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|affiliation=[[Fifth Doctor]] |
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|race=Tracer |
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|start= ''[[The Judgement of Isskar]]'' |
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|portrayer= [[Ciara Janson]] (voice) |
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'''Abby''', originally named '''Amy''', is a fictional character played by [[Ciara Janson]] in a series of audio plays produced by [[Big Finish Productions]] based on the long-running British [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. A human "tracer", a device designed to track down the segments of [[Story arcs in Doctor Who#The Key to Time|the Key to Time]], she is a [[Companion (Doctor Who)|companion]] of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. |
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After her travels with the Doctor, Abby, alongside her sister Zara, would return in their own audio series, ''[[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish#Graceless|Graceless]]''.<ref name=Graceless/> |
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==Character history== |
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The character first appears in ''[[The Judgement of Isskar]]'', in which the [[Fifth Doctor]] was brought to a rainy planet where he found a compass, which led him to Amy, then just a few minutes old and not yet having a name. Telling him that the compass was a segment of [[Story arcs in Doctor Who#The Key to Time|the Key to Time]], she asked if he could help her collect two more segments. She turned the segment into its original form and put it into a satchel leading to another universe. |
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Arriving on [[Mars (Doctor Who)|Mars]] in the distant past, and after the Doctor decided to name the tracer "Amy" (thinking she had agreed upon the name), Amy realised that the segment of the Key was disguised as a [[Coping (architecture)|capstone]] on the pyramid in the town. The Doctor and Amy were arrested and taken to Magistrate Isskar, accused of being thieves by Isskar's beadles. They were let go with a warning not to approach the pyramid. Understanding but disobeying the warning, inside the pyramid, the Doctor and Amy met another tracer, a "sister" of Amy, who already had one of the segments of the Key in her possession, along her assistant in her quest, Harmonious 14 Zink. After agreeing to the Doctor's suggestion of naming her "Zara" ("just to shut you up"), Zara turned the segment back into a crystal, which caused massive and disastrous changes to Mars' environment. Zara left with the segment using Zink's [[List of Doctor Who items#Time Ring|time ring]]. The Doctor, Amy and Zink jumped on board an approaching ship, and the Doctor piloted it to safety. Unable to help the catastrophe inflicted on Mars, the Doctor and Amy left in the [[TARDIS]] for their next destination. |
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The Doctor and Amy arrived inside a castle on the ring world of Safeplace about 16,000 years later. At a castle there, there was a succession dispute between the Valdigians, Lady Mesca and Wembik. Amy worked out a compromise between Mesca and Wembik — they agreed to be married to one another, so that whoever son became king, would also be the son of the other one. When Isskar and his men, now [[Ice Warrior]]s, were guided to Safeplace by Zara to find the next segment, the Doctor asked Isskar to speak to him; his men brought Amy outside the castle grounds. |
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Zara spent generations manipulating the Valdigians as well as the Ice Warriors. She realised the castle was the next segment and turned the segment into a crystal, trapping the Doctor, the TARDIS, the Valdigians and Isskar inside. She tried using the power of the segments to take Amy's segment from her satchel. Instead, Zara blew up her satchel, and the Safeplace segment ended up in Amy's possession. While Zara left with the time ring, Amy turned the segment back into a castle to allowing the Doctor, the Ice Warriors and the Valdigians (with the Ice Warriors towing the TARDIS) to escape. Amy then turned it back into a crystal and placed it into her satchel. |
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The Ice Warriors took the Doctor and Amy onto Isskar's ship to take them to tribunal, and Isskar confiscated the two segments they had, but he later helped the Doctor and Amy retrieve their segments after his ship was destroyed by Zara, and was on a collision course with the [[red giant]], Leboon. When the last escape pod was taken, leaving the Doctor and Amy behind, the Doctor tried fixing the ship, before the [[Black Guardian]] intervened, telling the Doctor that he hoped the Doctor could explain the situation.<ref>{{cite serial |title=[[The Judgement of Isskar]] |series=Doctor Who: The Key 2 Time|first=Simon (writer) |last=Guerrier |authorlink=Simon Guerrier |first2=Jason (director) |last2=Haigh-Ellery |publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]] |date=January 2009}}</ref> |
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After finding another segment in [[Sudan]] in the [[9th century]],<ref>{{cite serial |title=[[The Destroyer of Delights]] |series=Doctor Who: The Key 2 Time|first=Jonathan (writer) |last=Clements |authorlink=Jonathan Clements |first2=Lisa (director) |last2=Bowerman |authorlink2=Lisa Bowerman |publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]] |date=February 2009}}</ref> the final segment was found on the planet Chaos, where he met [[Romana (Doctor Who)|Romana]] and Princess Astra (from ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]''). The Doctor discovered that after the key was scattered the last time, Romana had become the final segment of it. To save Romana's life, Astra offered to become the final segment instead, even if it involved her dying to do so. When the Black and [[White Guardian]]s arrived to try to take the Key away from the Doctor, the Doctor threw it into the Chaos Pool, where it was destroyed, preventing the degradation that it was causing to the universe. With the Guardians leaving empty handed, Romana invited Amy to live in [[Gallifrey]] to join the Academy and become a [[Time Lord]].<ref>{{cite serial |title=[[The Chaos Pool]] |series=Doctor Who: The Key 2 Time|first=Peter (writer) |last=Anghelides |authorlink=Peter Anghelides |first2=Lisa (director) |last2=Bowerman |authorlink2=Lisa Bowerman |publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]] |date=March 2009}}</ref> |
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==Other appearances== |
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Amy and her sister Zara would later return in their own audio series, ''[[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish#Graceless|Graceless]]''.<ref name=Graceless>{{cite web|title=Introducing Graceless|url=http://bigfinish.com/news/Introducing-Graceless|publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]]|date=31 March 2010|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20120312230628/http://bigfinish.com/news/Introducing-Graceless|archivedate=12 March 2012}}</ref> In the ''Graceless'' series, Amy's name was changed to Abby, with the in-universe reason for it being given in the first story, ''The Sphere'': Amy took the name of a woman registered in the titular space station. The out-of-universe reason for this development has not been revealed; however, some reviewers assumed that it was likely that the change was made to avoid confusion with the television companion [[Amy Pond]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Tony|title=Graceless series I reviewed|url=http://redrocketrising.com/2015/05/graceless-series-1-reviewed/|website=Red Rocket Rising|quote=[Abby] was called Amy but has changed her name (in fact to avoid clashing with the then TV assistant Miss Pond).}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Character profile for Amy/Abby from Doctor Who|url=https://www.goodreads.com/characters/61672-amy-abby|work=Goodreads|quote=After reuniting with her sister Zara, [Amy] changed her name to Abby. (Though a reason is given for this change in the Graceless audio series, the likely real-world reason for this change was to differentiate her from Amy Pond.)}}</ref> |
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==List of appearances== |
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===Audio dramas=== |
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====with the Fifth Doctor==== |
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*''[[The Judgement of Isskar]]'' |
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*''[[The Destroyer of Delights]]'' |
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*''[[The Chaos Pool]]'' |
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====in ''Graceless''==== |
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*''The Sphere'' |
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*''The Fog'' |
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*''The End'' |
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*''The Line'' |
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*''The Flood'' |
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*''The Dark'' |
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*''The Edge'' |
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*''The Battle'' |
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*''Consequences'' |
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==References== |
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{{reflist|30em}} |
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==External links== |
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{{TardisDataCore|Abby}} |
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{{Fifth Doctor companions}} |
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[[Category:Fictional characters introduced in 2009]] |
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[[Category:Doctor Who audio characters]] |
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[[Category:Doctor Who spin-off companions]] |
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