Polly. Everyone remember Polly?
Chances are the answer to that question is either no or "Oh yes, I remember her. I’d forgotten she was there."
Back when Doctor Who was just a kiddies show (ie the Hartnell era), Polly – together with fellow companions Ben and Dodo – were the producers’ attempts to upgrade it to a family show by introducing modern, vibrant companions that the youth of today could identify with.
Yes, Polly was the Rose Tyler of her day.
A swinging 60s kind of girl, into mini skirts, screaming a lot, using nail polisher remover to kill monsters and indulging in mildly flirtatious dialogue with cockney sailors, blonde bombshell Polly managed to survive the Hartnell era and ended up accompanying Pat Troughton on his journeys through time and space, along with new arrival Jamie McCrimmon, who joined in what was the show’s penultimate, purely historical, alien-free story.
And it’s not long after that that we join her for this surprisingly good historical set during World War 2.
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