“Oh, Victoria don’t hit me!”
From Salamander to Doctor in 0.000001 seconds.
gotta love how victoria, normally example number one of the “shrieking damsel” trope, was fully prepared to jump on a grown man she believed to be a murderous dictator and elbow-slam him in the neck
“…it was up to the people upstairs, they could have written me out after six months, a year, or whatever, but they must have realised the chemistry was working. I think I’m the longest running male assistant. I’d never have left, I was having so much fun, but I had an agent at the time who was saying ‘You must leave, you’ve done three years of television, you need to do films’, and Patrick’s wife at the time was saying (to him) ‘You’re a much better actor than children’s teatime television, you should be doing bigger things’, and I still say to this day, if he hadn’t had that woman nattering in his ear, they’d have had to shoot us and drag us kicking and screaming out of the TARDIS, we’d still be there now.”
-Frazer Hines