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[[Image:Katy2005.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Katy Manning relating her experiences with Jon Pertwee in "Doctor Who: A New Dimension" in 2005]]
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'''Katy Manning''' (born [[14th October]] [[1949]] in [[Guildford]], [[Surrey]], [[England]], [[UK]]) played [[companion]] [[Jo Grant]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' beginning with "[[Terror of the Autons]]" and ending with "[[The Green Death]]." She has also provided the voice for [[Iris Wildthyme]] in several of the [[Big Finish Productions]] audio dramas, and made many theatre appearances. She now lives in [[Australia]]. She is famously short-sighted.
|image        = Katy Manning2013.jpg
|birth date    = [[14 October (people)|14 October]] [[1946 (people)|1946]]
|role          = [[Jo Grant]], [[Iris Wildthyme]]
|job title    = [[Actor]], [[Writer]]
|story        = [[#Credits|See Credits Section]]
|time          = 1971-73, 2002-03, 2008-present
|non dwu      = ''Softly Softly: Task Force'', ''Serendipity'', ''Target'', ''Not a Well Woman'', ''[[Dorian Gray (fictional character)|The Confessions of Dorian Gray]]'', ''Casualty'', ''[[Dracula]]'', ''Baker's End''
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|official site = www.katymanning.com/
|twitter      = ManningOfficial
|clip          = RECORDING WILDTHYME RELOADED
}}{{you may|Katy Manning (Unnatural Selection)|n1=her DWU counterpart}}
'''Catherine "Katy" Ann Manning'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-04-25/ive-been-a-naughty-girl---doctor-who-companion-katy-manning-interviewed|title="I've been a naughty girl" - Doctor Who companion Katy Manning interviewed|author=Mulkern, Patrick|date of source=25 April 2012|website name=RadioTimes|accessdate=13 December 2016}}</ref> (born on [[14 October (people)|14 October]] [[1946 (people)|1946]]<ref>[http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=11012 Aveleyman]</ref><ref>[https://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?name=KatyManning Doctor Who Guide]</ref> in [[Guildford]], [[Surrey]], [[England]]) played [[companion]] [[Jo Grant]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' beginning with ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'' and ending with ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'', before reprising the role for [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s audio adventures and ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' television story ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''.


A famous story regarding Manning's short-sightedness is often related about "Terror of the Autons," her first ''Doctor Who'' story. Manning had not informed anyone of her limited vision and the script called for her and Jon Pertwee to run across a field. Manning ran straight into a tree and knocked herself unconscious. From then on, whenever a story called for the Doctor and Jo to run across quarries or down corridors, Jon Pertwee could be seen leading Manning by the hand.
She has also provided the voice and likeness for [[Iris Wildthyme]] in several of the Big Finish audio dramas. She also portrayed several other characters in Big Finish's Doctor Who-related audio adventures.


She played the part of Jo from [[1971]] to [[1973]] alongside [[Jon Pertwee]]'s [[Third Doctor|Doctor]]. Manning struck up an immediate rapport with her co-stars, Pertwee, [[Nicholas Courtney]] ([[The Brigadier]]), [[John Levene]] (Sergeant [[Benton]]), [[Richard Franklin]] ([[Mike Yates|Captain Yates]]) and [[Roger Delgado]] ([[The Master]]). Fans of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' often refer to these characters as the UNIT family (UNIT ([[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce]]) being the fictional [[United Nations]] squad that the Doctor worked for) and Katy has very fond memories of this period of her life.
== ''Doctor Who'' career ==
Manning is famously short-sighted. A story regarding Manning's short-sightedness is often related about ''Terror of the Autons'', her first ''Doctor Who'' story. Manning had not informed anyone of her limited vision, and the script called for her and Jon Pertwee to run across a field. Manning ran straight into a [[tree]], and knocked herself unconscious. From then on, whenever a story called for the Doctor and Jo to run across quarries or down corridors, Jon Pertwee could be seen leading Manning by the hand.


In [[1975]] she married [[Wikipedia:Raynor Burton|Raynor Burton]], but that marriage lasted only two months. She gave birth to twins in [[1978]] with [[Wikipedia:Dean Harris|Dean Harris]].
She played the part of Jo from 1971 to 1973 alongside [[Jon Pertwee]]'s [[Third Doctor|Doctor]]. Manning struck up an immediate rapport with her co-stars, Pertwee, [[Nicholas Courtney]] ([[the Brigadier]]), [[John Levene]] (Sergeant [[Benton]]), [[Richard Franklin]] ([[Mike Yates|Captain Yates]]) and [[Roger Delgado]] ({{Delgado}}).


