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Martha Jones first met the Doctor in the episode Smith and Jones as she walks to work and he pulls his tie off.She is enganged to [[Tom Milligan]] and works for [[UNIT]]([[The Sontaran Strategem]])
{{Infobox Individual|
individual name= Dr Martha Jones |
alias= Samantha Jones |
image=[[Image:Doctor Jones.jpg|300px]] |
race= [[Human]] |
home planet=[[Earth]] |
home era= Early [[21st Century]]|
appearances= [[Martha Jones - List of Appearances|Full List of Appearances]] |
actor= [[Freema Agyeman]] |}}
'''Dr Martha Jones''' worked as a medical student at the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] in [[London]] when she first met [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]. Eventually, after deciding to leave him, the Doctor ensured that she would find work with [[UNIT]].


[[Image:Martha Jones, the Tenth Doctor and the Tardis.jpg]]    Dr.Martha Jones
==Profile==
                                                                                                                                                                               
===Biography===
== Family ==
====Family====
Martha's family is Mum [[Francine Jones]],Dad [[Clive Jones]],Sister [[Tish Jones]] and brother [[Leo Jones]]
Martha's parents were [[Francine Jones|Francine]] and [[Clive Jones]]. She had an older sister, [[Tish Jones|Letitia "Tish" Jones]] and a younger brother, Leo, who lived with his girlfriend and had a child. On the day that Martha first met the Doctor, her family had a row at her brother Leo's 21st birthday due to Clive insisting on bringing his young girlfriend [[Annalise]], much to his estranged wife's disgust. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
Martha's cousin, [[Adeola Oshodi]] worked at [[Torchwood 1]] before her death ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'').


====Joining the Doctor====
The twenty-three-year-old Martha was working at Royal Hope Hospital under [[Stoker|Mr Stoker]] when she encountered [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]. She encountered him on the street, then gave him a cursory physical (and learnt that he had two hearts) and later helped him defeat the [[Plasmavore]] "[[Florence Finnegan]]" when the hospital was transported to [[the Moon]] by the [[Judoon]]. That evening, she joined the Doctor on his travels. The Doctor insisted, however, that he had not brought Martha aboard [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] as a replacement for his previous companion, [[Rose Tyler]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')


After returning home in The Lazurus Experiment, the Doctor allowed her to stay on board the TARDIS. He gave her a [[superphone|mobile phone upgrade]] and a [[TARDIS key]] ([[DW]]:''[[42]]'').


====Time away from the Doctor====
When [[the Master]] took over Earth, Martha pretended to make a weapon that would kill the Master. She said that she had witnessed the [[Toclafane]] burn the islands of [[Japan]]. She spent a year on earth telling everyone to think of the Doctor at a specific time so that the Master could be defeated. This plan worked and the Master was shot by his wife [[Lucy Saxon]]. As a result of the destruction of the Master's [[Paradox Machine]], only Martha, her family, and everyone else who was on board the [[Valiant]] remembered that year spent with the Master.
She decided she wanted to go and complete her medical studies, but gave the Doctor her [[superphone|enhanced mobile phone]], saying that she might want to return to travelling with him in the future. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')


====Later career====
=====Joining UNIT and short tenure with Torchwood=====
[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] put in a good word for Martha at [[UNIT]]. At the request of Captain Jack, As a UNIT she visited [[Torchwood 3]] in [[Cardiff]], where she became embroiled in their investigation of a private medical organization called [[Pharm|The Pharm]]. Torchwood sent her into the Pharm as an undercover agent, but during the course of her investigation she was discovered and captured and the [[Mayfly|Mayflies]] were put into her body. [[Owen Harper]] saved her life using an alien surgical device but [[Alan Copley]] killed him. Just as Copley  was about to shoot Martha he was shot in the head by [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Reset (Torchwood story)|Reset]]'') Martha witnessed Owen's return from the dead as an undead being means of the [[resurrection gauntlet]] and gave him a posthumous physical. "[[Durac|Death]]", a force possessing Harper aged Martha into an old woman. After the Death being vanished, she reverted to normal ([[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'') She mended Harper's injured hand after, in a fit of self-destruction, he deliberately wounded it, after Jack decided to relieve him of duty at Torchwood. When Owen Harper was promoted back to Doctor, she left for UNIT, a few days after she had joined on ([[TW]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]''). She didn't go to [[Gwen Cooper]]'s wedding because of work ([[Torchwood website]]).


