Cast change confirmed

[captainkirk]

So it was announced that Tosin Cole and Bradley Walsh are leaving the show at the end of the upcoming special. It'll be sad to see them go as they've had the best interactions and arc for the past two seasons. Now maybe they'll finally give Yaz something to do.

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who-cast-shake-up-confirmed/

 

[Samurai8472]

Jodie also broke down emotionally after filming her final scenes with Bradley and Tosin

Jodie Whittaker was in tears after filming last Dr Who scenes with Bradley Walsh

 

[captainkirk]

Hmmm, the way she says that it's the last time we're going to see them would seem to imply that they don't simply choose to stop traveling with her. It sounds like something more permanent happens to them.

 

[JD]

So is it going to be just the Doctor and Yaz now? Or are they going to bring other companions?
If it is just the Doctor and Yaz will that be the first time we've had a Doctor with a companion who is the same sex they are?

 

[Redfern]

...will that be the first time we've had a Doctor with a companion who is the same sex they are?

A female Doctor with just a singular female traveling companion, well, yes. But Patrick Troughton's 2nd Doctor was accompanied by Jamie, a Scottish Highlander. I'm trying to remember if there were any serials with just the two of them, or if there was also a female companion always present. It's implied in "The Two Doctors" (a Colin Baker 6th Doctor story) that they traveled as a pair for a while, but that was nearly 20 years later production-wise.

 

[captainkirk]

So is it going to be just the Doctor and Yaz now? Or are they going to bring other companions?
If it is just the Doctor and Yaz will that be the first time we've had a Doctor with a companion who is the same sex they are?

Did Four and Adric have any serials alone together? The only stories I've seen with both of them are The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis.

 

[DigificWriter]

As noted, The Two Doctors features the Second Doctor and Jamie as a two-person TARDIS crew; there are also several non-televised prose and comic stories chronicling their further adventures as a pair.

 

[matthunter]

Logically, Five and Turlough during the period between Tegan noping out and Peri bikini'ing in.

 

[Samurai8472]

Hmmm, the way she says that it's the last time we're going to see them would seem to imply that they don't simply choose to stop traveling with her. It sounds like something more permanent happens to them.

It would certainly strengthen the need for Yaz to travel with the doctor. Perhaps Graham and Ryan do die and Yaz stays with the doctor because she doesn't want her to be alone.

 

[DigificWriter]

Logically, Five and Turlough during the period between Tegan noping out and Peri bikini'ing in.

Kamelion was there during that time period.

 

[Marc]

A female Doctor with just a singular female traveling companion, well, yes. But Patrick Troughton's 2nd Doctor was accompanied by Jamie, a Scottish Highlander. I'm trying to remember if there were any serials with just the two of them, or if there was also a female companion always present.

I don't think so.

Ben and Polly left at the End of the Faceless ones which leads into Evil of The Daleks and Victoria. She leaves in Fury from The Deep which is followed by Wheel in Space and Zoe.

 

[VDCNI]

Evil Of The Daleks is the closest to being just the Doctor and Jamie as they don't meet Victoria until a few episodes into the story. Wheel Of Space less so as they meet Zoe early on.

Keeper Of Traken and the first episode or so of Logopolis are technically Doctor and Adric only though Nyssa is in Keeper but presented as a supporting character.

Planet Of Fire starts off as Doctor and Turlough but they meet Peri pretty early on.

 

[JD]

Just to be clear, I meant stories we actually saw/read/heard with just the Doctor and male companion, so I'm not really counting time between series.
So it sounds like other the The Second Doctor and Jaime and in The Two Doctors and a few novels and comics, most of the other times it was just the Doctor and another guy it was at the start of a serial and by the end a woman had joined them?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Hmmm, the way she says that it's the last time we're going to see them would seem to imply that they don't simply choose to stop traveling with her. It sounds like something more permanent happens to them.

If it's anything like Star Trek Discovery, maybe it's just too much emotionalism going around

 

[matthunter]

Kamelion was there during that time period.

And imprinted on the blokes, so all boys.

Besides, you could argue there's always a K-9 lurking about, or the butterflies in the Butterfly Room (some of them must be females), or those wandering Sontarans....

And the TARDIS is female, or at least seems to identify as such...

 

[C.E. Evans]

Hmmm, the way she says that it's the last time we're going to see them would seem to imply that they don't simply choose to stop traveling with her. It sounds like something more permanent happens to them.

I think Jodie will simply miss working with Bradley and Tosin. They were with her from the start and "The Four Musketeers" really won't be the same without them. As far as their characters, I think this newest encounter with the Daleks will give Graham and Ryan an incentive to leave the TARDIS while Yaz will want to continue having more adventures.

 

[Guy Gardener]

i still think that Ryan should have gone off with the king.

He could have fixed the word as a queen.

 

[Captain Crow]

will that be the first time we've had a Doctor with a companion who is the same sex they are?

A female Doctor with just a singular female traveling companion, well, yes. But Patrick Troughton's 2nd Doctor was accompanied by Jamie, a Scottish Highlander. I'm trying to remember if there were any serials with just the two of them, or if there was also a female companion always present. It's implied in "The Two Doctors" (a Colin Baker 6th Doctor story) that they traveled as a pair for a while, but that was nearly 20 years later production-wise.

There's been a couple of stories where the Doctor has had a same sex companion.

Hartnell's Doctor with Steven Tyler in "The Massacre".

Troughton's Doctor with Jamie McCrimmon in "The Evil of the Daleks", "The Wheel in Space", and "The Two Doctors".

T Baker's Doctor with Adric in "The Keeper of Traken" and "Logopolis".

Davison's Doctor with Vislor Turlough in "Planet of Fire".

Capaldi's Doctor with Nardole in "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".

 

[kirk55555]

Well, they're finally removing the two useless companions. Now if Chibnall can also leave, the show might have a chance.

 

[Starkers]

There's been a couple of stories where the Doctor has had a same sex companion.

Hartnell's Doctor with Steven Tyler in "The Massacre".

Troughton's Doctor with Jamie McCrimmon in "The Evil of the Daleks", "The Wheel in Space", and "The Two Doctors".

T Baker's Doctor with Adric in "The Keeper of Traken" and "Logopolis".

Davison's Doctor with Vislor Turlough in "Planet of Fire".

Capaldi's Doctor with Nardole in "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".

Depending on your definition of a companion I'd also include;

Ten and Jackson Lake in The Next Doctor

Ten and Wilf in The End of Time