Samantha Jones, or simply Sam, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the Britishscience fictiontelevision series, Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks, and she went on to become one of his companions. The canonicity of the novels, like other Doctor Who spin-offs, is unclear. The Eighth Doctor was the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television on November 23, 1963. ... The Eighth Doctor was the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Terrance Dicks (born 1935 in East Ham, London, England, UK) is a British writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular childrens books during the 1970s and 80s. ... 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. ...
Sam was born in 1981, making her 16 years old when she first met the Eighth Doctor in 1997. 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Eighth Doctor was the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sam was born on April 15, 1980, making her 16 years old when she first met the Eighth Doctor in 1997.
During discussions early in the run of the Eighth Doctor novels as to whether to place Sam on the cover of the novels, a BBC Worldwide employee named Kath was used as the visual model for the character.
Sam finally departed the TARDIS after the events in the two-novel story Interference by Lawrence Miles, staying in 1996 with the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith until her younger self first left with the Doctor.
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