Doctor Who Headcanon Reimagined, 2: Abandoned Companions

The second season of my non-chronological doctor Who watchthrough focuses on two of the most famous villains in the canon. The Daleks and The Cybermen. Each of these inhuman alien races is focused on evolving humanoids from their emotional baggage to create genocidal killing machines.

While they are both at the forefront of this season, the underlying story is one of how people process being abandoned.

We will see several companions separated from the various faces of The Doctor and see how they cope with life without him. And because this is a season of an action sci-fi show, we'll end the storyline by throwing a bunchh of Daleks and Cybermen at a love story and see how The Doctor copes with it.

201. Dalek
(9, Rose, Adam, Daleks)

The Leather Doctor and Rose are visiting a museum when they stumble upon an alien that The Leather Doctor identifies as an ultimate killing machine. Why is it so dangerous, though?


202. Eve Of The Daleks
(13, Yasmine, Dan, Daleks)

Steampunk Doctor encounters a time loop on Earth where a small band of Daleks keeps resetting the timeline, resulting in them and some innocent humans repeatedly dying.


203. Genesis Of The Daleks
(4, Sarah Jane, Harry, Daleks, Davros)

Meet The Scarf Doctor! This jellybaby obsessed face of The Doctor has taken his companions all the way back to when The Daleks were invented, and he debates the ethics of destroying them before they become an interstellar problem.


204. Ark In Space
(4, Sarah Jane, Harry)

Scarf Doctor and the crew from the last episode live out the movie Alien, only instead of the terrifying xenomorphs, they're mostly battling bugs and bubble wrap.


205. Terror Of The Zygons
(4, Sarah Jane, Harry, Brigadier, Benton)

It's the Loch Ness monster! And weird rubber chameleon aliens. They are Not messing around. It's some good old fashioned mistaken identity shenanigans with The Scarf Doctor and friends!


206. The Brain Of Morbius
(4, Sarah Jane, Sisters of Karn)

It's a Frankenstein's monster style adventure with Scarf Doctor and Sarah Jane. The lovely Sisterhood of Karn will be reappearing a few times in this continuity, and their first appearance is a fun one. This episode has it all: buggy aliens, a wrecked spaceship, and an assistant with a hook hand!


207. The Hand Of Fear
(4, Sarah Jane)

A criminal in stasis has his pod blown up but his hand survives (this part of the season has some serious George Lucas vibes), and causes chaos for Scarf Doctor and Sarah Jane.  


208. The Long Game
(9, Rose, Adam)

The Leather Doctor and his companions end up on a sattelite that broadcasts TV shows to Earth and other planets. But it's bad. TV bad. 


209. Vengeance On Varos
(7, Peri)

A corrupt government uses TV to broadcast public executions to entertain the masses. It's not long before The Overdressed Doctor and his companion end up on the chopping block.


210. Dot and Bubble
(15, Ruby, Susan Triad)

If TV is bad, wait until you see The Crying Doctor's take on social media. A planet of influencers is being targeted by a species of monsters that they can't seem to be aware of. (No, it's not The Weeping Angels.) 


211. The Empty Child
(9, Rose, Jack Harkness)

It's London in the Blitz, and The Leather Doctor and Rose encounter a small child in a gas mask obsessed with finding his mommy. Is there something demonic at work, or is it alien in nature? They also meet another time traveler.


212. The Doctor Dances
(9, Rose, Jack Harkness)

Continuing from the last episode, we learn more about the people wearing gas masks, as well as Jack Harkness.


213. The Dalek Invasion Of Earth 
(1, Susan Foreman, Barbara, Ian, Daleks)

In a dystopian future, Daleks have settled on Earth and completely subjugate the human race. Fussy Doctor, his grandaughter, and the companions he abducted last season must survive in this world, at least until they can get the TARDIS to take them away.


