| Doctor Who character | |
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 Grace in Doctor Who. |
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| Grace Holloway | |
| Affiliated with | Eighth Doctor |
| Race | Human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | Late 20th Century |
| Appears in | Doctor Who (1996 film) |
| Portrayed by | Daphne Ashbrook |
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Character History
When the Seventh Doctor lands on December 30, 1999 in San Francisco, he is gunned down by a gang on the streets of Chinatown. The Seventh Doctor is a Fictional character, the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) San Francisco 's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America. Unaware of his alien physiology, Grace accidentally kills him when she attempts to operate. Extraterrestrial life is Life originating outside of the Earth. He subsequently regenerates into his eighth incarnation, and involves Grace in his fight to prevent the Master from opening the Eye of Harmony and destroying the Earth at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day, 2000. The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in The Eye of Harmony, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is the name given EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 At the end, the Doctor offers to take Grace along with him in the TARDIS, but Grace declines, preferring to stay behind and apply the lessons she has learned from him. The TARDIS ( T ime A nd R elative D imension(s I n S pace is a time machine and Spacecraft in the
Grace is described by the Doctor as "tired of life but afraid of dying. " She is a warm and compassionate person who was disillusioned early in life when she realized that she could not hold back death. As a result, she puts on a cold, aloof front in an effort to protect herself from her feelings and to mask her own insecurity. She realizes this over the course of her adventure with the Doctor and learns to feel hope again, placing it in the form of the Doctor, an alien who can literally come back to life, as well as regaining confidence in herself as a medical practitioner and as a person. She also rapidly develops a romantic attachment to the Doctor, stating at one point, "I finally meet the right guy and he's from another planet. "
Grace's appearance in the television movie caused controversy because the Doctor kissed her, breaking a longstanding taboo against having any romantic involvement with his companions (although the series revisited this theme when production resumed in 2005). History of the Doctor Who companion When Doctor Who was created the dramatic structure of the programme's cast was rather different from the hero-and-sidekick Some fans also question whether she can be considered a proper companion since she only appears in this one story. However, it is clear that her role within the television movie is the companion's, and she appears listed on most lists of companions, including the one on the BBC website.
Other Appearances
Grace's life after her encounter with the Doctor has not been explored on-screen beyond the television movie, although the Doctor did have to deal with the after effects of those events in the spin-off Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History, by Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum. Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of but related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC Science fiction Unnatural History is an original novel written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television Kate Orman (born 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian author best-known for her books connected to the British Jonathan Blum (born May 1972 is an American writer most famous for his work for various Doctor Who spin-offs, usually with his wife Kate Orman although he has
Grace appeared in the Doctor Who comic strip story The Fallen, published in Doctor Who Magazine #273-#276, where she had conducted experiments to merge human and Time Lord DNA, the latter obtained from tissue left behind by the Master. Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a Magazine devoted to the long-running British Science fiction television The Time Lords are a fictional race and civilization in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' However, the Master had not been in his Time Lord body, but that of a shape-shifting creature known as a morphant. The resulting hybrid began to consume people, but was stopped with the Eighth Doctor's help. Grace promised the Doctor she would destroy all the remaining morphant DNA samples, and the two parted ways once more. She subsequently appeared as a dream image in The Glorious Dead (DWM #287-#296) and made a one-panel cameo in the last regular Eighth Doctor comic strip adventure, The Flood (DWM #353). The canonicity of the comic strips in relation to the television series, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is open to interpretation. The Whoniverse is the Fictional universe in which Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of but related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor
Daphne Ashbrook performed in the Big Finish Productions audio play The Next Life opposite Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, but playing a different character named Perfection. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to Compact disc and The Next Life is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British Science fiction Television series Paul McGann (born 14 November 1959 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom) is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial
Legal Issues
Originally, Grace Holloway was to appear in the second eighth Doctor novel, Vampire Science, but legal issues with the BBC and Universal prevented this from happening. According to Big Finish, their audioplays cannot use TV-movie characters Grace Holloway or Chang Lee due to Universal's ownership of the characters. Grace's appearance in the comics appears to have been separately negotiated.
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