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« on: February 19, 2012, 01:34:51 pm »


Barbara Wright was teaching history at Coal Hill School in London in 1963, working with science teacher Ian Chesterton. One of their students, Susan Foreman, shows an unusually advanced knowledge of science and history, but a rudimentary knowledge of other subjects. In an attempt to learn more about this "unearthly child", Barbara and Ian follow Susan home to a junkyard, where they hear her voice coming from what appears to be a police box. During a confrontation with her grandfather, the Doctor, Barbara rushes in to the police box, only to discover that its exterior hides the much larger interior of the TARDIS, revealing the vehicle for the first time and making Barbara the first human to step aboard.

At first a reluctant traveller in time and space, the strong-willed Barbara becomes more adventurous, while providing a maternal figure to Susan and subsequently Vicki. She is frequently the only person willing to stand up to the First Doctor's cantankerous outbursts with firmness and logic. A chemistry between her and Ian is also evident, although the nature of their relationship is never fully clarified in the television series.

Although mutually respectful and increasingly affectionate, the relationship between the Doctor and Barbara is often tested by their opposing viewpoints. In The Aztecs, Barbara is mistaken for the reincarnation of a high priest, Yetaxa, after they find her in possession of his bracelet. Barbara seizes this opportunity to change the course of history, and tries to persuade the Aztecs to abandon human sacrifice, so that by the time Hernan Cortes - who overthrew the Aztec empire - lands he will find a glorious civilisation. The Doctor warns Barbara that she cannot rewrite history, but his protests fall on deaf ears. Barbara fails and, although she has influenced some Aztecs, history remains on course.

As well as exploring alien planets, Barbara visits several eras of Earth's history, including the Roman Empire during the time of Nero, Palestine during the Third Crusade, the Himalayas in the 13th Century, and a post-apocalyptic London in the 22nd Century.

After the TARDIS is chased through time and space by the Daleks to the planet Mechanus, where a conflict destroys the pursuing faction of Daleks, Barbara suggests to Ian they use the abandoned Dalek time machine to get home. The Doctor is furious and tries to persuade them to stay with him by suggesting the journey might kill them, but the two teachers had made up their minds. After an emotional farewell to the Doctor and Vicki, Barbara and Ian are returned to London, albeit two years after their disappearance. Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor uses the time-space visualiser to check they have returned safely, and tells Vicki how much he will miss them.
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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2012, 04:42:14 pm »

Forget about Barbara, what about those poor cardigans of hers? It's a good job she seems to have an endless supply of them Tongue

Great as ever in this. I don't think I will ever have a negative remark about the actress or the character.
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2012, 11:36:33 am »

Forget about Barbara, what about those poor cardigans of hers?

That made me lol Grin
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2012, 02:20:47 pm »

Barbara is always good and always played well, but I think this story was more focussed on Ian and Vicki and so she didn't really have an awful lot to do. That's not a bad thing though, I guess because the stories before this had seen Ian take more of a back seat.
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2012, 04:59:22 pm »

Forget about Barbara, what about those poor cardigans of hers? It's a good job she seems to have an endless supply of them Tongue

Maybe 2Entertain coud release 'Cardigan Capers' box set. It would at least have more of a theme to it than some of their most recent sets Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2012, 12:03:12 am »

Barbara's never anything but perfect, whether she's centre-stage or not.  I love her reaction to having to give up her cardigan.
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« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2012, 04:38:38 pm »

Forget about Barbara, what about those poor cardigans of hers? It's a good job she seems to have an endless supply of them Tongue

Maybe 2Entertain coud release 'Cardigan Capers' box set. It would at least have more of a theme to it than some of their most recent sets Tongue

That made me lol Grin
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« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2012, 11:38:25 pm »

Barbara is never anything less than awesome, and this story is no different. She is more of a background character for most of it, I think, but she still always delivers.
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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2012, 12:58:52 pm »

Do you think we will ever reach a story where someone will have something negative to say about Barbara? I've not seen a single thing yet in any of the stories.
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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2012, 03:30:57 pm »

Do you think we will ever reach a story where someone will have something negative to say about Barbara? I've not seen a single thing yet in any of the stories.

Not from me. Can't think of any time where she was played badly or acted particularly out of character or anything that annoyed me. I think the only thing Jaqueline Hill ever got wrong was agreeing to come back for Meglos, and even then she was great in a shocking story.
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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2012, 06:24:52 pm »

Do you think we will ever reach a story where someone will have something negative to say about Barbara? I've not seen a single thing yet in any of the stories.

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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2012, 08:04:49 pm »

Do you think we will ever reach a story where someone will have something negative to say about Barbara? I've not seen a single thing yet in any of the stories.

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Exactly this. I can't think of a single issue with Barbara in any story.
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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2012, 08:46:33 pm »

Do you think we will ever reach a story where someone will have something negative to say about Barbara? I've not seen a single thing yet in any of the stories.

Not from me. Can't think of any time where she was played badly or acted particularly out of character or anything that annoyed me. I think the only thing Jaqueline Hill ever got wrong was agreeing to come back for Meglos, and even then she was great in a shocking story.

This. Though I don't hate Meglos as much as many others do.
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« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2012, 11:27:03 pm »

There can never be cause to criticise her because she is awesome. That is all Tongue
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