Vicki Pallister
Vicki Pallister was a companion of the First Doctor.
Following the crash of the UK-201 and the death of her father, Vicki joined the Doctor, Ian and Barbara in the TARDIS to explore the universe. She encouraged the Doctor to help Ian and Barbara return to their own time, after which they travelled with Steven, with whom she formed a close friendship.
In ancient Troy, Vicki decided to leave the Doctor and Steven to marry Troilus, taking the name Cressida. She was briefly reunited with the Doctor in his eighth incarnation and recorded her adventures in her memoirs.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]
Vicki was born on Earth, (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"]) no earlier than 2479. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) Whilst most accounts agreed that she was at least born in the 25th century, (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (novelisation)"], Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) one account claimed that she was instead from the 24th century. (PROSE: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (novelisation)"]) Vicki's mother had wanted to call her "Tanni", but her father, (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) Lt-Commdr Newton Pallister (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201 [+]Loading...["The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)"]) of the Merchant Space Marine, (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Tiger (novel)"]) preferred "Vicki". (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) The trio lived together at Liddell Towers on the South Circular Road in New London. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])
As a girl, Vicki enjoyed looking at the stars at night, although they could hardly be seen from New London, (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) and counted aliens among some of her best friends. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass [+]Loading...["The Empire of Glass (novel)"]) She lived near a castle where she and her friends discovered a buried ring in a nearby field. They joked that if they pulled the ring, "something awful" would come out of the castle. (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"]) When she was young, she had a pony named Saracen. (PROSE: The Plotters [+]Loading...["The Plotters (novel)"]) She once visited the Beatles' memorial theatre in Liverpool. (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"])
As a student of a 25th century school system, she studied medicine one hour a week. (TV: The Web Planet [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"]) She also studied 20th century history, (AUDIO: The Suffering [+]Loading...["The Suffering (audio story)"]) astronomy (AUDIO: Starborn [+]Loading...["Starborn (audio story)"]) and temporal paradoxes. (PROSE: The Schoolboy's Story [+]Loading...["The Schoolboy's Story (short story)"]) She particularly loved the story of the 23rd century rebels whose sacrifice brought about the end of the totalitarian regime of Unitaria. (AUDIO: Daybreak [+]Loading...["Daybreak (audio story)"]) By the age of ten, she had obtained certificates in medicine, physics, computers, chemistry and other disciplines. (TV: The Web Planet [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"]) She was also skilled at cutting hair. (TV: Galaxy 4 [+]Loading...["Galaxy 4 (TV story)"]; AUDIO: The Suffering [+]Loading...["The Suffering (audio story)"])
Vicki's mother died when she was eleven. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) Not long after her mother's death, (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"], PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) her father took a job in a new colony on the planet Astra and left Earth with Vicki in 2493 aboard the UK-201 — or Astra Nine. (PROSE: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (novelisation)"]) The ship crash-landed on Dido. (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"]) According to one account, the crash occurred not long after setting off (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201 [+]Loading...["The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)"]) while another claimed it was eight years later. (PROSE: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (novelisation)"]) The Didoans and the survivors of the crash, aside from Vicki, were murdered by Bennett. Stranded and alone with Bennett, Vicki befriended a sand beast that she named Sandy. (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"])
Travels in the TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]
A new family[[edit] | [edit source]]
At the age of 14, (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) Vicki first met the First Doctor when he landed on Dido with Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, the latter of whom shot Sandy with a flare gun when she believed it to be a threat to Vicki. It took effort on the part of Vicki to forgive Barbara for this. With the help of the time travellers, she learnt the truth about Bennett and, after he died, she joined them in the TARDIS. Immediately following the TARDIS's first flight with Vicki aboard, it landed on a cliff edge and began to tumble off. (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"])
The exact details of the events following the TARDIS's fall off the cliff are in dispute. According to one account, the TARDIS landed in Italy near Flavius Giscard's villa, with the TARDIS crew agreeing to look after the house after its caretaker, Lucius died in Vicki's and the Doctor's arms following a lion attack. (PROSE: Romans Cutaway [+]Loading...["Romans Cutaway (short story)"]) According to another account, they landed in Thrace and spent several weeks separated in the city of Byzantium, before they regrouped and discovered the TARDIS had been stolen, heading off to Rome to retrieve it. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) eventually moving into the same villa mentioned in the first account. Regardless, both accounts occurred in the year 64 and independently lead into the agreed upon visit to Rome in July of that year, where they met Emperor Nero. Vicki unwittingly saved Barbara from being poisoned by Poppaea and told off the Doctor for insisting that she could not change history when it had been him to give Nero the idea of the Great Fire of Rome. (TV: The Romans [+]Loading...["The Romans (TV story)"])
After leaving Rome, they landed in 20th century London where Violet told her not to enter the TARDIS as it would lead to her death. However, they learnt the message had been from Stella who wished to avoid her own death. (AUDIO: Starborn [+]Loading...["Starborn (audio story)"]) They went on to visit China (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Tiger (novel)"]) and Vortis, (TV: The Web Planet [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"]) adventures that Jospa inserted himself into by manipulating the travellers' memories. They became aware of this and defeated him on the Arunde homeworld. (AUDIO: The Fifth Traveller [+]Loading...["The Fifth Traveller (audio story)"])
The TARDIS landed on Platform Five, (AUDIO: The Rocket Men [+]Loading...["The Rocket Men (audio story)"]) Noumeia (AUDIO: The Dark Planet [+]Loading...["The Dark Planet (audio story)"]) and London in 1963 (AUDIO: 1963 [+]Loading...["1963 (audio story)"]) and 1868 where they again encountered the Zarbi before Vicki, Ian and Barbara were kidnapped by Adam Mitchell. (COMIC: Unnatural Selection [+]Loading...["Unnatural Selection (comic story)"]) They were rescued by the first eleven numbered incarnations of the Doctor. (COMIC: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (POT comic story)"]) In 1190s Palestine, Vicki disguised herself as a boy and called herself "Victor" when visiting Richard the Lionheart's palace with the Doctor, (TV: The Crusade [+]Loading...["The Crusade (TV story)"]) and helped arm the Xerons on Xeros, starting a revolution. (TV: The Space Museum [+]Loading...["The Space Museum (TV story)"]) In 1605 London, she resurrected the Victor disguise and had to fight off the advances of James I. (PROSE: The Plotters [+]Loading...["The Plotters (novel)"])
Vicki experienced the shared dreaming of the people of Hisk and saw Bennett. She felt responsible for the death of a market trader who took her place in a dreaming machine. (AUDIO: The Sleeping City [+]Loading...["The Sleeping City (audio story)"]) She worked in administration on one planet, where she used her knowledge of programming to undo a memory alteration program, (AUDIO: The Unwinding World [+]Loading...["The Unwinding World (audio story)"]) and visited Unitaria where she met her childhood heroes. She also learnt the other side of the story when she was interrogated by the Governor of the republic who she knew as the Iron Judge. She realised the truth of the situation, and realised that she was the reason why history turned out the way it did. She learnt that she should never meet her heroes. (AUDIO: Daybreak [+]Loading...["Daybreak (audio story)"]) The travellers celebrated Christmas in 1963 (PROSE: All I Want for Christmas [+]Loading...["All I Want for Christmas (short story)"]) and 2004 (PROSE: Every Day [+]Loading...["Every Day (short story)"]) and, in 1400, Vicki befriended Queen Isabella. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Tale (audio story)"])
The TARDIS crew visited a number of locations across time and space whilst fleeing from the Daleks, including the Festival of Ghana where Vicki was accidentally left behind. She stowed away aboard the Dalek time machine and was reunited with her friends on Mechanus where they met Steven Taylor. Vicki encouraged the Doctor to help Ian and Barbara return to their own time in the Dalek ship and told him that she would stay, having no reason to go with them. (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"])
With Steven[[edit] | [edit source]]
When Vicki and the Doctor returned to the TARDIS, they found that Steven had stowed away aboard and began their travels with him, first travelling to 1066 Northumbria where they discovered a TARDIS belonging to the First Monk. (TV: The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"]) They landed on a planet where they were scared away by Xenith (COMIC: Are You Listening? [+]Loading...["Are You Listening? (comic story)"]) and 1912 London where Vicki fell under the influence of a misandristic alien at a suffragette rally. (AUDIO: The Suffering [+]Loading...["The Suffering (audio story)"]) In the same city in 1814, she befriended Jane Austen and defeated the Cinder, unaware that a tiny part of it survived in her eye. (AUDIO: Frostfire [+]Loading...["Frostfire (audio story)"]) She and Steven met the Fifth Doctor after the Monk meddled with the Doctor's lives. (AUDIO: The Secret History [+]Loading...["The Secret History (audio story)"])
The TARDIS landed in the attic of 10 Downing Street where they faced a time fungus. (AUDIO: Upstairs [+]Loading...["Upstairs (audio story)"]) Vicki used her statistics knowledge to search for a correlation between hull breaches and eruptions on Ceres (AUDIO: The Bounty of Ceres [+]Loading...["The Bounty of Ceres (audio story)"]) and spent several months in Spain where she was almost killed by the Spanish Inquisition. (PROSE: Managra [+]Loading...["Managra (novel)"]) Not long after, she met William Shakespeare. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass [+]Loading...["The Empire of Glass (novel)"])
In Winter, Vicki once again encountered the Daleks and was set to work transferring young Dalek mutants into finished casings and told Gaius Majorian of how she first met them on Aridius. (AUDIO: The Dalek Occupation of Winter [+]Loading...["The Dalek Occupation of Winter (audio story)"]) Immediately after leaving Winter, the crew visited T19 and Vicki became lost with the Doctor during a terraforming storm. She made her way to the station the colonists used to get to T19 and to their spaceship. (AUDIO: An Ideal World [+]Loading...["An Ideal World (audio story)"])
The TARDIS crew visited the University of Cambridge. Against the Doctor's advice, Vickie helped Steven rescue Guy Burgess and Kim Philby from falling off a wall in Sedgwick College. She wanted to know why Isaiah Hardy went missing and discovered pictures of him going back to the 1890s, with him looking exactly as he did in 1937. She disappeared in front of the Doctor when repairing a strange camera, ending up in a strange realm where she encountered Hardy and found a way out. When the TARDIS left Cambridge, something went wrong and was separated from her friends. (AUDIO: Entanglement [+]Loading...["Entanglement (audio story)"])
Vicki awoke to find her father, Newton Pallister, alive, and decided to change time to prevent the UK-201 from crashing, by warning Odessa Grey of Bennett, therefore creating a new timeline. After her father died in an meteor crash, she married Jeran Dalton and had two children. Twelve years later, she realised that she could manipulate her own personal timelines — first to stop her husband from dying, and again to stop her daughter, Carla Dalton, from a rebel attack. However, her manipulations caused things to get worse, and, with Steven's help, she restored the original timeline. (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201 [+]Loading...["The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)"])
The Doctor intended to take Steven and Vicki to the Olympic Games in 2784 but ended up landing in Florence in 1514 where they met Pope Leo X, to whom she recited poetry. (AUDIO: The Ravelli Conspiracy [+]Loading...["The Ravelli Conspiracy (audio story)"]) They also visited the French Revolution, (AUDIO: Fields of Terror [+]Loading...["Fields of Terror (audio story)"]) the Etherlands, (AUDIO: Etheria [+]Loading...["Etheria (audio story)"]) a space cannon, (PROSE: Corridors of Power [+]Loading...["Corridors of Power (short story)"]) Indiana (PROSE: The Schoolboy's Story [+]Loading...["The Schoolboy's Story (short story)"]) and Entropica. (AUDIO: Across the Darkened City [+]Loading...["Across the Darkened City (audio story)"])
At the Charles University in Prague, Vicki was sent to the TARDIS by the Doctor to protect her from Jane Childress. (PROSE: The Long Step Backward [+]Loading...["The Long Step Backward (short story)"]) She helped defeat a possessed Snowy Boots in New York City (PROSE: Snowman in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Snowman in Manhattan (short story)"]) and waited for Steven on the Phobos Station after he crashed into Mars. (PROSE: Mars [+]Loading...["Mars (ST short story)"]) The TARDIS crew stopped a war between humans and the Kel-T over mining rights on Ca-Mon Green (PROSE: The Power Supply [+]Loading...["The Power Supply (short story)"]) and locked themselves out of the TARDIS in 1762. (AUDIO: The Founding Fathers [+]Loading...["The Founding Fathers (audio story)"])
On a doomed planet, Vicki, the Doctor and Steven fought the Drahvins. (TV: Galaxy 4 [+]Loading...["Galaxy 4 (TV story)"]) They were put to sleep by the Doctor to feed a Lapino, dreaming that they were Cinderella and her prince. They remembered little about it after waking up. (PROSE: Planet of the Bunnoids [+]Loading...["Planet of the Bunnoids (short story)"]) According to one account, the Doctor promised Vicki and Steven that he would take them to 1960s London where they would belong. (PROSE: The Myth Makers [+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (novelisation)"])
Departure[[edit] | [edit source]]
In Troy circa 1200 BC, Vicki was given the name "Cressida" by King Priam and met his son, Troilus. The pair fell in love and Vicki told the Doctor that she was going to stay. Leaving the TARDIS, she found Troilus and told him that, with Aeneas, they could build another Troy following the Trojan War. (TV: The Myth Makers [+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (TV story)"]) The Doctor had previously been aware that she would leave the TARDIS and become Cressida. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) Their tale was later written as a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer and as a play by William Shakespeare.
Later life[[edit] | [edit source]]
Vicki and Troilus wandered with the Trojans in search of a place to settle following the fall of their city. In Asia Minor, a herdsman informed Vicki and Troilus of his sighting of the TARDIS, the Eighth Doctor, Charlotte Pollard and William Shakespeare, making Vicki suspect that a robot of the younger First Doctor had come. The Trojans attacked them and Vicki attempted to find the wires controlling the Doctor, eventually realising her mistake and being told the truth. She said farewell to the Doctor and decided that they would settle in Great Britain per Shakespeare's advice. (PROSE: Apocrypha Bipedium [+]Loading...["Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)"])
Vicki struggled to acclimatise to life in an era that seemed so primitive to her with people who seemed hostile, although Troilus stood by her. They ended up settling down in Carthage where, whilst weeping, she found amongst her tears a cinder from the phoenix she encountered in 1814. She kept it in a burning oil lamp in the basement of a temple and learnt that it had a telepathic connection to her. She would often talk to it as she felt that they were both alone.
Vicki and Troilus had children, whom she described as "young heroes". Later in life, she decided to write memoirs of her travels with the Doctor, although she had to pay scribes as they had a monopoly on papyrus. She dictated the story of the phoenix in 1164 BC. (AUDIO: Frostfire [+]Loading...["Frostfire (audio story)"]) When the Doctor visited the elderly Homer, Homer told him that Vicki was middle-aged but still in love. (PROSE: The Myth Makers [+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (novelisation)"])
At a later point, Vicki knew a child named Sophia, who loved to hear stories about Vicki’s past, having told her mother those stories when she was Sophia's age. One day, while walking through a garden, Vicki would tell her about her life and what shaped her into the person she was. (WC: The Storyteller [+]Loading...["The Storyteller (webcast)"])
Her grandson Antiphus told her that that the TARDIS had landed in her olive grove. She entered discovering an ill Doctor in the console room asking her to take him to get medically treated. She was taken to perpetuity station where they encountered Hedra, Oltan and Tarmis. The Doctor apparently had temporal amnesia and she told her life. She realised the people they had met were robots after injuring Tarmis' arm. Shortly afterwards she saw a DARDIS arrive, she derived a plan to facilitate her escape. She wanted a rest, but the Doctor persuaded her leave the TARDIS. She was concerned when the TARDIS translation circuits weren't working when they encountered some savages. Trying to enter her room, she found it locked which she found unusual, with the Doctor saying there was an alien invader her. They landed in the USA in 1876, where they encountered George Armstrong Custer. She realised that they had arrived before the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Intially they were captured, but they were released by James. She realised it was the Robot Doctor she was travelling with after it was injured by a Sioux arrow. She tried to hide this. After a brief landing on 20th Century Earth, they landed on the glass moon Vitros where she thought of having the Daleks fall through the surface due to their weight. She was fascinated by local fauna. She revealed that she knew the truth that she was travelling with a robot. She realised that she wanted to travel with the Doctor again because she was now a widow. She released Dodo Chaplet from the room hoping it was the real Doctor. Dodo told her about the Doctor disappearing after visiting Incherton. The DARDIS materialised around the TARDIS, and she was captured by the Daleks. She was taken to the Dalek Supreme, who was really the Doctor. He told her how he came to be in the Dalek Time Machine. On the Doctor's orders she found the robot Doctor, and tried to persuade it to stop it becoming a nuclear explosion. It told her how to deactivate it, which she undertook. She thanked the Doctor for rescuing all her and giving her all those travels. (AUDIO: Fugitive of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Daleks (audio story)"])
When she was brought to the remembered TARDIS, Vicki reunited with Steven, and the pair thought of how they met the First Monk at the Battle of Hastings. Convinced the Doctor was watching them, Vicki and Steven made a wish for him to join them, and he then appeared in the TARDIS with them, giving them a chuckle. (TV: The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TotT TV story)"])
Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]
A photo of Vicki existed in the Black Archive (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
Alternate timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]
In an alternate timeline in which Vicki was able to prevent the UK-201's crash on Dido, she married Jeran Dalton who comforted her after her father's death in a meteor shower. The couple had two daughters: Carla, a medic who died in a rebel attack, and Maria, a governor who made peace with said rebels. Jeran died after attending a conference attempting to deal with an outbreak of space plague. Vicki lived to the age of 170, when she suffered from an apparent stroke in a care home after being attacked by temporal creatures.
