Susan is introduced in the first Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child (1963), with the first episode focusing on her as an unusual teenager with an advanced knowledge of history and science. Ford felt that Susan was allowed to develop more in the Big Finish audio dramas. Susan became the first companion to leave the programme, after just 51 episodes.
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In addition, Ford found the series too repetitive. Ford was similarly displeased with her character, sometimes finding her "pathetic" and frustrating because she was not allowed to develop. Media historian James Chapman has written that the way Susan was written made her limited, because "she was required to fill the role of the 'screamer' and often had little to do beyond looking pretty and frightened". Ford recalled, "They said, 'We don't really want people to perceive him as having had sex with someone, to father a child.' I just screamed with hysterical laughter and said, 'In that case, I'm not doing it.'" The script was changed to include references to the characters' relationship. However, in 2013, she revealed that the producers had initially insisted that Susan did not refer to the Doctor as her grandfather in The Five Doctors special. Ford also points out that suggestions that Susan was not the Doctor's natural granddaughter were first put forward in the 1990s. They established that the Doctor had "done something to annoy the other Time Lords" that had caused his and Susan's exile. įord has stated that little background information on Susan's character or history was provided to her by the production team, and so to inform her performance, she would often discuss and invent ideas about Susan with her co-star William Hartnell. According to founding producer Verity Lambert, "Coburn felt there was something not quite proper about an old man travelling around the galaxy with a young girl for a companion." Ford felt that the Doctor and Susan's relationship was different from that of later characters who had been branded as "companions" because she was also the Doctor's granddaughter. While the original outline for the series did not intend the pair to be related, writer Anthony Coburn created the family tie that Susan was the Doctor's granddaughter. However, none of this happened, as it was decided that the character would be more of an "ordinary" teenager, giving younger viewers a figure to identify with.
She was going to be able to "fly the TARDIS" as well as and have the most extraordinary wardrobe".
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Carole Ann Ford recalled that she was told her character would be "an Avengers-type girl – with all the kapow of that – plus she would have telepathic powers. The earliest scripts for the series had a completely different origin for the character of Susan, that of an alien princess named Suzanne - saved by the First Doctor from a world different from his own.
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