In 1977 she posed naked with an original [[Dalek]] prop for the pornographic magazine ''Girl Illustrated''. She laughed the furore off, stating "You'd have to pretty well put me under a microscope to see anything!" Upon being informed of the photos Jon Pertwee was quoted as saying "Typical Katy!"
In 1975, she married {{w|Raynor Burton}}, but that marriage lasted only two months. She gave birth to twins in 1978 with {{w|Dean Harris}}. She was also in a relationship with [[Stewart Bevan]], who played Jo's future husband [[Clifford Jones]] in ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]''. ([[DCOM]]: ''The Green Death'')


Katy Manning appeared on stage in [[Australia]] when she appeared in the play ''[[Wikipedia:Run For Your Wife|Run For Your Wife]]'', during ([[1987]]-[[1988]]), and the production toured the country. Other members of the cast in the production were [[Wikipedia:Jack Smethurst|Jack Smethurst]], [[Wikipedia:David McCallum|David McCallum]] and [[Wikipedia:Eric Sykes|Eric Sykes]]. Manning also appeared as herself in the documentary "[[Where on Earth is Katy Manning ... Because She'd Really Like to Know!]]"
[[File:Katy Manning Girl Illustrated 1976.jpg|thumb|Katy Manning poses nude with a Dalek]]
In 1976, she posed nude with an original [[Gold Dalek (Day of the Daleks)|Gold Dalek]] prop for the glamour magazine ''Girl Illustrated''. The infamous photoshoot was parodied in ''[[A Life in the Day of a Doctor Who Production (comic story)|A Life in the Day of a Doctor Who Production]]'', [[Doctor Who? (DWM 220 comic story)|''Doctor Who?'' 220]], and ''[[A Moment from 'Doctor Who' 3 (comic story)|A Moment from 'Doctor Who' 3]]''. An image from this photoshoot was stealthily included in the comic ''[[Unnatural Selection (comic story)|Unnatural Selection]]''.


Katy's connection with "Doctor Who" has continued in recent years; she is also the voice of the [[Time Lord|Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] in several of the [[Big Finish Productions]] [[Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Dramas|Doctor Who Audio Dramas]] and the same company's [[Big Finish - Explored Worlds#Iris Wildthyme|dedicated Iris audio dramas]].
She laughed the furore off, stating, "You'd have to pretty well put me under a microscope to see anything!" Upon being informed of the photos, Jon Pertwee was quoted as saying, "Typical Katy!" In a later interview, she stated that the nude pictorial "went over like a cup of cold sick."{{Fact}}


In 2009, she contributed an introduction to the short story collection [[Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus]] from [[Obverse Books]].
== Career outside of ''Doctor Who'' ==
Katy Manning appeared on stage in [[Australia]] when she appeared in the play {{wi|Run For Your Wife}}, during 1987-1988. The production toured the country. Other members of the cast were {{w|Jack Smethurst}}, {{w|David McCallum}} and {{w|Eric Sykes}}. Manning also appeared as herself in the documentary "''[[Where on Earth is Katy Manning ... Because She'd Really Like to Know!]]''"


She has also reprised the role of Jo Grant for Big Finish's [[The Companion Chronicles]] series. In an upcoming release in this series, ''Find and Replace'', she will be portraying both [[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Jo Grant]] in the same story.
== Returning to ''Doctor Who'' ==
[[File:Katy Manning and Paul Magrs at Utopia.jpg|thumb|right|Katy Manning in an [[Iris Wildthyme]] costume with [[Paul Magrs]] at a 2012 convention.]]
Katy's connection with ''Doctor Who'' continued well into the 2010s; she was the voice of [[Iris Wildthyme]] in several of the [[Big Finish Productions]] [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|''Doctor Who'' Audio Dramas]], and the star of the [[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme series]]. Katy's portrayal of Iris has since appeared in over 90 short stories published by [[Obverse Books]] and on the covers of most of their ''Iris Wildthyme'' anthologies.