Back at UNIT, her boyfriend, Thomas Milligan and Martha got engaged ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''), though he left Britain for a while to go to [[Africa]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')


== Character Development ==
=====Reunion with the Doctor=====
Martha called the Doctor just as she, together with UNIT, was about to attack the [[ATMOS factory]] which secretly formed a key part of a [[Sontaran Invasion of Earth|Sontaran invasion plan]]. At the time, she worked under the by-the-book [[Mace|Colonol Mace]] who was in charge of the operation. Later that day she warned Donna Noble to keep her family safe because of what had happened to her own family at the hands of the Master. A few minutes later she was kidnapped by two solders under [[Sontaran]] control and taken to her to a [[cloning pool]], where they started copying her body. She then was put to sleep but kept alive as a her clone was about to aid the Sontarans and needed access to her memories. ([[DW]]: [[The Sontaran Stratagem]]) Martha's clone died soon after the Doctor rescued the real Martha. While chatting with the Doctor and Donna inside the TARDIS after the defeat of the Sontarans, Martha turned down the Doctor's offer to let her travel again with him. As soon as she had made her refusal unknown force took control of the ship and dragged it into [[the Vortex]] ([[DW]]: [[The Poison Sky]]).


Throughout Doctor Who series three, Martha pined for the Doctor's affection. In its final story — "Last of the Time Lords", Martha was separated from the Doctor for a year, and after saving the world she decided to return to Earth to allow herself to qualify as a medical doctor and get over her crush on the Doctor. Following the airdate of "Last of the Time Lords", the BBC announced that the character would return to screens in three episodes of Torchwood Series 2, before rejoining [[David Tennant]]'s Tenth Doctor alongside new companion Donna Noble ([[Catherine Tate]]) for five episodes in the fourth series of Doctor Who. Appearing in Torchwood, it is explained through exposition that Martha is a medical specialist for UNIT, a qualified doctor and bona fide expert on alien life. First appearing on the spin-off series in Torchwood episode "Reset", fellow companion Jack Harkness establishes Martha's credibility to her new peers, slyly commenting upon her vast experience. In the same episode, Martha notes that an "impeccable source" recommended her employment to UNIT, implying the Doctor holds the highest level of faith in Martha's capability. Seeing Martha in action with UNIT in "The Sontaran Stratagem", Donna reacts with shock asking derisively if the Doctor turns all of his companions into "soldiers".
Martha walks out of the Tardis onto the planet [[Messaline]]. Suddenly the Doctor was taken hold of and his hand put in a machine and the doctor gets a daughter named [[Jenny]]. Gobsmacked they are attacked by the [[Hath]]. Martha was seperated by the Doctor and [[Donna Noble|Donna]] and taken by the Hath. She sees an injured one named [[Hath Peck]] who Martha helps place his arm back in place. She finds out a secret map that the Hath have got and there are secret passage ways. Martha gets a phone call from the doctor and tells him about the map. The humans also have the same map. Martha finds a way onto the planets surface and takes Hath Peck with her. Martha falls into a pit of water ater and has to get Hath peck to save her from death. But ultimitly he drowns. Martha then spots a catherdral and walks into it she meets the doctor, Donna and Jenny there. The Doctor finds the source it is atully made to make Messeline habitibal. As the Hath and the Humans come running up the doctor breaks the source and the planet ends up getting fixed. General Cobb is not happy and shoots Jenny killing her. Martha confrims that Jenny is dead. The Tardis takes her home and she is reunited with Tom Milligan.
=====Reunion with Jack=====
Jack & Martha are both ahead to Torchwood together "Journey End" of Doctor Who: Seasons 4. Martha joins Jack with the others for Torchwood Institution. Martha likes Jack.


