Doctor Who character
Melanie "Mel" Bush
Mel
Affiliated with	Sixth Doctor Seventh Doctor
Race	Human
Home planet	Earth
Home era	1986
First appearance	The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids
Last appearance	Dragonfire
Portrayed by	Bonnie Langford

Melanie Bush, or simply Mel, is a fictional character played by Bonnie Langford in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A computer programmer from the 20th Century who was a companion of the Sixth and Seventh Doctors, she was a regular in the programme from 1986 to 1987. Her last name of Bush was never mentioned on screen, but was stated in the promotional and production literature. Download high resolution version (435x622, 71 KB)Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush, from Doctor Who (from Paradise Towers) This work is copyrighted. ... The Sixth Doctor is the name given to the Sixth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a British actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens For other uses, see Human (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Trial of a Time Lord is the name used on screen for all fourteen episodes comprising the 23rd season (1986) of the original Doctor Who series. ... Terror of the Vervoids is the title commonly used for a 4 episode Doctor Who story. ... Dragonfire is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from November 23 to December 7, 1987. ... Bonita Melody Lysette Bonnie Langford (born July 22, 1964) is a British actress and entertainer. ... Bonita Melody Lysette Bonnie Langford (born July 22, 1964) is a British actress and entertainer. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p. ... The Sixth Doctor is the name given to the Sixth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a British actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mel first appeared in the serial Terror of the Vervoids, part of the 14-part story The Trial of a Time Lord. At that point, she and the Sixth Doctor had been travelling together for some time. The events of Vervoids were shown as part of a Matrix projection of future events being shown to the Sixth Doctor, so from his point of view, he was seeing an adventure he would have with Mel even before he met her in his own timeline. At the end of Trial, the Sixth Doctor went off with this future Mel, presumably to drop her off somewhere, meet her past self for the first time (from her point of view), and then carry on from there. The actual story in which the Sixth Doctor met Mel for the first time was never shown in the programme, although the spin-off novel Business Unusual, by Gary Russell, covered this. Terror of the Vervoids is the title commonly used for a 4 episode Doctor Who story. ... The Trial of a Time Lord is the name used on screen for all fourteen episodes comprising the 23rd season (1986) of the original Doctor Who series. ... The Matrix, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a massive computer system on the planet Gallifrey that acts as the repository of the combined knowledge of the Time Lords. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Gary Russell is an freelance writer and former child actor. ...

Mel was a computer programmer from 1986 who came from the village of Pease Pottage in West Sussex, England. She had an eidetic memory, and a cheery, almost perky personality. She greeted most situations with a warm smile and good humour, and was an optimist whose views extended to believing the best of people's natures, but could also scream with the best of them. She was a health enthusiast and a vegetarian, often encouraging the slightly portly Sixth Doctor to exercise more. She was present (albeit unconcious at the time) when the Sixth Doctor regenerated into his seventh incarnation, and continued to travel with him. Jump to: navigation, search 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pease Pottage is a small village just outside Crawley, in West Sussex. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... Jump to: navigation, search Photographic memory, eidetic memory, or total recall, is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume. ... The Doctor is the only known name of the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also featured in a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series. ...

Finally, in the serial Dragonfire, she decided to stay on Iceworld with the galactic confidence trickster, Sabalom Glitz, leaving the Seventh Doctor to travel on with his new companion, Ace. Dragonfire is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from November 23 to December 7, 1987. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sabalom Glitz was a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Mel's history after she left the Seventh Doctor was not explored in the series. The spin-off novels and short stories, however, reveal that her decision to leave the Doctor was actually due to psychic persuasion on the Doctor's part, so he could go on to become the darker and more manipulative Time's Champion. In the Virgin New Adventures novel Head Games by Steve Lyons, Mel confronts the Seventh Doctor over this and at the end of the novel he returns her to 20th Century Earth and Pease Pottage (Business as Usual by Gary Russell). Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... Jump to: navigation, search Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...

In the BBC Books novel Heritage by Dale Smith, it is revealed that at some point, Mel travelled in time and space again, ending up on the planet Heritage, where she dies in the 61st Century. However, this story takes place during a story arc where enemies of the Doctor are attempting to eliminate his companions from the timeline, so Mel's fate in Heritage may be part of an alternate destiny that vanished once those enemies were defeated. BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Heritage (ISBN 0563538643) is a BBC Books original novel written by Dale Smith and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Dale Smith (born 1976) is a writer and playwright from Leicester but currently living and working in Manchester. ...

Bonnie Langford played Mel once again in the 1993 charity special, Dimensions in Time, and has voiced the character in a series of audio plays from Big Finish Productions, alongside Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy as the Sixth and Seventh Doctors. The canonicity of the audio dramas, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear. Langford has also voiced an alternate, more cynical version of Mel in the Doctor Who Unbound play He Jests at Scars.... Jump to: navigation, search 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman outside the Queen Vic pub Dimensions in Time was a charity special of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that ran in two parts on November 27 and 28, 1993. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... Colin Baker (born June 8, 1943) is a British actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a Scottish actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... He Jests at Scars. ...