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.
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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)
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'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.
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]]
- Terror of the Autons
- The Mind of Evil
- The Claws of Axos
- Colony in Space
- The Dæmons
- Day of the Daleks
- The Curse of Peladon
- The Sea Devils
- The Mutants
- The Time Monster
- The Three Doctors
- Carnival of Monsters
- Frontier in Space
- Planet of the Daleks
- The Green Death
- The Power of the Doctor - Jo Jones
The Sarah Jane Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Death of the Doctor - Jo Jones
Webcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]
Tales of the TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Three Doctors - Jo Jones
The Collection Blu-Ray Trailers[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Jo Jones
Doctor Who: Lockdown![[edit] | [edit source]]
Video Games[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Infinity[[edit] | [edit source]]
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]
Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Light at the End
- The Legacy of Time
- Masterful
- Masterful - Jo Jones
The Lost Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ravenous 3[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Third Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Volume One
- Volume Two
- Volume Three
- Volume Four
- Volume Five
- Volume Six
- Volume Eight
- The Return of Jo Jones
- Supernature - Jo Jones
- The Conservitors - Jo Jones
- The Iron Shore - Jo Jones
The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doll of Death
- The Mists of Time
- Find and Replace
- Tales from the Vault
- The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
- The Scorchies
- Ghost in the Machine
- The Elixir of Doom
Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A True Gentleman
- Walls of Confinement
- Pop-Up
- Lost in the Wakefield Triangle
- Time Tunnel
- The Other Woman
- The Same Face
- The Infinite Today
UNIT: The New Series[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Tidal Wave - Jo Jones
- United - Jo Jones
The Eighth of March[[edit] | [edit source]]
The War Master[[edit] | [edit source]]
Torchwood[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]
Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]
Bernice Summerfield[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris Wildthyme[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Wildthyme at Large
- The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme
- The Sound of Fear
- The Land of Wonder
- The Two Irises
- The Panda Invasion
- Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa
- The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society
- Iris Rides Out
- Midwinter Murders
- Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme?
- Iris at the Oche
- A Lift in Time
- Comeback of the Scorchies
- Dark Side
- Oracle of the Supermarket
- Murder at the Abbey
- The Slots of Giza
- High Spirits
- An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium
- Looking for a Friend
The Verb[[edit] | [edit source]]
Other roles
Television[[edit] | [edit source]]
Other[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot - herself
Video Games[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who: Infinity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Orphans of the Polyoptra - Zarbi Supremo
- The Lady of the Lake - Delyth
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
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]]
- Annihilation - Magistrix Borusa
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]]
- Where on Earth Is... Katy Manning Because She'd Really Like to Know!
- Lust in Space
- Doctor Who: A New Dimension
- The World of Who
- Weird Science
- Why on Earth?
- I Get a Side-Kick Out of You
- Bringing Back the Doctor
- Hello Sailor!
- The Rumble in the Jungle
- Destroy All Monsters!
- My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen
- The Doctor's Moriarty
- Life on Earth
- The UNIT Family
- Blasting the Past
- IMC Needs You!
- Happy Birthday to Who
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- The Devil Rides Out
- Axon Stations!
- A Dandy and a Clown
- The One with the Maggots
- Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
- Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
- Behind the Sofa
- Location Location Location: Season 9
- Time and Atlantis
Audio commentary[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Writing Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
Short Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
Origin Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Mulkern, Patrick (25 April 2012). "I've been a naughty girl" - Doctor Who companion Katy Manning interviewed. RadioTimes. Retrieved on 13 December 2016.
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide