"Martha Jones. It's one of my favourite surnames, if you look at the stuff I've written over the years. I like the name Tyler, I like Jones - it's just one of my favourite names nice and ordinary. Part of that companion thing is to be ordinary, be approachable and it's a nice straightforward name."
Doctor Who: Smith & Jones
Russell explains: "A very straight forward conception - Rhinos, moon, and the magnificant Martha! The key point to cracking this plot was when I realised that the Tardis was stuck on Earth. I'd spent months plotting it in my head, with the Doctor and Florence T Plasmavore racing to reach the hospital basement, where the Tardis was hidden, so they could escape. But then the plot then seemed to be all about the Tardis, not the Doctor and his new companion. Removing the Tardis looks simple now, in hindsight, but before a plot is fixed, when it can take any shape, then getting that sort of detail right can lose you weeks and weeks of thinking!" (The Doctor Who Companion, Series 3)
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