Message #94762

[Nyki]

B is for...

Barbara

Barbara Wright was a history teacher at Coal Hill School in London.  When she and colleague Ian Chesterton attempted to solve the mystery of their student Susan Foreman, they ended up being whisked away in the TARDIS by the Doctor and Susan.  Initially wanting nothing more than to get home, Barbara came to enjoy their travels, and her experiences ranged from being worshipped by the Aztecs to being pursued amorously by Nero and losing several cardigans. 

Although enjoying occasional flirtations, notably with the Thal Ganatus, Barbara's feelings for Ian seemed to deepen as they travelled.  They eventually took the opportunity of a captured Dalek time-machine to come home, returning to London two years after they left.

In 2010, Sarah Jane described them as a couple and both professors at Cambridge.  She claimed they hadn't aged, though that can only be treated as hearsay.