Louisa was worried about, into the house to stay in the attic. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]'') She stole several [[apple]]s from a nearby [[orchard]] as she knew that the sign warning of the owner's [[dog]] was a ruse. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter of the Demon (audio story)|Winter of the Demon]]'')
=== Before the Doctor ===
Charlotte Pollard was born on [[15 April]] [[1912]] in [[Hampshire]] into a well-to-do family; her mother was Lady [[Louisa Pollard]] and her father was [[Richard Pollard]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'', ''[[Memory Lane]]'')  


Charley was raised as a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
As a child, Charley and her sisters were taken to an [[artist]] once a year by one of their grandmothers to have their [[portrait]]s painted. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Twilight Kingdom (audio story)|The Twilight Kingdom]]'') Whilst still at school, Charley went on a day trip with her class to a portrait [[museum]]. She did not enjoy the experience nor appreciate the [[art]], most of which were portraits of stern old men. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hall of the Ten Thousand (audio story)|Hall of the Ten Thousand]]'') She once went to [[London Zoo|Regent's Park Zoo]] and watched the [[dolphin]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') She also went to the [[Cowes Regatta]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]'')


Her [[blood]] type was AB negative. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFA audio story)|Absolution]]'')
Charley did not like [[plum pudding]] as house cook [[Edith Thompson]] always made far too much of it at [[Christmas]] and the family would still be eating it on [[New Year's Day]]. She was also afraid that she would bite into one of the thrupenny bits which Edith put in the pudding and would lose a [[tooth]]. Edith, however, believed Charley loved the pudding and, because Charley showed her some kindness and remembered her name, came to consider the girl her best friend. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'') Charley's maternal grandmother, [[Ermentrude Saviltride]], gave Charley a copy of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' for [[Christmas]] in [[1919]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') She had died by [[1936]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'')


She had two sisters, [[Margaret Pollard|Margaret]] and [[Cecelia Pollard|Cecelia]]. Cecelia was also inadvertently involved in [[Time Lord]] politics. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye]]'') The three sisters grew up in a manor house in [[Hampshire]], looked after by servants. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight]]'', ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')  
Charley went on holiday to [[Ostend]], [[Belgium]] with her family, during which she read ''[[Treasure Island]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'', ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'') With her family, Charley saw several performances at the [[Old Vic]], including ''[[The Tempest]]''. The Pollards always had a box from which they viewed the performances and Charley never went backstage. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eclipse (audio story)|Eclipse]]'')


Her maternal grandmother was named [[Ermentrude Pollard|Ermentrude Elspeth Pollard]]. She had died by [[1936]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'') She gave Charley a copy of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' for [[Christmas]] [[1919]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') She also had a maternal uncle, [[Jacques Saviltride|Jacques]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'', ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'')  
Her childhood hero was the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] explorer [[Pieter Mon Marchè]], a man who did not actually exist and whom she would later inadvertently create. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]'') She read ''[[Dracula (book)|Dracula]]'' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'') and lots of [[Jane Austen]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'') On her sixteenth birthday, Charley was given a [[brooch]] by her mother which had been passed down her family. She planned to pass it down to her own daughter some day. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'')


When she was a child, Charley's grandmother used to bring her and her sisters to an [[artist]] to have their portraits painted once a year. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Twilight Kingdom (audio story)|The Twilight Kingdom]]'')
Charley was educated at [[boarding school]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]'') before attending a [[finishing school]] alongside both Peggy and Cissy. In one of [[Lime (Zagreus)|Miss Lime]]'s reports, she said that Charley had "a head full of [[turnip]]s". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') She always dreamt of flying ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[If I Should Die Before I Wake (audio story)|If I Should Die Before I Wake]]'') and, at finishing school, showed a great interest in the ''[[R101]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')


=== Meeting the Doctor ===
=== Meeting the Doctor ===
[[File:The_eighth_doctor_and_charley_2.png|thumb|The Doctor and Charlotte. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight]]'')]]
In [[1930]], Charley met [[Alex Grayle]], who sparked her sense of adventure and whom she decided to meet at the [[Singapore Hilton]] on [[New Year's Eve]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'') To this end, she ran away from her finishing school ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') in [[October]] [[1930]] and got [[Simon Murchford]] drunk at [[The Hare and Hounds]] at [[Ickwell Green]], stealing his papers and kit and putting on an [[accent]] to take his place on the airship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'', ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') The only person who knew of this plan was Edith. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'')
Making an appointment to meet a young man, [[Alex Grayle]], in [[Singapore]] on [[New Year's Eve]] [[1930]], Charley stowed away on the British airship ''[[R101]]'', having disguised herself as a male crew member named [[Simon Murchford]]. This was known only by the Pollards' cook, [[Edith Thompson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'') On [[5 October]] [[1930]], she met the Doctor and they uncovered the secret mission that the airship was on. She was rescued from the fated crash of the ''R101'' by the Doctor and taken on board [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] as his newest companion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning]]'', ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'')
 
On [[5 October]], Charley was aboard the ''R101'' and was found out. Whilst fleeing, she met the [[Eighth Doctor]] and together they uncovered the secret mission that the airship was on. She was rescued from the fated crash of the ''R101'' in [[Beauvais]], [[France]] by the Doctor and invited herself aboard [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] as his newest [[companion]]. They also brought a [[vortisaur]] that Charley named [[Ramsay (Storm Warning)|Ramsay]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') Unbeknownst to her for some time, she was supposed to have died in the crash. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'', ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'', etc.)
 
Charley and the Doctor found the TARDIS, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') where she was given [[Charlotte Pollard's TARDIS bedroom|a bedroom]] which she would often leave in an untidy state. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFM audio story)|Absolution]]'') Before the Doctor interfered, the timeline played so that Charley's death caused her family great sadness and made Edith commit [[suicide]]. However, the changes altered that fate and created the [[Edward Grove]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'')
 
=== Travels with the Eighth Doctor ===
==== Early adventures ====
Hoping to find out what was wrong with the sick Ramsay, Charley and the Doctor went to the [[Garazone Bazaar]] in [[2503]] and found themselves in [[space]] aboard the ''[[Vanguard (Sword of Orion)|Vanguard]]'' after the TARDIS was mistakenly taken aboard. Charley was disgusted by the humans' plan to ally themselves with the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] in order to wipe out the [[Orion android]]s and was saved by [[Deeva Jansen]]'s sacrifice when a Cyberman crushed the life support pack in Charley's spacesuit. She and the Doctor used their [[jetpack]]s to return to the TARDIS, where they checked on Ramsay and discussed the nature of the androids. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'')
 
Charley fell asleep in the TARDIS whilst reading a book and awoke to find herself aboard an airship at the heart of the [[Time Vortex]]. She spoke to the other travellers and learnt how they came to be aboard, realising that each had been removed from their timelines for the protection of the [[Web of Time]]. Upon awakening back in the TARDIS, the Doctor told her that he had put them there. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Repercussions... (short story)|Repercussions...]]'')
 
At Charley's request, the Doctor took her on a search to find her childhood hero, [[Pieter Mon Marchè]]. They were unable to find him and eventually learnt that he was a falsified product of time, being a mythical person based on Charley and the Doctor's search for him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]'')
 
Several weeks after first joining the Doctor, Charley and the Doctor's lives were saved by a man at the cost of his own and Charley convinced the Doctor to visit his family. She had, by this point, fallen in love with the Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Letting Go (audio story)|Letting Go]]'') although she did not yet know it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Good Life (short story)|A Good Life]]'')
 
Charley asked the Doctor to take her on holiday to get out of the "gothic nightmare of a ship" and was taken to [[2294]] [[Venice]], where she was taken by [[Pietro (The Stones of Venice)|Pietro]] and forced to pose as [[Duke]] [[Orsino (The Stones of Venice)|Orsino]]'s wife, [[Estella (The Stones of Venice)|Estella]], with the aim of marrying him. After Duke Orsino and the real Estella killed themselves, Charley, having learnt that it did not do to live life through objects, suggested that she and the Doctor clear out the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'')
 
After the Doctor set the coordinates to take Charley to meet [[Grace Holloway]], he suggested that they release Ramsay, something that Charley did not wish to do but was forced to after the Vortisaur attacked her. Temporal feedback damaged the TARDIS console and caused the travellers to lose their memories, after which they landed in [[Malebolgia]] and the amnesiac Charley was made to serve at the [[Hellfire Club]], from which she was later rescued by [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]. [[Brigham Elisha Dashwood III]] shot her with his [[Trans-D]] so that a demon could inhabit her body, but the [[psionovore]]s rejected her as she was "already dead", a statement that she did not understand. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor left Malebolgia and arrived on [[colony ship (A Good Life)|a colony ship]] which they initially believed to be [[16th century]] [[Kent]]. Charley was annoyed with the Doctor for looking to find a mystery there and, upon learning that they were on a ship, asked that they stay there to relax. Whilst on the ship, she realised how she felt about the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Good Life (short story)|A Good Life]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor helped native [[tribe]]s in [[Africa]], after which they landed in [[Melbourne]]. Having seen what ''[[The Darvias Saga]]'' could do, Charley joined the [[Movement for Real Literature]] and almost shot and killed [[Nathaniel Clamp]] before deciding to save him by shooting [[Bruce Gillespie]] in the shoulder instead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Best Seller (short story)|Best Seller]]'')
 
On a spaceship approaching [[Venus]], Charley was appalled to meet about twenty people dying from a genetic plague who intended to crash their ship into the planet and end their lives. However, the Doctor quietly led her back into the TARDIS after she began trying to change their minds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Venus (short story)|Venus]]'')
 
Charley went to a [[disco]] on [[24 December]], [[1987]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Be Good for Goodness's Sake (short story)|Be Good for Goodness's Sake]]'')
 
The Doctor and Charley went to [[2064]] [[Prague]] for [[Christmas]] and were imprisoned and interrogated by [[Rijzki|Colonel Rijzki]] due to their lack of papers. Charley initially believed that Colonel Rijzki was a power-hungry monster but admitted that he had a point in not lowering the shield around the city on the word of a stranger. She and the Doctor took him and [[Ilona Hingis]] into the TARDIS and showed them that the world outside of the shield was safe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War in a Time of Peace (short story)|War in a Time of Peace]]'')
 
Charley was imprisoned in [[Nigeria]] and released when [[Calabria]] sent the Nigerian authorities [[money]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password (short story)|You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password]]'')
 
Landing on Earth on Christmas Day after receiving a [[distress call]], Charley and the Doctor encountered [[Angel (They Fell)|Angels]] who believed that [[Zoe Elliot]] was their daughter. The Doctor told them that the stars had moved since they lost their daughter and the two travellers went with them to where their real daughter was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[They Fell (short story)|They Fell]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor broke into the Brigadier's house and held a Christmas party there for him, cooking a Christmas meal and inviting [[Emily Chaudhry]] and former members of [[UNIT]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Faithful Friends: Part Three (short story)|Faithful Friends: Part Three]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor thwarted [[Dennis Krellig]]'s plans to conquer the world, resulting in him having to move back in with his parents and get a job at a [[biscuit]] factory. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Chances (ST short story)|Second Chances]]'')
 
Together the Doctor and Charley encountered a mummy revived by alien technology in [[Paris]] in [[1841]], with Charley being irritated that the Doctor took numerous sidetrips accompanied by [[Guy (The Mummy Speaks!)|a gorilla]] whilst moving the TARDIS to rescue her from the French authorities. They discovered the mummy was working to enable an alien invasion which the Doctor foiled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mummy Speaks! (audio story)|The Mummy Speaks!]]'')
 
