Deborah Watling, in the arms of a fan, at a Doctor Who celebratory dinner.

Deborah Watling (born 2 January 1948, Fulmer Chase, Buckinghamshire) is a British actress best known for her role as Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who. She also starred in Alice, Dennis Potter's version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, for the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand in 1965 and in the series Danger UXB in 1979. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 79 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Deborah Watling and fan at a Doctor Who dinner, held in June 2006 in Holt, Norfolk, England. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 79 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Deborah Watling and fan at a Doctor Who dinner, held in June 2006 in Holt, Norfolk, England. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is one of the home counties in South East England. ... Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Second Doctor is the name given to the second incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Wednesday Play was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on BBC ONE from 1964 to 1970. ... Danger UXB was a 1979 British ITV television series about a squad of Royal Engineers with the duty of defusing unexploded ordnance in England during the Blitz in World War II. It starred Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, a newly commissioned officer assigned to 347 Section of 97 Tunneling...

Watling played Victoria in Doctor Who from 1967 to 1968, as well as appearing in Dimensions in Time (1993) and Downtime (1995). Her father Jack Watling appeared in Doctor Who as Professor Travers in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear as well as Downtime. Her sister Dilys and her brother Giles are also actors. Dimensions in Time was a charity special crossover between the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and the soap opera EastEnders that ran in two parts on November 26 and 27, 1993. ... Downtime is a spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Jack Watling (13 January 1923 in Chingford, Essex - 22 May 2001 in Chelmsford) was a British actor. ... The Abominable Snowmen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in four weekly parts from September 30 to November 4, 1967. ... The Web of Fear is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 3 to March 9, 1968. ... Downtime refers to a period of time or a percentage of a timespan that a machine or system (usually a computer server) is offline or not functioning, usually as a result of either system failure (such as a crash) or routine maintenance. ... Dilys Watling (born 5 May 1946, Fulmer Chase, Buckinghamshire, England, UK) is an actress known for appearances on British television including Coronation Street and The Two Ronnies. ... Giles Watling (born 18 February 1953, in Chingford, London is an English actor. ...

Deborah has also appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama, Three's a Crowd. Threes a Crowd cover by Stuart Manning. ...

Watling regularly attends Doctor Who conventions and events, where she meets fans and speaks about her time on the programme.

External links

• Deborah Watling at the Internet Movie Database
• Deborah Watling's website
• BBC Norfolk Online - Real Audio interview from the Holt Doctor Who Midsummer Invasion 2006
• The Spotlight: Deborah Watling