Thomas Brewster (Doctor Who)
| Thomas Brewster | |
|---|---|
| Doctor Who character | |
| First appearance | (with the Fifth Doctor:) The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (with the Sixth Doctor:) The Crimes of Thomas Brewster |
| Last appearance | (with the Fifth Doctor:) A Perfect World (with the Sixth Doctor:) Industrial Evolution |
| Portrayed by | John Pickard (voice) |
| Information | |
| Affiliated |
Fifth Doctor Sixth Doctor |
| Species | Human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | 19th century |
Thomas Brewster is a fictional character played by John Pickard in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. An orphan and street urchin from 19th-century London, he is a companion of the Fifth and Sixth Doctors.
The character first appears in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, where he met the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa on 1867 while he was being haunted by what he thought was the ghost of his mother, who had died in 1851. It turned out that he was under the control of an alien pretending to be his mother. After the Doctor helped him, he stowed away in the Doctor's TARDIS and accidentally set it on a solo flight.
Brewster gained limited control over the TARDIS. On one of his stops, the TARDIS was taken from him for ransom and he was forced to work for Gerry Lenz, who had met the Doctor in previous incarnations. At this time, Brewster met the Doctor's old friends, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Polly Wright. The three of them rescued the TARDIS from Lenz and saved the Earth from dying and from a Coffinloader, a beast which fed on dying worlds.
Eventually, the TARDIS began to malfunction due to Brewster's meddling. Before the ship could come to any further harm, Brewster was helped by an elderly Adric (who was unintentionally saved from his apparent death in Earthshock by Block Transfer Computations subconsciously sent to him by the Doctor while trying to recover the stolen TARDIS, that caused Adric to be sent into a pocket dimension based on an Aztec jungle), who got him back to London a few months after his departure. Afterwards, the Doctor invited him to join him on his travels.
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