Don’t forget Alex Kingston, who played River Song.
You could tell that the series was about to go full-woke when they brought in the black lesbian Companion .
All along the series, there would be unfulfilled romantic tension between the Doctors and the Companions. That broke down with the lesbian.
The writers seemed to take the series in a darker direction with Smith and after he left. I love reruns of Eccleston, Tennant and Smith. I can give or take Capaldi.
Doctor Who was something my daughter and I watched together when she was in high school so it has a kind of nostalgia attached to it. We share very dry humor and love British comedies. We were watching the “Thin Blue Line” with Rowan Atkinson. We notice he had a small Tardis on his desk in the show. One episode I notice the Tardis moved around the room depending on the scene. Obviously an inside joke on the set. My daughter bought me a small Tardis coffee cup for Christmas. Whenever she visited my office, she would move the Tardis to a different spot in the office. It was a running joke with us that no body else understood, unless they watched Dr. Who.
“Don’t forget Alex Kingston, who played River Song.”
No one else could have played River Song,the Bad Girl Of The Universe, better than Kingston! She was fantastic!
And the plot twist of making her Amy and Rory’s daughter came out of left field. I loved it.
She played her part perfectly, and the show had another woman character with Time Lord powers, who easily could have carried her own spinoff show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_Daughter
Georgia Moffett brought enormous charisma to the character, and is the real life daughter of Peter Davison, who played the 5th Doctor.
She is also the real life wife of David Tennant.