Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw is a fictional character played by Caroline John
in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor
Who and its spin-offs. A civilian member of UNIT, an international
organisation that defends the Earth from alien threats, she was the
companion of the Third Doctor for the 1970 season. Liz appeared in 4
stories (25 episodes).Liz Shaw first appears in the first serial of
the seventh season (1970), Spearhead from Space, having been drafted
from the University of Cambridge by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart as a
scientific advisor to UNIT. She is an accomplished scientist, an
expert on meteorites with degrees in medicine, physics and a dozen
other subjects. Her extensive training, however, is still pale in
comparison to the Doctor's own knowledge of the universe and
scientific principles far beyond those of Earth. Sceptical at first of
UNIT's ambit to defend against alien invasion, Shaw changes her mind
when she encounters the newly regenerated Doctor and becomes involved
in defeating the plans of the Nestene Consciousness and its animated
plastic Autons.Liz continues to work with the Doctor and UNIT through
encounters with the Silurians, the so-called Ambassadors of Death and
the Inferno project, where the Doctor also encountered Section Leader
Elizabeth Shaw, an alternative version of the scientist in a parallel
universe. She eventually resigns from UNIT and returns to Cambridge;
there was no "farewell scene" on screen for Liz, with her departure
simply being announced by the Brigadier at the beginning of Terror of
the Autons. She reportedly told the Brigadier that all the Doctor
really needed was someone to pass him his test tubes and tell him how
brilliant he was.Liz's life after leaving UNIT is not explored in the
series. In the Seventh Doctor serial Battlefield (1989), the Doctor
gives Ace a fake ID with the name Elizabeth Shaw. Additionally, in the
2010 The Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of the Doctor Colonel Tia
Karim mentions that "Miss Shaw can't get back from Moonbase until
Sunday." Caroline John appeared as an illusory image of Liz in the
20th Anniversary television movie The Five Doctors (1983), and as Liz
herself in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time. Liz Shaw Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter