aliens who have infiltrated the service. Dodo also appears in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Bunker Soldiers, four short stories in the Virgin Decalog and BBC Short Trips, and the Big Finish Productions audio dramas Mother Russia, Tales from the Vault, Return of the Rocket Men, and The War to End All Wars (which reveals that Steven named his favorite daughter after Dodo, although she died in an attempted coup caused by her sisters), and as a solo companion in Big Finish Short Trip The Horror at Bletchington Station. Conception and casting Dodo was originally intended to have a "common" accent, and is portrayed this way at the end of The Massacre. However, starting with the next story, The Ark, it was declared that Doctor Who regulars were required to speak in "BBC English", and so Dodo's accent was changed. In The Horror at Bletchington Station, narrator Stephen Critchlow provides her with a Birmingham accent very different from either of her previous dialects. Reception Ultimately the character was not deemed a success by the programme's makers, and has not been reappraised by critics or fans. One fan wrote "Dodo was a transitionary companion, in existence to fill console room space between a producer who didn’t know what to do with her and a producer who wanted nothing to do with her ... it didn’t matter that Dodo doesn’t work; she was a ticked box, a signed contract ... Dodo made sure existing scripts could be used with minimal rewrites, that the BBC machine could continue to churn out 45 episodes per annuum, without pausing to think, plan or contemplate". The same editorial compares her negatively to Ben and Polly, saying "the moment [they] arrive, the character’s flaws become clear". Lane never returned to the role, only reconnecting with the franchise to wish fans well during 50th anniversary celebrations. In a 1988 interview with Doctor Who Magazine, she said "…[Innes Lloyd, then-producer of Doctor Who] had definite plans for the series which neither Steven nor Dodo really fitted, and half way through my first year I was told that Dodo was to be written out. I would have liked a dramatic ending and my farewell just two episodes into The War Machines, and not even on camera but in reported speech, was a bit of an anti-climax. Still, I got my revenge. I now run a voice-over agency and Innes Lloyd