Heartbreak was looming – Joan’s love for John didn’t survive his transformation back into the Doctor. She reconnected with Gwen, telling her that she and Tom had broken up and that she missed the excitement that she got travelling with the Doctor. [4] Martha becomes frustrated because The Doctor is oblivious to her feelings for him, and she expresses concern that she is simply a rebound after The Doctor's painful loss of his previous companion, Rose Tyler (Billie Piper). (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky), She phoned Captain Jack when stationed at the CERN Facility in Switzerland when the Large Hadron Collider was scheduled to be activated. Together again Following the airdate of "Last of the Time Lords", the BBC announced that the character would return to screens in three episodes of Torchwood Series 2, before rejoining David Tennant's Tenth Doctor alongside new companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) for five episodes in the fourth series of Doctor Who. Winehousefan, 23:17, July 11, 2010 [UTC] Rose still bugs me. (COMIC: House Pests). At the end of Series Three, she'd struggled for a year, and travelled alone, and saw all this hardship, her family tortured... that's going to have affected her. After returning to life on Earth, becoming engaged and finishing her medical degree, Martha finds a newfound level of independence when she is recruited into the paranormal military organisations UNIT, and briefly Torchwood. 6 years ago. General Cobb was enraged and shot at the Doctor, but Jenny leapt in the way of the bullet, and was killed instead. It's great to see Adjoa there, representing the Jones clan, even though it's a fleeting appearance. "Death", a force possessing Harper, made the gauntlet attack Martha which aged her considerably, but reverted back again after Owen defeated the Death being. She doesn’t “change” the doctor, the way the other companions do, … For a moment, she thinks these terms could be racist (the Doctor quips that it is "political correctness gone mad"), but realises Shakespeare is actually enamoured of her. "[11], Despite the set up at the end of Doctor Who series four, Martha does not appear in Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009). (TV: Children of Earth: Day One), One adventure saw Martha and Mickey battle a Sontaran, Jask. How much Love Islanders could earn in everyday jobs - thanks to secret skills Widower Carlos, now 75, features heavily in the Netflix documentary along with María Marta’s family who are keen to prove their innocence, and he says: “My goal is to know who did it. However she would later work with UNIT and Torchwood, allowing her to have further adventures with the Doctor. She slipped into a pit of killer quicksand, but Hath Peck saved her life by sacrificing his own. [18] Martha made her Big Finish Productions debut in the Torchwood audio drama "Dissected", released in February 2020. In the same episode, Martha notes that an "impeccable source" recommended her employment to UNIT, implying the Doctor holds the highest level of faith in Martha's capability. Her subsequent appearance at the end of TV: The End of Time again fuelled speculation of a possible future Torchwood appearance, which did not come about in the revived Torchwood. The power relationship this affords the Doctor and Martha is challenged, in Martha's favour, for the first time in "42", when an alien possession leaves the Doctor "scared"; according to Agyeman, Martha "has to take control". (TV: The Day of the Doctor), In an alternate reality that was created by the Time Beetle, one of the Trickster's Brigade, Martha met Sarah Jane and Luke Smith (as well as Maria Jackson and Clyde Langer) instead of the Doctor when the Royal Hope Hospital was moved to the Moon by the Judoon. Point number one, I’m usually told, is that Martha was too “clingy” to Tennant’s Doctor. [15] When asked about canonicity, IDW executive editor Chris Ryall dodged the issue by saying all the comics are "blessed" by Russell T Davies but it is up to the individual how canonical each story is. The three of them used a "spell" to defeat a trio of witch-like Carrionites who were using Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Won as a spell to bring other Carrionites to Earth; Martha's use of the word "Expelliarmus" when Shakespeare was unable to think of the right word to end on proved vital in defeating them. As the Hath and the humans appeared, the Doctor released the Source. Martha found the Temple and was reunited with the Doctor, Donna, and Jenny. (TV: Army of Ghosts) She would note that they had shared a resemblance. She was working under the "by-the-book" Colonel Mace, who was in charge of the operation. (TV: Reset), Martha is captured by the Pharm. She refused, (TV: Journey's End) feeling that there was too much sadness "baked into the bay" after the deaths of Owen and Tosh. Freema Agyeman told the school publication The Newspaper that Martha is older and more secure than Rose. (PROSE: The Frozen Wastes), Martha's record as a companion of the Doctor was taken by UNIT in the Black Archive. Sarah Jane told Martha everything about her son Luke Smith. Grandparents: One called, Rose Tyler. Humans who have been inside the Doctor's TARDIS, Humans sent to the past by Weeping Angels, Individuals who remembered the Year That Never Was, Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/2007a.html, https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Martha_Jones?oldid=3033226, Articles that were originally Wikipedia forks, Martha seems to be a popular character for writers to have impersonated by someone else. Anonymous. One more memorable moment Soon after, they were attacked by the Hath, which resulted in Martha becoming separated from the Doctor and Donna, and taken by the Hath. Her "normal" status is also highlighted when she becomes the first character "to be heard swearing" in Doctor Who. (TV: Last of the Time Lords) She was later engaged to Tom, but eventually married Mickey Smith instead. Once with an alien surgical device to remove the Mayfly, and soon after by taking a bullet meant for her. Dewayne Shephard. His race is nearly extinct, and he knows no amount of good deeds will justify what he'd done. [23] An article in The Times speculated that, since Agyeman has martial arts skills, she may have "a more physical approach" to the role. (PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage) Martha had three trumpet lessons in Year 6 of primary school. She told him that “her” John was dead, and the Doctor was just a man who looked like him. She was the love interest of The Grinch and Mayor Augustus Maywho. [16][17] The special radio episode's plot focuses on the Large Hadron Collider's activation and the doomsday scenario some predicted it might incite, as well as the Torchwood team's mourning of Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori) and Owen's recent deaths in the Torchwood second series finale. Through exposition, it is revealed that Martha has become a "medical officer" for international paranormal investigations agency UNIT since qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine. Doctor Who star Freema Agyeman is reprising her role as Martha Jones, almost a decade after she last played the part.. Martha: Half-fish, half-human. Not long after UNIT took control of the factory, Martha was kidnapped by two Sontaran-controlled soldiers and put in a cloning pool to be copied. Partner: Before doing so, the Doctor recorded a video of instructions for Martha to follow so she might reference them in the future. Martha has been described in newspaper reports as the "first ethnic-minority companion in the 43-year television history of Doctor Who". Martha was separated from the Doctor when Kipe ejected her from the head. Feels like a shoulder. ", The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering Technology, "Competition and Review: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale — The Final Chapter", http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkEkyVyuFAkLljcpKZ&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle, "Freema Agyeman is returning to her Doctor Who role of Martha Jones for Big Finish", "Freema Agyeman confirmed as new companion to Doctor Who", "Russell T Davies: One of Britain's foremost television writers", "Exclusive interview: 'Doctor Who' & 'Torchwood' series producer Julie Gardner teases next seasons of each show", "Freema Agyeman: She moves in Her Own Way", "Exclusive: Eve Myles and Director Euros Lyn Talk 'Torchwood' Season 3! (TV: Blink), The Doctor and Martha landed at Research Base Truro, where they found the dead bodies of aliens after something "terrible" had happened. (TV: The Sound of Drums), Martha knew what she had to do: spread the word of the Doctor. Witnesses: Drawing on young people’s media literacy skills to explore gendered representations of science, technology, She encountered the Doctor again before he regenerated, saving her life one more time. According to the character's creator and executive producer Russell T Davies in his non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, the character was developed from the beginning with the intention of appearing for a whole of the 2007 series, and to later make guest appearances in subsequent series and crossover appearances in the show's two spin-offs; Martha subsequently made guest appearances in Torchwood series two and in Doctor Who series four in 2008 and special episode "The End of Time" in 2010. She saw faces in the water, on the ground and on the tree bark and leaves, all staring at her. During this adventure, Martha had a brief romance with one of the ship's crew, Riley Vashtee. After well over a year (from the perspective of The Doctor and herself) travelling with The Doctor, Martha parts from The Doctor's company as she recognises how unhealthy their relationship has become. She left once Owen Harper was returned to duty and resumed her work at UNIT. (PROSE: The Planet That Wept), Martha, Jack and the Doctor. Unlike the majority of previous companions, Martha decided to leave the Tardis of her own will. Unlike