Jackie Lane, 1941-2021

[parrot_knight]

Jackie Lane has died aged seventy-nine. She played Dodo Chaplet, travelling companion to William Hartnell's Doctor in Doctor Who, between Bell of Doom, the fourth and final part of the story the scripts and Doctor Who Magazine call The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve but which BBC Studios call The Massacre (26 February 1966) and The War Machines

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[daniel_saunders]

Sad news. I think the character was a victim of the instability of the Doctor Who production team at this time, with no one really to bring consistency or focus to the character. I'm glad that The Ark and The Gunfighters survive, as I think they show the potential the character had.