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The "Katy Manning" Iris was the Lancastrian incarnation of Iris Wildthyme. She held herself to be a beautiful, intelligent, and independent woman, with a façade of drunkenness and carelessness so well constructed she often buried her deeper feelings of abject loneliness, in part due to her unreciprocated feelings for her old flame the Doctor, and uncertainty of her past and future. Another way she quelled her troubling emotions was her adventurous behaviour and desire to make friends wherever she travelled, an endeavor she was consistently successful in.

Like numerous of her previous incarnations, "Aunty Iris" described herself as a transtemporal adventuress and a "righter of wrongs and a wronger of rights", however this incarnation usually held a more pacifist manner of order than incarnations such as the "Jane Fonda" Iris, who travelled with a hot pink blaster on her person.

By one account, this incarnation of Iris was in her sixth body, with many more to go. (PROSE: The Golden Hendecahedron) By another account, Iris claimed to her companion Jo Grant that she was incapable of regeneration and thus in her final remaining body. (AUDIO: The Elixir of Doom) After she and her companion Panda defeated Lionel Pandeau and other versions of himself from across the multiverse, Iris told Panda that she was the only Iris Wildthyme in the multiverse. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion)

She was one of, if not the oldest, out of all her incarnations, as she had spent several long periods of time in one place, such as the passing of a decade after her falling out with Tom, (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large) the time she had spent seventy-four years in the Gallery, (PROSE: Framed) seven years living through 1972 multiple times, (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!) need to find more information to add here

This incarnation also liked to "bookmark" adventures - essentially, she would go off and have adventures, even if she was already embroiled in another. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

Early travels
It was suggested by several accounts that this incarnation of Iris Wildthyme was actually the same incarnation as the, (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns, The Plague Herds of Excelis, Wildthyme at Large, PROSE: Preface, et al.) coming after the ; (PROSE: An Unearthly Palaver, ) therefore, this incarnation would have encountered the Fourth Doctor in 1764 with her companion Captain Turner, (PROSE: Old Flames) yadda yadda more info to be added

This also remained consistent with the being a future incarnation when Panda is separated from Iris, and meets this "sex astronaut" incarnation. (PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love)

Information to be added from Excelis Dawns

Early on in this incarnation, Iris travelled to Bianca's Cabaret, drunkenly stumbling into the Sixth Doctor. The duo faced off against Bianca, who turned out to be Iris' equivalent of the Valeyard. (AUDIO: The Wormery)

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Meeting Panda
According to one account, Iris met Panda when he met her in a pub on the under-city of Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Runaway HiFi)

Iris reunited with her old friend Tom, entrusting him with the Memory Crystal from the Mines of Marlion. She then tried to take refuge with Robin Hood, who betrayed her to an entity known as the Head, a "higher power" intent on stealing Iris' memories. The Head forced her to pilot her bus to Tom, and it attempted to take the Memory Crystal, until Panda grabbed it and destroyed it, on instruction from Iris. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large)

Early escapades with Panda
While Panda attended Coal Hill School, Iris resided in her bus at Putney Common. One foggy night, Panda was followed home by two teachers, Ian and Barbara, who upon seeing the inside of Iris' dusty, cramped, and smelly bus, threatened to call social services, but Iris managed to persuade Barbara over with a few drinks, and then Iris took them on adventure somewhere fabulous. (PROSE: An Unearthly Palaver)

(Re)discovering her past
Whilst investigating a number of strange objects that had fallen out of the sky over the North-Eastern town of Darlington, Iris attended what the locals called the "Writers' Festival"; a small convention of amateur poets. There, she met bookworm Simon, who had only attended the convention in support of his friend Kelly, who had gone off with mesmeric poet Anthony Marvelle. Hours and many drinks later, Simon walked Iris back to her bus, which she dematerialised in front of his very eyes.

information to be added from Wildthyme Beyond!