other companions, she not only became infatuated with the Doctor but also declared her feelings to him. In "Human Nature", in addition to the racist jibes of private school boys, "we bear witness to how things have changed, when a white nurse refuses to believe that Martha is a medical student in the future, saying, "Women might train to be doctors, but hardly a skivvy and hardly one of your colour. In "The Poison Sky" she cites her relationship with Thomas Milligan as a reason to stay on Earth, rather than join Donna and Doctor in the TARDIS - saying that she's now got a great big adventure of her own to enjoy. The Rustins argue that in introducing Martha the series "catches hold" of the fact "that black women have in general been more successful educationally and professionally than black men in contemporary Britain. (TV: The Poison Sky), Martha mourns Peck. Martha followed her to the Krib and reunited with the Doctor, but was unable to save Sugarpea. The bottom line was she knew her love for the Doctor would remain unrequited and she was not a masochist. Mickey aided the Ninth Doctor to close the wormhole, which returned Martha to her normal state. Martha Jones was a companion of the Tenth Doctor. Eventually she married another companion of the Tenth Doctor, Mickey Smith. 5 years ago. As a result of the destruction of the Master's paradox machine, only Martha, her family, and the people on board the Valiant retained their memories of that year under the Master. The Thane refused to clone himself any further and decided to spend the remainder of his life letting the Khamirae come to terms with who they truly were. (TV: Smith and Jones). As the oxygen in the hospital ran out, Martha gave her last breaths to resuscitate the clinically-dead Doctor, who had thwarted Florence's plan. Timothy Latimer, a young student at the school who has extrasensory perception, discovers the fob watch and bonds with it, seeing visions of the Doctor. There are only a few friendships on TV so appealing , especially since these two had a friendship and an “unromantic” romance — something only they could pull off. Place of origin: Leaving her mother, she teleported to Germany and a secret UNIT base, one of several Osterhagen Project activation points. When the biologist Robert Clark had begun turning into a Skith after being in contact with a whale whose DNA was altered by the Skith, a group including the Doctor, Martha, and some of Shackleton's crew followed Clark to the Skith ship Oppressor One. Clive Jones (TV: Utopia) She even kissed him when she left her temporary assignment to the Torchwood team, claiming that "everyone else has had a go." Going to the hospital and looking at X-rays fascinated her, which was when she decided she wanted to become a doctor. Unbeknownst to Martha at the time, he was demonstrating the nature of time travel. Martha is first seen in action with UNIT in "The Sontaran Stratagem", where Donna Noble, the Doctor's current companion, reacts with shock asking derisively if the Doctor turns all of his companions into "soldiers". After the arrival of Donna and the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, they defeated the Daleks and their plans, and the Doctor's companions assisted the Doctor in piloting the TARDIS, towing Earth back to its solar system. The BBC asked a number of professional Doctor Who writers to submit stories. That evening, after another family argument at her brother Leo's party, a recovered Martha was approached by the Doctor, who revealed that he was a Time Lord and invited her to join him on what he initially described as a "single trip" through time and space in the TARDIS. A race called the Silhouettes began leeching energy from the Shield and its crew. The character also appears in the Battles in Time series of comic books periodically. It’s that feeling you get. The Doctor appears to the pair shortly before his pending regeneration to save them from a Sontaran sniper. She decided to stop travelling with him as he could not return her affection, but continued to have a number of adventures, both with and without him, thanks to her work with UNIT and Torchwood. I mean, this DID happen. Episodes set in the future, Orthia notes, are more often than not inclusive and "cosmopolitan" projections of societies which are as multi-racial (though not multi-ethnic) and sexually liberal as the present, if not more so. Doesn't she love the Doctor? She was put to sleep but kept alive; her clone needed access to her memories while helping the Sontarans. Species: Main actor: In Doctor Who - Season 2 Episode 12 a character who looks identical to Martha is turned into a pseudo-cyber woman when a couple of ear pieces are fused to her brain. She said a fond farewell to Donna and him, and went off to reunite with her fiancé, Thomas Milligan. Susan wants to leave (she falls in love), but decides that she can't (because she has to look after her grandfather). Martha reversed the controls of the TARDIS to head back to the Oppressor One and rescue the Doctor and Shackleton. When she was a prisoner