Professor Laird was a scientist who was called in to assist an army bomb disposal unit in 1984 London. Workmen carrying out refurbishments on an old Thames-side warehouse near Tower Bridge had found a number of strange cylindrical objects, which they assumed to be unexploded bombs left over from the Blitz. They were in fact alien in origin - canisters containing samples of a virus in aerosol form, devised by the Movellans as a weapon against the Daleks.
Colonel Archer's squad were all killed and replaced with Dalek replicants, apart from Laird. She attempted to help Tegan escape from the warehouse to warn the authorities. She tried to flee herself when both were ordered to be taken to the Dalek spacecraft located at the end of a time tunnel in the far future, but was shot dead in the attempt.
Played by: Chloe Ashcroft. Appearances: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984).
- Ashcroft was best known at the time for co-presenting children's TV series Play School and Play Away.
- Laird is given the first name Sarah in Eric Saward's novelisation.
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