Further adventures with Panda
Iris and Panda once arrived at a cathedral one stormy night, meeting the young verger outside. After listening to his story about encountering a ghost, they spent the night inside the Celestial Omnibus. The next morning, they went into the cathedral, meeting the aloof bishop and Iris' enemies, the Soroptimists. After encountering the unusual ghost, they descended to the crypt at midnight, where they were trapped, time slowing down around them. Knowing that the only solution is to change the future by orchestrating the ghost from the start, this becomes reality, with the bishop actually acting upon instructions from Iris and Panda from the not too distant future, and with his help, they escape. (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost)

Panda found himself trapped within the Gallery with a mysterious individual known as Mister Heart who lured him into other realities contained within paintings, Iris, for seventy four years, travelled among the paintings, influencing Panda's death in order to free him from being trapped forever. Iris and Panda escaped, only for Mister Heart to have a new painting for his collection, one of Iris and Panda in the Celestial Omnibus... (PROSE: Framed)

Teaming up with Señor 105, they were sent on a quest to retrieve all the slices of the celestial gateau once again. After finding the third slice among vampiric versions of the Rolling Stones, they took it carefully back to the Celestial Omnibus. As that day was also Panda's birthday, they prepared him a surprise cake, but Iris accidentally ate the Celestial gateau, her mouth glowing bright orange. (PROSE: Deleted Scene from 'Iris Wildthyme and the Key Lime Pie 2 Time' - 'Part 3: The Stones of Blood')

Future Legend goes here Following Iris' discovery of the Celestial Omnibus' fate, she and Panda arrived at a warehouse filled with double decker buses, hunting for parts to repair the Celestial Omnibus. Things went terribly wrong when the ghost of a ticket inspector began haunting them. Iris defeated it with a strange gun, much to Panda's disappointment, as he was in the process of getting the ghost to pass on. (PROSE: Just the Ticket)

Iris and Panda once visited a village, throwing nightly parties and attempting to stop a gaseous villain, to no avail, and the village was destroyed, leaving only around two-dozen survivors. (PROSE: The Party in Room Four)

Iris and Panda were turned into fiction and trapped within the bleed margin of a book. (PROSE: Untitled)

Iris and Panda attended a wine tasting, and they killed something with a bottle. (PROSE: The Panda Book of Horror)

Personality
To bury her darker feelings of emotion, (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!) which even once accumulated in a desire for her life to end, (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost) she found that alcohol and constant adventure helped drive away those feelings. She claimed that she "poked maniacs, monsters, and fascists with sticks" to this extent. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!)

Iris knew she was unlucky in love, (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!) facing rejection constant rejection from the Doctor, no matter which body he was in. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns, The Wormery, The Elixir of Doom, et al.)

Appearance
According to Brenda, the "Katy Manning" Iris resembled a cross between Gracie Fields and the Pendle Witches. (PROSE: A Tingle of Happiness)

Clothing
Iris was often seen wearing a tigerskin coat, (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme) which she once wore over a silver frock. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large)

Iris owned an "extraordinary" set of lilac and midnight blue jungle fatigues, which she wore along with a pith helmet and goggles, when she and her friends first ventured out into the jungle on Valcea. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

Behind the scenes

 * From the first few stories featuring the incarnation of Iris Wildthyme as played by Katy Manning, there is a definite implication that the "Katy Manning" incarnation is the same as the "Beryl Reid" incarnation. For instance, in Preface and Wildthyme at Large, Iris is still travelling with her companion Thomas Daley, as if she was still the "Beryl Reid" incarnation, without any indication that she had regenerated (which she had done at the very least once, into the "Jane Fonda" incarnation). Additionally, Tom recognised Iris immediately in Wildthyme at Large, which makes little sense unless if the "Katy Manning incarnation had had many unseen adventures with Thomas prior to Wildthyme at Large.
 * While she has never been identified as such in a valid source, various behind the scenes and blurbs describe Iris as looking like Katy Manning.