Dodo travelled with the Doctor between The Massacre of St Bartholemew's Eve and The War Machines.

After barely escaping the massacre of the Protestants in 1572 Paris, the Doctor and Steven arrived back in contemporary London, and before they could do anything about it Dorothea Chaplet, enters the TARDIS, believing it to be a real Police Box. She had witnessed a road accident and wanted to call the police. Steven, had been prepared to leave The Doctor, but he became intrigued by Dodo, who had the same surname as a young woman he had beriended in 1572, and the possibility that Dodo is her descendent gives him hope that she survived the Hugenot massacre.

Bright, chirpy Cockney Dodo joined the TARDIS crew enthusiastically, but her first trip into space inadvertently caused problems. She had a common cold which infected a community of space travellers, who, having no natural immunity to the germs fell very ill. As a result the reptilian servants, the Monoids, overthrew them. A timely reminder of the consequences of the interaction The Doctor and his companions have with others.

Dodo did not stay with the Doctor for very long, although she did have some intriguing experiences, including a trip to Dodge City just befoe the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Her worst experience, though, was not in space, or in history, but back in to London, in 1966, when she was hypnotised by the Woton machine. Traumatised by those events she chose to stay on Earth.

Jackie Lane was born 10 July 1947 in Manchester. In 1963 she was playing the part of the secretary in "Compact" when she was offered the part of the Doctor's grand-daughter, Susan, but decided that she did not want to be tied down to a year's contract. In 1966, however, having had only sporadic work in between, she accepted an offer from John Wiles, who had seen her as a Cockney character in a play, to portray Dorothea Chaplet.

She played the part from February to July 1966 alongside William Hartnell as the Doctor. But when her contract expired, it was not renewed. The character of Dodo had not been as popular as Susan and Vicki before her.

Jackie gave up acting after her stint on Doctor Who, and went to work as a secretary in the Australian embassy in Paris. She returned to England some time later and is now head of an acting agency's voice-over department.

Jackie was eighteen when she played the role of Dodo and is therefore the youngest female actor to have played a companion in the series — Matthew Waterhouse who played Adric in the early 1980s being the youngest male actor to have played a companion.

Film and TV

"Doctor Who" (21 episodes)
Bell of Doom (26 February 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet
The Steel Sky (5 March 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet
The Plague (12 March 1966) - Dodo
The Return (19 March 1966) - Dodo
The Bomb (26 March 1966) - Dodo
The Celestial Toyroom (2 April 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet
The Hall of Dolls (9 April 1966) - Dodo
The Dancing Floor (16 April 1966) - Dodo
The Final Test (23 April 1966) - Dodo
A Holiday for the Doctor (30 April 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet
Don't Shoot the Pianist (7 May 1966) - Dodo
Johnny Ringo (14 May 1966) - Dodo
The OK Corral (21 May 1966) - Dodo
The Savages: Episode 1 (28 May 1966) - Dodo
The Savages: Episode 2 (4 June 1966) - Dodo
The Savages: Episode 3 (11 June 1966) - Dodo
The Savages: Episode 4 (18 June 1966) - Dodo
The War Machines: Episode 1 (25 June 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet
The War Machines: Episode 2 (2 July 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet
The War Machines: Episode 3 (9 July 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet
The War Machines: Episode 4 (16 July 1966) - Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet

"Compact" (1963) - Secretary
"Get Smart" (1 episode)
The Day They Raided the Knights (11 January 1969) - Hippie