Revisiting History (solution)

by Greg Clark and Skuld, with assistance from C. Scott Ananian

Each figure was played by an actor on at least one episode of Dr. Who, and the caption describes the companions accompanying the Doctor on one of those episodes. Each clue is also as long in words as the episode title is in letters, with each line representing one word, and contains a single instance of the word “who”. Take the letter at that index and arrange by episode order.

I was joined
by someone from London who
was living
with both her grandfather and her mother.

THE FIRES OF POMPEII → S

Lucius Caecilius Iucundus

The teachers came,
and the girl who got shipwrecked.

THE ROMANS → A

Nero

People who came along: my
granddaughter and her teachers.

MARCO POLO → A

Marco Polo

When I finally
visited this man, I was travelling with a female medical student
who loved me, regrettably.

THE SHAKESPEARE CODE → C

William Shakespeare

Accompanying me were
a young Scottish lad
who liked arguing and an astrophysicist.

THE MIND ROBBER → R

Cyrano de Bergerac

There was a
family of three who came with me when I got
to see this man, including my future (past?) wife!

THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT → O

Charles II

When I met
this man, a nurse came
along who
had gotten married
to the young lady (possibly
pregnant) also with us.

THE CURSE OF THE BLACK SPOT → F

Henry Avery

I got distracted
this time, but there
was that
mechanic and his
girlfriend who loved me (and whom I...never mind).

THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE → I

Madame de Pompadour

Two people with
me overheard the man who
is pictured
here conspiring; granddaughter was very ill!

THE REIGN OF TERROR → N

Napoleon Bonaparte

The young botany
student who almost got
strangled (by...
well...me) came
with me this time.

THE MARK OF THE RANI → A

George Stephenson

That shopgirl was
with me here. (What about her enticed
me so? Who knows.)

THE UNQUIET DEAD → A

Charles Dickens

The poor girl who couldn’t
save her father
came on this trip.

TOOTH AND CLAW → T

Queen Victoria

The lady who came
with me when
I saw him
was a computer programmer.

TIME AND THE RANI → M

Louis Pasteur

That young woman
who spread her cold, and the stowaway, came along this time.

THE GUNFIGHTERS → G

Wyatt Earp

The woman who came with me was
dressed in a
ridiculous police uniform
when she decided to join me!

VINCENT AND THE DOCTOR → N

Vincent Van Gogh

The lass who was (atypically) American met him.

TIMELASH → M

H.G. Wells

This was with
the woman that now forgets she knew
me. What man’s
to blame for
that? Me, that’s who.

THE UNICORN AND THE WASP → P

Agatha Christie

One of the
people who
came with me
disappeared in a library.

DAY OF THE MOON → F

Richard Nixon

A good friend’s
stargazing grandfather was
the brave
chap who came with.

THE END OF TIME → I

Barack Obama

This gives the final clue ANAGRAMMATIC SPINOFF. The spinoff of Doctor Who which is also an anagram of DOCTOR WHO is the answer to this puzzle: TORCHWOOD.