Victoria Waterfield

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Doctor Who character
Victoria Waterfield
Victoria
Affiliated with	Second Doctor
Race	Human
Home planet	Earth
Home era	1866
First appearance	The Evil of the Daleks
Last appearance	Fury from the Deep (official series) Downtime (spin-off media)
Portrayed by	Deborah Watling

Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A native of Victorian England, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1967 to 1968.

1 Character history
2 List of appearances

[edit] Character history

Victoria first appears in the 1967 serial The Evil of the Daleks. She is the daughter of scientist Edward Waterfield (played by John Bailey), who in 1866 is experimenting with time travel and has attracted the attention of the Daleks. At the conclusion of the adventure, Waterfield is killed saving the Doctor's life, and asks him to take care of Victoria. The Doctor and his then-current companion Jamie take her in as part of the TARDIS crew.

On the outside, Victoria is a typically fragile lady of her era, frequently screaming when faced with the creatures the Doctor and his companions encounter in their travels, such as the Cybermen and the Yeti, the latter which are automatons of the disembodied Great Intelligence. However, this exterior hides an inner strength that crops up when needed. Victoria may be young, but she has an instinct for when she is being lied to, and her sensibility is a contrast to the recklessness of Jamie and the curiosity of the Doctor. Jamie, in particular, is very protective towards and fond of Victoria, and is heartbroken when she chooses to leave.

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Despite being a good match to her two companions, Victoria eventually finds herself unsuited to extended travel with the Doctor. At the conclusion of the serial Fury from the Deep, she decides to leave the TARDIS, settling with a family named Harris in the 20th century. Her subsequent life is not shown in the television series, but in the spin-off video and novel Downtime, an older Victoria comes to grapple with the Great Intelligence once more, with the help of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sarah Jane Smith. She is mentioned, but not seen to be travelling with the Second Doctor in the 1985 serial The Two Doctors (see Season 6B). In Downtime, her middle name is revealed to be Maud, being born in 1849 to Edward Joseph Waterfield and Edith Rose Waterfield. Like all spin-off media, the canonicity of this information is debatable.

Deborah Watling reappeared as Victoria in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time. Watling also performed in the Big Finish Productions audio play Three's a Crowd opposite Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, although playing a character other than Victoria.