Jamie McCrimmon

James Robert "Jamie" McCrimmon was a companion of the Second Doctor.

He was a Highland Scot from the mid-18th century who travelled with the Doctor, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Victoria Waterfield and Zoe Heriot. He also had a couple of adventures with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, as well as the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown.

Jamie travelled in the TARDIS for most of the Doctor's second incarnation's life. His journeys through time and space began when he left 18th century Scotland and continued until the Time Lords sentenced the Doctor to exile on Earth. Jamie was returned to 18th century Scotland by the Time Lords, with the memory of all but his first adventure with the Doctor erased.

As an old man he had overcome the mindwipe, as the Time Lords held an imperfect understanding of the human mind. This was prior to having an adventure with the Sixth Doctor in which he gave his life saving the universe from Cybermen.

Jamie was born in 1724. (AUDIO: Shadow of Death) He was the son of Donald McCrimmon.

Jamie learned to play the chanter at his father's knee from an early age and became a talented piper like his father and grandfather before him. (TV: The Highlanders) He grew up with his father and brothers, and they did some farming. He idolised Scottish heroes such as William Wallace. (PROSE: On a Pedestal)

Jamie and his father used to go grouse hunting in the Highlands. (PROSE: The Nameless City)

By the 18th century, Jamie's family had been making haggis for hundreds of years. (AUDIO: Echoes of Grey)

Jamie, then 22 years old, (AUDIO: Shadow of Death) first met the Second Doctor in the aftermath of the English defeat of the Jacobite Rebellion at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746, when he was a piper for the Clan McLaren. Jamie and his fellow Highlanders faced being hanged, butchered by the Duke of Cumberland or sold into unsurvivable seven-year servitude on the plantations in the West Indies. After escaping the gallows, an unsure Jamie was urged to follow the Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright into the mysterious TARDIS. (TV: The Highlanders)

When he and the others visited Atlantis, Jamie and Ben were sent to the mines, but they escaped with the help of fellow prisoners Sean and Jacko. When Jacko called him "Jock", Jamie retorted that his name was Jamie, not "Jock". (TV: The Underwater Menace)