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[dreamer_easy]

Are Brigadier Bambera and Shou Yuing the first female Characters Of Colour to have lines in Doctor Who?

ETA: Der. No. Cameca. Anyone else?

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[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a female Movellan in 'Destiny of the Daleks'?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I think there was, although I can't remember if she had any lines - I'll check. Thanks!

[wolfy-writing.livejournal.com]

Toos in the Robots of Death.

[stevencaldwell.livejournal.com]

What about the men? Toberman grunted some dialogue in 'Tomb'.

[vindaloo-vixen.livejournal.com]

Z-something in The Robots of Death was black, if I recall...(though it's years since I saw that one) as was the Matrona in The Trial of a Time Lord. And they both have lines. I agree about the Movellan lady, though same caveat as for The Robots of Death, there.

Oh, what about Ping-Cho? She'd have to take the biscuit, I'd think.

By no means ...

[(Anonymous)]

Ping Cho in Marco Polo
Cameca in the Aztecs
Fariah in Enemy of the World
Chin Lee in Mind of Evil
Zilda in Robots of Death
Villagra in Four to Doomsday
Osborn in Resurrection of the Daleks
Matrona in Trial of a Time Lord
Shou Yuing and Bambera in Battlefield

It's fair comment to note that a large number of stories don't
have any women at all in, except for the companion.

[theta-g.livejournal.com]

Get hold of the Troughton Lost in Time DVDs and have a look at the surviving episode of The Enemy of the World. There's a little talk about this character at the end of the narrated CD of the complete story.


Carmen Munroe as Fariah

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Oh, ta! I guess Kaftan from Tomb of the Cybermen would also be an example.

[dinosaurcostume.livejournal.com]

There's a chapter on Fariah and Tobermann, as I recall, in Gary Gillatt's slightly misnomered Doctor Who From A to Z. Possible anecdotes from the woman who played Fariah... not sure, though. (She was later, I think, in a Channel 4 sitcom called 'Desmonds' that I loved as a kid...)