FEATURE BY CHRIS BENTLEY
Early in 1967, Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd was searching for a fresh face to accompany the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) in the programme’s fourth series. Having failed to persuade Pauline Collins to extend her guest role as Samantha Briggs beyond the conclusion of The Faceless Ones, Lloyd held auditions for a new character. Victoria Waterfield was the daughter of a nineteenthcentury scientist and would appear in the next serial, The Evil of the Daleks.