I didn't mean to.

[scarfman]

evilgrins posted at doctorwho yesterday contending that the Doctor tends to kidnap his companions, compiling a list from memory. For twenty-four hours I resisted compiling a rebuttal, but I fell.

It's difficult for me to say the Doctor kidnaps anyone, since as a rule - at least before the Time War - he resists taking on a new companion as hard as he can. Often they are intentional or unintentional stowaways.

• Doctor One
  • We didn't see his granddaughter Susan board the TARDIS. She may have stowed away or not.
  • He took off with Barbara and Ian aboard as an alternative to allowing them to report his presence to the 1963 authorities.
  • He took Vicki aboard as the only alternative to leaving an underage girl alone on an alien planet.
  • Steven stowed away.
  • If I ever knew details of Katarina's boarding or Sara Kingdom's boarding I've forgotten them.
  • Dodo was welcomed aboard, as the possible descendant of someone the Doctor wanted to think hadn't died two hundred years before, and because she looked like Susan.
  • Ben and Polly climbed aboard just before a takeoff because they wondered why the Doctor went into a police box.

Doctor Two

• Jamie is goaded into boarding the TARDIS just before it departs by one or more of its current crew, but I don't know by whom.
• Victoria is another Susan-surrogate, having lost her father to the Daleks.
• Zoe is brought aboard only after being compelled to watch a video of the adventure when Victoria lost her father.

Doctor Three

• Liz never set foot aboard the TARDIS that we know. (Of course, that was the year it never moved.)
• Jo was invited into the TARDIS only after the Doctor had got to know her over three adventures already.
• The Brigadier and Benton only boarded the TARDIS under emergency circumstances.
• Sarah Jane snuck aboard.

Doctor Four

• Harry was invited on as a practical joke.
• Leela invited herself on against the Doctor's express wishes.
• Romana was put aboard by the White Guardian against the Doctor's express wishes.
• Adric stowed away.
• Nyssa met up with the Doctor on Logopolis ostensibly only to get help finding her missing father, but then the Master destroyed her planet.
• Tegan boarded the TARDIS thinking it was a police box.

Doctor Five

• Turlough boarded the TARDIS with ulterior motives.
• Peri was brought aboard by Turlough in emergency circumstances.

Doctor Six

• Non-causal loop aside, we don't know how Mel originally boarded the TARDIS.

Doctor Seven

• It was Mel's idea, not the Doctor's, that Ace board the TARDIS.

Doctor Eight

• The Doctor asked Grace to board the TARDIS but she declined.

Doctor Nine

• Rose was the first to be asked to board the TARDIS twice.
• The Doctor asked Mickey aboard but he declined.
• Rose asked Adam aboard over the Doctor's objections.
• The Doctor asked Jack aboard as an alternative to allowing Jack to die after proving his worth.

Doctor Ten

• The Doctor asked Rose a third time, being uncertain she still wanted to after he regenerated.
• The Doctor and Rose asked Sarah Jane to come with them, but when they get Mickey instead Rose was more put out than the Doctor.
• The Doctor asked Donna along, but she found him scary.
• The Doctor strung Martha along with several just-one-more trips until finally admitting she was "never just a passenger".
• The Doctor and the TARDIS both ran as hard as they could from Jack, but under special circumstances.
• Spoiler for next season We don't know yet the circumstances surrounding the boardings of next season's companions, all return companions: Donna, Martha, and (according to the latest shooting news) Jack.

I didn't want to do this, I really didn't. There's a Saturday hour I'll never get back.

Comments

[abates.livejournal.com]

Katarina helped Steven on board the TARDIS after he got wounded, ISTR.

According to Business Unusual, Mel stowed away.

Several of the times you've mentioned there (Tegan, Peri) it was a sort of unintentional kidnapping... I note that he didn't seem to make any attempt to return Peri back to Earth, and she didn't seem to mind anyway.