Peri’s happy ending, rather than death, is that the Doctor abandons her without explanation and her new husband is an angry warlord who doesn’t seem the type to understand PTSD. Here, any previous suggestion that the Doctor mistreated his companion is abandoned. On the other: she only goes to a slightly better place, and when companions return from the dead it tends to require some cost to the Doctor. This is because producer John Nathan-Turner changed his mind about killing Peri after they’d filmed her death. Peri is instead married with a pink love-heart around the flashback (the Matrix is corny AF apparently). While this is horrible, it could function, very bluntly, as an indictment of the Doctor and his treatment of Peri, but then it is revealed that this didn’t happen.
She dies scared and alone, and it’s unlikely the Doctor could have saved her. Her mind is erased so her body can host another. Peri spends almost her entire time on Doctor Who being miserable, scared and under threat (even Big Finish doing a timey-wimey farce with Peri has abuse as a plot point), but there’s no compassionate release for her. Please enjoy this non-linear history of production compromises.
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The article only covers TV stories because I value what remains of my sanity. The ranking system is based on whether the departure makes sense for that character, how well it’s built up to, and what it says about Doctor Who in a larger sense.
Overall it’s an ad hoc combination of different criteria, with allowances made for the exceptions that are intended to fulfil the companion role on a one-off basis. The question of “Who counts as a companion?” is a tricky one. Graham and Ryan have left Doctor Who, and it was sad/joyous/on telly (delete as applicable), but where do their departures rank on the all-time list?
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