Interview by SIMON GUERRIER
: Sophie Aldred as Ace in a publicity shot for Remembrance of the Daleks (1988).
”I’ve always loved stripes,” says Sophie Aldred, who, between 1987 and 1989, played Ace, companion to the Seventh Doctor. “When I went to my first readthrough with [Doctor Who script editor] Andrew Cartmel, I was wearing a stripy blue-and-white top, probably stripy socks as well, plus Dr Martens shoes and these cut-off army shorts from Laurence Corner in London. Do you remember those army surplus stores? You could get old fatigues and camouflage stuff . They were quite cool places to go.”