Interview by SIMON GUERRIER
When Jo Grant first walks into the Doctor’s laboratory at UNIT, she immediately wrecks an experiment. The Doctor is horrified to discover that she’s his new assistant. But she’s also an agent qualified in cryptology, safe breaking and explosives – all that, and trendy too.
“I’m wearing Biba in that scene,” says Katy Manning. “I was already strongly with them, way before Doctor Who.”