Freema Agyeman has confirmed that her Doctor Who companion, Martha Jones, was due to return full-time in spin-off show, Torchwood. However, this never came to be, although she did appear in a few episodes.

When asked why she wasn’t in more of Torchwood, especially as there were hints that Martha would leave UNIT for the other alien-hunting organisation, Freema confirmed:

“So actually I was meant to — I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but I was meant to… I was meant to go to Torchwood full-time actually after Doctor Who.

“Then it was delays with all of the writing scripts, other things going on at the time, like contracts… There’s always so much going on. So sometimes we have an idea of what we wanna do and where we’re going, and then the universe intervenes.”

In the event, Freema took on a job on ITV show, Law & Order UK (which also starred Thirteenth Doctor companion actor, Bradley Walsh, before he was cast as Graham O’Brien). And so Martha instead appeared in three Series 2 episodes in 2008, Reset, Dead Man Walking, and A Day in the Death, but didn’t come back after Captain Jack Harkness’ invitation to be added to the crew permanently in the Doctor Who Series 4 finale, The Stolen Earth/ Journey’s End.

Indeed, Martha bowed out in the Tenth Doctor’s final story, The End of Time, after the Time Lord revisited his companions before regenerating.

We’d love to see Freema back as Martha — surely there’s still a place for her in UNIT?