of the Daleks, one of them confirmed that she possessed high intelligence. Martha recalls the happiest times of the expedition which were when the trio would come together as team and sing songs. The Doctor suggested to the Thane to lower the output of the generator every so often so the Khamirae could control their transformations. She visited Torchwood Three in Cardiff as a UNIT officer, and soon became embroiled in their investigation of a medical organisation called the Pharm, acting as an undercover agent. Martha, Sugarpea and Sweetleaf went to the Museum of Politics, but Sugarpea locked the others inside to sacrifice her life to end her debt to the Krib. Just for the Doctor to look at her in the same way that he looked at her. ), The Doctor took Martha to Antarctica in 1915 to see the Aurora Australis. Martha brought most of the group apart from the Doctor and Shackleton back to the Endurance in the TARDIS, and watched as the Doctor and Shackleton sent the Oppressor One into the sun. (TV: Gridlock), Martha facing a Dalek. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan), The Doctor extended Martha's trip in the TARDIS yet again, going to 1930 New York City, where the two of them became entangled in a mystery and found the population of Hooverville being transformed into pig slaves (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) as part of the Cult of Skaro's plans to build a race of human-Daleks. Physician (TV: Evolution of the Daleks), Martha and the Doctor trapped inside of Professor Lazarus' machine. Discover (and save!) Martha hated how he talked about Rose, about how clever she was, how beautiful and amazing she was, how she … Children: The Carrionites, along with the play, were sealed away. [7] Martha, as voiced by Freema Agyeman, also appears in the 2007 animated serial The Infinite Quest, which aired in twelve weekly segments during the run of the 2007 series. She had an older sister named Tish, a younger brother, Leo, and a niece, Keisha Jones, who was Leo's daughter. (TV: The Doctor's Daughter, The Sontaran Stratagem, Reset, A Day in the Death). I’m Dr. Martha Jones. He wanted her to stay but she chose to remain with the Doctor. Articles which focus on Martha's race normally attempt to make distinctions between Martha's social status and that of Mickey, and to what extent race or class play a part. (PROSE: The Frozen Wastes) Martha grew up with her mother when her parents divorced and was often forced to pla… Sister: It features the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. (TV: Blink), Some time later, after a brief adventure on a planet filled with fictional characters, (PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage) Martha and the Doctor travelled to an old house in Wester Drumlins in 2007, where Weeping Angels sent them back to London in 1969, with the TARDIS stuck in 2007. Director Euros Lyn comments that the production team had intended for Agyeman and Clarke to join Torchwood for its third series, but their careers led them elsewhere. Her feelings for him, in addition to the enormous ordeal she had been put through, strained her relationship with the Doctor to the point that she decided to leave the TARDIS. When Martha Jones first appeared she was a student, and not in work. I’d say so. [43], As a young medical professional, Martha has been the focus of studies which discuss young girls' perceptions of "gendered representations of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)". Sorry to be negative. Calm while those around her panicked, Martha worked with the Doctor to track down the Plasmavore, "Florence Finnegan", for whom the Judoon were searching. The bio-mechanical beast, Viktor, tried taking both the Doctor and Martha to the Thane's castle, but Gideon freed the Doctor. As a black time traveller, the character of Martha allows Doctor Who to explore historical issues concerning race. The Doctor explained that the environment collapsed, causing one hundred years of acid rain, dissolving the planet's people and their civilisation, somehow making them into a collective mind that was part of the planet for millions of years. Within the series' narrative, Martha begins as a medical student who becomes The Doctor's time travelling companion after an incident at the hospital where she works. [20][21] The character is a 23-year-old medical student from 2008,[22][23] although earlier in the conception process she had been meant to come from the year 1914. In late 2008 The Story of Martha, a collection of stories focusing on Martha's adventures between "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords" was published.[14]. But she knew that would never happen. (TV: Smith and Jones) She rose to every challenge the Doctor gave her: watching after him while he was human, and walking the world for a year. Later in the episode the ear piece is pulled out and a piece of what looks like her brain is clearly visible. (TV: Smith and Jones), Martha in 1599 London. The art consisted of images based upon the 2005-present Doctor Who revival. This is the Scene from the Poison Sky where The Doctor rescues the REAL Martha! They met Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition near where the Endurance was trapped in the ice. Nevertheless, she retained her kindness, sense of adventure, and fierce determination to do the right thing. Sure, but I've always thought that the characters make the episodes stronger or weaker with their own performances. engineering and mathematics. Martha Jones knew that The Doctor would never love as much as she loves him; not after losing the one he did love. [27] Martha's status as "first black companion" depends on whether Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) is considered a companion in the 2006 series. She got along very well with Donna Noble. Oh, yes. Martha is concerned, as the Doctor did not instruct her on what to do should he fall in love. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) The Doctor was impressed with her theory about having air on the Moon, and he asked her to join him in the hospital balcony to see if they could breathe. [30] In casting Martha, the actress Freema Agyeman was reused from her minor role as Adeola Oshodi, in the Series 2 episode "Army of Ghosts". While chatting with the Doctor and Donna after the Sontarans' defeat, Martha turned down the Doctor's offer to travel again with him. Her solution was to join UNIT the acronym for Unified Intelligence Taskforce, a human group dedicated much as Torchwood is, to keeping the Earth safe. Martha didn't know her but, wished to be her. The Torchwood Three team went to Switzerland to investigate and discovered that the person who was responsible was Dr Harrington. For the Love of Martha is the début novel from Maria Murphy and with such an attractive cover I was delighted when this arrived in the post. UNIT, Torchwood Three, Children of Time When Francine invited guests to dinner, Martha and her sister were expected to "perform" for the guests by handing out nibbles while Francine bragged that Martha was going to be a leading surgeon. (PROSE: Made of Steel), Martha first sees the TARDIS. (PROSE: Wooden Heart) Martha devoured Annette Billingsley's The Troubleseekers, a thirty-two book series, around the age of eight; they were the first books that she ever read. The human Yana was transformed back into the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis, the Master, and escaped in the TARDIS. At the end of the episode, he calls her his "Dark Lady", the name given to the woman the real Shakespeare referred to in a number of Shakespeare's sonnets;[nb 1] by implication, Martha is the Dark Lady. Having done the same with many vaginas she found it to be more than adequate in tightness of fit. (PROSE: The Frozen Wastes) Francine chose the name Martha simply because she liked the sound of it. In terms of comic book appearances, Martha has appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine strips from #381 onwards and the Doctor Who Adventures comics from #28 onwards. "(In)visible [42] Lindy A. Orthia opines that such Tenth Doctor era representations of "Earth’s past as a place of happy and benign diversity" may be anti-racist in intention, but ultimately trivialise the racism that she claims has "infested" Western society for centuries. Job: (TV: Utopia), Martha hiding from the Master (TV: The Sound of Drums), Martha, Jack, and the Doctor used Jack's vortex manipulator to travel back to 21st century Earth, arriving the day after Harold Saxon was voted Prime Minister. From there, the Doctor, with Billy's aid, helped Sally Sparrow recover the TARDIS in the future while Martha took a job in a shop to support them. Martha Jones is meant to be with The Doctor. [19], The introduction of Martha as the next companion after Billie Piper's Rose Tyler was announced by the BBC in a 5 July 2006 press release. Harriet Jones had created a low-level signal and contacted Martha, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Smith to assist Earth and defeat the Daleks. Mother: - Read the results on this poll and other Doctor and Donna - DoctorDonna polls After the Doctor took her for tea and ultimately revealed her identity to her, Martha and the Doctor investigated the sudden appearance of the Autons in London. [35], Martha tells Owen in the Torchwood episode "Reset", that she has a boyfriend, who is revealed to be paediatric doctor Thomas Milligan in "The Sontaran Stratagem", by which time the two are engaged — indicating that Martha has gotten over her love for the Doctor. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter) Had she appeared in these two productions, she would have been the first major character to play an important role in Doctor Who and both of its direct spin-offs (even including the Doctor, who to date has not appeared in Torchwood). (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem), Martha's clone died soon after the Doctor rescued Martha, but Martha was able to convince the clone to help them. The Simpsons (Channel 4) and Doctor Who (BBC)." 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