Name:
Sam Jones
Species:
Human
Place of Origin:
Earth
Affiliated With:
Greenpeace
Black Seed Movement
Grandparents:
Grandmother
Mother:
Margaret Jones
Father:
Allan Jones
Partners:
Paul Hamani
Chris
Orin
First Seen In:
The Eight Doctors
Appearances:
Vampire Science
The Bodysnatchers
Genocide
War of the Daleks
Alien Bodies
Kursaal
Option Lock
Longest Day
Dreamstone Moon
Seeing I
Placebo Effect
Vanderdeken’s Children
The Scarlet Empress
The Janus Conjunction
Beltempest
The Face-Eater
The Taint
Demontage
Revolution Man
Dominion
Unnatural History
Autumn Mist
Interference – Book One
Interference – Book Two
Short stories
Short Trips
The People’s Temple
More Short Trips
Dead Time
Femme Fatale
Short Trips and Side Steps
The Queen of Eros
Repercussions
Repercussions…
Audio
Earth and Beyond
Bounty
thanks to TARDIS Wikia
Samantha Angeline Jones was a companion of the Eighth Doctor.
Sam Jones was a unique individual, her biodata/timeline had been directly affected by a future event which was related to her time travelling, (Unnatural History) making her life before 2002 something of a paradox.
Sam is one of only a very small number of people confirmed to know the
TIMELINE 1
Samantha Jones had a very troubled childhood. In her teenage years, she was a drug user and had the needle scars on her arms to prove it. She lived in a bedsit in King’s Cross, London. She wrote letters to Amnesty While in high school and thought about spray painting a billboard. She left home in 1997, and worked in a video shop up to 2002. She smoked Benson &, Hedges cigarettes, and had used ecstasy more than once. She saw the Lord of the Rings movie, but didn’t think much of it.
Then she met the Eighth Doctor. He had come searching for his friend. He explained to her about the dimensional scar in San Francisco that his TARDIS had become a part of.
He convinced her to accompany him back to San Francisco after her parents showed her a series of postcards they had been receiving from a Samantha Jones, including one showing a blonde Samantha Jones and the Doctor from a photobooth on Paphos.
Whilst in San Francisco she attempted to seduce The Doctor, was captured by Griffin, an unnaturalist, and had sex several times with Fitz Kreiner. (Unnatural History)
After several days of getting to know The Doctor and Fitz’s worlds, and encountering effects of the Wild Hunt (an energy pulse washing out in a reverse ripple from the scar that made her experience her alternate timelines and also altered her biodata), she ran into the scar, altering her timeline greatly, so that she encountered The Doctor (for the first time) in Totter’s Yard. (Unnatural History, The Eight Doctors)
TIMELINE 2
Samantha Jones was a vegetarian. She hated drugs and didn’t even drink Coca-Cola.
She met The Doctor in 1997 whilst running from a group of drug dealers. (The Eight Doctors)
Sam spent three years on the planet Ha’olam, making her about twenty-one when she re-encountered The Doctor and began travelling with him again. (Seeing I)
Whilst on the planet Hyspero she met (and got along brilliantly with) Iris Wildthyme. (The Scarlet Empress) She died from radiation on Janus Prime, melting into a puddle on Menda. The Doctor later saved her by using a temporal orbit. (The Janus Conjunction)
In San Francisco, she encountered a dimensional scar that altered her timeline, reworking it and creating the established timeline she experienced with The Doctor. (Unnatural History)
Sam chose to leave The Doctor while on 1996
ERASURE
A person matching Sam’s description was briefly seen by Charlotte Pollard while aboard the airship in the heart of the Time Vortex, its inhabitants kept in a limbo-like state having been removed from the timeline by The Doctor to preserve the Web of Time. (Repercussions…)
CHARACTERISTICS
Born on 15 April 1980, she was sixteen when she first met The Doctor in Totter’s Yard. She attended Coal Hill School. She thought herself a pacifist, but had killed people: a Tractite and a human, the second when she was being controlled. (Genocide, Kursaal) She was still shocked by extreme forms of violence and believed that such direct action should be beneath The Doctor. (Revolution Man)
APPEARANCE
In heroriginal timeline, Sam Jones had dark hair, needle scars along her arms and not a lot of muscle tone in her legs. (Unnatural History) In her second timeline, she had short blonde hair. She ran a few kilometres every day, either through the TARDIS or around wherever she and the Doctor landed. (Option Lock) She was sixteen when she began travelling with The Doctor, but she spent three years on Ha’olam, making her twenty-one (or thereabouts) when she finished travelling with The Doctor. (Seeing I, Interference – Book Two)
PERSONALITY
Sam Jones came from liberal parents. She once said that the only thing that would really shock her parents was if she did drugs.
She was a vegetarian and a supporterof Greenpeace and gay rights. The Doctor took her to a Greenpeace rally. (Vampire Science)
During her travels with The Doctor, Sam fell in love with him. (Longest Day)
Despite believing herself to be a pacifist and anti-war, she found herself grabbing a gun following an encounteron Skaro against the Daleks. (War of the Daleks)
HABITS AND QUIRKS
Sam liked to run a few kilometres each day.
She and the Doctor came up with a list of codes (numbers) to apply to different situations they might encounter (so they didn’t have to come up with a plan, just say a number). (The Janus Conjunction, Unnatural History)
BEHIND THE SCENES
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