Zoe Heriot

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Zoe Heriot
name=Zoe
series=Doctor Who
affiliation=Second Doctor
race=Human
planet=Earth (Space Station W3)
era=21st century
start= The Wheel in Space
finish= The War Games (regular) The Five Doctors (cameo)
portrayed= Wendy Padbury

Zoe Heriot (sometimes spelled Zoe Herriot), or simply Zoe, is a fictional character played by Wendy Padbury in the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". A young astrophysicist who lived on a space wheel in the 21st century, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1968 to 1969.

Character history

Zoe first appears in the serial "The Wheel in Space", where she is the librarian on board Space Station W3, also known as the Wheel. When the Cybermen attack, she aids the Doctor and Jamie in defeating them before stowing away aboard the TARDIS. In David Whitaker's script for "The Wheel in Space", Zoe's last name is spelled "Heriot", but the double-"r" misspelling is also seen in reference works.

Zoe's age is not given in the series, but according to initial publicity she was fifteen when she joined the TARDIS crew.cite video
people =
title = Doctor Who - The Invasion (production subtitles)
medium = DVD
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date = 2006 ] . She holds a degree in pure mathematics and is a genius, with intelligence scores comparable to the Doctor's. Coupled with her photographic memory and the advanced learning techniques of her era, this makes her somewhat like a human calculator, able to perform complicated mathematics in her head. Part of the reason for her wanting to travel with the Doctor is her chafing at the restrictions and sterile surroundings of her station-bound existence. Having been on the Wheel all her lifeFact|date=September 2007, however, means that her real world experience is severely limited, and that gives her an ability to frequently get herself in trouble.

Together with the Doctor and Jamie, she meets the Cybermen again when they invade 20th Century London, enters the surreal Land of Fiction, fights the Ice Warriors and survives the battlefields of the War Chief's war games. Her journeys with the Doctor come to an end in that serial, when the Time Lords finally catch up with the Doctor. As well as forcing a regeneration on him and exiling him to Earth, the Time Lords return Jamie and Zoe to their own times, wiping the memory of their experiences with the Doctor (save for their first encounters with him) in the process.

Other appearances

Zoe's life after her return to her own time is not further explored in the series. In the spin-off short story "The Tip of the Mind" by Peter Anghelides, it is revealed that although her intellect allows her to resist the memory blocks by the Time Lords, she is unable to access the memories of her time with the Doctor consciously. This causes her strange dreams, and makes her work suffer. An encounter with the Third Doctor makes the memory blocks permanent, but she ultimately never reaches her full potential.

Wendy Padbury returned to "Doctor Who" as an illusory image of Zoe in the 20th anniversary episode, "The Five Doctors". Padbury has appeared in "Doctor Who" audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, first as a character other than Zoe in the full-cast audio "Davros", and then as Zoe in "Fear of the Daleks", part of the "Companion Chronicles" talking book series. The latter story portrays an older Zoe having detailed dreams of her adventures with the Doctor; she suspects that something is blocking her memory, but she does not know what, and is seeing a psychiatric counselor in an effort to understand the "dreams".

List of appearances

Television

;Season 5
*"The Wheel in Space";Season 6
*"The Dominators"
*"The Mind Robber"
*"The Invasion"
*"The Krotons"
*"The Seeds of Death"
*"The Space Pirates"
*"The War Games";20th anniversary special
*"The Five Doctors" (cameo)

Audio drama

*"Fear of the Daleks"

Novels

;Virgin Missing Adventures
*"The Menagerie" by Martin Day

;Past Doctor Adventures
*"The Final Sanction" by Steve Lyons
*"The Colony of Lies" by Colin Brake
*"The Indestructible Man" by Simon Messingham

;Telos Doctor Who novellas
*"Foreign Devils" by Andrew Cartmel

hort stories

*"Fallen Angel" by Andy Lane ("Decalog")
*"Vortex of Fear" by Gareth Roberts ("")
*"Aliens and Predators" by Colin Brake ("")
*"War Crimes" by Simon Bucher-Jones ("Short Trips")
*"uPVC" by Paul Farnsworth ("More Short Trips")
*"Please Shut the Gate" by Stephen Lock ("Short Trips and Sidesteps")
*"Constant Companion" by Simon A. Forward ("")
*"The Tip of the Mind" by Peter Anghelides ("")
*"One Small Step" by Nicholas Briggs ("")
*"Goodwill Towards Men" by J. Shaun Lyon ("")
*"That Which Went Away" by Mark Wright ("")
*"Undercurrents" by Gary Merchant ("")
*"Visiting Hours" by Eddie Robson ("Short Trips: A Day in the Life")
*"Mercury" by Eddie Robson ("")
*"Lepidoptery for Beginners" by John Dorney ("")
*"Homework" by Michael Coen ("Short Trips: Defining Patterns")

Comics

*"The Vampire Plants" by David Brian ("Doctor Who Annual 1970")
*"The Robot King" by David Brian ("Doctor Who Annual 1970")
*"Land of the Blind" by W. Scott Gray and Lee Sullivan ("Doctor Who Magazine" 224–226)

References

External links

* [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Zoe_Heriot Zoe Heriot] at [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/ "The TARDIS Index File" website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/companions/page12.shtml Zoe Heriot on the BBC's "Doctor Who" website]