After leaving Paris, Charley and the Doctor, wanting to relax with a walk in the woods, landed on the forest planet of [[Pteron]], where they exposed the moth-like [[Hellstrung]] attacking a colony of humans. However, they found out that the Hellstrung were only attacking as they were being exploited by the human leadership, who were pillaging the sap and wood of the planet. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eclipse (audio story)|Eclipse]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor, after responding to an SOS signal from a planet besieged by a writhing alien mass, became caught in a [[temporal paradox]] caused by [[Ilkeian]]s constructing routes in the [[Time Vortex]] to view the slaying of the creature. However, Charley herself ended up killing the creture, unwittingly becoming part of Ilkein history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Slaying of the Writhing Mass (audio story)|The Slaying of the Writhing Mass]]'')
 
The two travellers responded to a message from [[Deeva Jansen]] and returned to the [[Garazone System]] where they found that she had survived their previous encounter. They helped her escape from new programming which forced her to commit [[genocide]] and to replace humans with identical android copies; Charley herself thought for a time that she was an android before learning that her duplicate had never been activated. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Heart of Orion (audio story)|Heart of Orion]]'')
 
==== With Audacity ====
The Doctor left her in Tibet instead of Singapore, whilst he went travelling further. He returned several weeks later with [[Audacity Montague]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Great Cyber-War (audio story)}})
 
The Doctor took his friends to [[107 Baker Street]] to celebrate Christmas and showed them the sites. She decided to make a Christmas Pudding. They went to [[Al Norton]]'s flat to discover what was wrong with him. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)}})
 
Audacity and Charley waited in the car for the Doctor after tracing a strange creature. After being introduced to [[Eldridge Brinkwood]], they told him about how they first met the creature in the frozen swimming pool, as it looked like Charley. She found it amusing that the Doctor couldn't fix the car he crashed. Eldridge took them to a former friend of his to recover from the crash. She tried to comfort Eldridge after learning that he was near death according to the Doctor's theory about the creature. She couldn't stop him letting the creature get into the house. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Empty Man (audio story)}})
 
She was frightened by the canon of the [[Edinburgh]]. Charley and Audacity went to one of [[Donald Shaw]]'s balls to help in the Doctor's investigations. After dancing with [[Archie McClellan]], she went with him to see the sights and flirted with him. Inside the powerstation she was confused about an empty locked room with seven bolts, she connected it with the seven deaths. She told the Doctor about this, and helped him work out a solution. She went with Archie to get a cannon to help stop Shaw using Scottish superstition using Iron to keep out a fire. She kissed Archie after the defeat. They went with Archie to celebrate another Christmas. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Winter of the Demon (audio story)}})
 
==== Time's unravelling ====
The Doctor tried to get Charley to the [[Singapore Hilton]] per her request, but they instead landed in [[1938]] [[New York City]] where they came across the corpse of [[Jack Halliday]]. After being kidnapped several times, she was reunited with the Doctor and played a role in the rebroadcast of ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'', later watching [[Streath]] and [[Noriam]]'s ship depart on the TARDIS scanner. The Doctor found that [[Orson Welles]] did not know who [[William Shakespeare]] was, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'') something that Charley later learnt was, in part, due to her survival. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'')
 
[[File:Charleyostiantayshius.jpg|thumb|left|Charley dressed as a [[Time Lord]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]'')]]
The TARDIS, apparently avoiding Singapore, took Charley and the Doctor to [[Edward Grove]] where she learnt that she was supposed to have died in the ''R101'', her paradoxical survival resulting in [[Edith Thompson]]'s uncertain fate. She was told to kill herself, but she instead chose to live and helped convince Edith to do the same, putting an end to the [[time loop]] within the house. Charley, however, continued to remember dying in the flames of the ''R101''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor landed in [[1982]] [[Ferrara]] after detecting an interspatial disturbance which they found was caused by [[Vengorr]] and [[Thon]]. Posing as a [[Time Lord]] and calling herself Charleyostiantayshius, Charley sowed discord between the two [[Threllip]]s and sent them through their [[portal]] to [[Mordalius Prime]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]'')
 
In an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] created by {{delgado}}, Charley met the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] and learnt about [[regeneration]]. When the timeline was wiped, the Doctor suddenly felt the need to visit [[Bob Dovie]] at [[59A Barnsfield Crescent]] on [[23 November]] [[1963]], where he and Charley were surprised to learn that the irate Bob had already been visited by all of the Doctor's past incarnations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
 
[[File:Save0077.JPG|thumb|right|Charley and the Doctor in an alternate timeline created by {{delgado}}. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')]]
After six attempts, the TARDIS arrived at the Singapore Hilton and Charley was finally reunited with [[Alex Grayle]]. She and the Doctor travelled to [[305]], [[1055]] and [[1806]], each time meeting [[Sebastian Grayle]] and stopping him from unleashing the [[Nimon]]s upon the world, after which the two travellers returned to Singapore to celebrate [[New Year's Eve]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'')
 
Like many of his previous companions, Charley went with the Doctor to distract [[Ann (Categorical Imperative)|Ann]] whilst he attempted to kill her baby. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Categorical Imperative (short story)|Categorical Imperative]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor went to [[Armstrong's Colony]] after detecting technology which should not have been there. Charley was taken captive by [[Denton de Kay Leigh|Baron Denton de Kay Leigh]] and saved by the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac (short story)|The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac]]'')
 
After falling into an alien [[gallery]] based on Prague, Charley was saved from [[hypothermia]] by [[Yan Periko]] and awoke with amnesia. Yan gave her the name "Libuse", which she used for several months before the Doctor projected himself into the gallery and convinced Charley that she would die if she were not released. Her status as a temporal anomaly resulted in disruptions to the gallery. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lady of the Snows (short story)|Lady of the Snows]]'')
 
The Doctor took Charley to the [[Cimmerian System]] where [[ROSM]] identified her as a threat ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]'') due to the [[anti-time]] around her ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') and attempted to kill her, leading her to flee to an [[escape pod]] which took her down to [[Cimmeria IV]]. She began to lose her sight due to the [[Cimmerian]]s, but she was reunited with the Doctor and recovered, helping the [[Throxilian]]s and learning of the connection between the Cimmerians and the [[Solarian (Embrace the Darkness)|Solarians]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]'')
 
When the TARDIS was taken to the [[Celestial Toyroom]], [[Celestial Toymaker|the Toymaker]] forced a once-again amnesiac Charley to play his games whilst the Doctor was turned into a [[puppet]]. She eventually realised that the Toymaker was actually the one playing the Toyroom's game and was able to defeat him and escape in the TARDIS with the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'')
 
[[File:Charley Solitaire.jpg|thumb|left|Charley in the [[Celestial Toyroom]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'')]]
A message from the [[Eleventh Doctor]] led Charley and the Doctor to [[1935]] [[London]]. They were accused of murder and fled to [[Scotland]] with [[Hilary Hammond]], whom they later identified as the murderer as well as a [[Germany|German]] [[spy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Aliens (audio story)|Enemy Aliens]]'')
 
Charley visited an art gallery with the Doctor to see the [[Ten Thousand]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hall of the Ten Thousand (audio story)|Hall of the Ten Thousand]]'')
 
At an art exhibition, Charley encountered [[Dwayne Pherber]], who attempted to feed on her. She was saved by the Doctor and [[Highgate (The End of the Beginning)|Highgate]] before she and the Doctor were taken by [[Vakrass]]. She helped the Doctor's [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] and eighth incarnations, as well as [[Vislor Turlough]] and [[Constance Clarke]], defeat [[Gostak]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the Beginning (audio story)|The End of the Beginning]]'')
 
Due to interference in the timeline, Charley, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'') like [[Orson Welles]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'') had no knowledge of [[William Shakespeare]], an impossibility which resulted in the Doctor discovering a [[Dalek]] plot. She was held hostage by the Daleks and fell through their portal to [[1572]] with [[Viola Learman]] and the [[Master Clock]], which became damaged when she was attacked by a Dalek, and was to be exterminated after the clock was repaired. The Daleks were defeated and Charley saved, although the Doctor realised that she was a source of [[chronon energy]] and that time was unravelling around her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'')
 
Charley and the Doctor tried to get Shakespeare home but instead landed in [[Asia Minor]] after the fall of [[Troy]]. They met [[Vicki Pallister]] and [[Troilus]] and, to keep Shakespeare from remembering his time with them, the Doctor had Charley ensure that he got drunk on [[wine]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)|Apocrypha Bipedium]]'')
 
After dropping Shakespeare off in [[Warwickshire]], Charley and the Doctor were interrogated by [[Mike Yates]] after being found on an [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] base in the [[1970s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Foreshadowing (audio story)|Foreshadowing]]'')
 
==== Antiverse and anti-time ====
The TARDIS was chased by seven [[Battle TARDIS]]es and, realising that they were after her, Charley used the [[fast return switch]] to ensure their capture and learnt that she had become a living portal for anti-time. In the hopes of an alternative resolution to her death, she allowed herself to be used by the Time Lords to travel into the [[Antiverse]] but ultimately resigned herself to death, not regretting a moment of time that she had spent with the Doctor. She was saved when the breach caused by her became part of established history and she returned to the TARDIS, finding the Doctor infected with anti-time and calling himself [[Zagreus]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'')
 
After hiding from the violent Doctor, the TARDIS, in the form of [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]], showed Charley projections of the history of the [[Divergence]]'s attempts to break into [[N-Space]] to make up its mind as to whether or not it would help [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]]; it did, throwing Charley from its doors. She obeyed the Doctor's command to kill him with the [[anti-time sword]] after realising that he did not love her back, but he survived and, after casting Rassilon into the [[Divergent Universe]], he shouted at Charley to leave him as he followed in order to save the universe from anti-time.
 
Charley stormed out of the TARDIS but was told by [[Romana II|Romana]] that the Doctor had driven her out for her own good, having asked that she find Charley a place in the timeline. Learning of a backdoor from [[Leela]], Charley sneaked into the TARDIS to make sure that the Doctor did not make the journey alone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')
 
==== The Divergent Universe ====
After hiding in the TARDIS, Charley revealed herself to the Doctor, who was unhappy that she had betrayed him by coming with him into the Divergent Universe. Exiting the TARDIS, they found themselves within a strictly-designed experiment to study [[evolution]] and inadvertently helped the [[sound creature]] evolve before refusing to allow themselves to die for it. They merged into a single life-form for a time, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'') creating [[Daqar Keep]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') and the sound creature faded away whilst they were able to break free. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'')
 
[[File:Charley Kromon.jpg|thumb|right|Charley in the [[Eutermes|Eutermesan Zone]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)|The Creed of the Kromon]]'')]]
Charley and the Doctor entered the [[Interzone]] and were allowed by the [[Kro'ka]] into the [[Eutermes|Eutermesan Zone]], where they saved [[C'rizz]] and joined him in his mission to save [[L'da]] in the [[Alpha Sphere]]. Charley was captured by the [[Kromon (species)|Kromon]] and taken to become a Kromon Queen to replace L'da after C'rizz [[euthanasia|euthanised]] her, causing her to begin transforming into an insect and losing her sense of self. She was saved by the Doctor and C'rizz and restored to normal with the help of the [[Oroog (The Creed of the Kromon)|Oroog]], after which she, the Doctor and C'rizz left via the Interzone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)|The Creed of the Kromon]]'')
 
The travellers arrived in [[Light City]] during [[Jubilee Day]] and were separated when the riots started, Charley almost getting crushed. She, the Doctor and C'rizz gave the [[Censor (The Natural History of Fear)|Censor]] copies of their memories to be used for the evolution of Light City's society. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Natural History of Fear (audio story)|The Natural History of Fear]]'')
 
The Kro'ka next sent Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz into the [[Setarus]] zone which they explored for two days, searching for the TARDIS, before becoming affected by [[cave creature|a creature]]. Charley became confused by how angry she was with the Doctor, going so far as to betray him out of a lack of trust, and was concerned about how violent C'rizz seemed to become. She later learnt from the Doctor that the creature had been deceiving and manipulating their [[emotion]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Twilight Kingdom (audio story)|The Twilight Kingdom]]'')
 
Charley found the treatment of [[religion]] at the [[Multihaven]] to be superficial and began feeling depressed due to [[Miraculite]]. C'rizz was affected by the [[23rd Church of Lucidity]] and tried to kill Charley before she was saved by the Doctor; she was understanding of how much he had gone through since L'da's transformation and did not hold him responsible for his actions. When she and the Doctor found what seemed to be the TARDIS, Charley was hopeful that it was the real thing but was proven wrong. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Faith Stealer (audio story)|Faith Stealer]]'')
 
In a nuclear winter on the surface of [[Bortresoye]], Charley and C'rizz were saved from a collapsed building by [[Landscar]] and taken to [[Excelsior (The Last)|Excelsior]]'s bunker for treatment, but Charley was found to be paralysed from the waist down and was later smothered by Excelsior after realising that she was not as delusional as she pretended to be. The Doctor's [[suicide]] resulted in the cycle restarting, restoring Charley. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last (audio story)|The Last]]'')
 
[[File:Charley Doctor C'rizz.jpg|thumb|Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Caerdroia (audio story)|precisecite=[[DWM illustrated previews|illustrated preview]] from [[DWM 350]]}})]]
When the Doctor was split into three different people, Charley named the innocent one "[[Tigger]]" and the grumpy one, whom she teamed up with, "[[Eeyore]]". She initially disliked the Eeyore Doctor, but came to realise that his irritability came from a concern for her safety. The three Doctors located the TARDIS in the centre of a [[labyrinth]], after which they merged back into one and Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz set off to explore the Divergent Universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia (audio story)|Caerdroia]]'')
 
The trio travelled for some time before they came near [[Rassilon's Foundry]] and entered [[dream]]scapes. Charley was visited by [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]], who attempted to shake her trust in the Doctor both in her dreams and by showing her the Doctor travelling with [[Perfection (The Next Life)|Perfection]], making her feel easily replaceable. She also came to terms with how hardened she had become to death and the effect that her actions had had on [[Simon Murchford]].
 
Charley stopped being friends with C'rizz because of his untrustworthiness, and, when the Doctor demanded that they make up before he would pilot them out of the Divergent Universe, she admitted that she was jealous of anybody who got close to the Time Lord. The three then departed, with Rassilon and the Kro'ka stuck in the evolutionary experiment and [[Daqar Keep]] and Zagreus left awaiting the end of the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
 
==== Back home again ====
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The TARDIS materialised in a [[Dalek]] base ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') and Charley and C'rizz were quickly imprisoned on [[Davros]]'s orders. [[Gemma Griffin]] helped them both escape and Charley soon met [[Samson Griffin]], learning that he and Gemma had travelled with the Doctor before she had met him. She assured the Doctor that he was not to blame for the Griffins nor the Daleks' invasion of [[Earth]] and, after the Daleks' departure, they had fun in [[Blackpool]] whilst C'rizz remained in the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'')
 
Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz thwarted [[Darrakhaan]]'s theft of the [[space-time navigator]] from the [[Sanmarus Institute]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Before Midnight (short story)|Before Midnight]]'') by taking over the bodies of [[Edward Callaghan]], [[David Lampton]] and [[Gavin Jones]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[After Midnight (short story)|After Midnight]]'')
 
When C'rizz expressed a desire to see a newly-formed planet free from [[pollution]] and [[war]], Charley said that he was describing the [[Garden of Eden]], leading the Doctor to take them to [[Endarra]]. There, Charley met [[Eunis Flood]] and was torn about his use as a lab rat upon learning that he was a [[serial killer]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat (audio story)|Scaredy Cat]]'')
 
[[File:Charley Other Lives.jpg|thumb|left|Charley dressed as [[Madeline de Roche]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'')]]
The Doctor took Charley to see the [[Great Exhibition]] in [[1851]] whilst C'rizz remained in the TARDIS. She was separated from the Doctor and met the [[Duke of Wellington]], who begged her to pose as [[Madeline de Roche]] after she and [[Christian de Roche|her husband]] accidentally left in the TARDIS. She rescued C'rizz, who then posed as Christian de Roche, from [[Jacob Crackles]]' freakshow and they were eventually reunited with the Doctor, swapping places with the real de Roches. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'')
 
On [[Industry (planet)|Industry]], Charley and C'rizz were separated from the Doctor and searched for him, finding him frozen in time like the rest of the planet in the middle of his [[execution]] and having to pretend to be frozen themselves when they encountered the [[Clockwork man (Time Works)|Clockwork Men]]. Charley was able to save the Doctor's life and both she and C'rizz were to be assessed to work in the [[Clock Tower (Time Works)|Clock Tower]], but they and the Doctor were able to defeat [[the Figurehead]] and the Clockwork Men, staying behind afterwards to enjoy the celebrations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Works (audio story)|Time Works]]'')
 
Instead of arriving at the [[Festival of Ghana]], the three travellers landed in [[the Cube]] where they fled from the [[brain-worm]], which [[Eric Rawden]] became convinced was inside Charley's head and insisted that they kill her. She was sad when they were forced to leave [[Gorden Latch]] inside the Cube whilst they departed in the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Something Inside (audio story)|Something Inside]]'')
 
On [[Lucentra]] in the [[23rd century]], Charley saw an illusion of [[Louisa Pollard|her mother]] and started to become trapped there by [[nano-form]]s which mentally reduced her in age, making her forget who C'rizz was. She realised what was happening and vomited out the nano-forms, but she later volunteered to allow her memories to shape the prison they were in, turning the place into a composite of her childhood. She regained her memories once more and told the illusion of her mother that she hoped it would not be long before she saw her again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]'')
 
Charley ran from a crazed C'rizz in [[2007]] [[London]] and approached [[Luke Tillyard]]. Luke stepped in to protect her, rendering him unconscious using his [[headphones]] and allowing her and the Doctor to take him back to the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salva Mea (short story)|Salva Mea]]'')


=== Initial voyages with the Doctor ===
After the Doctor was kidnapped by the [[Kubthukian]]s to gain access to his memories for their case against [[Ari Leventhal]], Charley gave them a message from the [[Creatron Artists and Artisans Associates]], telling them that the CAAA wanted to option their story for a film. The Doctor told her that the Kubthukians valued profit above [[truth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death (short story)|Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death]]'')
Following their adventures aboard the ''R101'', Charley and the Doctor encountered the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] in [[2503]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion]]'') visited [[Venice]] in [[2294]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice]]'') and faced the demon [[Marchosias]] in [[Malebolgia]] in [[2003]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell]]'')


At some point during her early travels with the Doctor, they visited [[Bob Dovie]] at [[59A Barnsfield Crescent]] in [[Totton]], [[Hampshire]] on [[23 November]] [[1963]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
[[File:Eighth Doctor companions.jpg|thumb|right|Charley with [[Bliss]], [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]] and [[Liv Chenka|Liv]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ravenous 3]]'')]]
Charley was captured by [[the Nine]] to join his collection of the Doctor's companions, being moved between Corridor 6 and Corridor 8 for reasons she was not then aware of. She joined [[Liv Chenka]], [[Helen Sinclair]] and [[Bliss]] in escaping [[the Nine's prison|the prison]], finding [[River Song]] and defeating the Nine, after which River returned her to her adventures with the Doctor and C'rizz. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]'')


[[File:Charley and the Doctor in New York.jpg|thumb|right|Charley chastises the Doctor for pretending to be a private eye. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'')]]
=== A change of Doctor ===
In [[1938]] [[New York City|<nowiki/>]][[New]] York City, they met [[Orson Welles]] and repelled the [[Laiderplacker]] invasion by using ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' broadcast to convince the aliens that another invasion was already ongoing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars]]'')
Charley opened C'rizz's [[Absolver]], after which the TARDIS landed on [[Utebbadon-Tarria]] and fell apart long enough for C'rizz to disappear and to attract [[Hellion]]s, forcing Charley and the Doctor to avoid the [[console room]] for a time. As they left the TARDIS and learnt about C'rizz's actions and the [[Borarus]], she began to blame herself, but the Doctor told her not to. She refused to listen to the Doctor's claims about C'rizz's nature and origins and cried as the Eutermesan died, his last words being to call her his sister. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFM audio story)|Absolution]]'')


While attempting to take Charley to her rendezvous in [[Singapore]] [[1930]], the Doctor met the immortal [[Sebastian Grayle]], who was working for the [[Nimon]]s and gloated about having killed the Doctor. The Doctor and Charley went back in time to [[305]], [[1055]], and [[1806]], each time meeting Grayle, and in the end stopping him and the Nimons. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear]]'')
Furious at the Doctor's apparent lack of concern in the wake of C'rizz's death and believing that he was happy that things were back as they were before the [[Divergent Universe]], Charley demanded that he take her back to [[1930]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFM audio story)|Absolution]]'') He claimed that he had taken them to the wreck of the ''[[R101]]'' but Charley, insistent that she leave regardless, found that he had actually taken her to [[Singapore]].


While trying to investigate the disappearance of sun in the [[Cimmerian System]], Charley and the Doctor went to a [[Throxillian]] mining base. The [[Cimmerian]]s, descendents of the [[Solarian (Embrace the Darkness)|Solarians]] and inhabitants of the system, feared light because it would allow the Solarians to track them, and burned out the eyes of everyone on the base, including Charley. When the Doctor got the artificial suns working, the Solarians came to the system and cleared up the misunderstanding. The Cimmerians healed the crew's eyes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]'')
[[File:Charley The Girl Who Never Was.jpg|thumb|left|Charley during her last adventure with the Eighth Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'')]]
Due to a temporal hump, the pair had arrived in [[2008]], where Charley made [[Byron (The Girl Who Never Was)|Byron]]'s acquaintance and met a younger version of him when the [[Hostile Action Displacement System]] took her back to [[1942]]. On the [[SS Batavia|SS ''Batavia'']], she encountered the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] again and infected the [[Cyber-Planner (The Girl Who Never Was)|Cyber-Planner]] with temporal corrosion, leading it to transfer its consciousness into her body. She was later freed and watched Byron apparently kill the Doctor, after which she defeated the Cybermen as well as Byron using the temporal corrosion, a condition which meant activated the HADS and left her stranded in [[500002]].


[[File:Charley meets the Daleks.jpg|thumb|left|In the [[2050s]], Charley meets the [[Dalek]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'')]]
Charley built a crystal [[radio]] set from debris and sent out an SOS every hour, eventually resulting in the TARDIS arriving. She ran into the ship and found that it was not her Doctor ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'') but the Doctor in [[Sixth Doctor|his sixth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]'') Whilst she knew that it was a risk to travel with him, she wanted further adventures and kept her past secret. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[These Stolen Hours (audio story)|These Stolen Hours]]'')
In [[2050s]] [[New Britain]], the Doctor and Charley stopped a [[Dalek]] plot involving time travel and a young [[William Shakespeare]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks]]'')


During her adventures with the Doctor, she was trapped by the [[Celestial Toymaker]], not remembering who she was, and forced to play games, with the spirit of the Doctor stuck inside a ventriloquist puppet, only able to talk with her voice. She finally defeated the Toymaker and fled in the TARDIS with the Doctor inside. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire]]'')
=== Travels with the Sixth Doctor ===
==== Keeping her secret ====
Landing in [[Manchester]] in [[2008]], Charley was kidnapped by [[Maxine (The Condemned)|Maxine]] and, after hearing the TARDIS dematerialise, realised that the Doctor was not yet the man that she knew and that she would have to look after herself from then on. She answered [[Sam (The Condemned)|Sam]]'s phone calls and attempted to find him, escaping from Maxine and uncovering what happened with Sam and [[Antonia Bailey]]. After [[Patricia Menzies|DI Menzies]] arrested Antonia, Charley told the Doctor that she had [[amnesia]] to avoid further difficult questions about her past and knowledge. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]'')


By that time, Charley's existence was causing problems to the [[Web of Time]], culminating in a confrontation with the [[Time Lord]]s. Charley had become a gateway to the [[Antiverse]], causing [[anti-time]] to flow through and infect the Universe. When Charley helped save the Web of Time these events became part of the Web, resolving the paradox. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'')
[[File:Charley Doomwood.jpg|thumb|right|Charley in [[1738]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomwood Curse (audio story)|The Doomwood Curse]]'')]]
Charley and the Doctor went to the [[Archive of Alexandria IV]] to return a copy of ''[[Rookwood]]'' that Charley spent four hours reading in the [[bath]]. After the copy was destroyed by the [[Grel]], they went to find another and landed in [[1738]] where, due to the Grel's machine, Charley started to believe that she belonged there; she was going to marry [[John (The Doomwood Curse)|John]] before meeting [[Dick Turpin]] and becoming his accomplice, "Gypsy Charlotte". She rode with Turpin to [[York]] where the Doctor caught up with her and brought her to her senses, after which they defeated the Grel. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomwood Curse (audio story)|The Doomwood Curse]]'')


However, the Doctor was infected by anti-time and so was forced to leave the universe and enter the [[Divergent Universe]]. Charley stowed away on board the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')
On [[planetoid (Brotherhood of the Daleks)|a planetoid]] in the [[Antares System]], Charley was recognised by the [[Dalek]]s from [[Folkestone]], forcing her to admit the truth of her identity to a [[Dalek duplicate|replicant]] of the Doctor whom she believed to be real. The Daleks planned to replace her with a replicant to change the Doctor's timeline a plan which was foiled. Afterwards, [[Murgat]] told her that she could not keep lying to the Doctor forever and she promised to tell him at the right time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)|Brotherhood of the Daleks]]'')


=== In the divergent universe ===
Charley fled from [[werewolf|werewolves]] with the Doctor on [[planet (The Red House)|a planet]] in the [[31st century]] and was captured and interrogated by [[Paignton|Dr Paignton]], who believed that she too was a werewolf. She was saved from the [[Red House]] by [[the Valeyard]] and tasked by him with stopping the Doctor from aiding [[Ugo]], the Valeyard threatening to tell the Doctor of her history with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red House (audio story)|The Red House]]'')
[[File:Entering the Divergent Universe.jpg|thumb|right|The TARDIS doors break open as the Doctor and Charley enter the [[Divergent Universe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'')]]
Charley and the Doctor's initial landing in the [[Divergent Universe]] was within a strictly designed experiment to study [[evolution]]. As such, Charley and the Doctor merged to create an evolved life form, and their sound evolved to the point of achieving sentience. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'')


Not long after landing in the Divergent Universe, Charley and the Doctor met [[C'rizz]] when they entered the [[Eutermes|Eutermes Zone]] on [[Bortresoye]]. Charley was transformed into a giant hybrid [[insect]] and later saved by the Doctor and reversed to her normal self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)|The Creed of the Kromon]]'')
Charley and the Doctor encountered DI Menzies once more, some weeks after they first met, and encountered [[John Fielding|John]] and [[Henry Fielding]]. Upon learning of the involvement of the [[Sirens of Time]] in the appearance of [[time break]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Avenues of Possibility (audio story)|The Avenues of Possibility]]'') Charley and the Doctor went to investigate ([[WC]]: ''[[Prequel to The Legacy of Time (webcast)|Prequel to The Legacy of Time]]'') and the Doctor teamed up with his other selves to defeat them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Collision Course (audio story)|Collision Course]]'')


While in the Divergent Universe, the three of them visited [[Light City]], a dictatorship where their memories were preserved and used as an experiment. Here, Charley believed she was married to C'rizz. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Natural History of Fear]]'')
Charley told the Doctor of her love for [[airship]]s, prompting him to promise a visit to [[Jupiter]] before answering a distress call from [[Space station (These Stolen Hours)|a space station]]. There, Charley recognised that there were feelings between [[Artemis Vane|Professor Artemis Vane]] and [[Martin Chesleworth|Dr Martin Chesleworth]] and sympathised with the former's story whilst the Doctor claimed that no relationship was genuine if founded on a lie. This made Charley realise that she would have to tell the Doctor the truth one day and that, when she did, she would have to leave him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[These Stolen Hours (audio story)|These Stolen Hours]]'')


The [[Kro'ka]] sent them to a tropical [[jungle]], where she betrayed the Doctor to military forces because she didn't trust him very much in this universe. She became very upset with the Doctor, her mind being influenced by a living organism in the form of a cave system. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Twilight Kingdom]]'')
On [[Onyakis]] sometime after [[6087]], Charley helped to defeat the [[Kroton (species)|Krotons]] by overloading their machines. As this left her unconscious, the Doctor carried her into the TARDIS where she mumbled about [[C'rizz]] and how the Doctor had not cared about his death. The Doctor took her to [[Al's Café]] to rest after their experiences. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Krotons (audio story)|Return of the Krotons]]'')


[[File:Faith Stealer Charley and C'rizz.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor, Charley, and C'rizz arrive in a new zone. [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Faith Stealer (audio story)|Faith Stealer]]'')]]
[[File:Charley Raincloud.jpg|thumb|left|Charley and the Sixth Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Raincloud Man (audio story)|The Raincloud Man]]'')]]
Following their visit to different experimental zones of the Divergent Universe, they arrived at the [[Multihaven]], a city run as a religious forum with innumerable faiths having set up churches, temples and retreats. C'rizz was still grieving over the loss of [[L'da]] and in a moment of madness, he mistook Charley for L'da and tried to strangle her. The Doctor arrived just in time to save Charley by overpowering C'rizz with his [[Venusian aikido]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Faith Stealer]]'')
Charley and the Doctor headed to Manchester to meet DI Menzies again after the Doctor saw anachronistic money in a newspaper. As [[Kelsa]] could detect the [[paradox]], she told DI Menzies about how she had travelled with the Doctor in his future and begged her not to tell him. Charley was later accused of murdering Kelsa and, after travelling to [[Rio de Janeiro]] with [[Carmen (The Raincloud Man)|Carmen]] on [[Brooks (The Raincloud Man)|Brooks]]' casino boat, helped defeat the [[Tabbalac]]. However, Charley’s reckless actions and decision, coupled with some information from the Tabbalac, lead the Doctor to become distrustful and impatient with Charley. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Raincloud Man (audio story)|The Raincloud Man]]'')


[[File:Charley The Last.jpg|thumb|right|A beam falls on Charley on [[Bortresoye]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last (audio story)|The Last]]'')]]
==== Departure ====
Trapped on a dying world, Charley became critically injured and her body was totally paralysed. She asked C'rizz to kill her but he didn't want to do it. She later was [[murder]]ed by [[the Excelsior]], the dictator from the planet in ruins. The planet had been looking after itself, killing everybody and starting the cycle all over again, so finally Charley didn't die and continued travelling with the Doctor and C'rizz to the next zone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last (audio story)|The Last]]'')
Eventually, the Doctor demanded to know Charley's secret, but before she could answer him, [[Mila]] infected her with a [[virus]] that had slipped through the TARDIS's defences. This caused Charley to go out of phase with reality, allowing Mila to pose as her and take her place as the Doctor's companion, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'') having a number of adventures including one to [[Imperial Heaven]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Paper Cuts (audio story)|Paper Cuts]]'')


[[File:Charley Doctor C'rizz.jpg|thumb|left|The TARDIS crew is stunned to see two copies of the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia (audio story)|Caerdroia]]'')]]
=== With the Viyrans ===
In the Caerdroia world, the Doctor's personality became split in three (innocent, normal and grumpy); to Charley's annoyance, she got teamed up with the "nasty" side of the Doctor, while the others went on different paths to investigate and try to solve the puzzle. Reunited, they finally solved the mystery of this place and were able to regain the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia]]'')
==== As Viyran ambassador ====
Charley was found and cured by the [[Viyran]]s and helped them in their quest to expunge all the viruses that escaped from the [[Amethyst Viral Containment Station]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]'') Although Charley had been told that she was not a prisoner, when she tried to leave she was told that she could not do so as it would make her a threat to Viyran security. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]'')


Once the travellers were reunited with the TARDIS, the ship was plunged uncontrollably into the atmosphere of a mysterious blue planet, where the Doctor was forced to take emergency action and they became separated.
[[File:Charley, Ed and Sixth.jpg|thumb|right|Charley and the Doctor with [[Ed Driscoll]] on their last adventure. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]'')]]
When they crossed paths with the Doctor and Mila in an alternative timeline, Mila sacrificed herself to save the Doctor and the [[Earth]], after which Charley revealed who she really was and used the Viyrans' memory-altering technology to replace herself with Mila in the Doctor's memories. She then left with the Viyrans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]'')


Charley found herself visited by her mother and had to come to terms with how hardened to death she had became in her travels with the Doctor. She also had an encounter with [[Simon Murchford]], whose identity she stole to board the ''R101'' all those years ago.
Charley helped the Viyrans for years, being kept in [[stasis]] until she was need to act as an [[ambassador]] to [[humanoid]] species. Due to this lifestyle, she lost track of her age and how long she had been with them, although she did detect [[crow's feet]] and began to have some difficulty sitting down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[These Stolen Hours (audio story)|These Stolen Hours]]'') She drew a [[smile]]y face on a [[thermos]] and named it [[Walter (The Viyran Solution)|Walter]], keeping him in her pod as a lucky mascot. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]'')


Charley was forced by [[Rassilon]] to live in an artificial reality, until she discovered the truth about [[Zagreus]] and the anti-time virus. Charley felt extremely jealous for not having the Doctor for herself anymore and resented C'rizz. Faced with the opportunity to return to our universe, the Doctor only was willing to do so if Charley and C'rizz resolved their differences. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life]]'')
The Viyrans once awoke Charley to learn from her about her adventure with the [[Creature (These Stolen Hours)|memory crabs]]. She recounted her story, including how the Doctor's reaction to [[Artemis Vane]]'s deceit affected her plans with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[These Stolen Hours (audio story)|These Stolen Hours]]'')


=== Back home again ===
==== Escape from the Viyrans ====
Just after they landed on our universe, the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz found themselves on the new [[Dalek]] homeworld — where [[Davros]] awaited them imperiously and looking for revenge.
Tired of working for the Viyrans, Charley made an attempt to escape from [[Brouhaha-Nine-Nine-Five]] to Earth with [[Robert Buchan]], assisted by [[Bertram (The Lamentation Cipher)|a rogue Viyran]]. She was caught on her first attempt but tried a second time, told by the rogue to trust the [[Ever-and-Ever Prolixity|Prolixity]] and to beware the [[Lamentation Cipher]], and successfully escaped in a pod which the rogue prepared for her. She was pulled into the Prolixity with the Viyrans promising that they would find her and return her home to the [[Fieldship Prime]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]'')


Separated from the Doctor and C'rizz, Charley made a startling discovery — the TARDIS had materialised on Earth, colonised by the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma]]'')
[[File:Charley CPS1.jpg|thumb|left|Charley during her time with the Viyrans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Charlotte Pollard: Series One]]'')]]
Charley found herself in [[1936]] [[Scotland]] and met [[Turnerman|Mrs Turnerman]], [[Susan Broadstairs|Dr Susan Broadstairs]] and [[Charity Savage]], with whom she escaped from the [[Slavering]]s. She realised that the Slaverings were the infected male members of the expedition, which was confirmed by [[Viyran (The Shadow at the Edge of the World)|an early Viyran]] whom she met, and afterwards left through a Prolixity portal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow at the Edge of the World (audio story)|The Shadow at the Edge of the World]]'')


Having returned to her universe, Charley was grateful to be back on more familiar territory, despite some initial tension between her and C'rizz due to his past as an assassin. As time progressed, however, the two became good friends, Charley recognising that morality could be more complicated than her initial perceptions after such experiences as an encounter with serial killer [[Eunis Flood]], who was about to be killed as part of an experiment to research the nature of evil. Charley concluded that Flood didn't deserve such treatment no matter what he'd done in the past or would do in the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat]]'')
From inside the Prolixity, Charley inadvertently made contact with [[Michael Dee]] and communicated with [[Richard Pollard|Richard]] and [[Louisa Pollard|Louisa]] through him before he was able to properly manifest her, after which she explained to them that she had been travelling with [[Eighth Doctor|a man]] who saved her from the ''R101''. Their reunion was cut short when she was forced to return with a Viyran who threatened to kill her parents. Unbeknownst to her, they had erased all of her parents' memories of her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'')


[[File:Madame de Roche.jpg|thumb|right|Charley visits [[1851]]. [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'')]]
Returned to the Fieldship Prime two years after she left, Charley learnt that she had been replaced as ambassador by Robert Buchan and that she was to be imprisoned in order to contain the Lamentation Cypher which they believed that she had been infected with. In reality, the rogue Viyran had infected her with a virus which restored all of the Viyrans to their factory settings, after which she headed towards the Prolixity with Robert moments before it closed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]'')
Charley also experienced an interesting historical encounter when she met the [[Duke of Wellington]] during a trip to [[the Great Exhibition]] of [[1851]], assuring him that he personally would be remembered as a great hero even if Britain itself still had problems in the future while posing as a French ambassador after the originals were briefly trapped in the TARDIS.{{What}} ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives]]'')


[[File:Absolution landing.jpg|thumb|left|The TARDIS makes a rough landing on [[Utebbadon-Tarria]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFA audio story)|Absolution]]'')]]
As they approached the Prolixity, the pod began to take damage and Charley and Robert believed that they might die. Robert asked Charley for a [[hug]] and she asked him instead for a [[kiss]], resulting in the two of them having [[sex]]. However, they survived their journey into the Prolixity and were transported through time and space. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embankment Station (audio story)|Embankment Station]]'')
In the end, however, C'rizz was killed when the TARDIS was trapped on a planet resembling Hell and was forced to serve as a spiritual storage facility for the souls of the entire planet (a purpose that the Doctor speculated C'rizz had been intended to serve for the Foundation), only for C'rizz to burn himself out when he acted to restore the planet to normal. His last words being to describe Charley as his sister before he died. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFA audio story)|Absolution]]'')


Angry at the Doctor's apparent lack of concern for the loss, Charley ordered the Doctor to take her to [[Singapore]] once and for all. However, although Charley changed her mind after she arrived in Singapore, a subsequent confrontation with the [[Cybermen]] during their latest attempt to harness time travel resulted in the Doctor and Charley being separated as the Cybermen' ship collapsed. After a battle with the Cybermen, she was stranded on a desert island in [[500,002]], believing that the Doctor had been killed by the Cybermen, while the Doctor returned to Singapore in 2008 after the TARDIS' [[HADS]] activated when the ship they were on disintegrated; his recent memories were so scrambled by the attempted conversion that he was unable to precisely recall what had happened to Charley. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was]]'')
=== In the 21st century ===
[[File:Charley and Ident Man.jpg|thumb|right|Charley and an [[Identical Man]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Charlotte Pollard: Series Two]]'')]]
Charley and Robert's pod, which promptly vanished, crashed near [[Embankment tube station]] in [[21st century]] [[London]], where they were quickly tranquillised and arrested on [[Woking (Embankment Station)|Woking]]'s orders. They were taken to [[Department 001]] for interrogation and were eventually joined by the Rogue Viyran, who explained that he had dispersed the pod in order to cushion their arrival and ensure that they survived the trip, and who said that the [[Identical Man|Identical Men]] who arrived to neutralise the three of them could not be overcome. Charley suggested that they run. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embankment Station (audio story)|Embankment Station]]'')


=== Meeting the ''other'' Doctor ===
After escaping from the Identical Men thanks to what Charley termed the Rogue Viyran's ruffling power, the trio escaped to a [[bank]] where Charley decided to name the increasingly human Viyran "Bertram". They were taken into police custody at [[Westminster Police Station]] before being transported to Woking and locked up with [[Naomi Davies]], escaping only when Bertram tripped the building's power and caused the electronic door to open. Before Charley, Robert, Bertram, Naomi and [[Rab (Embankment Station)|Rab]] could escape, they were stopped by Woking, armed with a [[gun]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ruffling (audio story)|Ruffling]]'')
[[File:The Condemned comic preview.jpg|thumb|right|Charley meets the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]'')]]
When the TARDIS arrived for her, she found the Doctor, but in an [[Sixth Doctor|earlier incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned]]'') Because of her travels with the future Doctor she knew not to let him find out anything about her past, but he grew suspicious of her mysteriousness.


Eventually, the Doctor demanded to know Charley's secret, but before she could answer him, she was infected with a [[virus]] that had slipped through the TARDIS' defences. Charley discovered the virus had come from an entity called [[Mila]], a human guinea pig in experiments by the Daleks to create a virus to transform all lifeforms into Daleks. When the experiments failed, the Daleks attacked her, making her phase into another dimension. She had slipped aboard the TARDIS in the Doctor's first incarnation and remained there since, invisible to everyone. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, Mila had used the virus to transform Charley into herself and vice versa, leaving Charley out of phase with reality and allowing her to take Charley's place at the Doctor's side. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero]]'')
When the bleeding Woking collapsed, Charley tended to him by using Naomi's [[scarf]] as a [[tourniquet]] and the group fled, chased by the [[zombie|zombified]] [[Warwick (Embankment Station)|Captain Warwick]] and his men before they were hit by a train. She, Robert and Bertram were unaffected by the Identical Men's pulse, which she later realised had made people stop caring, and the trio were captured by Woking's men when a [[helicopter]] was sent to pick him up. After days locked up, Charley agreed to help Woking and went with him, Robert, Bertram and some soldiers to Embankment, later fleeing from the Identical Men and being teleported away by Bertram's newfound powers. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seed of Chaos (audio story)|Seed of Chaos]]'')


[[File:BlueForgottenPlanet Preview.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and Mila encounter Charley and the Viyrans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]'')]]
=== Life as a slave ===
Charley was found and cured by the [[Viyran]]s, whom she helped for several millennia in their quest to expunge all the viruses which had escaped from the Amethyst station. Finally they crossed paths with the Doctor and Charley/Mila in an alternate timeline created by the Viyrans' attempt to remove a virus from Earth's population. After Mila sacrificed herself to save the Doctor and the Earth, Charley revealed her identity to the Doctor. To make him want to forget his travels with her, she told him that when he met her, he would die (still believing that the Eighth Doctor had not regenerated). She used the Viyrans' memory-altering technology to replace Mila with herself in the Doctor's memories of their travels together. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet]]'')
[[File:Charley and Robert.jpg|thumb|left|Charley and Robert. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Charlotte Pollard: Series Two]]'')]]
Charley, Robert and Bertram found themselves wrapped up in the [[Gelrasian]]s' [[web]] above [[Gelrasi]] and, whilst Bertram disappeared, Charley and Robert were taken away to a culling by the [[Proto-Viyran]]s of a [[humanoid]] work force. They were then sent down to the surface of Gelrasi and [[slave|enslaved]], being forced to harvest the orange [[coral]] that the Identical Men were built from without knowing the reason.


