Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-188432-20130310185635/@comment-4028641-20130725195205

I fail to see the logic in your reasoning.

For one, I am against the treating of one type of story differently from anther, and two I really don't think that "We'd have a lot of things in the info boxes then!" is a very strong argument either.

Plus, what if there was a TV companion that we couldn't find any official person calling a "companion"? Wilfred Mott comes to mind. All bets are off there. And in terms of how high they are in the credits? Well then I guess John Simm is a companion too.

And if we're gonna start profiling comics against TV stories, then I don't think that the flawed logic of "If they just shared one story with that Doctor they don't count is the way to start at all. It's not even as if it means only one trip because one story can constitute multiple trips, as is the case here. The difference between Abslom Daak and Ian and Barbara is that in those stories Abslom was just a side character. Here, quite clearly, Ian and Barbara are serving the roles of companions. That you can't argue against, that's what they are in this story. How long they did it for is entirely irrelevant.