Although season 14 is a fresh start for Doctor Who<\/a>, the series has still paid homage to its incredible history in the new episodes, particularly with a reference to the first ever companion, Susan, played by Carole Ann Ford<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, things aren\u2019t looking good for her if the Doctor\u2019s comments are anything to go by.<\/p>\n As the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa<\/a>) and Ruby Sunday<\/a> (Millie Gibson) adventure back to 1963, the Doctor recognises his surroundings and points out that he used to live very nearby.<\/p>\n \u201cI live over there, Shoreditch, I\u2019m there right now,\u201d he tells Ruby. \u201cIn the past, right now, I live in a place called Totter\u2019s Lane. 1963, I parked the TARDIS<\/a> in a junkyard and I lived there with my granddaughter Susan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, Ruby\u2019s a bit stunned by the revelation, asking if he has children. \u201cI did have, I will have. Time Lords get a bit complicated,\u201d he responds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, he admits that he has no idea where Susan is \u2013 before referencing a \u201cgenocide\u201d that wiped out the Time Lords, and suggesting that she might actually have been killed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Time Lords were murdered,\u201d he says. \u201cGenocide rolled across time and space like a great big cellular explosion \u2013 maybe it killed her, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n So could Susan actually be dead? Here\u2019s hoping the Doctor is assuming wrong\u2026<\/p>\n Ford first appeared as Susan in the very first Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child<\/a>, alongside the First Doctor, William Hartnell<\/a>.<\/p>\n She left in 1964, but has made various appearances since, most recently in The Name of the Doctor in 2013.<\/p> To celebrate Doctor Who\u2019s 60th anniversary last year, RadioTimes.com<\/a> caught up with Ford, with the actress pointing out that she has various ideas for Susan\u2019s return.<\/p>\n She added that she\u2019s keen to work with a modern Doctor, saying: \u201cI would love to have been re-instated when Jodie [Whittaker] was on, it would have been marvellous working with her,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d love to meet her. That would have been doable, I think. But I can\u2019t imagine myself saying, \u2018Grandmother!’\u201d<\/p>\n Doctor Who continues on BBC iPlayer and BBC One on 18th May. 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