Doctor Who: Everything You Need To Know About Ace

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The most recent Doctor Who special saw Jodie Whittaker out on the high seas and coming up against pirate queens and Sea Devils in her penultimate outing as the Thirteenth Doctor. At the end of the episode, audiences were given a look at her final episode coming later this year, in which the return of two characters from the past has fans excited.

The trailer teased the return of two companions from the days of classic Who: Tegan and Ace. Tegan was a companion to the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) for a short time, as well as to the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davidson). Ace was a companion to the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy and appeared in the final storyline of the classic series (not including the Eighth Doctor's story in the TV movie). While both women played an important part in Doctor Who's history, this article looks at Ace, the impact she had on the show, and what her return means.

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Played by Sophie Aldred, Ace was introduced to the show in the 1987 story Dragonfire. Born on Earth in 1970, Ace actually started her time in the show as a waitress on the planet of Svartos. Ace was around 17 when she joined the Doctor on his travels and came from an unhappy home life on Earth. How she ended up on Svartos in the first place was also an interesting plot point. As a rebellious teen with a love love of science and making things explode, Ace had been expelled from her secondary school for blowing up the art room, and she went on to experiment with nitroglycerine in her bedroom. The resulting explosion from that experiment catapulted her into the future and to Svartos. Ace's real name in the show was actually Dorothy Gale, in reference to The Wizard of Oz character and how she