==Life with the Doctor ==
==Other information==
In the episode "The Shakespeare Code", Martha wonders if she is safe in an era before emancipation, but the Doctor is blasé, pointing out that he's not even human – when she prompts: "[I'm] not exactly white, if you hadn't noticed", he is nonplussed, ethnicity being irrelevant to him. Martha soon reacts with surprise and possible offence to Shakespeare's use of Elizabethan terms for black people such as "blackamoor" and "ethiop". For a moment, she thinks these terms could be racist (the Doctor quips that it is "political correctness gone mad"), but realises Shakespeare is actually enamoured of her. At the end of the episode, he refers to her as his "Dark Lady" – to whom the real Shakespeare dedicated a number of his sonnets. Other episodes such as "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", set in 1913, depict the racism that Martha encounters in different eras – here, public school boys exhibit casual bigotry, which she is forced to rise above, and even decent people are seen to be products of their time.
*The length of time Martha spent travelling with the Doctor during her first adventures in the TARDIS has never been defined, but is known to include approximately three months spent in [[1913]] ([[DW]]:''[[Human Nature]]'' / ''[[Family of Blood]]''), a year in [[Year That Never Was|an alternate timeline]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''), and an undefined period trapped in [[1969]] that was long enough to require her to find employment in order to support the Doctor ([[DW]]:''[[Blink]]'').


When the TARDIS crew are nationally branded as terrorists in "The Sound of Drums", the Master says that the Doctor's current companions "tick every demographic box" – referring to Martha's ethnicity and Jack's orientation. He later refers to Jack and Martha as "the girlie and the freak", adding to the insult by claiming he is not sure which is which.
*While investigating the Pharm for Torchwood, she posed as an application to join a medical study. While doing so, she adopted the name [[Samantha Jones]]. Coincidentally or otherwise, [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] had earlier had a companion named Sam Jones.
 
==Key Life Events==
*Martha meets [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and decides to go traveling with him ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
*On an Earth ruled by "[[Harold Saxon]]" and his servants, the [[Toclafane]], Martha spends [[Year That Never Was|a year]] fighting the occupation and ensuring the Doctor's victory. She meets [[Thomas Milligan]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'').
*Martha decides to leave the Doctor and strike out on her own ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'').
*Martha joins [[UNIT]] as a medical officer (Mentioned [[TW]]: ''[[Reset (Torchwood story)|Reset]]'')
*Engagement to Thomas Milligan (Mentioned [[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')
*Reunion with the Doctor and first meeting with [[Donna Noble]] [[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''). Martha once more joins the Doctor in his travels when [[the TARDIS]] gets diverted from [[Earth]] with her inside it ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
 
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Dr Martha Jones worked as a medical student at the Royal Hope Hospital in London when she first met the Doctor. Eventually, after deciding to leave him, the Doctor ensured that she would find work with UNIT.

Profile

Biography

Family

Martha's parents were Francine and Clive Jones. She had an older sister, Letitia "Tish" Jones and a younger brother, Leo, who lived with his girlfriend and had a child. On the day that Martha first met the Doctor, her family had a row at her brother Leo's 21st birthday due to Clive insisting on bringing his young girlfriend Annalise, much to his estranged wife's disgust. (DW: Smith and Jones) Martha's cousin, Adeola Oshodi worked at Torchwood 1 before her death (DW: Army of Ghosts).

Joining the Doctor

The twenty-three-year-old Martha was working at Royal Hope Hospital under Mr Stoker when she encountered the Doctor. She encountered him on the street, then gave him a cursory physical (and learnt that he had two hearts) and later helped him defeat the Plasmavore "Florence Finnegan" when the hospital was transported to the Moon by the Judoon. That evening, she joined the Doctor on his travels. The Doctor insisted, however, that he had not brought Martha aboard the TARDIS as a replacement for his previous companion, Rose Tyler. (DW: Smith and Jones)

After returning home in The Lazurus Experiment, the Doctor allowed her to stay on board the TARDIS. He gave her a mobile phone upgrade and a TARDIS key (DW:42).

Time away from the Doctor

When the Master took over Earth, Martha pretended to make a weapon that would kill the Master. She said that she had witnessed the Toclafane burn the islands of Japan. She spent a year on earth telling everyone to think of the Doctor at a specific time so that the Master could be defeated. This plan worked and the Master was shot by his wife Lucy Saxon. As a result of the destruction of the Master's Paradox Machine, only Martha, her family, and everyone else who was on board the Valiant remembered that year spent with the Master. She decided she wanted to go and complete her medical studies, but gave the Doctor her enhanced mobile phone, saying that she might want to return to travelling with him in the future. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)

Later career

Joining UNIT and short tenure with Torchwood

The Doctor put in a good word for Martha at UNIT. At the request of Captain Jack, As a UNIT she visited Torchwood 3 in Cardiff, where she became embroiled in their investigation of a private medical organization called The Pharm. Torchwood sent her into the Pharm as an undercover agent, but during the course of her investigation she was discovered and captured and the Mayflies were put into her body. Owen Harper saved her life using an alien surgical device but Alan Copley killed him. Just as Copley was about to shoot Martha he was shot in the head by Jack Harkness. (TW: Reset) Martha witnessed Owen's return from the dead as an undead being means of the resurrection gauntlet and gave him a posthumous physical. "Death", a force possessing Harper aged Martha into an old woman. After the Death being vanished, she reverted to normal (TW: Dead Man Walking) She mended Harper's injured hand after, in a fit of self-destruction, he deliberately wounded it, after Jack decided to relieve him of duty at Torchwood. When Owen Harper was promoted back to Doctor, she left for UNIT, a few days after she had joined on (TW: A Day in the Death). She didn't go to Gwen Cooper's wedding because of work (Torchwood website).

Back at UNIT, her boyfriend, Thomas Milligan and Martha got engaged (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem), though he left Britain for a while to go to Africa (DW: The Poison Sky)

Reunion with the Doctor

Martha called the Doctor just as she, together with UNIT, was about to attack the ATMOS factory which secretly formed a key part of a Sontaran invasion plan. At the time, she worked under the by-the-book Colonol Mace who was in charge of the operation. Later that day she warned Donna Noble to keep her family safe because of what had happened to her own family at the hands of the Master. A few minutes later she was kidnapped by two solders under Sontaran control and taken to her to a cloning pool, where they started copying her body. She then was put to sleep but kept alive as a her clone was about to aid the Sontarans and needed access to her memories. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem) Martha's clone died soon after the Doctor rescued the real Martha. While chatting with the Doctor and Donna inside the TARDIS after the defeat of the Sontarans, Martha turned down the Doctor's offer to let her travel again with him. As soon as she had made her refusal unknown force took control of the ship and dragged it into the Vortex (DW: The Poison Sky).

Martha walks out of the Tardis onto the planet Messaline. Suddenly the Doctor was taken hold of and his hand put in a machine and the doctor gets a daughter named Jenny. Gobsmacked they are attacked by the Hath. Martha was seperated by the Doctor and Donna and taken by the Hath. She sees an injured one named Hath Peck who Martha helps place his arm back in place. She finds out a secret map that the Hath have got and there are secret passage ways. Martha gets a phone call from the doctor and tells him about the map. The humans also have the same map. Martha finds a way onto the planets surface and takes Hath Peck with her. Martha falls into a pit of water ater and has to get Hath peck to save her from death. But ultimitly he drowns. Martha then spots a catherdral and walks into it she meets the doctor, Donna and Jenny there. The Doctor finds the source it is atully made to make Messeline habitibal. As the Hath and the Humans come running up the doctor breaks the source and the planet ends up getting fixed. General Cobb is not happy and shoots Jenny killing her. Martha confrims that Jenny is dead. The Tardis takes her home and she is reunited with Tom Milligan.

Reunion with Jack

Jack & Martha are both ahead to Torchwood together "Journey End" of Doctor Who: Seasons 4. Martha joins Jack with the others for Torchwood Institution. Martha likes Jack.

Other information

  • While investigating the Pharm for Torchwood, she posed as an application to join a medical study. While doing so, she adopted the name Samantha Jones. Coincidentally or otherwise, the Doctor had earlier had a companion named Sam Jones.

Key Life Events

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