Jo Grant is a fictional character played by Katy Manning in the
long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Jo
was introduced by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks in the first episode
of Doctor Who's eighth season (1971) as a new companion of series
protagonist the Doctor, in his third incarnation (Jon Pertwee). After
the Doctor's previous companion Liz Shaw (Caroline John), a scientist
and intellectual, the production team looked to introduce a less
experienced companion to act as an audience surrogate. Jo appeared in
15 stories (77 episodes).Within the series narrative, Jo is a junior
civilian operative for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, an
international organisation that defends the Earth from alien threats,
assigned as an assistant to the Doctor, who is initially stranded on
earth. Once he regains use of his time machine, the TARDIS, she
accompanies him in travels across time and space. Jo departs the
Doctor's company in the 1973 television serial The Green Death having
fallen in love with a human professor. On television, she next
encounters the Doctor over thirty-seven years later in the 2010 Sarah
Jane Adventures serial Death of the Doctor.Manning and Pertwee enjoyed
a close working relationship; Manning felt this added to the success
of the partnership between Jo and the Third Doctor. Though her
character was criticised for not being a progressive interpretation of
a woman, Manning felt both that feminism was not a contemporary
concern and Jo had her virtues aside from her intelligence, such as
her loyalty. The character's exit is generally considered one of the
emotional high points of Doctor Who's 1963â€"89 run; Russell T Davies
felt pressure to remain true to this exit when re-introducing the
character in 2010.Jo first appears in the 1971 serial Terror of the
Autons, having been assigned to the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) as a
replacement for Liz Shaw (Caroline John). Apparently, she gained the
assignment to UNIT because her uncle, a high ranking civil servant,
had "pulled some strings". Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas
Courtney) assigns her to the Doctor, who is initially dismayed when he
finds out that she is not a scientist, but accepts her because he does
not have the heart to tell her otherwise. An enthusiastic, bubbly and
sometimes scatter-brained blonde, Jo soon endears herself to the other
members of UNIT, especially Captain Mike Yates (Richard Franklin) and
Sergeant Benton (John Levene). The Third Doctor is also particularly
attached to her, and she is devoted to him, refusing to leave his side
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