==External links==
She has also reprised the role of Jo Grant for Big Finish's ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' series. In ''[[Find and Replace (audio story)|Find and Replace]]'' and ''[[The Elixir of Doom (audio story)|The Elixir of Doom]]'', she played the dual roles of Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme, and in ''[[Ghost in the Machine (audio story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'', Manning voiced the [[Third Doctor]] when he and Jo switch bodies. She also read several ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'', voiced [[Borusa (Annihilation)|Magistrix Borusa]] in ''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' audio story ''[[Annihilation (audio story)|Annihilation]]'' and appeared in ''[[The Mega (audio story)|The Mega]]'', an audio story from ''[[The Lost Stories]]'' range.
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[[File:Jo-grant1.jpg|thumb|right|Elisabeth Sladen and Katy Manning for ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'']]
[[Category:Doctor Who regular cast|Manning, Katy]]
For the first time since 1973 Manning performed the role of [[Jo Grant]] on television in [[2010 (releases)|2010]]'s ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'', an episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. She starred alongside fellow former Third Doctor companion [[Elisabeth Sladen]] (who played [[Sarah Jane Smith]]) and [[Matt Smith]] (the [[Eleventh Doctor]]).
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[[Category:Big Finish Doctor Who voice actors|Manning, Katy]]
In 2013, Manning appeared in the 50th anniversary story ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)|The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]'', voiced [[Gilda Fairbanks]] in the [[Bafflegab Productions]] audio story ''[[Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective (audio story)|Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective]]'', and also contributed to the charity reference book ''[[Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who]]''.
 
In 2015 she voiced Jo Grant in ''[[The Defectors (audio story)|The Defectors]]'' alongside [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], and in ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures (audio series)|The Third Doctor Adventures]]'' featuring [[Tim Treloar]] as the [[Third Doctor]].
 
In 2019, Manning reprised her role as Jo Jones for a [[Jo Grant Returns (webcast)|special scene]] created to announce the new [[Blu-ray]] rendition of the [[Season 10 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 10]] box set.
 
== Writing ==
Though most of her experience with the [[DWU]] has been as an actor, she's had a limited amount of writing experience in the franchise. In 2001, she wrote the foreword for the [[Telos novella]], ''[[Nightdreamers (novel)|Nightdreamers]]'' and, in 2009, she contributed an introduction to the short story collection ''[[Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus (anthology)|Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus]]'' from [[Obverse Books]].
 
== In the DWU ==
Like with many of the real world ''Doctor Who'' actors, Katy Manning has a [[Katy Manning (Unnatural Selection)|DWU counterpart]]. Her nude photo with a Dalek was seen in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Selection (comic story)|Unnatural Selection]]'', and the in-universe counterpart was alluded to in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Enter Wildthyme (novel)|Enter Wildthyme]]''.
 
== Personal life ==
At the time of recording her last regular story, ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'', Katy was in a relationship with [[Stewart Bevan]], who played Professor [[Clifford Jones]] in the story. After their relationship ended, they remained close friends until his death in [[2022 (people)|2022]].
 
== Acting Credits ==
As [[Jo Grant]]
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''
* ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]''
* ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]''
* ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]''
* ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]''
* ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]''
* ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]''
* ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]''
* ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]''
* ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]''
* ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]''
* ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]''
* ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]''
* ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]''
* ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]''
* ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
 
==== The Sarah Jane Adventures ====
* ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'' - Jo Jones
 
=== Webcasts ===
==== Tales of the TARDIS ====
* ''[[The Three Doctors (TotT TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' - Jo Jones
 
==== The Collection Blu-Ray Trailers ====
As [[Jo Jones]]
* ''[[Hello Boys! (webcast)|Hello Boys!]]''
* ''[[Return of the Autons (webcast)|Return of the Autons]]''
* ''[[Defenders of Earth (webcast)|Defenders of Earth]]''
 
==== Doctor Who: Lockdown! ====
* ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
* ''[[U.N.I.T. On Call (webcast)|U.N.I.T. On Call]]''
 
=== Video Games ===
==== Doctor Who Infinity ====
* ''[[The Orphans of the Polyoptra (video game)|The Orphans of the Polyoptra]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
 
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* ''[[The Defectors (audio story)|The Defectors]]''
 
==== Special Releases ====
* ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]''
* ''[[The Legacy of Time (audio anthology)|The Legacy of Time]]''
** ''[[The Sacrifice of Jo Grant (audio story)|The Sacrifice of Jo Grant]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
* ''[[Masterful (audio anthology)|Masterful]]''
** ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'' - Jo Jones
 