214. A Girl's Best Friend
(Sarah Jane, K-9)

In the last episode, The Fussy Doctor abandoned a companion when she wasn't doing precisely what he wanted. Earlier this season, The Scarf Doctor abandoned a companion who wanted to leave. Now we catch up with Sarah Jane when she receives a package from The Scarf Doctor, which contains a robotic dog that will help her solve a very Scooby Doo like mystery in her life back on Earth.


215. Bad Wolf
(9, Rose, Jack Harkness, Mickey, Jackie, Daleks)

The Leather Doctor, Rose, and Jack Harkness are ensnared by the TV satellite from earlier this season. Only now it's being run by Daleks! 


216. The Parting Of Ways
(9, Rose, Jack Harkness, Mickey, Jackie, Daleks)

Everything looks especially bleak, so The Doctor sends Rose back to Earth while he and Jack battle the Daleks. Only Rose refuses to be separated from The Doctor and gets her mother and boyfriend to help her get back to the space station.


217. School Reunion
(10, Rose, Sarah Jane, Mickey, K-9)

While on a mission to figure out some strange goings on at a British school, The Smiling Doctor and his crew run into Sarah Jane who is also investigating the school. How will she react to this much later face of The Doctor who abandoned her so long ago (from both their perspectives).


218. Rise Of The Cybermen 
(10, Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Pete, Cybermen)

The Smiling Doctor, Rose, and Mickey accidentally pass through dimensions and land on an alternate Earth where Rose's father is alive and is involved in the creation of Earth's version of The Cybermen.


219. Age Of Steel
(10, Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Pete, Cybermen) 

The Smiling Doctor and friends must stop The Cybermen they encountered in the last episode from taking over Earth and turning all the humans into a new type of Cybermen.


220. Inferno
(3, Brigadier, Jo, Timelords)

While we're crossing universes and dimensions, The Kung Fu Doctor stumbles into an approximation of Star Trek's Mirrorverse, where everything is diamatercially opposed to what it's like in our universe. There, an environmental catastrophe looms and The Doctor can't convince anyone to listen to him. When he returns to our dimension, he encounters a similar problem.


221. Resurrection Of The Daleks
(5, Tegan, Turlough, Davros, Daleks)

When The Cricket Doctor once again encounters the genocidal trash cans who've been haunting The Doctor all season, he decides that this time, he's going to kill Davros in order to protect the universe, which causes one of his companions to decide to leave.


222. 73 Yards
(Ruby, Susan Triad, 15, Kate Lethebridge-Stewart, Carla, Cheery)

The Crying Doctor's companion gets separated from The Doctor on Earth, where she is followed by a woman who is always 73 yards behind her. Whenever this woman speaks to someone, they become horrified and refuse to speak to Ruby ever again. This includes her family, and UNIT, who initially plan on helping her.


223. The Girl Who Waited
(11, Amy, Rory)

The Bowtie Doctor and Rory are separated from Amy while waiting to take a holiday. Amy is put in an accelerate timestream and is much older when Rory comes to rescue her.


224. Army Of Ghosts
(10, Rose, Jackie, Mickey, Daleks, Cybermen, Torchwood)

The Smiling Doctor and Rose check in on regular old Earth and discover that humanity has grown accustomed to visits from ghosts, who stop in on a schedule, which people seem to find comfort in. Only they're not ghosts at all but Cybermen breaking in from another universe. When The Doctor is approached by an organization called Torchwood to help discover what the Cybermen are up to, Rose finds a sphere that contains The Daleks who survived Bad Wolf.


225. Doomsday
(10, Rose, Jackie, Mickey, Pete, Daleks, Cybermen, Torchwood)

There are come genuinely funny moments when the invading Daleks and the invading Cybermen interact while trying to take down Torchwood but it's otherwise a dire affair as The Doctor realizes he and his crew create the problem when they broke into the alternate world way back in "Rise Of The Cybermen." The only way to stop both invasions is to close the barrier forever.