According to Temmosus, friendship grew with time. Those bonded by friendship were known as friends. (TV: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"]) The bonding of friends could be through different situations, including that of stress or traumatic incidence. (TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart [+]Loading...["Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)"])
Friendship was rare among the Sevateem. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm [+]Loading...["Chronoclasm (audio story)"]) Daleks did not have friends. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Friendship was a value that was taught on Sesame Street. (PROSE: Writer's Notes [+]Loading...["Writer's Notes (short story)"])
In 100,000 BC, Ian Chesterton told Hur that he was her friend, but she did not understand the term, and thought that "Friend" was his name. (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"])
The Doctor
In 1963, the First Doctor described himself and Susan Foreman as being without friends after being cut off from their own planet. (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"})
The Doctor's friends
According to the Eleventh Doctor, he never forgot his friends. (PROSE: Hello! [+]Loading...["Hello! (short story)"]) Some of the individuals the Doctor counted as his friends, at various points, included: Sarah Jane Smith, (TV: The Seeds of Doom [+]Loading...["The Seeds of Doom (TV story)"], The Masque of Mandragora [+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"]) K9, (TV: Underworld [+]Loading...["Underworld (TV story)"], The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"], The Pirate Planet [+]Loading...["The Pirate Planet (TV story)"]) Bernice Summerfield, (AUDIO: The Unknown [+]Loading...["The Unknown (audio story)"]) Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell [+]Loading...["Minuet in Hell (audio story)"]) Charley Pollard, (AUDIO: Embrace the Darkness [+]Loading...["Embrace the Darkness (audio story)"]) Donna Noble, (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) Clara Oswald, (TV: Heaven Sent [+]Loading...["Heaven Sent (TV story)"]) Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, and Yasmin Khan. (TV: Resolution [+]Loading...["Resolution (TV story)"])
Charley Pollard and the Eighth Doctor expressed their love for each other as friends. (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"])
The Doctor also had many best friends. (TV: The Seeds of Doom [+]Loading...["The Seeds of Doom (TV story)"], The Masque of Mandragora [+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"], Underworld [+]Loading...["Underworld (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Unknown [+]Loading...["The Unknown (audio story)"], Quantum of Axos [+]Loading...["Quantum of Axos (audio story)"], etc.)
Early on in his life, the Fifteenth Doctor reflected on the new friends he would have. (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Heroes of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"})
Allusion to aliens
In an interview hosted by Mickey for his website in early 2006, Henry Van Statten referred to aliens as "our friends up there". (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"])