At the moment of her death, she discovered that she had the ability to modify her timeline and travelled back to prevent Jeran's and Carla's deaths. This meant that the rebellion grew and Maria was too involved in a refugee crisis to become governor and negotiate peace, allowing the rebels to achieve victory. Vicki and her family became refugees themselves.
She travelled back again to save her father, but he blamed her for his post-traumatic stress due to her not warning his colleagues. She did not meet Jeran and spent more than eight years alone, during which Newton refused to speak to her.
Wanting her family back, Vicki modified the timeline again and let her father die. However, without a perfect repeat of events, her marriage with Jeran went differently. They had a son, Carl, instead of Carla, and Maria had different hair and eyes. She was horrified at the thought of never seeing her two original daughters again and decided to try and escape the altered timeline.
With Steven's intervention, Vicki returned to the UK-201 and relived the events there as perfectly as she could remember them. The ship crashed and the other survivors left her on the ship as they went to contact the Didoans, where they were murdered by Bennett. The old timeline was restored and Vicki returned to travelling in time with the Doctor and Steven, though she could still remember her different lives and chose to preserve these memories. (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201 [+]Loading...["The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)"])
In an aborted timeline, the Decayed Master used a conceptual bomb, which caused the TARDIS to fold in on itself, slowly erasing itself from history. While at first, Vicki, Steven, and multiple versions of the Doctor were drawn to a location on the 23rd of November, 1963, 59A Barnsfield Crescent, Totton Hampshire, soon it was made so that way Vicki never travelled with or met the Doctor. This timeline was later negated primarily by the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and First Doctors. (AUDIO: The Light at the End [+]Loading...["The Light at the End (audio story)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Seventh Doctor chanted Vicki's name, amongst those of other companions, when under attack by the Haemovores. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"])
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
Vicki described herself as a "plucky orphan" and, generally, a happy person. (AUDIO: The Suffering [+]Loading...["The Suffering (audio story)"]) She was keen for adventure and was hugely excited when she met Nero, but got bored when staying in one place for too long. (TV: The Romans [+]Loading...["The Romans (TV story)"]) She was intelligent and knowledgeable on a range of subjects, but did not know about the finer points of Earth's past; she did not know the Beatles' music and called 1960s New York City "ancient". (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"]) She was also unaware of the nature and location of the Battle of Trafalgar (PROSE: The Plotters [+]Loading...["The Plotters (novel)"]) and whether or not pandas and aeroplanes existed in China in 1863. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Tiger (novel)"])
Her youth and willingness to try anything enabled her to save the travellers from danger by inciting the Xeron rebels to action at the Space Museum. Using her considerable analytical and technical skills, Vicki reprogrammed the Morok armoury's computer to allow the rebels access to the weaponry stored there, enabling them to fight. (TV: The Space Museum [+]Loading...["The Space Museum (TV story)"]) The Doctor considered her to be "rather wilful". (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Tale (audio story)"])
Despite her bravado, Vicki was terrified of heights. While they escaped from the Mechonoid City, the Doctor had to blindfold her. The travellers, with Steven Taylor's assistance, then had to lower her the fifteen hundred feet by rope. (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"])
Whether teasing, or merely undiplomatic, Vicki had a knack of saying the wrong thing to Barbara, despite their close relationship. Right off, she said that Barbara Wright must be "about five hundred and fifty years old" as she came from 1963. (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"]) On Vortis, Vicki said aspirin tablets were old fashioned – until she saw some in the Doctor's first aid kit, she had never heard of them. She also offended Barbara by responding to her statement that the main subjects taught at her school were the 3 R's by asking if Barbara's school had been a nursery. (TV: The Web Planet [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"])
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
Vicki had short, cropped fair hair and huge, dark eyes. She had fine, high eyebrows which gave her an air of alert surprise, a pale, oval face that was almost fragile, a Norman nose and a small mouth that suggested Joan of Arc. (PROSE: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (novelisation)"], Doctor Who and the Crusaders [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Crusaders (novelisation)"], Galaxy Four [+]Loading...["Galaxy Four (novelisation)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The production team had originally considered the older and more independent Jenny (originally named Saida) from The Dalek Invasion of Earth as Susan Foreman's replacement in the cast.
