(PROSE: Risk Assessment), On her last day at a victim-retrieval station in Hereford, Martha agreed to perform an autopsy on Jonathan Dee for Gwen, although she was initially sceptical about the body coming under UNIT's jurisdiction. 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. (TV: Gridlock), Martha's next trip was to New New York, where they landed in the Undercity. She refused, (TV: Journey's End) feeling that there was too much sadness "baked into the bay" after the deaths of Owen and Tosh. Report. After the Doctor was escorted to the Daleks to help them, the Doctor handed Martha his psychic paper and Martha went with Tallulah and Frank to the top floor of the Empire State Building, pretending to be engineers and an architect, and realised the Daleks had taken over the Empire State Building while working with Mr Diagoras and placed Dalekanium on the mast to power their experiment. For example, she becomes the first character to use light swear words when she exclaims "We're on the bloody moon!" General Sanchez gives Martha the Osterhagen Key. She slipped into a pit of killer quicksand, but Hath Peck saved her life by sacrificing his own. Freema Agyeman's first appearance in Doctor Who was in the second series (2006) episode, "Army of Ghosts", where she played Adeola Oshodi, Martha's cousin. The art consisted of images based upon the 2005-present Doctor Who revival. Say That You Love Me- Martha and Doctor tribute. (TV: The Shakespeare Code), Martha while kidnapped and taken on the Motorway. Prior to meeting the Doctor, Martha attended a Mika concert in Denmark. Martha loves The Doctor to no avail, and she eventually leaves him because it’s too hard to love someone that won’t love her back. Project Indigo, which had never been tested, teleported Martha to her home in London, where she was reunited with her mother. In the episode "The Shakespeare Code", Martha wonders if she is safe in an era before emancipation, but the Doctor is unconcerned. After blowing up the station to kill the chameleon, Martha took up Gwen's suggestion of faking her death and going freelance, asking Mickey to join her. Uncovering the disastrous effects of Lazarus' work, the Doctor, Martha, and her sister Tish helped to kill the monster Lazarus had become. Luckily, a Weeping Angel had followed them, and it sent the Consciousness back in time, ending a new invasion after it had barely began. In its final story — "Last of the Time Lords", Martha was separated from the Doctor for a year, and after saving the world she decided to return to Earth to allow herself to qualify as a medical doctor, look after her devastated family, and get over the Doctor's inability to reciprocate her feelings. She greeted unusual looking species with wonder and even treated injuries. ), and that it’s probably intentional. I love you Doctor, and I ne-" Martha stopped, seeming to realise what she was confessing. Brother: Martha spotted the Doctor. (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. 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[29] In addition, Martha's family appears to be of a higher social class than Rose; whereas Rose's family was fairly typically working class, Martha's family appears to be wealthier (her father owns what appears to be a late model Mercedes-Benz convertible, and the clothes worn by her family are substantially more in line with fashion), probably middle to upper middle class. 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. Throughout her travels she also visited the ruins of New York City, and fusion camps in China. In contrast to Rose and Mickey, Martha is middle-class and university-educated; for Michael and Margaret Rustin of the University of East London, Mickey's constant struggle for respect and recognition from the Doctor in the first two series was a "subtle exploration ... of the dynamics of multi-ethnic life in contemporary Britain". He defeated the Family of Blood, left a heartbroken Joan and rejoined Martha in the TARDIS. Davies states that reusing names (such as Tyler, Smith, Harper, Harkness and Jones) allows him to get a grip of the character on the blank page. I mean, this DID happen. 5 years ago. (TV: The Family of Blood, The End of Time) Of course, her medical skills were her most developed, especially after the experience she gained with aliens and other unusual medical situations, finding her working with organisations such as UNIT and Torchwood Three. In spite of their differences, however, many commonalities were brought to light by the research. Martha has been described in newspaper reports as the "first ethnic-minority companion in the 43-year television history of Doctor Who". Species: Nevertheless, she retained her kindness, sense of adventure, and fierce determination to do the right thing. On the run from The Master, she spends a year travelling the world in a plan which restores the incapacitated Doctor and reverses time, undoing The Master's actions. 0 0. 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. However Luke told her that he was alright and Sarah Jane didn't call Martha. The BBC asked a number of professional Doctor Who writers to submit stories. (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. ", "Russell T. Davies talks 'Doctor Who' & 'Torchwood, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martha_Jones&oldid=997969672, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 3 January 2021, at 03:28. One called, Rose Tyler. [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. (PROSE: Made of Steel), Martha first sees the TARDIS. Who the hell are you? In their summary, the researchers concluded: "In discussing our analysis of [Lisa Simpson and Martha Jones] we have highlighted ways in which they could be viewed both as characters with which young people can identify, but also as characters that provide positive role models in terms of their relationship to STEM. She watched people walk past, and noticed the same identical old woman appearing to walk past in different directions and in and out of different shops. They became friends. 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. But, all the same. Her "normal" status is also highlighted when she becomes the first character "to be heard swearing" in Doctor Who. 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. Martha, alongside Hath Peck, went onto the planet's surface in order to meet up with the Doctor and Donna. Soon enough, it became clear that Clara and the Doctor were most definitely in love with each other, despite not becoming lovers. Witnesses: Drawing on young people’s media literacy skills to explore gendered representations of science, technology, Whereas in The Simpsons, Lisa is the character most identified with knowledge and worldliness, in Doctor Who that character is the Doctor. ), An energy stream from a distress beacon forced the TARDIS down to a planet, where a girl called Cora had been attacked in the woods by a beast. After returning Cora to the village, Martha had discovered the villagers had similar bite marks on them and were anaemic. Martha was kidnapped by a couple driving through the Motorway who wanted a third passenger to use an express lane; the three of them were later almost killed by the Macra, but escaped when the Doctor opened up the Motorway. Barbara and Ian were kidnapped by the Doctor. Point number one, I’m usually told, is that Martha was too “clingy” to Tennant’s Doctor. Going to the hospital and looking at X-rays fascinated her, which was when she decided she wanted to become a doctor. Martha also appears in a BBC Radio 4 Torchwood drama, "Lost Souls" which aired in Summer 2008 as an Afternoon Play featuring the voices of the Torchwood cast and Freema Agyeman. Follow. Mayflies were put into her body when she was discovered and captured, prompting Owen Harper to twice save her life. Freema Agyeman physically represents the character on the cover of every novel. Martha Jones is introduced in the third series (2007) of Doctor Who, first appearing in the episode "Smith and Jones". Father: To thank her for her help, The Doctor invites her to join him for a supposed single trip in his time machine the TARDIS,[2] but later accepts her as his full-time "companion", admitting that she was "never just a passenger",[3] and he even gives her the key to the TARDIS in the episode, "42". Martha also is asked to save the world singlehandedly in "The Sound of Drums"/"Last of the Time Lords". 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. Sanchez also gave her an Osterhagen Key and ordered her to use it should the need arise. The companion topics on the show would always come back to Rose, so I'd have to agree that it was Rose...I only saw a few reruns with her, and she and The Dr. seemed to have a better connection then him and Martha Jones. Agyeman is credited as portraying Martha Smith-Jones. 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. Main actor: 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. (AUDIO: Dissected; TV: The End of Time), Martha as a freelancer. The Doctor, Martha and Pierre set off in the balloon successfully; with the Doctor remarking on Pierre's brilliance along the way. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One), One adventure saw Martha and Mickey battle a Sontaran, Jask. He then became John Smith, a teacher at an English public school in 1913, where Martha took a job as a maid at the school to keep an eye on him, hiding the TARDIS in a shed. A short time later Martha and her husband Mickey came to Luke's farewell party after which Luke wanted to go the University of Oxford. Assisted by DI Moloch, Martha attacked a time assassin controlled laboratory to reverse the controls of the time machine that brought the Doctor back in time. (TV: The Stolen Earth). Without introducing himself, the Doctor merely took off his tie and said, "Like so, see? 1st Doctor. 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. (TV: Blink), Martha talks with the Thirteenth Doctor. Martha realised that the Thane had unwittingly given the villagers septicaemia from his biopsy device. The Tenth and Thirteenth Doctors were eventually forced to meet and, with the help of Martha and the Thirteenth Doctor's friends, they discovered the Nestene Consciousness below the River Thames. The Carrionites, along with the play, were sealed away. Davies felt that this level of swearing was both normal and appropriate, citing a Harry Potter film in which the young audience reacted with laughter rather than shock when a young character cursed "Bloody hell". Source(s): doctor love rose tyler: https://biturl.im/HBge7. Martha Jones knew that The Doctor would never love as much as she loves him; not after losing the one he did love. I think the only romance we will see will be the Doctor and River. (TV: The Shakespeare Code), The Doctor took Martha to 1599 where they met William Shakespeare, who flirted with her and called her his "Dark Lady". When Daleks attacked the base, General Sanchez ordered Martha to use Project Indigo to escape and contact the Doctor. When the hospital she works at is teleported to the Moon, medical student Martha helps save the day alongside an alien time traveller known only as The Doctor (David Tennant). 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. To keep in touch, she gave the Doctor her superphone, saying that she would call him when she needed him. (COMIC: Bus Stop! They were enveloped in a green light and vanished. She got along very well with Donna Noble. She was played by Christine Baranski while Landry Allbright playedan 8-year-old Martha May. see list (AUDIO: Dissected) In 2009, Torchwood phoned Martha for her help identifying how to defeat the Vam. She had an older sister named Tish, a younger brother, Leo, and a niece, Keisha Jones, who was Leo's daughter. (TV: The End of Time), Her time walking the Earth gave rise to a more soldier-like and less naive side of Martha. (TV: The Doctor's Daughter), Martha walked out of the TARDIS onto the planet Messaline, remarking that even though she did not want to travel with the Doctor any more, she still loved the first step on a new planet. [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). (COMIC: The Transformed), Mickey and Martha attended Sarah Jane Smith's memorial on a "bright, cold Spring day" with their son August, where they discussed Sarah Jane with other guests, and helped fight the Jackals of the Backwards Clock to foil the Trickster's revenge plot. Martha getting engaged to Dr Thomas Milligan is just plain weird. Acknowledging this, the resemblance of the two characters was touched upon in "Smith and Jones" when Martha makes reference to her deceased cousin, also serving to connect Martha to the larger Doctor Who universe. In the episode's dénouement, Martha leaves with Jack and former companion Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke), with Jack saying to her "I'm not sure about UNIT these days... maybe there's something else you could be doing. 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. 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