J ~ Jackson, Ben - Ben first appears in the 1966 story, The War Machines, when he meets Polly Wright and Dodo Chaplet in a London nightclub called the Inferno. As an Able Seaman serving in the Royal Navy, aboard the HMS Teazer (R23). Ben is feeling depressed and angry because he has a six-month shore posting while his ship is deployed to the West Indies, but Polly and Dodo try to cheer him up. When Polly is accosted by another patron in the Inferno, Ben comes to her rescue. Eventually, Ben and Polly aid the Doctor in his fight against the rogue artificial intelligence known as WOTAN. Afterward, Ben and Polly are the bearers of the news of Dodo's decision to stay in 1966 to the Doctor, and accidentally get carried away in the TARDIS when they try to return Dodo's key to the time machine.
He was present with Polly when the Doctor underwent his first regeneration in the stories The Tenth Planet and The Power of the Daleks and continued to travel with his second incarnation.
Ben, along with Polly, asked the Doctor to take 18th century highlander, Jamie McCrimmon with them on their travels in the story The Highlanders.
In the 1967 story The Faceless Ones, the TARDIS finds its way back to 1966 London on the very day Ben and Polly had left (although about a year had passed for them). They decide to remain behind to resume their lives without disruption as the Doctor and Jamie travel on.
Ben Jackson was played by the late Michael Craze.
He was present with Polly when the Doctor underwent his first regeneration in the stories The Tenth Planet and The Power of the Daleks and continued to travel with his second incarnation.
Ben, along with Polly, asked the Doctor to take 18th century highlander, Jamie McCrimmon with them on their travels in the story The Highlanders.
In the 1967 story The Faceless Ones, the TARDIS finds its way back to 1966 London on the very day Ben and Polly had left (although about a year had passed for them). They decide to remain behind to resume their lives without disruption as the Doctor and Jamie travel on.
Ben Jackson was played by the late Michael Craze.
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