Stories Short Story Short Trips 2: More Short Trips Story: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Good Companions 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes Overview Released March 1999 Written by Peter Anghelides Pages 26 Time Travel Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Cambridge Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Unspecified Doctor Tegan Jovanka How to read Good Companions: Books More Short Trips Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 28 April 2025 · 194 words Review by Newt5996 1 Peter Anghelides’ “Good Companions” is honestly a weird little story, it’s the one that features an unspecified future Doctor traveling with a companion called Anna, his housekeeper. This is a story that also is told through the framing of an older Tegan Jovanka, married and widowed, having written up this encounter in Good Companions. A lot of the appeal of this short story is the future Doctor, an incarnation entirely down to Anghelides who sadly feels a bit generic. Unlike say The Infinity Doctors or the Merlin Doctor, this Doctor is more a composite of other Doctor’s traits up to that point, though there’s certainly room for development since Anghelides does use this Doctor in multiple Short Trips. The big problem for me is actually the characterization of Tegan: she’s a bit too mellow in her old age that makes her feel more a generic companion, Anghelides not really reflecting on her exit in Resurrection of the Daleks or Adric’s death in Earthshock or the death of her Aunt Vanessa in Logopolis. It honestly feels like she could have been any female companion who was left on Earth, leaving “Good Companions” more “Meh Companions”. 5/10. Newt5996 View profile Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating15 members 2.57 / 5 Member Statistics Read 23 Favourited 1 Reviewed 1 Saved 1 Skipped 0 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote