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Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh (1 July 1934 – 13 April 2025) was an English actress and writer. Born in London, Jean Marsh became interested in show business while taking dancing and mime classes as therapy for a childhood illness. After attending a charm school and working as a model, she started acting in repertory and took voice lessons. Her repertory work was supplemented by a number of film appearances as a dancer. She then spent three years in America, appearing in Sir John Gielgud's Broadway production of "Much Ado About Nothing" and numerous TV shows, including an episode of "The Twilight Zone"(1959). Returning to London, she won roles on stage, film and TV. It was during this period that she appeared in "Doctor Who" (1963), first as Princess Joanna in "The Crusade" and then as Sara Kingdom in "The Daleks' Master Plan." In the early 1970s she co-created and starred in LWT's "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971). Since then she has maintained a very busy career in the theatre, on TV - including a starring role in the US sitcom "9 to 5"(1982) and films such as Return to Oz (1985) and Willow (1988). She also co-created another successful series, "The House of Eliott" (1991).
Jean Marsh
Sara Kingdom
for Sara Kingdom in Jay and Stu's Doctor Who: Series 15
Suggested by optimistic_writer
What if Doctor Who was made by two obsessive Whovians on the internet featuring a dead actor? The Doctor returns after the horrifying events of last season and is dealing with the death of his companion, Jodie. The TARDIS has brought him to a strange planet, where he eventually meets two human slaves. By the end of the episode, one dies, and the other, named Laun, comes with the Doctor because she has nowhere else to go. Albeit begrudgingly as The Doctor is worried that he will get her killed as well. Learning from one another, they go on many adventures, like introducing Laun to modern day Earth, a planet called Iyoa, meeting Franz Kafka under familiar circumstances, a reintroduction to the Ice Warriors and a being called The Light, a Silurian/Human colony, and the Doctor facing his fears and worries about companions being killed. The episodes featured are: Planet of Kiar'ans, Welcome to Earth, Where Am I?, The Overseers, Memories of the Daleks, The Frozen Wastes/Beneath the Ice, The Passenger, Life in Plastic, Fear of the Silurians, In the World of the Dead, The Alien/The Ruins, and the Christmas Special featuring a meta-commentary on aliens broadcasting on TV channels wanting a certain goal.
