Susan Foreman (also known as Susan Campbell in spin-off media) is a
fictional character in the British science fiction television series
Doctor Who. The granddaughter and original companion of the First
Doctor, she was played by actress Carole Ann Ford from 1963 to 1964,
in the show's first season and the first two stories of the second
season. Ford reprised the role for the feature-length 20th anniversary
episode The Five Doctors (1983) and the 30th anniversary charity
special Dimensions in Time (1993).Susan is introduced in the first
Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child (1963), with the first episode
focusing on her as an unusual teenager with an advanced knowledge of
history and science. This catches the attention of her teachers at
Coal Hill School, Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright
(Jacqueline Hill), who follow her home to a junkyard owned by an
unseen proprietor named I. M. Foreman. It is implied within the story
that Susan took the surname "Foreman" from this junkyard sign as an
alias for use at the school, for when her chemistry teacher made the
assumption that her grandfather was "Doctor Foreman" the Doctor
replied, "Doctor who? What's he talking about?", indicating that he
was unfamiliar with the surname. It is revealed that she and her
grandfather, the Doctor (William Hartnell), are exiles from their own
people in "another time, another world" and have been travelling
through space and time in a machine she named the TARDIS from the
acronym "Time and Relative Dimension in Space". As Ian and Barbara
have gained this knowledge, the Doctor whisks them away on the TARDIS
against their will, and he cannot accurately fly the machine.Susan
continues to travel with the Doctor and her two teachers until the
1964 serial, The Dalek Invasion of Earth. During the events of that
story, Susan falls in love with David Campbell (Peter Fraser), a young
freedom fighter in the 22nd century. However, Susan feels that she has
to stay with and take care of her grandfather. The Doctor, realising
that Susan is now a grown woman and deserves a future away from him,
locks her out of the TARDIS and leaves after a tearful farewell. Ford
reprised the role of Susan on television in the 20th anniversary
special The Five Doctors (1983), but no mention of David, or what
became of him, was made on screen. In the novelisation of the same
story, they are still married. Ford also reprised her role for the
1993 charity special Dimensions in Time.In The Curse of Fenric, the
Seventh Doctor states that he does not know if he has any family. In
"The End of the World", the Ninth Doctor states that his home world
has been destroyed and that he is the last of the Time Lords. Although
Susan is not mentioned by name, the Ninth Doctor says in "Father's
Day" that his "whole family" died, and in "The Empty Child", Doctor
Constantine remarks he has been a father and grandfather, but now he
is neither, to which the Doctor replies, "I know the feeling." In
"Fear Her", the Tenth Doctor states, "I was a dad once," but does not
elaborate on this revelation. In "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor
tells Donna Noble "I've been a father before... I lost all that a long
time ago, along with everything else", admitting, "I can see them. The
hole they left, all the pain that filled it". In "The Rings of
Akhaten", the Eleventh Doctor recounts the occasion that he travelled
with his granddaughter to the rings of the planet Akhaten. The 2013
episode "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" contains audio from the
scene in An Unearthly Child where Susan explains how she named the
TARDIS. A brief glimpse of Susan, played by an unidentified body
double, is seen in the opening scene of "The Name of the Doctor",
which depicts the Doctor and Susan leaving Gallifrey in a TARDIS.
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