==== The Lost Stories ====
* ''[[The Mega (audio story)|The Mega]]''
 
==== Ravenous 3 ====
* ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]''
 
==== The Third Doctor Adventures ====
* ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures (audio anthology)|Volume One]]''
** ''[[Prisoners of the Lake (audio story)|Prisoners of the Lake]]''
** ''[[The Havoc of Empires (audio story)|The Havoc of Empires]]''
* ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume 2|Volume Two]]''
** ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]''
** ''[[The Hidden Realm (audio story)|The Hidden Realm]]''
* ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Three|Volume Three]]''
** ''[[The Conquest of Far (audio story)|The Conquest of Far]]''
** ''[[Storm of the Horofax (audio story)|Storm of the Horofax]]''
* ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Four|Volume Four]]''
** ''[[The Rise of the New Humans (audio story)|The Rise of the New Humans]]''
** ''[[The Tyrants of Logic (audio story)|The Tyrants of Logic]]''
* ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Five|Volume Five]]''
** ''[[Primord (audio story)|Primord]]''
** ''[[The Scream of Ghosts (audio story)|The Scream of Ghosts]]''
* ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Six|Volume Six]]''
** ''[[Poison of the Daleks (audio story)|Poison of the Daleks]]''
** ''[[Operation: Hellfire (audio story)|Operation: Hellfire]]''
* ''[[The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Eight|Volume Eight]]''
** ''[[Conspiracy in Space (audio story)|Conspiracy in Space]]''
* ''[[The Return of Jo Jones (audio anthology)|The Return of Jo Jones]]''
** ''[[Supernature (audio story)|Supernature]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
** ''[[The Conservitors (audio story)|The Conservitors]]'' - Jo Jones
** ''[[The Iron Shore (audio story)|The Iron Shore]]'' - Jo Jones
 
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* ''[[The Doll of Death (audio story)|The Doll of Death]]''
* ''[[The Mists of Time (audio story)|The Mists of Time]]''
* ''[[Find and Replace (audio story)|Find and Replace]]''
* ''[[Tales from the Vault (audio story)|Tales from the Vault]]''
* ''[[The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (audio story)|The Many Deaths of Jo Grant]]''
* ''[[The Scorchies (audio story)|The Scorchies]]''
* ''[[Ghost in the Machine (audio story)|Ghost in the Machine]]''
* ''[[The Elixir of Doom (audio story)|The Elixir of Doom]]''
 
==== Short Trips ====
* ''[[A True Gentleman (audio story)|A True Gentleman]]''
* ''[[Walls of Confinement (audio story)|Walls of Confinement]]''
* ''[[Pop-Up (audio story)|Pop-Up]]''
* ''[[Lost in the Wakefield Triangle (audio story)|Lost in the Wakefield Triangle]]''
* ''[[Time Tunnel (audio story)|Time Tunnel]]''
* ''[[The Other Woman (audio story)|The Other Woman]]''
* ''[[The Same Face (audio story)|The Same Face]]''
* ''[[The Infinite Today (audio story)|The Infinite Today]]''
 
==== UNIT: The New Series ====
* ''[[Tidal Wave (audio story)|Tidal Wave]]'' - [[Jo Jones]]
* ''[[United (audio story)|United]]'' - Jo Jones
 
==== The Eighth of March ====
* ''[[The Turn of the Tides (audio story)|The Turn of the Tides]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
 
==== The War Master ====
* ''[[A Quiet Night In (audio story)|A Quiet Night In]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
 
==== Torchwood ====
* ''[[The Green Life (audio story)|The Green Life]]'' - [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]]
 
As [[Iris Wildthyme]]
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* ''[[The Wormery (audio story)|The Wormery]]''
* ''[[Muse of Fire (audio story)|Muse of Fire]]''
 
==== Special Releases ====
* ''[[Excelis Dawns (audio story)|Excelis Dawns]]''
* ''[[The Worlds of Big Finish (audio anthology)|The Worlds of Big Finish]]''
* ''[[Kronos Vad's History of Earth Vol. 36,379 (audio story)|Kronos Vad's History of Earth Vol. 36,379]]''
 
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* ''[[Find and Replace (audio story)|Find and Replace]]''
* ''[[The Elixir of Doom (audio story)|The Elixir of Doom]]''
 
