With 60 years of history behind the series, Doctor Who producers have done an admirable job of blending elements of the classic era with this modern incarnation. However, since Carole Ann Ford left the show in 1964, the character of Susan Foreman has yet to return to the Whoniverse. This is despite other classic companions coming back for a second act. But thanks to bigeneration, perhaps Susan Foreman’s absence can finally be explained.Originally introduced by Russell T Davies in the 60th Anniversary Doctor Who special, “The Giggle,” the exact nature of bigeneration is still a mystery. At best, when David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor bigenerated into Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor, the latter merely said it was supposed to be a myth, meaning the concept was known to Time Lords yet not seen in practice. In a video commentary for “The Giggle,” Davies had his own theory: at the moment that bigeneration occurred, all the past Doctors “woke up” in their own TARDISes. If true, this means that William Hartnell’s First Doctor (played more recently by David Bradley) made good on his promise from “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” serial to “one day come back.” If this happened, it could explain where Susan Foreman has been all this time.Susan was the Doctor’s granddaughter, on the run with him in the stolen TARDIS after they fled Gallifrey. She was an impossibly intelligent student, but also didn’t seem to know things she should know. For example, she mistakenly said Britian used a decimal monetary system, then corrected herself by saying it hadn’t happened yet. (In a lucky coincidence, the UK moved to a decimal system in 1971.) Concerned about her, Ian and Barbara followed her to the TARDIS, leading the First Doctor to effectively abduct them. They became the first three companions, at least until the Christmastime 1964 serial “The Dalek Invasion of Earth.”
With 60 years of history behind the series, Doctor Who producers have done an admirable job of blending elements of the classic era with this modern incarnation. However, since Carole Ann Ford left the show in 1964, the character of Susan Foreman has yet to return to the Whoniverse. This is despite other classic companions coming back for a second act. But thanks to bigeneration, perhaps Susan Foreman’s absence can finally be explained.
Originally introduced by Russell T Davies in the 60th Anniversary Doctor Who special, “The Giggle,” the exact nature of bigeneration is still a mystery. At best, when David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor bigenerated into Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor, the latter merely said it was supposed to be a myth, meaning the concept was known to Time Lords yet not seen in practice. In a video commentary for “The Giggle,” Davies had his own theory: at the moment that bigeneration occurred, all the past Doctors “woke up” in their own TARDISes. If true, this means that William Hartnell’s First Doctor (played more recently by David Bradley) made good on his promise from “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” serial to “one day come back.” If this happened, it could explain where Susan Foreman has been all this time.
Susan was the Doctor’s granddaughter, on the run with him in the stolen TARDIS after they fled Gallifrey. She was an impossibly intelligent student, but also didn’t seem to know things she should know. For example, she mistakenly said Britian used a decimal monetary system, then corrected herself by saying it hadn’t happened yet. (In a lucky coincidence, the UK moved to a decimal system in 1971.) Concerned about her, Ian and Barbara followed her to the TARDIS, leading the First Doctor to effectively abduct them. They became the first three companions, at least until the Christmastime 1964 serial “The Dalek Invasion of Earth.”
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