Dodo Chaplet

Dorothea Anne "Dodo" Chaplet (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) was a companion of the First Doctor.

The Doctor took to her within seconds of their first encounter, citing her physical similarity to his granddaughter. Dodo had limited contact with other companions, only spending significant time with Steven Taylor. She met and hit it off with Polly Wright briefly in London on 20 July 1966, and was with her when Polly first encountered Ben Jackson. Neither Ben nor Polly had yet seen the TARDIS when Dodo chose to stop travelling with the Doctor, sending word of her decision to him via Polly.

Despite not being American, Dodo travelled widely in the United States. She visited Florida and New York City in March and April 1965 and Arizona in October 1881.

However, most details of Dodo's life — her childhood, the reasons she started and stopped travelling with the Doctor and even her possible death — were shrouded in a confusion created by several highly contradictory and speculative accounts.

Dodo was born in 1949. (PROSE: Salvation) Her grandfather was French (TV: The Massacre) and, for a school project, she researched her family tree, finding evidence that she was descended from Huguenots who left France to escape persecution. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Steven Taylor would later speculate that she was a descendant of Anne Chaplet. (TV: The Massacre)

According to one account, Dodo had lived in the poorer parts of London before her mother and father died and she moved in with her aunt, a wealthy social-climber. This resulted in her accent being situational, as she struggled to believe that the squalid existence into which she had been born and the world to which her aunt aspired were part of the same reality. Continually reinventing herself based on her surroundings made her feel that she had been an actor all her life. (PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask)