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Though rarely if ever used in the narrative of Doctor Who itself, the term TARDIS team is sometimes used by fandom and documentaries to describe a particular group of travellers in the Doctor's TARDIS.[1] For instance, the "TARDIS team" in The Sensorites was comprised of the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara.

Precise definition is as difficult for this term as for that of companion since dramatic situations vary considerably. In a story like The Masque of Mandragora, it's perfectly obvious that the only TARDIS travellers are the Fourth Doctor and Sarah, so they're the "TARDIS team". But when Sarah comes back after her tenure was over, things get tricky. In both The Five Doctors and School Reunion she's not really a part of the incumbent "TARDIS team", but she's still generally regarded as a companion in those episodes. Equally, during the Third Doctor's exile on Earth, was it even possible to have a "TARDIS team", since the TARDIS was on the fritz?

Regardless of these complexities, it is usually possible to assert a definition for the "TARDIS team" in a particular story.

List of TARDIS teams

TARDIS teams are often defined by the current combination of companions and thus over the years these change. As companions stay for different lengths of time, sometimes a companion can be present in more than one combination, as shown below. Stories featuring both a companion departure and a companion introduction are counted toward both the outgoing and incoming teams.

No. (TV) Doctor Companion(s) No. of stories
(original run)[nb 1]
Stories
* First Susan * miscellaneous
1 Susan/Barbara/Ian 10 TV: An Unearthly Child - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
* Barbara/Ian * miscellaneous
2 Barbara/Ian/Vicki 6 TV: The Rescue - The Chase
3 Steven/Vicki 4 TV: "The Planet of Decision" - The Myth Makers
4 Steven/Katarina 2 TV: "The Nightmare Begins" - "The Traitors"
5 Steven/Sara 1 TV: "The Traitors" - "Destruction of Time"
* Steven/Oliver 3 AUDIO: The Perpetual Bond - The First Wave
6 Steven 1 TV: The Massacre
* John/Gillian 31 COMIC: The Klepton Parasites - The Experimenters
* Alan/George/Helen/Ida 1 PROSE: Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space
* Dot/Harroll/Jack 2 PROSE: The Devil-Birds of Corbo - The Playthings of Fo
7 Steven/Dodo 5 TV: The Ark - The Savages
8 Dodo 1 TV: The War Machines
9 Ben/Polly 3 TV: The War Machines - The Tenth Planet
10 Second Ben/Polly 1 TV: The Power of the Daleks
11 Ben/Polly/Jamie 5 TV: The Highlanders - The Faceless Ones
12 Jamie/Victoria 7 TV: The Evil of the Daleks - Fury from the Deep
13 Jamie/Zoe 8 TV: The Wheel in Space - The War Games
* Gillian/John 30 COMIC: The Extortioner - Invasion of the Quarks
* Jamie 6
14 Third Liz/(The Brigadier/Benton/Yates) 4 TV: Spearhead from Space - Inferno
15 Jo/(The Brigadier/Benton/Yates) 15 TV: Terror of the Autons - The Green Death
* Arnold 3 COMIC: Children of the Evil Eye - The Amateur
* Jason/Crystal/Zog 1
* Douglas *
16 Sarah Jane/(The Brigadier/Benton/Yates) 5 TV: The Time Warrior - Planet of the Spiders
* Sarah Jane/Jeremy 2 AUDIO: The Paradise of Death - The Ghosts of N-Space
