Dodo Chaplet

Dodo
Doctor Who character
Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet
First appearance	The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Last appearance	The War Machines
Portrayed by	Jackie Lane
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Affiliated	First Doctor
Species	Human
Home planet	Earth

Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet is a fictional character played by Jackie Lane in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. An Earth teenager from the year 1966, she was a companion of the First Doctor and a regular in the programme in its third season, from February to July, 1966. Only three of the serials in which Dodo appeared as a regular are complete in the BBC archive (The Ark, The Gunfighters and The War Machines). Dodo's personality was an unsophisticated, bright and happy one.

Ultimately the character was not deemed a success by the programme's makers, and Lane's contract was not extended beyond episode two of The War Machines. To replace her, two new characters, Polly (Anneke Wills) and Ben (Michael Craze), thought to be more in tune with the "swinging sixties", became companions. Dodo appeared in six stories (19 episodes, of which 11 currently exist in the BBC Archives).

Despite Jackie Lane's refusal to be involved with the programme, Dodo has appeared in several spin-off productions, including the popular Big Finish audio dramas and novels such as "Who Killed Kennedy?" explaining her life after leaving the Doctor.

Dodo is introduced at the end of the serial The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve. In that story, the Doctor and Steven travel to 1572 Paris, where they witness the persecution of the city's Huguenot population. Despite befriending a young woman named Anne Chaplet, the Doctor knows he cannot prevent the coming massacre of 10,000 Huguenots, including Anne, by the Catholic French authorities. He therefore leaves in the TARDIS, taking Steven with him. When Steven finds out, he is furious and considers leaving the Doctor while the TARDIS is in 1960s London.