Peri Brown
| Peri Brown | |
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| Doctor Who character | |
Peri in Attack of the Cybermen.
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| First appearance | Planet of Fire |
| Last appearance |
The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp "Dimensions in Time" (charity special) |
| Portrayed by | Nicola Bryant |
| Information | |
| Affiliated |
Fifth Doctor Sixth Doctor |
| Species | Human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | 1984 |
Peri Brown, also known as Perpugilliam Brown, is a fictional character played by Nicola Bryant in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
An American college student (her passport lists her residence as Pasadena, California) majoring in botany, Peri is a companion of the Fifth and Sixth Doctors and a regular in the programme from 1984 to 1986. Peri appeared in 11 stories (33 Episodes).
She first appears in the Fifth Doctor serial Planet of Fire, in which she encounters the Doctor and Turlough on the island of Lanzarote. After an encounter with the Master and the shapechanging android Kamelion (who disguises himself as her stepfather, Professor Howard Foster), Peri asks to join the Fifth Doctor on his travels, while Turlough departs to return to his home planet of Trion. (The identity of Peri's mother is not revealed in the televised series, but see below.)
As they are both suffering from spectrox poisoning on Androzani, the Fifth Doctor decides to give what antidote remains to Peri, sacrificing himself to save her. As she looks on, he regenerates into the Sixth Doctor at the end of The Caves of Androzani and she continues to travel with him, despite the fact that one of the first things the temporarily unstable Sixth Doctor does is try to strangle her (The Twin Dilemma).
Peri is a bright, spirited young woman in her early twenties, who travels with the Doctor because, like many of his companions, she wants to see the universe. Although she shares a more abrasive relationship with the Sixth Doctor, there is an undercurrent of affection in their verbal sparring.
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