- Originally, Vicki had the more futuristic-sounding name Tanni. Before settling on Vicki, the production team thought of several other possible names, including Valerie, Millie, and Lukki. Earlier drafts of The Rescue bore the working title Doctor Who and Tanni.
- A letter shown on the Mounting The Rescue documentary included with the DVD release of The Rescue says that two girls from Liverpool — Maureen O'Brien and Denise Upson — were tested for the role of Vicki on Monday, 14 September 1964.
- The Past Doctors Adventure novel Byzantium! revealed Vicki's previously unknown surname, Pallister, which was never mentioned on-screen in any televised episodes. This was reinforced in another novel, The Eleventh Tiger, in which Vicki thinks about Lieutenant Commander Pallister, her father. Big Finish Productions followed suit with the use of Pallister. The Early Adventures audio story, The Crash of the UK-201, gives Vicki's father's full name as Newton Pallister. Vicki also gives her full name in Daybreak from The Companion Chronicles.
- Vicki is one of several human characters featured in the series whose last names were never revealed on-screen. Others include Ace, Polly and Mel, though, like Vicki, spin-off media provided last names.
- The documentary Mounting The Rescue revealed that the producers wanted Maureen O'Brien to dye her hair black to make her resemble Susan more. Maureen refused, and instead suggested the alternative of getting Carole Ann Ford back.
- In the real world, the story of Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy: they pledge everlasting love, but when she is given up to the Greeks as a hostage, she falls in love with Diomedes and is blamed as a traitor and a cheater. In The Myth Makers, Steven Taylor uses the name Diomedes.
- She was written out of the show after Maureen O'Brien complained about her dialogue. This came as a shock to O'Brien, as she had not expressed any desire to leave. Both William Hartnell and Peter Purves were upset at her departure and Donald Tosh later admitted that it could have been handled better.
- She was originally going to appear in The Daleks' Master Plan and was going to be killed off instead of Katarina.
- It is strongly implied in The Storyteller that Sophia is Vicki's granddaughter.
Vicki's age[[edit] | [edit source]]
In Vicki's first appearance in The Rescue, she mentions that she left Earth in 2493. She also seems to have been stranded on Dido with Bennett for some time, but it does not specify how long and also does not clarify how long Vicki and her father had been travelling to Astra before the crash. Subsequent sources have given different, occasionally contradictory accounts of Vicki's age:
- In The Web Planet, Vicki mentions that she was studying at school when she was ten.
- Byzantium! states that Vicki's mother died when she was eleven, while at the start of the story, set on the same day she joined the TARDIS in The Rescue, it is stated that she is fourteen-years-old.
- Meanwhile, in the novelisation of The Rescue, Vicki tells Ian and Barbara that she left Earth with her father "eight years ago" in 2493. Additionally, she later tells them that she has been stranded on Dido so long that "it seems like a whole lifetime".
- Finally, The Crash of the UK-201 states that Vicki and her father left for Astra a month after her mother's death, it instead states that the crash happened not long after the voyage to Astra had begun.
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