=== After the Doctor ===
Over the years, Charley and Robert developed an understanding. They picked up some of their fellow humanoids' language and made sure to keep fit to survive the culling. Ten years after arriving on the planet, Charley and Robert were reunited with Bertram, who had Charley send a message to Rab in the past to ensure that Bertram would arrive on Gelrasi in the first place. She learnt that he had joined the Proto-Viyrans and held hands with Robert as he shot the two of them to keep their knowledge from harming the Proto-Viyran cause.
For years, Charley travelled with the Viyrans, helping them find and destroy various Amethyst viruses. Eventually, she decided to escape their custody, and ended up traveling through a space-time anomaly known as the [[Ever-and-Ever Prolixity]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]'')


She eventually found herself in a Scottish forest infected with another of the viruses, and was found by Viyrans again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow at the Edge of the World (audio story)|The Shadow at the Edge of the World]]'') She again decided to leave through the Prolixity, and was briefly reunited with her parents in [[1936]]. However, she was found and taken prisoner by the Viyrans, while her parents' memory of her ever existing was erased. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'')
Charley found herself alone, having apparently been transported away by the Prolixity before dying, and called out to see if anybody else was with her. She received no answer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destructive Quality of Life (audio story)|The Destructive Quality of Life]]'')


=== Remembering Charley ===
== Alternate timelines ==
The Eighth Doctor saluted Charley, along with his other companions, just prior to [[regenerating]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor]]'')
In a [[Parallel universe (He Jests at Scars...)|parallel universe]], [[The Valeyard's TARDIS (He Jests at Scars...)|the Valeyard]] named Charley as someone he would have travelled with if he hadn't changed history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Jests at Scars... (audio story)|He Jests at Scars...]]'')


The [[Tenth Doctor]], put on trial by the [[Shadow Proclamation]], cited the saving of Charley Pollard as an example of his saving the life of someone who had been declared a "fixed point in time" and destined to die. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fugitive]]'')
== Legacy ==
The [[Eighth Doctor]] saluted Charley, along with his other companions, just prior to [[regenerating]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
 
The [[Tenth Doctor]], put on trial by the [[Shadow Proclamation]], cited the saving of Charley Pollard as an example of his saving the life of someone who had been declared a "[[fixed point in time]]" and destined to die. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fugitive (comic story)|Fugitive]]'')
 
Whilst travelling through the Time Vortex, [[Cindy Wu]] saw Charley alongside other companions of the Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Companion (comic story)|The Good Companion]]'')
 
The [[Twelfth Doctor]] saw Charley, among other companions, when [[Bernice Summerfield]] was hit by temporal energy in the [[Pyramid Eternia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Big Bang Generation (novel)|Big Bang Generation]]'')


== Appearance ==
== Appearance ==
Charley had blonde hair. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'', ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]'')
[[File:Charley (The Chimes of Midnight).jpg|thumb|right|Charley. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'')]]
Charley had blonde hair ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'', ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]'') and was considered attractive. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'', ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'') She was about half the height of an [[Early CyberFaction|Early Faction]] [[Cyberman]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'')
 
[[C'rizz]] said that he would not describe her as plump. [[Rufus Dimplesqueeze]] described her as being "tiny and feminine" ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'') and [[Robert Buchan]] told her that she was beautiful. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]'')
 
Charley stole [[Simon Murchford]]'s [[uniform]] to take his place on the [[R101]], disguising herself as a man. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') She continued to wear these clothes during her early adventures with the Eighth Doctor as they were warm ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mummy Speaks! (audio story)|The Mummy Speaks!]]'') and wore a brooch given to her by [[Louisa Pollard|her mother]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'')
 
After years of working for the [[Viyran]]s, Charley, unaware of how old she was, found that she had [[crow's feet]] and had developed a frown line on her forehead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[These Stolen Hours (audio story)|These Stolen Hours]]'')


== Personality ==
== Personality ==
Charley believed that all war was a crime. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last (audio story)|The Last]]'')
Charley was a dreamer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') Despite her upper-class upbringing, she was very sympathetic to the underdog ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'') and longed for excitement, rebelling against her background and running away in order to find adventure. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') She was resourceful, brave and was pleased to find that women could be in charge in the future, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'') being a supporter of female emancipation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'') She was not a fan of [[socialism]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)|Brotherhood of the Daleks]]'') nor did she know very much about [[art]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hall of the Ten Thousand (audio story)|Hall of the Ten Thousand]]'')


She rebelled against her upper class upbringing. Styling herself an [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] adventuress, she ran away to find excitement. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'', ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')
Charley believed that people lived only one life and intended to make hers count. She believed that she lived a full life during which she had become desensitised to death, remembering faces but not names. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') She loved [[lightning]] because of how scary and powerful it was. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') She never got involved in [[fox]] hunting because she could not stand the killing of innocent creatures, but she did love the [[jacket]]s and [[horse]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') She was somewhat sensitive about her weight ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'') and hated being ignored. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') She loved [[condensed milk]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'') and [[smoked salmon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'') She told [[Robert Buchan|Robert]] that she never drank [[alcohol]] and never would, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]'') although she had drunk a [[gin sling]] with [[Alex Grayle]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'') She did not like [[moth]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eclipse (audio story)|Eclipse]]'')


== Alternative timeline ==
When she was hurting, Charley would pretend to be cheerful. She hated seeing the Doctor vulnerable and would tell him that she loved him and that he should not feel bad, which could irritate him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'') She originally believed that the Doctor needed her, but later realised that it was her who needed him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') She said that the Doctor did not need her, but rather needed all of his [[companion]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]'') She considered the Doctor and [[C'rizz]] to be her family. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Something Inside (audio story)|Something Inside]]'')
[[File:Save0077.JPG|thumb|right|Charley and the Doctor in an alternate timeline created by {{delgado}}. [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')]]
 
In an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] created by {{delgado}}, she met the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] in the former's TARDIS. As the Eighth Doctor had never told her of [[regeneration]], she was at first sceptical of the Fourth Doctor's claim to be the Doctor but was soon convinced. As he had detected temporal disturbances in the [[Time Vortex]], the Fourth Doctor realised that Charley must be one of his companions from the future. When she asked how he knew this, he told her that if she was one of his previous companions, he would be able to recognise to her. He soon came to believe that Charley was very clever. She lost all memory of this encounter when the proper timeline was restored. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
[[Louisa Pollard|Louisa]] described Charley as "wilful, disobedient" and that she had "little regard for authority", characteristics that she believed she had inherited from her rather than [[Richard Pollard|Richard]]. As a result, she thought that Charley was more than capable of finding her way to and from [[Cardington]] without any danger. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')
 
Charley lost her lust for life whilst in [[Viyran]] custody, feeling little more than a glorified [[pet]]. After her escape, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]'') fear made her feel more alive than she had in years. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'') She was upset that she never got to have a child. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]'')
 
Unlike the rest of her family, Charley spoke with and showed kindness to the Pollards' cook [[Edith Thompson]], although she did not consider her a close friend. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'') She was disgusted by the thought of different species interbreeding, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'') hated [[insect]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)|The Creed of the Kromon]]'') and considered all [[war]] to be a crime. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last (audio story)|The Last]]'')
 
When Charley pretended to be a [[Time Lord]] by the name of Charleyostiantayshius, the Doctor believed that she made a more convincing Time Lord than he did. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]'') She also managed to pass herself off as a boy on the ''R101'' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') and fit in extraordinarily well in the upper classes of [[1572]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'') However, her skill at accents was variable, tending to wander. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Charley legacy.jpg|thumb|Charley as she appears in [[Doctor Who: Legacy]]]]
* The reference to Charley in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[COMIC]] ''[[Fugitive (comic story)|Fugitive]]'' marked the first time a character created for the [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama line had been referenced in a comic book; she was also one of the names mentioned by the dying Eighth Doctor prior to his regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
* The reference to Charley in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]'' series marked the first time a character created for the [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama line had been referenced in a comic book; she was also one of the names mentioned by the dying Eighth Doctor prior to his regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
[[File:Charley legacy.jpg|thumb|left|Charley as she appeared in ''[[Doctor Who: Legacy]]''.]]
* In December 2014, Charley was added as a playable character to the game ''[[Doctor Who: Legacy]]. ''She is the only character which originated from Big Finish to appear in the game, however the game also features the companions of [[Cinder]], [[Gabby Gonzalez|Gabby]] and [[Alice Obiefune]], who all derive from spin-off material.
* In December 2014 Charley was added as a playable character to ''[[Doctor Who: Legacy]]'' and was the only character who originated from Big Finish to appear in the game. Her appearance was illustrated by [[Paul Hanley]] based on India Fisher's likeness, with an outfit inspired by fan artwork made by Simon Hodges.
* Along with [[Thomas Brewster]], [[Evelyn Smythe]] and [[Liv Chenka]], Charley is one of only four companions created by Big Finish to be depicted travelling with or meeting two incarnations of the Doctor.
* Along with [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Tania Bell]], Charley is one of only three companions created by Big Finish to be depicted travelling with or meeting three or more incarnations of the Doctor, namely the [[Eighth Doctor]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]].
* According to the Big Finish podcast, Charley was originally going to be a travel agent from the 1950s.<ref>http://www.bigfinish.com/podcasts/v/doctor-who-jago-and-litefoot-and-charlotte-pollard-at-gallifrey-march-07</ref>
* In an early character concept Charley was to have been a travel agent from the 1950s.<ref>http://www.bigfinish.com/podcasts/v/doctor-who-jago-and-litefoot-and-charlotte-pollard-at-gallifrey-march-07</ref>
 
== External links ==
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Charlotte Pollard
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Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, also known as Charley to her friends, was a companion of the Eighth and Sixth Doctors.

After her death aboard the R101 was averted by the Eighth Doctor, Charley became a danger to the Web of Time and created a rift into the universe of anti-time. Her status as a temporal anomaly was later rectified and she and the Doctor travelled the Divergent Universe, where they met C'rizz, who later died in their universe. Charley and the Doctor were ultimately separated in a confrontation with the Cybermen, with Charley believing that the Doctor was dead and the Doctor incapable of remembering their last few hours together.

Charley was subsequently rescued by the Sixth Doctor, with whom she travelled for a time (keeping her past with his future self secret from him) before replacing his memories of her with Mila. She served the Viyrans for a time before escaping by travelling through the Ever-and-Ever Prolixity.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"]) known to her family as "Lottie" (AUDIO: The Next Life) and to her friends as "Charley", (AUDIO: Storm Warning) was born on 15 April, 1912 (AUDIO: Neverland) to Lord Richard (AUDIO: Memory Lane) and Lady Louisa Pollard. (AUDIO: Zagreus) She had an older sister, Peggy, and a younger sister, Sissy. (AUDIO: A Blind Eye)

Charley was raised as a Catholic (AUDIO: The Next Life) in a manor house, looked after by servants. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight, Zagreus) She sneaked some of the gypsies who camped on their property, and whom Lady Louisa was worried about, into the house to stay in the attic. (AUDIO: Memory Lane) She stole several apples from a nearby orchard as she knew that the sign warning of the owner's dog was a ruse. (AUDIO: Winter of the Demon)

As a child, Charley and her sisters were taken to an artist once a year by one of their grandmothers to have their portraits painted. (AUDIO: The Twilight Kingdom) Whilst still at school, Charley went on a day trip with her class to a portrait museum. She did not enjoy the experience nor appreciate the art, most of which were portraits of stern old men. (AUDIO: Hall of the Ten Thousand) She once went to Regent's Park Zoo and watched the dolphins. (AUDIO: Storm Warning) She also went to the Cowes Regatta. (AUDIO: Embrace the Darkness)

Charley did not like plum pudding as house cook Edith Thompson always made far too much of it at Christmas and the family would still be eating it on New Year's Day. She was also afraid that she would bite into one of the thrupenny bits which Edith put in the pudding and would lose a tooth. Edith, however, believed Charley loved the pudding and, because Charley showed her some kindness and remembered her name, came to consider the girl her best friend. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight) Charley's maternal grandmother, Ermentrude Saviltride, gave Charley a copy of Alice in Wonderland for Christmas in 1919. (AUDIO: Zagreus) She had died by 1936. (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard)

Charley went on holiday to Ostend, Belgium with her family, during which she read Treasure Island. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was, The Fall of the House of Pollard) With her family, Charley saw several performances at the Old Vic, including The Tempest. The Pollards always had a box from which they viewed the performances and Charley never went backstage. (AUDIO: Eclipse)

Her childhood hero was the Victorian explorer Pieter Mon Marchè, a man who did not actually exist and whom she would later inadvertently create. (AUDIO: The Man Who Wasn't There) She read Dracula (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell) and lots of Jane Austen. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear) On her sixteenth birthday, Charley was given a brooch by her mother which had been passed down her family. She planned to pass it down to her own daughter some day. (AUDIO: Scherzo)

Charley was educated at boarding school (AUDIO: The Lamentation Cipher) before attending a finishing school alongside both Peggy and Cissy. In one of Miss Lime's reports, she said that Charley had "a head full of turnips". (AUDIO: Zagreus) She always dreamt of flying (AUDIO: If I Should Die Before I Wake) and, at finishing school, showed a great interest in the R101. (AUDIO: Zagreus)

Meeting the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 1930, Charley met Alex Grayle, who sparked her sense of adventure and whom she decided to meet at the Singapore Hilton on New Year's Eve. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear) To this end, she ran away from her finishing school (AUDIO: Zagreus) in October 1930 and got Simon Murchford drunk at The Hare and Hounds at Ickwell Green, stealing his papers and kit and putting on an accent to take his place on the airship. (AUDIO: Storm Warning, The Next Life) The only person who knew of this plan was Edith. (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard)

On 5 October, Charley was aboard the R101 and was found out. Whilst fleeing, she met the Eighth Doctor and together they uncovered the secret mission that the airship was on. She was rescued from the fated crash of the R101 in Beauvais, France by the Doctor and invited herself aboard his TARDIS as his newest companion. They also brought a vortisaur that Charley named Ramsay. (AUDIO: Storm Warning) Unbeknownst to her for some time, she was supposed to have died in the crash. (AUDIO: Storm Warning, Neverland, etc.)

Charley and the Doctor found the TARDIS, (AUDIO: Storm Warning) where she was given a bedroom which she would often leave in an untidy state. (AUDIO: Absolution) Before the Doctor interfered, the timeline played so that Charley's death caused her family great sadness and made Edith commit suicide. However, the changes altered that fate and created the Edward Grove. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight)

Travels with the Eighth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Hoping to find out what was wrong with the sick Ramsay, Charley and the Doctor went to the Garazone Bazaar in 2503 and found themselves in space aboard the Vanguard after the TARDIS was mistakenly taken aboard. Charley was disgusted by the humans' plan to ally themselves with the Cybermen in order to wipe out the Orion androids and was saved by Deeva Jansen's sacrifice when a Cyberman crushed the life support pack in Charley's spacesuit. She and the Doctor used their jetpacks to return to the TARDIS, where they checked on Ramsay and discussed the nature of the androids. (AUDIO: Sword of Orion)

Charley fell asleep in the TARDIS whilst reading a book and awoke to find herself aboard an airship at the heart of the Time Vortex. She spoke to the other travellers and learnt how they came to be aboard, realising that each had been removed from their timelines for the protection of the Web of Time. Upon awakening back in the TARDIS, the Doctor told her that he had put them there. (PROSE: Repercussions...)

At Charley's request, the Doctor took her on a search to find her childhood hero, Pieter Mon Marchè. They were unable to find him and eventually learnt that he was a falsified product of time, being a mythical person based on Charley and the Doctor's search for him. (AUDIO: The Man Who Wasn't There)

Several weeks after first joining the Doctor, Charley and the Doctor's lives were saved by a man at the cost of his own and Charley convinced the Doctor to visit his family. She had, by this point, fallen in love with the Doctor, (AUDIO: Letting Go) although she did not yet know it. (PROSE: A Good Life)

Charley asked the Doctor to take her on holiday to get out of the "gothic nightmare of a ship" and was taken to 2294 Venice, where she was taken by Pietro and forced to pose as Duke Orsino's wife, Estella, with the aim of marrying him. After Duke Orsino and the real Estella killed themselves, Charley, having learnt that it did not do to live life through objects, suggested that she and the Doctor clear out the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Stones of Venice)

After the Doctor set the coordinates to take Charley to meet Grace Holloway, he suggested that they release Ramsay, something that Charley did not wish to do but was forced to after the Vortisaur attacked her. Temporal feedback damaged the TARDIS console and caused the travellers to lose their memories, after which they landed in Malebolgia and the amnesiac Charley was made to serve at the Hellfire Club, from which she was later rescued by Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Brigham Elisha Dashwood III shot her with his Trans-D so that a demon could inhabit her body, but the psionovores rejected her as she was "already dead", a statement that she did not understand. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)

Charley and the Doctor left Malebolgia and arrived on a colony ship which they initially believed to be 16th century Kent. Charley was annoyed with the Doctor for looking to find a mystery there and, upon learning that they were on a ship, asked that they stay there to relax. Whilst on the ship, she realised how she felt about the Doctor. (PROSE: A Good Life)

Charley and the Doctor helped native tribes in Africa, after which they landed in Melbourne. Having seen what The Darvias Saga could do, Charley joined the Movement for Real Literature and almost shot and killed Nathaniel Clamp before deciding to save him by shooting Bruce Gillespie in the shoulder instead. (PROSE: Best Seller)

On a spaceship approaching Venus, Charley was appalled to meet about twenty people dying from a genetic plague who intended to crash their ship into the planet and end their lives. However, the Doctor quietly led her back into the TARDIS after she began trying to change their minds. (PROSE: Venus)

Charley went to a disco on 24 December, 1987. (PROSE: Be Good for Goodness's Sake)

The Doctor and Charley went to 2064 Prague for Christmas and were imprisoned and interrogated by Colonel Rijzki due to their lack of papers. Charley initially believed that Colonel Rijzki was a power-hungry monster but admitted that he had a point in not lowering the shield around the city on the word of a stranger. She and the Doctor took him and Ilona Hingis into the TARDIS and showed them that the world outside of the shield was safe. (PROSE: War in a Time of Peace)

Charley was imprisoned in Nigeria and released when Calabria sent the Nigerian authorities money. (PROSE: You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password)

Landing on Earth on Christmas Day after receiving a distress call, Charley and the Doctor encountered Angels who believed that Zoe Elliot was their daughter. The Doctor told them that the stars had moved since they lost their daughter and the two travellers went with them to where their real daughter was. (PROSE: They Fell)

Charley and the Doctor broke into the Brigadier's house and held a Christmas party there for him, cooking a Christmas meal and inviting Emily Chaudhry and former members of UNIT. (PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part Three)

Charley and the Doctor thwarted Dennis Krellig's plans to conquer the world, resulting in him having to move back in with his parents and get a job at a biscuit factory. (PROSE: Second Chances)

Together the Doctor and Charley encountered a mummy revived by alien technology in Paris in 1841, with Charley being irritated that the Doctor took numerous sidetrips accompanied by a gorilla whilst moving the TARDIS to rescue her from the French authorities. They discovered the mummy was working to enable an alien invasion which the Doctor foiled. (AUDIO: The Mummy Speaks!)

After leaving Paris, Charley and the Doctor, wanting to relax with a walk in the woods, landed on the forest planet of Pteron, where they exposed the moth-like Hellstrung attacking a colony of humans. However, they found out that the Hellstrung were only attacking as they were being exploited by the human leadership, who were pillaging the sap and wood of the planet. (AUDIO: Eclipse)

Charley and the Doctor, after responding to an SOS signal from a planet besieged by a writhing alien mass, became caught in a temporal paradox caused by Ilkeians constructing routes in the Time Vortex to view the slaying of the creature. However, Charley herself ended up killing the creture, unwittingly becoming part of Ilkein history. (AUDIO: The Slaying of the Writhing Mass)

The two travellers responded to a message from Deeva Jansen and returned to the Garazone System where they found that she had survived their previous encounter. They helped her escape from new programming which forced her to commit genocide and to replace humans with identical android copies; Charley herself thought for a time that she was an android before learning that her duplicate had never been activated. (AUDIO: Heart of Orion)

With Audacity[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor left her in Tibet instead of Singapore, whilst he went travelling further. He returned several weeks later with Audacity Montague. (AUDIO: The Great Cyber-War [+]Loading...["The Great Cyber-War (audio story)"])

The Doctor took his friends to 107 Baker Street to celebrate Christmas and showed them the sites. She decided to make a Christmas Pudding. They went to Al Norton's flat to discover what was wrong with him. (AUDIO: Twenty-Four Doors in December [+]Loading...["Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)"])

Audacity and Charley waited in the car for the Doctor after tracing a strange creature. After being introduced to Eldridge Brinkwood, they told him about how they first met the creature in the frozen swimming pool, as it looked like Charley. She found it amusing that the Doctor couldn't fix the car he crashed. Eldridge took them to a former friend of his to recover from the crash. She tried to comfort Eldridge after learning that he was near death according to the Doctor's theory about the creature. She couldn't stop him letting the creature get into the house. (AUDIO: The Empty Man [+]Loading...["The Empty Man (audio story)"])

She was frightened by the canon of the Edinburgh. Charley and Audacity went to one of Donald Shaw's balls to help in the Doctor's investigations. After dancing with Archie McClellan, she went with him to see the sights and flirted with him. Inside the powerstation she was confused about an empty locked room with seven bolts, she connected it with the seven deaths. She told the Doctor about this, and helped him work out a solution. She went with Archie to get a cannon to help stop Shaw using Scottish superstition using Iron to keep out a fire. She kissed Archie after the defeat. They went with Archie to celebrate another Christmas. (AUDIO: Winter of the Demon [+]Loading...["Winter of the Demon (audio story)"])

Time's unravelling[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor tried to get Charley to the Singapore Hilton per her request, but they instead landed in 1938 New York City where they came across the corpse of Jack Halliday. After being kidnapped several times, she was reunited with the Doctor and played a role in the rebroadcast of The War of the Worlds, later watching Streath and Noriam's ship depart on the TARDIS scanner. The Doctor found that Orson Welles did not know who William Shakespeare was, (AUDIO: Invaders from Mars) something that Charley later learnt was, in part, due to her survival. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks)

Charley dressed as a Time Lord. (AUDIO: Living Legend)

The TARDIS, apparently avoiding Singapore, took Charley and the Doctor to Edward Grove where she learnt that she was supposed to have died in the R101, her paradoxical survival resulting in Edith Thompson's uncertain fate. She was told to kill herself, but she instead chose to live and helped convince Edith to do the same, putting an end to the time loop within the house. Charley, however, continued to remember dying in the flames of the R101. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight)

Charley and the Doctor landed in 1982 Ferrara after detecting an interspatial disturbance which they found was caused by Vengorr and Thon. Posing as a Time Lord and calling herself Charleyostiantayshius, Charley sowed discord between the two Threllips and sent them through their portal to Mordalius Prime. (AUDIO: Living Legend)

In an alternative timeline created by the Master, Charley met the Fourth Doctor and Leela and learnt about regeneration. When the timeline was wiped, the Doctor suddenly felt the need to visit Bob Dovie at 59A Barnsfield Crescent on 23 November 1963, where he and Charley were surprised to learn that the irate Bob had already been visited by all of the Doctor's past incarnations. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)

Charley and the Doctor in an alternate timeline created by the Master. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)

After six attempts, the TARDIS arrived at the Singapore Hilton and Charley was finally reunited with Alex Grayle. She and the Doctor travelled to 305, 1055 and 1806, each time meeting Sebastian Grayle and stopping him from unleashing the Nimons upon the world, after which the two travellers returned to Singapore to celebrate New Year's Eve. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear)

Like many of his previous companions, Charley went with the Doctor to distract Ann whilst he attempted to kill her baby. (PROSE: Categorical Imperative)

Charley and the Doctor went to Armstrong's Colony after detecting technology which should not have been there. Charley was taken captive by Baron Denton de Kay Leigh and saved by the Seventh Doctor. (PROSE: The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac)

After falling into an alien gallery based on Prague, Charley was saved from hypothermia by Yan Periko and awoke with amnesia. Yan gave her the name "Libuse", which she used for several months before the Doctor projected himself into the gallery and convinced Charley that she would die if she were not released. Her status as a temporal anomaly resulted in disruptions to the gallery. (PROSE: Lady of the Snows)

The Doctor took Charley to the Cimmerian System where ROSM identified her as a threat (AUDIO: Embrace the Darkness) due to the anti-time around her (AUDIO: Neverland) and attempted to kill her, leading her to flee to an escape pod which took her down to Cimmeria IV. She began to lose her sight due to the Cimmerians, but she was reunited with the Doctor and recovered, helping the Throxilians and learning of the connection between the Cimmerians and the Solarians. (AUDIO: Embrace the Darkness)

When the TARDIS was taken to the Celestial Toyroom, the Toymaker forced a once-again amnesiac Charley to play his games whilst the Doctor was turned into a puppet. She eventually realised that the Toymaker was actually the one playing the Toyroom's game and was able to defeat him and escape in the TARDIS with the Doctor. (AUDIO: Solitaire)

Charley in the Celestial Toyroom. (AUDIO: Solitaire)

A message from the Eleventh Doctor led Charley and the Doctor to 1935 London. They were accused of murder and fled to Scotland with Hilary Hammond, whom they later identified as the murderer as well as a German spy. (AUDIO: Enemy Aliens)

