Polly

olly Wright, later Jackson, (AUDIO: Falling) was a companion of the First and Second Doctors.

She was one of the very first people to witness the Doctor regenerating but she was torn between not believing the Doctor when he said he was the Doctor. She travelled in the TARDIS with her future husband, Ben Jackson and Jamie McCrimmon. She also became acquainted with Dodo Chaplet before she left the Doctor's company.

Polly was born in London in 1942. (PROSE: The Murder Game) She was the second child of Dr Edward Wright and his wife and had four brothers. The family lived in a "big, old house in the country" (AUDIO: Resistance) in Hampshire. (AUDIO: Lost and Found) Polly spent much of her early life in Devon. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People) They had a Golden Retriever named Belle. (AUDIO: Lost and Found) Dr Wright told Polly stories of her uncle Randolph, who died after being imprisoned in a Nazi prisoner of war camp in 1944. (AUDIO: Resistance)

In 1948, when she was six, Polly was separated from her mother on a shopping trip to Fortnum & Mason. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People) In the same year, Polly saw baked beans for the first time on a visit to Henrik's. During the same trip, she lost her teddy bear and, later that day, she briefly met the Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and her future self, although she remained ignorant as to their identities. (AUDIO: Lost and Found)

In 1952, when she was ten, she attended a fair with her uncle Charles and had her fortune told by a gypsy, who warned her of a tall, dark stranger. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)

In young adulthood, Polly reflected on her parents and said that she had always "taken them for granted" while she was away from home enjoying herself, but that they were always there for her when she needed them. (AUDIO: Resistance)