“Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind.”

A side issue of all the memory man stuff we discussed last week, and the question of whether past Doctors remember the events of multi-Doctor stories or not, is that fans have also often been prompted to ask questions about whether companions remember the events of multi-Doctor stories.

On the face of it, this is an odd question, as in the twentieth century only Jamie MacCrimmon and the Brigadier are in more than one each¹ and the former is a phantom in The Five Doctors (1983) anyway. But this additional query has been prompted by a couple of things. Firstly, in The Two Doctors (1985) Jamie knows all about Time Lords despite never having heard of them in The War Games (1969) his final serial as a regular character, which we would naturally assume to antedate the events of The Two Doctors from Jamie’s perspective. This has led people to wonder if his memory of the story was wiped² in the same cavalier manner as the master tapes of most of his adventures were.³