17 Fourth Sarah Jane/Harry 6 TV: Robot - Terror of the Zygons
18 Sarah Jane 7 TV: Planet of Evil - The Hand of Fear
* Margaret 1 AUDIO: The Ravencliff Witch
* Harry/Naomi TBD AUDIO: Storm of the Sea Devils-TBD
19 Leela 4 TV: The Face of Evil - Horror of Fang Rock
* Leela/Margaret 6 AUDIO: Ice Heist!-TBD
20 Leela/K9 Mark I 5 TV: The Invisible Enemy - The Invasion of Time
* Wibbsey TBD TBD
* Wibbsey/Yates TBD TBD
* "Ann Kelso" 8 AUDIO: The Sinestran Kill - The Perfect Prisoners
* K9 Mark II * miscellaneous
21 (K9 Mark II)/Romana I 6 TV: The Ribos Operation - The Armageddon Factor
22 (K9 Mark II)/Romana II 7 TV: Destiny of the Daleks - Meglos
* K9 Mark II/Sharon 6 COMIC: Doctor Who and the Star Beast - Dreamers of Death
23 K9 Mark II/Romana II/Adric 3 TV: Full Circle - Warriors' Gate
24 Adric 1 TV: The Keeper of Traken
* Adric/K9 Mark III 5
25 Adric/Nyssa/Tegan 1 TV: Logopolis
26 Fifth Adric/Nyssa/Tegan 6 TV: Castrovalva - Earthshock
* Nyssa * miscellaneous
* Justin 1 TV: The Tides of Time
* Gus 3 COMIC: Lunar Lagoon - The Moderator
* Maxwell 1 COMIC: Stars Fell on Stockbridge
* Nyssa/Brewster 3 AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot - A Perfect World
* Nyssa/Hannah 3 AUDIO: Moonflesh - Masquerade
27 Nyssa/Tegan 3 TV: Time-Flight - Snakedance
* Nyssa/Tegan/Marc 9 AUDIO: Tartarus - Nightmare of the Daleks
28 Nyssa/Tegan/Turlough 2 TV: Mawdryn Undead - Terminus
29 Tegan/Turlough 6 TV: Enlightenment; The Five Doctors - Resurrection of the Daleks
30 Tegan/Turlough/Kamelion 1 TV: The King's Demons
31 Turlough/Peri/Kamelion 1 TV: Planet of Fire
32 Peri 1 TV: The Caves of Androzani
* Peri/Erimem 12 AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion - The Eye of the Scorpion
* Abby 3 AUDIO: The Judgement of Isskar - The Chaos Pool
* Leela/Abby/Zara 3 AUDIO: The Garden of Storms - The People Made of Smoke
33 Sixth[nb 2] Peri 9 TV: The Twin Dilemma - Mindwarp
* Peri/Joe 4 AUDIO: Blood on Santa's Claw - Brightly Shone The Moon That Night
* Frobisher 6 COMIC: The Shape Shifter - Funhouse
* Frobisher/Peri 12 COMIC: Kane's Story - Nature of the Beast!;
Salad Daze - The Gift
* Frobisher/Peri/Jamie 1 COMIC: The World Shapers
* Grant 2 PROSE: Time of Your Life - Killing Ground
* Evelyn 11 AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy - Medicinal Purposes
* Evelyn/Brewster 3 AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster - Industrial Evolution
* Jason/Crystal/Zog 2 AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure - Beyond the Ultimate Adventure
* Chaudhry/Hoffman 3 PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness - Defining Patterns
* Charley 7 AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was - Blue Forgotten Planet
* Mila 3 AUDIO: Patient Zero - Blue Forgotten Planet
* "Jamie" 4 AUDIO: City of Spires - Legend of the Cybermen
* Jago/Litefoot 2 AUDIO: Voyage to Venus - Voyage to the New World
* Flip 6 AUDIO: The Curse of Davros - Scavenger
* Constance 5 AUDIO: Criss-Cross - Absolute Power
* Constance/Flip (TARDIS Gang) 8 AUDIO: Quicksilver - The End of the Beginning
34 Mel 2 TV: The Ultimate Foe; Terror of the Vervoids
35 Seventh Mel 3 TV: Time and the Rani - Delta and the Bannermen
TBA Mel/Ace 1 TV: Dragonfire
36 Ace 8 TV: Remembrance of the Daleks - Survival
* Frobisher/Olla 1 COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell!
* Olla 1 COMIC: Redemption!
* Ly-Chee 1 COMIC: The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise
* Sarah Jane 1 COMIC: Train-Flight
* Ace/Raine 3 AUDIO: Crime of the Century - Earth Aid
* Benny 4 PROSE: Love and War - The Pit
* Benny/Ace 22 PROSE: Deceit - Set Piece
* Benny/Chris/Roz 12 PROSE: Original Sin - Happy Endings
* Chris/Roz 6 PROSE: GodEngine - So Vile a Sin
* Chris 4 PROSE: Bad Therapy - Lungbarrow
* Ace/Hex 19 AUDIO: The Harvest -
* Sally 1 AUDIO: House of Blue Fire
* Sally/Lysandra 1 AUDIO: Project: Nirvana
* Ace/Hex/Sally/Lysandra 3 AUDIO: TBA
* Ace/Hector 4 AUDIO: TBA
* Ace/Mel 9 AUDIO: TBA
* Mags 3 AUDIO: The Monsters of Gokroth - An Alien Werewolf in London
* Klein 4 AUDIO: A Thousand Tiny Wings - The Architects of History
* Raine 1 AUDIO: Dominion
* Klein/Will 3 AUDIO: Persuasion - Daleks Among Us
* Catherine 1 PROSE: Companion Piece
* Harry/Naomi TBD AUDIO: London Orbital - TBD
37 Eighth Grace 1 TV: Doctor Who
* Stacy 1 COMIC: Dreadnought
* Stacy/Ssard 4 COMIC: Descendance - Coda
* Sam 17 PROSE: The Eight Doctors - The Face-Eater
* Sam/Fitz 8 PROSE: The Taint - Interference - Book Two
* Fitz/Compassion 11 PROSE: Interference - Book Two - The Ancestor Cell
* Miranda 1 PROSE: Father Time
* Fitz/Anji 18 PROSE: Escape Velocity - Camera Obscura
* Fitz/Anji/Trix 6 PROSE: Time Zero - Timeless
* Fitz/Trix 8 PROSE: Emotional Chemistry - The Gallifrey Chronicles
* Izzy 15 COMIC: Endgame - By Hook or By Crook;
Happy Deathday - TV Action!;
The Autonomy Bug - Children of the Revolution; Oblivion
* Izzy/Fey 3 COMIC: Tooth and Claw - Wormwood
* Izzy/Kroton 2 COMIC: The Company of Thieves - The Glorious Dead
* Feyde/Destrii 2 COMIC: Uroboros - Oblivion
* Destrii 3 COMIC: Bad Blood - The Flood
* Samson/Gemma *
* Mary 4 AUDIO: Mary's Story - Army of Death
* Charley 13 AUDIO: Storm Warning - Scherzo; The Girl Who Never Was
* Audacity 2 AUDIO: The Devouring - The Great Cyber-War
* Charley/Audacity TBD AUDIO: Twenty-Four Doors in December - TBD
* Charley/C'rizz 14 AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon - Absolution
* Lucie 23 AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks - Death in Blackpool
* Tamsin 5 AUDIO: Situation Vacant - The Resurrection of Mars
* Molly 5 AUDIO: The Great War - X and the Daleks; The White Room
* Molly/Liv 2 AUDIO: Time's Horizon - Eyes of the Master
* Liv 8 AUDIO: Rule of the Eminence -
* Liv/Helen 36 AUDIO: The Red Lady - Stop the Clock;
Sweet Salvation - Day of the Master;
Paradox of the Daleks - Slow Beasts
* Liv/Helen/Tania 16 AUDIO: Lost Property - Best Year Ever
* Josie 5 COMIC: The Pictures of Josephine Day - A Matter of Life and Death
* Sheena 1 AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus
* Bliss 8 AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus - Restoration of the Daleks
* Cass TBD AUDIO: Meanwhile, Elsewhere - TBD
* War Fey, Ohila 1 COMIC: The Clockwise War
* Petrella 1 COMIC: Ambush
* Case 9 AUDIO: Saviour - Destroyer;
A Mother's Love - Exit Strategy
* The Squire/Child Master 3 COMIC: The Organ Grinder - Fast Asleep
* War Ollistra 3 TBA
* War Ollistra/Kalan 2 AUDIO: The Eternity Cage - Eye of Harmony
* War Ollistra/Leela 2 AUDIO: The Lady of Obsidian - The Enigma Dimension
* Cinder 1 PROSE: Engines of War
* Ninth Ali 1 PROSE: The Beast of Babylon
38 Rose 4 TV: Rose - World War Three
39 Rose/Adam 2 TV: Dalek - The Long Game
40 Rose/Jack 3 TV: The Doctor Dances - The Parting of the Ways
* Rose/Jack/Tara 2 COMIC: Official Secrets - Slaver's Song
* Rose/Tara 2 COMIC: Sin-Eaters - The Bidding War
41 Tenth Rose 8 TV: The Christmas Invasion - Tooth and Claw;
The Idiot's Lantern - Doomsday
42 Rose/Mickey 3 TV: School Reunion - The Age of Steel
43 Martha 9 TV: Smith and Jones - Last of the Time Lords
44 Donna 8 TV: Partners in Crime - Planet of the Ood;
The Unicorn and the Wasp - Journey's End
45 Donna/Martha 2 TV: The Sontaran Stratagem - The Doctor's Daughter
* Gisella 7 PROSE: The Depths of Despair - The End of Time
* Heather 43 COMIC: The Chromosome Connection - The Blue Star Bomb;
City of Light - Dead-line
* Heather/Wolfie 13 COMIC: Flight of the Giurgeax - Bad Wolfie
* Majenta 8 COMIC: Thinktwice - The Crimson Hand
* Emily/Matthew 4 COMIC: Silver Scream - Don't Step on the Grass
* Emily 2 COMIC: Old Friend - Final Sacrifice
* Gabby 8 COMIC: Revolutions of Terror - Medicine Man
* Gabby/Cindy 6 COMIC: Arena of Fear - Old Girl; Vortex Butterflies
* Cleo 1 COMIC: Revolving Doors
* Gabby/Cindy/Noobis 4 COMIC: Breakfast at Tyranny's - Vortex Butterflies; The Good Companion
* Anya/Mark 5 AUDIO: Buying Time - The Trojan Dalek
* Anya 4 AUDIO: The Lost - The Triumph of Davros
46 Eleventh Amy 6 TV: The Eleventh Hour - Flesh and Stone;
Vincent and the Doctor - The Pandorica Opens
47 Amy/Rory 18 TV: The Vampires of Venice - Cold Blood;
The Big Bang - The God Complex;
Asylum of the Daleks - The Angels Take Manhattan
48 Kazran/Abigail 1 TV: A Christmas Carol
* Amy/Rory/Kevin 3 COMIC: When Worlds Collide - Space Squid
* Alice TBD
* Alice/Jones 1
* Alice/Jones/ARC 8
* Alice/Daak/The Squire 4
* Alice/Daak/The Squire/River 7
* Alice/The Sapling 8
* Decky 20
* Valarie 14
49 Clara 10 TV: The Bells of Saint John - The Time of the Doctor
50 Twelfth Clara 25
* Jess/Devina/Lloyd/Maxwell 5
* Hattie 2
* Julie 1
* Sonny/Val 1
* Jata 6
* Alex/Brandon 4
51 Nardole 1
* The Ghost/Lucy/Jennifer 1
* Keira TBD
52 Bill 4
53 Bill/Nardole 6
54 Bill/Nardole/Missy 1
55 Thirteenth Graham/Ryan/Yaz (Team TARDIS) 22
56 Yaz 2
57 Yaz/Dan 9
58 Fourteenth Donna 3 TV: The Star Beast - The Giggle
59 Fifteenth Ruby TBD TV: The Church on Ruby Road - TBD


Footnotes

Notes

  1. Indicates number of stories this TARDIS Team appeared in their original medium, not the number of adventures had.
  2. "Peri, Frobisher, Peri and Frobisher, Peri, Grant, Peri again, Mathew Sharpe, Evelyn, Frobisher; Frobisher, Peri, Actis and Carf; Jamie and Zoe, Evelyn, Evelyn and Brewster, Evelyn, Mel, Jago and Litefoot, Mila, Jamie, Flip, Peri; Jason, Crystal and Zog; Constance, Constance and Flip, Mari, Mel, Mel and Evelyn, and Mel [again]". (AUDIO: The Firstborn)

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