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Doctor Who universe character
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Leela of the Sevateem
Leela
Affiliated with Fourth Doctor
Race Human
Home planet Unspecified
Home era Far future
First appearance The Face of Evil
Last appearance The Invasion of Time
Portrayed by Louise Jameson

Leela is a fictional character played by Louise Jameson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the Fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus The Face of Evil is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in The Invasion of Time is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951 in Wanstead, London) is an English actress, most famous for playing Leela Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951 in Wanstead, London) is an English actress, most famous for playing Leela The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Science fiction first appeared on Television during the Golden age of science fiction, first in Britain (UK and then in the United States Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Leela was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978. 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 The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the Fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running Writer Chris Boucher named her after the Palestinian militant Leila Khaled, although this fact was not publicised at the time. Chris Boucher (born 1943 is a British Television writer best known for his frequent contributions to two genres science fiction and Crime dramas Leila Khaled (ليلى خالد laylà ẖālid; born April 9, 1944) is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP

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Conceptual history

The character of Leela was first conceived by producer Philip Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes. Philip Hinchcliffe (born 1944 is a former British Television producer, who is probably best known for the overseeing of British television series Doctor This entry is about the television scriptwriter For other people with the same name see Robert Holmes (disambiguation. They wanted a companion in the mould of George Bernard Shaw's Eliza Doolittle: a bright but unsophisticated primitive who would learn from the Doctor. George Bernard Shaw ( (26 July 1856 &ndash 2 November 1950 was an Irish Playwright. Pygmalion (1913 is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. Writer Chris Boucher had submitted a story proposal titled The Mentor Conspiracy which featured a character named Leela which fit Hinchcliffe and Holmes's ideas. Chris Boucher (born 1943 is a British Television writer best known for his frequent contributions to two genres science fiction and Crime dramas

Although The Mentor Conspiracy was not produced, Boucher reused the character of Leela for The Day God Went Mad (later renamed to The Face of Evil), seeing her as a mixture of Emma Peel from The Avengers and Leila Khaled. Emma Peel was a fictional Television Spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure series The Avengers. The Avengers was a British Television series featuring Secret agents in 1960s Britain. [1][2] Boucher was asked to write two endings to Face, one where Leela left with the Doctor and one where she stayed behind, and the decision to have Leela become a companion was made soon after. An oft-repeated story (also stated in the DVD commentary to The Robots of Death) is that Leela's skimpy leather outfits were very popular with the "Dads", which kept them watching the programme. The Robots of Death is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast

Character history

Leela first appears in the 1977 serial, The Face of Evil, where she was a warrior of the savage Sevateem tribe, who were the descendants of the crew of an Earth ship that crash landed on an unnamed planet in the far future. The Face of Evil is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 A starship is a theoretical Spacecraft designed for traveling between the stars, as opposed to a vehicle designed for Orbital spaceflight or Interplanetary The name of her tribe, "Sevateem", was a corruption of "survey team". Although the Doctor at this point was content to travel alone, Leela forces her way into the TARDIS and continues to accompany the Doctor on his journeys. The TARDIS ( T ime A nd R elative D imension(s I n S pace is a time machine and Spacecraft in the

Although Leela is a primitive, she was also highly intelligent, grasping advanced concepts easily and translating them into terms she could cope with. Despite the Doctor's attempts at "civilizing" her, however, Leela is strong-willed enough to continue in her savage ways. She usually dresses in animal skins, armed with a knife or a set of poisonous Janis thorns which she does not hesitate to use on people who threatened her, much to the Doctor's disapproval.

