Dodo Chaplet is a major protagonist in Season 3 of Doctor Who.
She was portrayed by the late Jackie Lane. For Big Finish audios, she is voiced by Lauren Cornelius.
Biography[]
Dodo was a teenager in the 1960s, who stumbled into the TARDIS on Wimbledon Common after mistaking it for a police box whilst looking to report an accident. In order to avoid police presence, the Doctor and Steven Taylor dematerialised straightaway, taking Dodo with them. She explained she was an orphan and lived with a great-aunt who wouldn't miss her. On learning her real name, Dorothea Chaplet, and that her grandfather had been French, the Doctor and Steven suspected she was a descendant of Anne Chaplet, the girl they had met during the French Wars of Religion.
Dodo's first trip into space brought her to the Ark, a spaceship transporting the survivors of Earth to a new planet in the far future. She accidentally infected the humans there with a cold virus, which the Doctor managed to cure but which led to their servants, the Monoids, taking control of the Ark until the TARDIS crew managed to make peace between the survivors of the two groups. They also visited the Celestial Toyroom, where the Celestial Toymaker challenged Steven and Dodo to a series of games to recover the TARDIS while he played the Trilogic Game against the Doctor. On a visit to the Wild West, the Doctor passed them off as travelling players, identifying Dodo as a pianist named Dodo Dupont. She ended up teaming up with the infamous Doc Holliday, who took her with him when he fled town to avoid the Clanton brothers' vengeance. Eager to get back to the Doctor and Steven, Dodo held Holliday at gunpoint until he agreed to return, then fainted on realising he had been armed the whole time. During the subsequent gunfight at the OK Corral, Dodo warned Holliday of an ambush by Johnny Ringo and was briefly taken hostage.
Meeting the Elders in the far future, Dodo was the first to learn that their society was based on extracting life essence from the so-called savages that lived outside their city. She helped smash the life extraction machine and had to say goodbye to Steven when he stayed behind to unite the two groups. Not long after, the Doctor and Dodo arrived back in London in 1966. Dodo helped the Doctor investigate Professor Brett's new creation, the computer WOTAN, and befriended Brett's secretary Polly Wright. The pair went to a night club together but Dodo was brainwashed by WOTAN, who wanted her to lure the Doctor to it. She gave herself away after a failed attempt at brainwashing and the Doctor freed her from WOTAN's control, with her being sent away to recuperate. She later sent a message via Polly telling the Doctor she wanted to stay in her own time.
According to the novel Who Killed Kennedy, she suffered a breakdown as a result of the incident, believing her experiences weren't real, and later had a relationship with journalist James Stevens until she was shot dead in their home by an agent of the Master. However, the short story Ships shows her still alive in middle age, working as a secretary, in a relationship with a man named Bill and fully aware of her time travelling experiences, unknowingly encountering Sarah Jane Smith. In the 21st century, according to Farewell, Sarah Jane, Dodo was among the Doctor's friends and companions who attended Sarah Jane's funeral.
Trivia[]
- In the Sarah Jane Adventures story "Death of the Doctor", Sarah mentions a former companion of the Doctor named "Dorothy something" who runs an organisation called A Charitable Earth. There was some speculation that this was Dodo, although tie-in fiction has indicated it was Ace.
- Dodo's fate in Who Killed Kennedy is changed in the afterword added to the book for it's 20th anniversary, where events are altered so that she and James can live a happy life together.
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