==== Bernice Summerfield ====
* ''[[The Plague Herds of Excelis (audio story)|The Plague Herds of Excelis]]''
* ''[[Many Happy Returns (audio story)|Many Happy Returns]]''
 
==== Iris Wildthyme ====
* ''[[Wildthyme at Large (audio story)|Wildthyme at Large]]''
* ''[[The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme (audio story)|The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme]]''
* ''[[The Sound of Fear (audio story)|The Sound of Fear]]''
* ''[[The Land of Wonder (audio story)|The Land of Wonder]]''
* ''[[The Two Irises (audio story)|The Two Irises]]''
* ''[[The Panda Invasion (audio story)|The Panda Invasion]]''
* ''[[Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa (audio story)|Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa]]''
* ''[[The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society (audio story)|The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society]]''
* ''[[Iris Rides Out (audio story)|Iris Rides Out]]''
* ''[[Midwinter Murders (audio story)|Midwinter Murders]]''
* ''[[Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme? (audio story)|Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme?]]''
* ''[[Iris at the Oche (audio story)|Iris at the Oche]]''
* ''[[A Lift in Time (audio story)|A Lift in Time]]''
* ''[[Comeback of the Scorchies (audio story)|Comeback of the Scorchies]]''
* ''[[Dark Side (audio story)|Dark Side]]''
* ''[[Oracle of the Supermarket (audio story)|Oracle of the Supermarket]]''
* ''[[Murder at the Abbey (audio story)|Murder at the Abbey]]''
* ''[[The Slots of Giza (audio story)|The Slots of Giza]]''
* ''[[High Spirits (audio story)|High Spirits]]''
* ''[[An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium (audio story)|An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium]]''
* ''[[Looking for a Friend (audio story)|Looking for a Friend]]''
 
==== The Verb ====
* ''[[Iris Wildthyme Speaks...! (audio story)|Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!]]''
 
Other roles
=== Television ===
==== Other ====
* ''[[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)|The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]'' - herself
 
=== Video Games ===
==== Doctor Who: Infinity ====
* ''[[The Orphans of the Polyoptra (video game)|The Orphans of the Polyoptra]] ''- Zarbi Supremo
* ''[[The Lady of the Lake (video game)|The Lady of the Lake]]'' - [[Delyth]]
 
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'' - [[Reception Guest]]
 
==== Special Releases ====
* ''[[The Worlds of Big Finish (audio anthology)|The Worlds of Big Finish]]''
** ''[[The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber (audio story)|The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber]]'' - [[Waters (The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber)|Mrs Waters]]
 
==== The Second Doctor Adventures ====
* ''[[Wrath of the Ice Warriors (audio story)|Wrath of the Ice Warriors]]'' - [[Lady Zelenda]]
 
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* ''[[The Scorchies (audio story)|The Scorchies]]'' - [[Cool Cat]] / [[Amble the Ugly Doll]] / [[Magic Mice]]
 
==== Bernice Summerfield ====
* ''[[The Winning Side (audio story)|The Winning Side]]'' - [[Yokel Child]]
 
==== Iris Wildthyme ====
* ''[[The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society (audio story)|The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society]]'' - [[Wayne Bland II]]
 
==== Gallifrey ====
* ''[[Annihilation (audio story)|Annihilation]]'' - Magistrix [[Borusa (Annihilation)|Borusa]]
 
==== The Lives of Captain Jack ====
* ''[[One Enchanted Evening (audio story)|One Enchanted Evening]]'' - [[Mother Nothing]]
 
==== Vince Cosmos ====
* ''[[Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective (audio story)|Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective]]'' - [[Gilda Fairbanks]]
 
=== Audiobook readings ===
==== Target Novelisations ====
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Green Death (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Green Death]]''
* ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters]]''
 
==== BBC Audio ====
* ''[[Horrors of War (audio story)|Horrors of War]]''
* ''[[Escape the Daleks! (audio story)|Escape the Daleks!]]''
 
==== Doctor Who Audio Annuals ====
* ''[[Dead on Arrival (comic story)|Dead on Arrival]]''
 
==== Origin Stories ====
* ''[[My Daddy Fights Monsters (short story)|My Daddy Fights Monsters]]''
* ''[[The Big Sleep (short story)|The Big Sleep]]''
* ''[[Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest (short story)|Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest]]''
* ''[[Velvet Hugs (short story)|Velvet Hugs]]''
 
==== Iris Wildthyme and Friends ====
* ''[[Enter Wildthyme (novel)|Enter Wildthyme]]''
* ''[[Wildthyme Beyond! (novel)|Wildthyme Beyond!]]''
* ''[[Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror (novel)|Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror]]''
 
=== Documentaries ===
* ''Where on Earth Is... Katy Manning Because She'd Really Like to Know!''
* ''[[Lust in Space]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who: A New Dimension (CON episode)|Doctor Who: A New Dimension]]''
* ''[[The World of Who (CON episode)|The World of Who]]''
* ''[[Weird Science (CON episode)|Weird Science]]''
* ''[[Why on Earth? (CON episode)|Why on Earth?]]''
* ''[[I Get a Side-Kick Out of You (CON episode)|I Get a Side-Kick Out of You]]''
* ''[[Bringing Back the Doctor (CON episode)|Bringing Back the Doctor]]''
* ''[[Hello Sailor! (documentary)|Hello Sailor!]]''
* ''[[The Rumble in the Jungle (documentary)|The Rumble in the Jungle]]''
* ''[[Destroy All Monsters! (documentary)|Destroy All Monsters!]]''
* ''[[My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen (CON episode)|My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen]]''
* ''[[The Doctor's Moriarty (documentary)|The Doctor's Moriarty]]''
* ''[[Life on Earth (documentary)|Life on Earth]]''
* ''[[The UNIT Family (documentary)|The UNIT Family]]''
* ''[[Blasting the Past (documentary)|Blasting the Past]]''
* ''[[IMC Needs You! (documentary)|IMC Needs You!]]''
* ''[[Happy Birthday to Who (documentary)|Happy Birthday to Who]]''
* ''[[Girls! Girls! Girls!: The 1970s (documentary)|Girls! Girls! Girls!]]''
* ''[[The Devil Rides Out (documentary)|The Devil Rides Out]]''
* ''[[Axon Stations! (documentary)|Axon Stations!]]''
* ''[[A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee (documentary)|A Dandy and a Clown]]''
* ''[[The One with the Maggots (documentary)|The One with the Maggots]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty]]''
* ''[[Behind the Sofa (documentary series)|Behind the Sofa]]''
* ''[[Location Location Location: Season 9 (documentary)|Location Location Location: Season 9]]''
* ''[[Time and Atlantis (documentary)|Time and Atlantis]]''
 
=== Audio commentary ===
 
* ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''
* ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]''
 
''to be completed''
 
== Writing Credits ==
=== Short Stories ===
==== Origin Stories ====
* ''[[Velvet Hugs (short story)|Velvet Hugs]]''
 
== External links ==
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{{official website|katymanning.com/}}
{{twitter|ManningOfficial}}
== Footnotes ==
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Latest revision as of 19:27, 22 April 2024

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Catherine "Katy" Ann Manning[1] (born on 14 October 1946[2][3] in Guildford, Surrey, England) played companion Jo Grant in Doctor Who beginning with Terror of the Autons and ending with The Green Death, before reprising the role for Big Finish's audio adventures and The Sarah Jane Adventures television story Death of the Doctor.

She has also provided the voice and likeness for Iris Wildthyme in several of the Big Finish audio dramas. She also portrayed several other characters in Big Finish's Doctor Who-related audio adventures.

Doctor Who career[[edit] | [edit source]]

Manning is famously short-sighted. A story regarding Manning's short-sightedness is often related about Terror of the Autons, her first Doctor Who story. Manning had not informed anyone of her limited vision, and the script called for her and Jon Pertwee to run across a field. Manning ran straight into a tree, and knocked herself unconscious. From then on, whenever a story called for the Doctor and Jo to run across quarries or down corridors, Jon Pertwee could be seen leading Manning by the hand.

She played the part of Jo from 1971 to 1973 alongside Jon Pertwee's Doctor. Manning struck up an immediate rapport with her co-stars, Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) and Roger Delgado (the Master).

In 1975, she married Raynor Burton, but that marriage lasted only two months. She gave birth to twins in 1978 with Dean Harris. She was also in a relationship with Stewart Bevan, who played Jo's future husband Clifford Jones in The Green Death. (DCOM: The Green Death)

Katy Manning poses nude with a Dalek

In 1976, she posed nude with an original Gold Dalek prop for the glamour magazine Girl Illustrated. The infamous photoshoot was parodied in A Life in the Day of a Doctor Who Production, Doctor Who? 220, and A Moment from 'Doctor Who' 3. An image from this photoshoot was stealthily included in the comic Unnatural Selection.