Although Jameson's eyes are naturally blue, as Leela she initially wore red contact lenses to make them brown. A contact lens (also known simply as a contact) is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the Cornea However, the contact lenses severely limited her vision, and producer Graham Williams promised her she could stop wearing them. Graham Williams was a British Television producer and Script editor, whose best known work was on the BBC Science fiction Television To explain the change in-story, writer Terrance Dicks wrote a scene in the 1977 serial Horror of Fang Rock where Leela's eyes suffer "pigment dispersal" and turn blue after viewing the explosion of the Rutan ship. Terrance Dicks (born 10 May 1935 in East Ham, Essex (now Greater London) is an English Writer, best known for Horror of Fang Rock is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast The Rutan Host, or Rutans are a Fictional extraterrestrial race from the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who

In her travels with the Doctor, Leela faces killer robots, murderous homunculi, the Rutan Host, and the Sontaran invasion of the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey. The Robots of Death is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast The Sontarans are a Fictional extraterrestrial race from the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, invented Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the homeworld It is during this final adventure, The Invasion of Time, that she met and fell in love with Andred, a native Gallifreyan, and decides to stay behind to be with him. The Invasion of Time is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast The first K-9 remains with her. K-9, or K9, is the name of several fictional Robotic dogs in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor

The 2005 series of Doctor Who reveals that Gallifrey was destroyed in a Time War against the Daleks. The Time War is an event referred to on several occasions in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, beginning A Dalek (, ˈdɑːlεk is a member of a Fictional extraterrestrial race of Mutants from the British science fiction television Since Leela was last known to be living on Gallifrey, it is possible she died during the war.

Tom Baker reportedly disliked the character of Leela because he felt that she was too violent for a children's show. Jameson reports that he was cold to her for the first several stories they did together. Eventually, during the filming of Horror of Fang Rock, she insisted on multiple takes of a scene in which he repeatedly entered the scene early, thereby upstaging her. After this incident, their working relationship substantially improved, because it increased his respect for her.

Appearances in other media

Leela's subsequent life on Gallifrey is not explored by the television series, although the spin-off media have done so to an extent. Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of but related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor In the Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow, by Marc Platt, Leela and Andred are expecting a child, the first naturally conceived baby on Gallifrey for millennia. The Virgin New Adventures ( NA s were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Lungbarrow is an original novel written by Marc Platt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Louise Jameson reprised the role of Leela for the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time, and has voiced the character in three series of audio plays for Big Finish Productions taking place on Gallifrey, alongside Lalla Ward as Romana and John Leeson as K-9. Dimensions in Time is a charity special crossover between the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who and Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to Compact disc and Lalla Ward (born Sarah Ward 28 June 1951) also known as The Honourable Sarah Ward, is an English actress author and illustrator Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a Fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor John Leeson (born March 1943 in Leicester, England) is a British Actor who although having had a varied stage and television career spanning In the Gallifrey audio series, Leela acts as Romana's bodyguard, advisor and friend. Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the homeworld During the course of the series, Andred is killed and Leela is blinded during a Gallifreyan civil war. She is still blind at the end of the third and final series of Gallifrey plays.

Leela also appears in the Companion Chronicles audio The Catalyst. This story, which is primarily a flashback to an adventure before Horror of Fang Rock, features Leela as an old woman being interrogated by the warrior Z'Nai (a race encountered by an earlier Doctor),and aging a year per day as the powers of the Time Lords no longer keep her from death. This story strongly implies that, for Leela, this is not only after the third series of Gallifrey but after the Time War of the New Series, as Leela reveals that her adopted homeworld is gone. It is also almost certain that Leela's sight has returned, as she can describe her interrogator's armour. Whether or not Leela survives this story is unknown, but this adventure may be seen as Leela's final moments, both from age and injury, as she is poised to destroy the Z'Nai for good. How Leela ends up in the custody of the Z'Nai from her condition at the end of Gallifrey series 3, remains to be seen.

Leela does not appear in any of the Virgin Missing Adventures, but has appeared in several of the Past Doctor Adventures including four novels by Chris Boucher pairing her with the Fourth Doctor. The Virgin Missing Adventures (often referred to simply as MA s in fandom were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction The Past Doctor Adventures (sometimes known by the abbreviation PDA or PDAs were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC Science fiction Chris Boucher (born 1943 is a British Television writer best known for his frequent contributions to two genres science fiction and Crime dramas

List of appearances

Television

Season 14
Season 15
30th anniversary special

Novels

Virgin New Adventures
Past Doctor Adventures

Short stories

Comics

Audio dramas

References

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