Friday 24 February 2023

M is for... Magambo, Captain


Captain Erisa Magambo was an officer with UNIT, who worked with Rose Tyler to harness the power of the TARDIS to create a trans-dimensional time machine. This was in an alternative timeline in which the Doctor had died fighting the Racnoss - created after Donna Noble's life had been manipulated by a being known as the Trickster. The TARDIS would allow Donna to travel to her original timeline to stop future history being corrupted. The plan succeeded, at the cost of the alternative Donna's life.
In the normal timeline, Magambo was placed in command of the incident at London's Gladwell Road Tunnel beneath the Thames. A Number 200 bus had entered the tunnel and failed to emerge, and a strange Space / Time portal was discovered in the middle of it. This bus had the Doctor amongst its passengers, along with a notorious aristocratic thief - Lady Christina de Souza.
The Captain worked with UNIT's latest scientific adviser, Malcolm Taylor, to investigate the anomaly and find a way of bringing the passengers home. Contact was established with the bus, which had been transported to the planet of San Helios. On learning that the omnivorous creatures which had generated the portal were about to transfer through it to Earth, Magambo was prepared to kill Malcolm rather than allow Earth to be threatened. When the moment came, however, she relented. She and her troops destroyed the few creatures which did manage to get through the portal.
She returned the TARDIS to the Doctor, after it had been found in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.

Played by: Noma Dumezweni. Appearances: Turn Left (2008), Planet of the Dead (2009).

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