Barbara Wright is a fictional character in the British science fiction
television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. She
was one of the programme's first regulars and appeared in the bulk of
its first two seasons from 1963â€"65, played by Jacqueline Hill.
Barbara appeared in 16 stories (74 episodes). In the film version of
one of the serials, Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), Barbara was played
by actress Jennie Linden, but with a very different personality and
backstory, which includes her being a granddaughter of "Dr
Who".Barbara Wright first appears in the first Doctor Who serial, An
Unearthly Child (1963), where she is teaching history at Coal Hill
School in London in 1963, working with science teacher Ian Chesterton
(William Russell). They are curious about their student Susan Foreman
(Carole Ann Ford), who shows an unusually advanced knowledge of
science and history, but a rudimentary knowledge of other subjects. In
an attempt to learn more about Susan, Barbara and Ian follow her home
to a junkyard, where they hear her voice coming from what appears to
be a police box. During a confrontation with her grandfather, the
Doctor (William Hartnell), Barbara rushes in to the police box, only
to discover that its exterior hides the much larger interior of the
TARDIS. After the Doctor reveals to Barbara and Ian that he and Susan
are aliens exiled from their own planet, he tells them he cannot risk
their revealing information about the TARDIS to their contemporary
world, and dematerialises the craft against Susan's protests. At this
point in the series the Doctor had no control over where or when it
would land, making a return to London in 1963 impossible to
co-ordinate. They are transported back in time to 100,000 BCE Earth,
where they are captured by a prehistoric tribe seeking the secret of
fire. Once they escape back to the TARDIS, their second trip takes
them to the planet Skaro, where they encounter the Daleks for the
first time. At the end of the first episode of that serial, Barbara
becomes separated from her fellow travellers and is threatened by an
unseen creature with a metal arm, marking the first appearance of a
Dalek.In the subsequent story, The Edge of Destruction, tensions
between the TARDIS crew reach the point of overt conflict when he
accuses them of trying to sabotage the TARDIS in an attempt to return
to 1963. Barbara remains level-headed and logical, allowing the Doctor
to trace the source of the distress to telepathic influences from the
TARDIS (which is trying to warn them of a major failure). Seeing that
Barbara has been hurt by his accusations, the Doctor apologises and
begins to realise he can rely on the two teachers, sealing a
friendship which lasts until their eventual departure from the TARDIS.
Although mutually respectful and increasingly affectionate, the
relationship between the Doctor and Barbara is often tested by their
opposing viewpoints. In The Aztecs, Barbara is mistaken for the
reincarnation of a high priest, Yetaxa, after they find her in
possession of his bracelet. Barbara seizes this opportunity to change
the course of history, and tries to persuade the Aztecs to abandon
human sacrifice, so that by the time Hernán Cortés â€" who overthrew
the Aztec empire â€" lands he will find a glorious civilisation. The
Doctor warns Barbara that she cannot rewrite history, but his protests
fall on deaf ears. Barbara fails and, although she has influenced some
Aztecs, history remains on course.Angry at Ian, the Doctor tries to
take him and Barbara home, but in The Reign of Terror they end up in
the French Revolution, where Barbara and Susan are captured and nearly
guillotined. In the second season opener, Planet of Giants (1964), the
TARDIS crew are miniaturised and Barbara becomes infected by a deadly
insecticide. Barbara sees the departure of Susan and aids in the
rescue of the abandoned orphan Vicki (Maureen O'Brien), who takes
Susan's place on the TARDIS. In the subsequent adventure, The Romans,
Barbara is sold off as a slave and ends up as a servant in Nero's
palace; due to his interest in her, Nero's wife Poppaea tries to
poison her. Barbara and Ian leave in The Chase (1965). After the
Daleks who have been pursuing the TARDIS have been destroyed, Barbara
suggests to Ian they use the abandoned Dalek time machine to get home.
The Doctor is furious and tries to persuade them to stay with him by
suggesting the journey might kill them, but the two teachers had made
up their minds. After an emotional farewell to the Doctor and Vicki,
Barbara and Ian are returned to London, albeit two years after their
disappearance. Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor uses the time-space
visualiser to check they have returned safely, and tells Vicki how
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