Companion to the Thirteenth Doctor. Dan Lewis was a Liverpudlian who volunteered at a local food-bank. He was trying to start a relationship with a woman named Diane, who worked at the city's museum. Dan would sometimes turn up and lead unofficial tour parties.
One Hallowe'en evening his house was broken into by a massive dog-like figure - an alien named Karvanista. He was being hunted by the Doctor and her companion Yaz. At first Dan thought Karvanista, a member of the Lupari race, was simply wearing a very good costume. However, he was then knocked out and woke to find himself abducted and caged on a Lupari spaceship.
The Doctor and Yaz traced Karvanista to Dan's house, at 37 Granger Street, but found a trap had been set. Dan's house was miniaturised.
Dan was traced to the spaceship where he was freed by Yaz. It transpired that the Lupari were pair-bonded to individual humans. Should they be threatened, they were honour-bound to save them.
Karvanista had to rescue Dan - though he didn't necessarily like him.
The reason for his intervention was that the entire universe was under threat from a phenomenon known as the Flux.
Taking advantage of this were a pair of powerful creatures called Swarm and Azure. They knew the Doctor from her life in the Division, so she had no memories of them. Azure abducted Diane.
Dan next found himself in 19th Century Crimea, where the Doctor discovered that the Sontarans had altered history to conquer the Russian Empire.
Dan was removed from time and deposited back in 21st Century Liverpool, where the Sontarans had also changed history to rule the city. He was reunited with his parents, Neville and Irene, who had discovered the aliens' weakness - the probic vent. Armed with a wok, Dan broke into a Sontaran spaceship. Captured by Sontaran troopers, he was rescued by Karvanista, who sabotaged the Sontaran fleet by crashing one of their ships into the others. Time was reset, and Dan was reunited with the Doctor and Yaz in the Temple of Atropos, on the planet Time. Here he learned of Diane's abduction. She was trapped within a living prison, known as Passenger.
To save them from Swarm and Azure, the Doctor had to hide Dan and Yaz inside their own time streams.
Later, the TARDIS was infiltrated by a Weeping Angel, and diverted to a village named Medderton, in 1967. Another Angel caused Dan and Yaz to be sent back in time to the village as it had been in 1901, where they were joined by a 1960's scientist named Professor Jericho.
With the Doctor captured by Angels and returned to Division, Dan, Yaz and Jericho had to live through the Edwardian era, searching for clues as to future events of the Flux which might allow them to reunite with the Doctor.
The perceptive Dan spotted immediately that Yaz was in love with the Doctor, and he encouraged her to make her feelings known. Their quest took them to the Himalayas and to the Great Wall of China, where they attempted to contact Karvanista for help.
Dan and Yaz had repeatedly found themselves encountering a Victorian gentleman. This proved to the famous Liverpudlian tunnel builder Joseph Williamson. Dan knew of these tunnels. When they went there they found dozens of portals to different time zones, worlds and dimensions.
One of these took them back to the 21st Century and they were soon joined by Kate Stewart of UNIT and the Doctor, who was actually split over different time zones.
The Sontarans had attempted to benefit from the Flux - really anti-matter released into the universe by the Division - by wiping out the Daleks and Cybermen, but Dan and the rest of the Doctor's allies defeated them.
Dan hoped to have a date with Diane after she had escaped from Passenger, but she was too upset by recent events.
He therefore joined the TARDIS for a time. Their first landing site was a Manchester storage unit on New Year's Eve. Dan was exterminated by a Dalek - repeatedly. The Flux-damaged TARDIS had generated a time loop.
Dan then found himself visiting China in 1807. Here he was encouraged to dress in appropriate costume, but Yaz tricked him into wearing a pirate costume, complete with eye-patch. It turned out that this was quite apt, as they then encountered the infamous Chinese pirate Madam Ching. Whilst searching for a precious treasure she inadvertently resurrected a Sea Devil warrior named Marsissus. Dan became concerned about a young villager named Ying-Ki, who was determined to get revenge on Ching as he thought she had killed his father. Dan even swam out to Ching's ship to stop him. He and Ying-Ki then found themselves pressganged into acting as Madam Ching's crew.
After the Sea Devils had been defeated, Dan managed to get in touch with Diane, and she agreed to them meeting up.
Before then, he joined the Doctor and Yaz in a mission to save an interstellar bullet train which had come under attack by Cybermen and Cybermasters. Dan was almost killed during this mission, when his space helmet was broken.
He decided to leave the TARDIS because of this. With no house, he would have to move back in with his parents.
He later met up with Graham O'Brien and helped set up a support group for people who had travelled with the Doctor, and who wanted to share their experiences.
- Bishop is best known as a stand-up comedian, but prior to this he was a professional footballer for a number of years (playing midfield for several lower league clubs).
- Dan Lewis was first introduced in a brief post-credits scene at the end of Revolution of the Daleks.
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