She laughed the furore off, stating, "You'd have to pretty well put me under a microscope to see anything!" Upon being informed of the photos, Jon Pertwee was quoted as saying, "Typical Katy!" In a later interview, she stated that the nude pictorial "went over like a cup of cold sick."[source needed]

Career outside of Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Katy Manning appeared on stage in Australia when she appeared in the play Run For Your Wife, during 1987-1988. The production toured the country. Other members of the cast were Jack Smethurst, David McCallum and Eric Sykes. Manning also appeared as herself in the documentary "Where on Earth is Katy Manning ... Because She'd Really Like to Know!"

Returning to Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Katy Manning in an Iris Wildthyme costume with Paul Magrs at a 2012 convention.

Katy's connection with Doctor Who continued well into the 2010s; she was the voice of Iris Wildthyme in several of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who Audio Dramas, and the star of the Iris Wildthyme series. Katy's portrayal of Iris has since appeared in over 90 short stories published by Obverse Books and on the covers of most of their Iris Wildthyme anthologies.

She has also reprised the role of Jo Grant for Big Finish's The Companion Chronicles series. In Find and Replace and The Elixir of Doom, she played the dual roles of Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme, and in Ghost in the Machine, Manning voiced the Third Doctor when he and Jo switch bodies. She also read several Short Trips, voiced Magistrix Borusa in Gallifrey audio story Annihilation and appeared in The Mega, an audio story from The Lost Stories range.

Elisabeth Sladen and Katy Manning for Death of the Doctor

For the first time since 1973 Manning performed the role of Jo Grant on television in 2010's Death of the Doctor, an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. She starred alongside fellow former Third Doctor companion Elisabeth Sladen (who played Sarah Jane Smith) and Matt Smith (the Eleventh Doctor).

In 2013, Manning appeared in the 50th anniversary story The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, voiced Gilda Fairbanks in the Bafflegab Productions audio story Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective, and also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

In 2015 she voiced Jo Grant in The Defectors alongside Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, and in The Third Doctor Adventures featuring Tim Treloar as the Third Doctor.

In 2019, Manning reprised her role as Jo Jones for a special scene created to announce the new Blu-ray rendition of the season 10 box set.

Writing[[edit] | [edit source]]

Though most of her experience with the DWU has been as an actor, she's had a limited amount of writing experience in the franchise. In 2001, she wrote the foreword for the Telos novella, Nightdreamers and, in 2009, she contributed an introduction to the short story collection Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus from Obverse Books.

In the DWU[[edit] | [edit source]]

Like with many of the real world Doctor Who actors, Katy Manning has a DWU counterpart. Her nude photo with a Dalek was seen in COMIC: Unnatural Selection, and the in-universe counterpart was alluded to in PROSE: Enter Wildthyme.

Personal life[[edit] | [edit source]]

At the time of recording her last regular story, The Green Death, Katy was in a relationship with Stewart Bevan, who played Professor Clifford Jones in the story. After their relationship ended, they remained close friends until his death in 2022.

Acting Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

As Jo Grant

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

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As Jo Jones

Doctor Who: Lockdown![[edit] | [edit source]]

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The Lost Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ravenous 3[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Third Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]

UNIT: The New Series[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eighth of March[[edit] | [edit source]]

The War Master[[edit] | [edit source]]

Torchwood[[edit] | [edit source]]

As Iris Wildthyme

Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]

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The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]

Iris Wildthyme[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Verb[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other roles

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Other[[edit] | [edit source]]

Video Games[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who: Infinity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]

Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Second Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]

Iris Wildthyme[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Lives of Captain Jack[[edit] | [edit source]]

Vince Cosmos[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audiobook readings[[edit] | [edit source]]

Target Novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

BBC Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Audio Annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Origin Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Iris Wildthyme and Friends[[edit] | [edit source]]

Documentaries[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Writing Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Origin Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Mulkern, Patrick (25 April 2012). "I've been a naughty girl" - Doctor Who companion Katy Manning interviewed. RadioTimes. Retrieved on 13 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Aveleyman
  3. ↑ Doctor Who Guide
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