Charley visited an art gallery with the Doctor to see the Ten Thousand. (AUDIO: Hall of the Ten Thousand)

At an art exhibition, Charley encountered Dwayne Pherber, who attempted to feed on her. She was saved by the Doctor and Highgate before she and the Doctor were taken by Vakrass. She helped the Doctor's fifth, sixth and eighth incarnations, as well as Vislor Turlough and Constance Clarke, defeat Gostak. (AUDIO: The End of the Beginning)

Due to interference in the timeline, Charley, (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks) like Orson Welles, (AUDIO: Invaders from Mars) had no knowledge of William Shakespeare, an impossibility which resulted in the Doctor discovering a Dalek plot. She was held hostage by the Daleks and fell through their portal to 1572 with Viola Learman and the Master Clock, which became damaged when she was attacked by a Dalek, and was to be exterminated after the clock was repaired. The Daleks were defeated and Charley saved, although the Doctor realised that she was a source of chronon energy and that time was unravelling around her. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks)

Charley and the Doctor tried to get Shakespeare home but instead landed in Asia Minor after the fall of Troy. They met Vicki Pallister and Troilus and, to keep Shakespeare from remembering his time with them, the Doctor had Charley ensure that he got drunk on wine. (PROSE: Apocrypha Bipedium)

After dropping Shakespeare off in Warwickshire, Charley and the Doctor were interrogated by Mike Yates after being found on an RAF base in the 1970s. (AUDIO: Foreshadowing)

Antiverse and anti-time[[edit] | [edit source]]

The TARDIS was chased by seven Battle TARDISes and, realising that they were after her, Charley used the fast return switch to ensure their capture and learnt that she had become a living portal for anti-time. In the hopes of an alternative resolution to her death, she allowed herself to be used by the Time Lords to travel into the Antiverse but ultimately resigned herself to death, not regretting a moment of time that she had spent with the Doctor. She was saved when the breach caused by her became part of established history and she returned to the TARDIS, finding the Doctor infected with anti-time and calling himself Zagreus. (AUDIO: Neverland)

After hiding from the violent Doctor, the TARDIS, in the form of the Brigadier, showed Charley projections of the history of the Divergence's attempts to break into N-Space to make up its mind as to whether or not it would help Rassilon; it did, throwing Charley from its doors. She obeyed the Doctor's command to kill him with the anti-time sword after realising that he did not love her back, but he survived and, after casting Rassilon into the Divergent Universe, he shouted at Charley to leave him as he followed in order to save the universe from anti-time.

Charley stormed out of the TARDIS but was told by Romana that the Doctor had driven her out for her own good, having asked that she find Charley a place in the timeline. Learning of a backdoor from Leela, Charley sneaked into the TARDIS to make sure that the Doctor did not make the journey alone. (AUDIO: Zagreus)

The Divergent Universe[[edit] | [edit source]]

After hiding in the TARDIS, Charley revealed herself to the Doctor, who was unhappy that she had betrayed him by coming with him into the Divergent Universe. Exiting the TARDIS, they found themselves within a strictly-designed experiment to study evolution and inadvertently helped the sound creature evolve before refusing to allow themselves to die for it. They merged into a single life-form for a time, (AUDIO: Scherzo) creating Daqar Keep, (AUDIO: The Next Life) and the sound creature faded away whilst they were able to break free. (AUDIO: Scherzo)

Charley in the Eutermesan Zone. (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon)

Charley and the Doctor entered the Interzone and were allowed by the Kro'ka into the Eutermesan Zone, where they saved C'rizz and joined him in his mission to save L'da in the Alpha Sphere. Charley was captured by the Kromon and taken to become a Kromon Queen to replace L'da after C'rizz euthanised her, causing her to begin transforming into an insect and losing her sense of self. She was saved by the Doctor and C'rizz and restored to normal with the help of the Oroog, after which she, the Doctor and C'rizz left via the Interzone. (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon)

The travellers arrived in Light City during Jubilee Day and were separated when the riots started, Charley almost getting crushed. She, the Doctor and C'rizz gave the Censor copies of their memories to be used for the evolution of Light City's society. (AUDIO: The Natural History of Fear)

The Kro'ka next sent Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz into the Setarus zone which they explored for two days, searching for the TARDIS, before becoming affected by a creature. Charley became confused by how angry she was with the Doctor, going so far as to betray him out of a lack of trust, and was concerned about how violent C'rizz seemed to become. She later learnt from the Doctor that the creature had been deceiving and manipulating their emotions. (AUDIO: The Twilight Kingdom)

Charley found the treatment of religion at the Multihaven to be superficial and began feeling depressed due to Miraculite. C'rizz was affected by the 23rd Church of Lucidity and tried to kill Charley before she was saved by the Doctor; she was understanding of how much he had gone through since L'da's transformation and did not hold him responsible for his actions. When she and the Doctor found what seemed to be the TARDIS, Charley was hopeful that it was the real thing but was proven wrong. (AUDIO: Faith Stealer)

In a nuclear winter on the surface of Bortresoye, Charley and C'rizz were saved from a collapsed building by Landscar and taken to Excelsior's bunker for treatment, but Charley was found to be paralysed from the waist down and was later smothered by Excelsior after realising that she was not as delusional as she pretended to be. The Doctor's suicide resulted in the cycle restarting, restoring Charley. (AUDIO: The Last)

Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz. (AUDIO: Caerdroia [+]Loading...{"precisecite":"[[DWM illustrated previews|illustrated preview]] from [[DWM 350]]","1":"Caerdroia (audio story)"})

When the Doctor was split into three different people, Charley named the innocent one "Tigger" and the grumpy one, whom she teamed up with, "Eeyore". She initially disliked the Eeyore Doctor, but came to realise that his irritability came from a concern for her safety. The three Doctors located the TARDIS in the centre of a labyrinth, after which they merged back into one and Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz set off to explore the Divergent Universe. (AUDIO: Caerdroia)

The trio travelled for some time before they came near Rassilon's Foundry and entered dreamscapes. Charley was visited by Rassilon, who attempted to shake her trust in the Doctor both in her dreams and by showing her the Doctor travelling with Perfection, making her feel easily replaceable. She also came to terms with how hardened she had become to death and the effect that her actions had had on Simon Murchford.

Charley stopped being friends with C'rizz because of his untrustworthiness, and, when the Doctor demanded that they make up before he would pilot them out of the Divergent Universe, she admitted that she was jealous of anybody who got close to the Time Lord. The three then departed, with Rassilon and the Kro'ka stuck in the evolutionary experiment and Daqar Keep and Zagreus left awaiting the end of the universe. (AUDIO: The Next Life)

Back home again[[edit] | [edit source]]

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The TARDIS materialised in a Dalek base (AUDIO: The Next Life) and Charley and C'rizz were quickly imprisoned on Davros's orders. Gemma Griffin helped them both escape and Charley soon met Samson Griffin, learning that he and Gemma had travelled with the Doctor before she had met him. She assured the Doctor that he was not to blame for the Griffins nor the Daleks' invasion of Earth and, after the Daleks' departure, they had fun in Blackpool whilst C'rizz remained in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Terror Firma)

Charley, the Doctor and C'rizz thwarted Darrakhaan's theft of the space-time navigator from the Sanmarus Institute (PROSE: Before Midnight) by taking over the bodies of Edward Callaghan, David Lampton and Gavin Jones. (PROSE: After Midnight)

When C'rizz expressed a desire to see a newly-formed planet free from pollution and war, Charley said that he was describing the Garden of Eden, leading the Doctor to take them to Endarra. There, Charley met Eunis Flood and was torn about his use as a lab rat upon learning that he was a serial killer. (AUDIO: Scaredy Cat)

Charley dressed as Madeline de Roche. (AUDIO: Other Lives)

The Doctor took Charley to see the Great Exhibition in 1851 whilst C'rizz remained in the TARDIS. She was separated from the Doctor and met the Duke of Wellington, who begged her to pose as Madeline de Roche after she and her husband accidentally left in the TARDIS. She rescued C'rizz, who then posed as Christian de Roche, from Jacob Crackles' freakshow and they were eventually reunited with the Doctor, swapping places with the real de Roches. (AUDIO: Other Lives)

On Industry, Charley and C'rizz were separated from the Doctor and searched for him, finding him frozen in time like the rest of the planet in the middle of his execution and having to pretend to be frozen themselves when they encountered the Clockwork Men. Charley was able to save the Doctor's life and both she and C'rizz were to be assessed to work in the Clock Tower, but they and the Doctor were able to defeat the Figurehead and the Clockwork Men, staying behind afterwards to enjoy the celebrations. (AUDIO: Time Works)

Instead of arriving at the Festival of Ghana, the three travellers landed in the Cube where they fled from the brain-worm, which Eric Rawden became convinced was inside Charley's head and insisted that they kill her. She was sad when they were forced to leave Gorden Latch inside the Cube whilst they departed in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Something Inside)

On Lucentra in the 23rd century, Charley saw an illusion of her mother and started to become trapped there by nano-forms which mentally reduced her in age, making her forget who C'rizz was. She realised what was happening and vomited out the nano-forms, but she later volunteered to allow her memories to shape the prison they were in, turning the place into a composite of her childhood. She regained her memories once more and told the illusion of her mother that she hoped it would not be long before she saw her again. (AUDIO: Memory Lane)

Charley ran from a crazed C'rizz in 2007 London and approached Luke Tillyard. Luke stepped in to protect her, rendering him unconscious using his headphones and allowing her and the Doctor to take him back to the TARDIS. (PROSE: Salva Mea)

After the Doctor was kidnapped by the Kubthukians to gain access to his memories for their case against Ari Leventhal, Charley gave them a message from the Creatron Artists and Artisans Associates, telling them that the CAAA wanted to option their story for a film. The Doctor told her that the Kubthukians valued profit above truth. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death)

Charley with Bliss, Helen and Liv. (AUDIO: Ravenous 3)

Charley was captured by the Nine to join his collection of the Doctor's companions, being moved between Corridor 6 and Corridor 8 for reasons she was not then aware of. She joined Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair and Bliss in escaping the prison, finding River Song and defeating the Nine, after which River returned her to her adventures with the Doctor and C'rizz. (AUDIO: Companion Piece)

A change of Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charley opened C'rizz's Absolver, after which the TARDIS landed on Utebbadon-Tarria and fell apart long enough for C'rizz to disappear and to attract Hellions, forcing Charley and the Doctor to avoid the console room for a time. As they left the TARDIS and learnt about C'rizz's actions and the Borarus, she began to blame herself, but the Doctor told her not to. She refused to listen to the Doctor's claims about C'rizz's nature and origins and cried as the Eutermesan died, his last words being to call her his sister. (AUDIO: Absolution)

Furious at the Doctor's apparent lack of concern in the wake of C'rizz's death and believing that he was happy that things were back as they were before the Divergent Universe, Charley demanded that he take her back to 1930. (AUDIO: Absolution) He claimed that he had taken them to the wreck of the R101 but Charley, insistent that she leave regardless, found that he had actually taken her to Singapore.

Charley during her last adventure with the Eighth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was)

Due to a temporal hump, the pair had arrived in 2008, where Charley made Byron's acquaintance and met a younger version of him when the Hostile Action Displacement System took her back to 1942. On the SS Batavia, she encountered the Cybermen again and infected the Cyber-Planner with temporal corrosion, leading it to transfer its consciousness into her body. She was later freed and watched Byron apparently kill the Doctor, after which she defeated the Cybermen as well as Byron using the temporal corrosion, a condition which meant activated the HADS and left her stranded in 500002.

