Not too long ago BBC confirmed reports that Elisabeth Sladen, the actress that was perhaps the most well known of the "Doctor Who" companions, had died.

A British stage and television actress, she took the role as a journalist in the popular British sci-fi drama in 1973, and never really left it. Even after leaving the show in 1976, she returned for The Five Doctors, a pilot for the spinoff K9 And Company and a number of Doctor Who and Sarah Jane Smith audio dramas in the nineties and noughties before her character was revived in the new Doctor Who TV series opposite David Tennant, before spinning off again as the children’s show on CBBC, The Sarah Jane Adventures, that broke and continues to breaks records for the channel.

Growing up in the nineties, I never had the opportunity to watch "Doctor Who" during its initial transmission and instead my first experience with the 900-year old Time Lord came from Saturday morning television. Where other channels were showing cartoons, UK Gold would broadcast and omnibus comprising of 1 or 2 complete episodes from the long-running BBC series.