Feature by PETE M cTIGHE
Pete McTighe withSophie Aldred, during the recording of The Promise on 2 March.
I love Ace. I’d always been disappointed that such a brilliant, groundbreaking com panion, and such a fantastic actress as Sophie Aldred, never had the ‘proper’ on-screen exit she deserved. There she is, in the final shot of Survival (1989), walking o into the sunset withthe SeventhDoctor – an inseparable, perfect partnership – and the next tim e we see him, seven years later, he’s alone. So what happened?