Charley built a crystal radio set from debris and sent out an SOS every hour, eventually resulting in the TARDIS arriving. She ran into the ship and found that it was not her Doctor (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was) but the Doctor in his sixth incarnation. (AUDIO: The Condemned) Whilst she knew that it was a risk to travel with him, she wanted further adventures and kept her past secret. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours)

Travels with the Sixth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Keeping her secret[[edit] | [edit source]]

Landing in Manchester in 2008, Charley was kidnapped by Maxine and, after hearing the TARDIS dematerialise, realised that the Doctor was not yet the man that she knew and that she would have to look after herself from then on. She answered Sam's phone calls and attempted to find him, escaping from Maxine and uncovering what happened with Sam and Antonia Bailey. After DI Menzies arrested Antonia, Charley told the Doctor that she had amnesia to avoid further difficult questions about her past and knowledge. (AUDIO: The Condemned)

Charley in 1738. (AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse)

Charley and the Doctor went to the Archive of Alexandria IV to return a copy of Rookwood that Charley spent four hours reading in the bath. After the copy was destroyed by the Grel, they went to find another and landed in 1738 where, due to the Grel's machine, Charley started to believe that she belonged there; she was going to marry John before meeting Dick Turpin and becoming his accomplice, "Gypsy Charlotte". She rode with Turpin to York where the Doctor caught up with her and brought her to her senses, after which they defeated the Grel. (AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse)

On a planetoid in the Antares System, Charley was recognised by the Daleks from Folkestone, forcing her to admit the truth of her identity to a replicant of the Doctor whom she believed to be real. The Daleks planned to replace her with a replicant to change the Doctor's timeline a plan which was foiled. Afterwards, Murgat told her that she could not keep lying to the Doctor forever and she promised to tell him at the right time. (AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks)

Charley fled from werewolves with the Doctor on a planet in the 31st century and was captured and interrogated by Dr Paignton, who believed that she too was a werewolf. She was saved from the Red House by the Valeyard and tasked by him with stopping the Doctor from aiding Ugo, the Valeyard threatening to tell the Doctor of her history with him. (AUDIO: The Red House)

Charley and the Doctor encountered DI Menzies once more, some weeks after they first met, and encountered John and Henry Fielding. Upon learning of the involvement of the Sirens of Time in the appearance of time breaks, (AUDIO: The Avenues of Possibility) Charley and the Doctor went to investigate (WC: Prequel to The Legacy of Time) and the Doctor teamed up with his other selves to defeat them. (AUDIO: Collision Course)

Charley told the Doctor of her love for airships, prompting him to promise a visit to Jupiter before answering a distress call from a space station. There, Charley recognised that there were feelings between Professor Artemis Vane and Dr Martin Chesleworth and sympathised with the former's story whilst the Doctor claimed that no relationship was genuine if founded on a lie. This made Charley realise that she would have to tell the Doctor the truth one day and that, when she did, she would have to leave him. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours)

On Onyakis sometime after 6087, Charley helped to defeat the Krotons by overloading their machines. As this left her unconscious, the Doctor carried her into the TARDIS where she mumbled about C'rizz and how the Doctor had not cared about his death. The Doctor took her to Al's Café to rest after their experiences. (AUDIO: Return of the Krotons)

Charley and the Sixth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man)

Charley and the Doctor headed to Manchester to meet DI Menzies again after the Doctor saw anachronistic money in a newspaper. As Kelsa could detect the paradox, she told DI Menzies about how she had travelled with the Doctor in his future and begged her not to tell him. Charley was later accused of murdering Kelsa and, after travelling to Rio de Janeiro with Carmen on Brooks' casino boat, helped defeat the Tabbalac. However, Charley’s reckless actions and decision, coupled with some information from the Tabbalac, lead the Doctor to become distrustful and impatient with Charley. (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man)

Departure[[edit] | [edit source]]

Eventually, the Doctor demanded to know Charley's secret, but before she could answer him, Mila infected her with a virus that had slipped through the TARDIS's defences. This caused Charley to go out of phase with reality, allowing Mila to pose as her and take her place as the Doctor's companion, (AUDIO: Patient Zero) having a number of adventures including one to Imperial Heaven. (AUDIO: Paper Cuts)

With the Viyrans[[edit] | [edit source]]

As Viyran ambassador[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charley was found and cured by the Viyrans and helped them in their quest to expunge all the viruses that escaped from the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet) Although Charley had been told that she was not a prisoner, when she tried to leave she was told that she could not do so as it would make her a threat to Viyran security. (AUDIO: The Viyran Solution)

Charley and the Doctor with Ed Driscoll on their last adventure. (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet)

When they crossed paths with the Doctor and Mila in an alternative timeline, Mila sacrificed herself to save the Doctor and the Earth, after which Charley revealed who she really was and used the Viyrans' memory-altering technology to replace herself with Mila in the Doctor's memories. She then left with the Viyrans. (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet)

Charley helped the Viyrans for years, being kept in stasis until she was need to act as an ambassador to humanoid species. Due to this lifestyle, she lost track of her age and how long she had been with them, although she did detect crow's feet and began to have some difficulty sitting down. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours) She drew a smiley face on a thermos and named it Walter, keeping him in her pod as a lucky mascot. (AUDIO: The Viyran Solution)

The Viyrans once awoke Charley to learn from her about her adventure with the memory crabs. She recounted her story, including how the Doctor's reaction to Artemis Vane's deceit affected her plans with him. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours)

Escape from the Viyrans[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tired of working for the Viyrans, Charley made an attempt to escape from Brouhaha-Nine-Nine-Five to Earth with Robert Buchan, assisted by a rogue Viyran. She was caught on her first attempt but tried a second time, told by the rogue to trust the Prolixity and to beware the Lamentation Cipher, and successfully escaped in a pod which the rogue prepared for her. She was pulled into the Prolixity with the Viyrans promising that they would find her and return her home to the Fieldship Prime. (AUDIO: The Lamentation Cipher)

Charley during her time with the Viyrans. (AUDIO: Charlotte Pollard: Series One)

Charley found herself in 1936 Scotland and met Mrs Turnerman, Dr Susan Broadstairs and Charity Savage, with whom she escaped from the Slaverings. She realised that the Slaverings were the infected male members of the expedition, which was confirmed by an early Viyran whom she met, and afterwards left through a Prolixity portal. (AUDIO: The Shadow at the Edge of the World)

From inside the Prolixity, Charley inadvertently made contact with Michael Dee and communicated with Richard and Louisa through him before he was able to properly manifest her, after which she explained to them that she had been travelling with a man who saved her from the R101. Their reunion was cut short when she was forced to return with a Viyran who threatened to kill her parents. Unbeknownst to her, they had erased all of her parents' memories of her. (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard)

Returned to the Fieldship Prime two years after she left, Charley learnt that she had been replaced as ambassador by Robert Buchan and that she was to be imprisoned in order to contain the Lamentation Cypher which they believed that she had been infected with. In reality, the rogue Viyran had infected her with a virus which restored all of the Viyrans to their factory settings, after which she headed towards the Prolixity with Robert moments before it closed. (AUDIO: The Viyran Solution)

As they approached the Prolixity, the pod began to take damage and Charley and Robert believed that they might die. Robert asked Charley for a hug and she asked him instead for a kiss, resulting in the two of them having sex. However, they survived their journey into the Prolixity and were transported through time and space. (AUDIO: Embankment Station)

In the 21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charley and an Identical Man. (AUDIO: Charlotte Pollard: Series Two)

Charley and Robert's pod, which promptly vanished, crashed near Embankment tube station in 21st century London, where they were quickly tranquillised and arrested on Woking's orders. They were taken to Department 001 for interrogation and were eventually joined by the Rogue Viyran, who explained that he had dispersed the pod in order to cushion their arrival and ensure that they survived the trip, and who said that the Identical Men who arrived to neutralise the three of them could not be overcome. Charley suggested that they run. (AUDIO: Embankment Station)

After escaping from the Identical Men thanks to what Charley termed the Rogue Viyran's ruffling power, the trio escaped to a bank where Charley decided to name the increasingly human Viyran "Bertram". They were taken into police custody at Westminster Police Station before being transported to Woking and locked up with Naomi Davies, escaping only when Bertram tripped the building's power and caused the electronic door to open. Before Charley, Robert, Bertram, Naomi and Rab could escape, they were stopped by Woking, armed with a gun. (AUDIO: Ruffling)

When the bleeding Woking collapsed, Charley tended to him by using Naomi's scarf as a tourniquet and the group fled, chased by the zombified Captain Warwick and his men before they were hit by a train. She, Robert and Bertram were unaffected by the Identical Men's pulse, which she later realised had made people stop caring, and the trio were captured by Woking's men when a helicopter was sent to pick him up. After days locked up, Charley agreed to help Woking and went with him, Robert, Bertram and some soldiers to Embankment, later fleeing from the Identical Men and being teleported away by Bertram's newfound powers. (AUDIO: Seed of Chaos)

Life as a slave[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charley and Robert. (AUDIO: Charlotte Pollard: Series Two)

Charley, Robert and Bertram found themselves wrapped up in the Gelrasians' web above Gelrasi and, whilst Bertram disappeared, Charley and Robert were taken away to a culling by the Proto-Viyrans of a humanoid work force. They were then sent down to the surface of Gelrasi and enslaved, being forced to harvest the orange coral that the Identical Men were built from without knowing the reason.

Over the years, Charley and Robert developed an understanding. They picked up some of their fellow humanoids' language and made sure to keep fit to survive the culling. Ten years after arriving on the planet, Charley and Robert were reunited with Bertram, who had Charley send a message to Rab in the past to ensure that Bertram would arrive on Gelrasi in the first place. She learnt that he had joined the Proto-Viyrans and held hands with Robert as he shot the two of them to keep their knowledge from harming the Proto-Viyran cause.

Charley found herself alone, having apparently been transported away by the Prolixity before dying, and called out to see if anybody else was with her. She received no answer. (AUDIO: The Destructive Quality of Life)

Alternate timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a parallel universe, the Valeyard named Charley as someone he would have travelled with if he hadn't changed history. (AUDIO: He Jests at Scars...)

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eighth Doctor saluted Charley, along with his other companions, just prior to regenerating. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)

The Tenth Doctor, put on trial by the Shadow Proclamation, cited the saving of Charley Pollard as an example of his saving the life of someone who had been declared a "fixed point in time" and destined to die. (COMIC: Fugitive)

Whilst travelling through the Time Vortex, Cindy Wu saw Charley alongside other companions of the Doctor. (COMIC: The Good Companion)

The Twelfth Doctor saw Charley, among other companions, when Bernice Summerfield was hit by temporal energy in the Pyramid Eternia. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation)

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charley. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight)

Charley had blonde hair (AUDIO: The Next Life, The Viyran Solution) and was considered attractive. (AUDIO: The Stones of Venice, Minuet in Hell) She was about half the height of an Early Faction Cyberman. (AUDIO: Sword of Orion)

C'rizz said that he would not describe her as plump. Rufus Dimplesqueeze described her as being "tiny and feminine" (AUDIO: Other Lives) and Robert Buchan told her that she was beautiful. (AUDIO: The Lamentation Cipher)

Charley stole Simon Murchford's uniform to take his place on the R101, disguising herself as a man. (AUDIO: Storm Warning) She continued to wear these clothes during her early adventures with the Eighth Doctor as they were warm (AUDIO: The Mummy Speaks!) and wore a brooch given to her by her mother. (AUDIO: Scherzo)

After years of working for the Viyrans, Charley, unaware of how old she was, found that she had crow's feet and had developed a frown line on her forehead. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charley was a dreamer. (AUDIO: Zagreus) Despite her upper-class upbringing, she was very sympathetic to the underdog (AUDIO: The Stones of Venice) and longed for excitement, rebelling against her background and running away in order to find adventure. (AUDIO: Storm Warning) She was resourceful, brave and was pleased to find that women could be in charge in the future, (AUDIO: Sword of Orion) being a supporter of female emancipation. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell) She was not a fan of socialism (AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks) nor did she know very much about art. (AUDIO: Hall of the Ten Thousand)

Charley believed that people lived only one life and intended to make hers count. She believed that she lived a full life during which she had become desensitised to death, remembering faces but not names. (AUDIO: The Next Life) She loved lightning because of how scary and powerful it was. (AUDIO: Storm Warning) She never got involved in fox hunting because she could not stand the killing of innocent creatures, but she did love the jackets and horses. (AUDIO: The Next Life) She was somewhat sensitive about her weight (AUDIO: Other Lives) and hated being ignored. (AUDIO: Neverland) She loved condensed milk (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight) and smoked salmon. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks) She told Robert that she never drank alcohol and never would, (AUDIO: The Lamentation Cipher) although she had drunk a gin sling with Alex Grayle. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear) She did not like moths. (AUDIO: Eclipse)

When she was hurting, Charley would pretend to be cheerful. She hated seeing the Doctor vulnerable and would tell him that she loved him and that he should not feel bad, which could irritate him. (AUDIO: Terror Firma) She originally believed that the Doctor needed her, but later realised that it was her who needed him. (AUDIO: The Next Life) She said that the Doctor did not need her, but rather needed all of his companions. (AUDIO: Companion Piece) She considered the Doctor and C'rizz to be her family. (AUDIO: Something Inside)

Louisa described Charley as "wilful, disobedient" and that she had "little regard for authority", characteristics that she believed she had inherited from her rather than Richard. As a result, she thought that Charley was more than capable of finding her way to and from Cardington without any danger. (AUDIO: Zagreus)

Charley lost her lust for life whilst in Viyran custody, feeling little more than a glorified pet. After her escape, (AUDIO: The Lamentation Cipher) fear made her feel more alive than she had in years. (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard) She was upset that she never got to have a child. (AUDIO: The Viyran Solution)

Unlike the rest of her family, Charley spoke with and showed kindness to the Pollards' cook Edith Thompson, although she did not consider her a close friend. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight) She was disgusted by the thought of different species interbreeding, (AUDIO: Sword of Orion) hated insects (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon) and considered all war to be a crime. (AUDIO: The Last)

When Charley pretended to be a Time Lord by the name of Charleyostiantayshius, the Doctor believed that she made a more convincing Time Lord than he did. (AUDIO: Living Legend) She also managed to pass herself off as a boy on the R101 (AUDIO: Storm Warning) and fit in extraordinarily well in the upper classes of 1572. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks) However, her skill at accents was variable, tending to wander. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charley as she appeared in Doctor Who: Legacy.
  • In December 2014 Charley was added as a playable character to Doctor Who: Legacy and was the only character who originated from Big Finish to appear in the game. Her appearance was illustrated by Paul Hanley based on India Fisher's likeness, with an outfit inspired by fan artwork made by Simon Hodges.
  • Along with Liv Chenka and Tania Bell, Charley is one of only three companions created by Big Finish to be depicted travelling with or meeting three or more incarnations of the Doctor, namely the Eighth Doctor, the Sixth Doctor and the Fourth Doctor.
  • In an early character concept Charley was to have been a travel agent from the 1950s.[1]

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ http://www.bigfinish.com/podcasts/v/doctor-who-jago-and-litefoot-and-charlotte-pollard-at-gallifrey-march-07
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