Wait. Who was born when? Since the 2005 relaunch of , the Doctor has often been described as “the last of the Time Lords.” Initially, this was because the planet Gallifrey had been assumed destroyed in the Time War, and then trapped in a pocket universe in “The Day of the Doctor,” and after the events of “The Timeless Children,” all of Gallifrey was destroyed by the Master.
So, from the 9th through 15th Doctors, other Time Lords — including the Doctor’s family — have been scarce. But, in “The Legend of Ruby Sunday,” the latest season tackles the idea that the Doctor’s original companion, his granddaughter, Susan Foreman, might still be alive. And so, in exploring the mystery of Susan, this episode also seems to retcon the basic origin of Susan, too.
In typical non-linear fashion, it would seem that the 1963 status quo of is oddly, somehow, still in the Doctor’s future. Who is Susan in ? Susan with her grandfather in the TARDIS. Beginning with “An Unearthly Child,” the very first episode of in 1963, Susan Foreman (Carole Ann-Ford) was depicted as a teenager who self-identified as the Doctor’s granddaughter.
This makes Susan a defacto Time Lord, and most books, audio adventures, and comics tend to agree that she was literally and genetically related to the Doctor. For the first two seasons of , Susan traveled with the Doctor, as well as Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, both of whom had been her teachers at Coal Hill School. In these early adven.
