Jessica Carney

Jessica Carney was the lone granddaughter of William Hartnell. Born Judith Carney, she changed her name to Jessica in order to obtain her Equity card, and kept the name thereafter. (DOC: Who Made Who?)

She is author of his sole published biography, Who's There? The Life and Career of William Hartnell. She also starred in a short 2010 documentary about Hartnell, My Grandfather, the Doctor. Carney spoke frequently of her grandfather, and was interviewed in Thirty Years in the TARDIS, a documentary celebrating Doctor Who's 30th anniversary in 1993.

A fictionalised version of Jessica was played by Cara Jenkins in An Adventure in Space and Time, a 2013 docu-drama detailing her grandfather's time on the programme. The drama showed the close relationship between Judy and Hartnell, whom she idolised. "My grandfather is Doctor Who, and Doctor Who can do anything," she is shown saying. The real-world Carney was also interviewed in William Hartnell: The Original, a short commemorative documentary broadcast with AAISAT.

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 * Jessica Carney on her grandfather, William Hartnell, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 15 February 1996