From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   The True Melissa  wrote:   
   >did ahk@chinet.com deliver unto us this message:   
   >>BTR1701  wrote:   
      
   >>>I watched some old Tom Baker DOCTOR WHO episodes on YouTube, with the   
   b>>>est companion of the entire series: Sarah Jane Smith. Yes, even better   
   >>>than Pond.   
      
   >>They tried something during those seasons: excellent writing. She was a   
   >>fully-drawn character, with a wonderful performance by Elisabeth Sladen.   
   >>Robert Holmes wrote many episodes during this period, with producers   
   >>Barry Letts and Philip Hinchcliffe. I liked her Season 11 Jon Pertwee   
   >>episodes too.   
      
   >>She was marvelous, complete contrast to Katy Manning as Jo Grant.   
      
   >I liked Jo, too. Wasn't she the most popular compaion before Sarah Jane?   
      
   She replaced Liz Shaw (Caroline John), a scientist, an intelligent woman   
   meant to challenge and play off The Doctor, the main companion in Season   
   7. Jo, introduced in Season 8, was helpless woman in peril, little more   
   than a plot device, who rarely moved the plot along. She really didn't   
   work as the point of view character to whom The Doctor explained the   
   absurdities of the plot.   
      
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