Bio
24 years old, Able Seaman (Radar), Cockney. Father, now dead, was wartime sailor and peacetime dock-crane driver. Mother married again to unsympathetic step-father. Ben trained at sea school from age of 15, having previously stowed away on cargo ship for adventure to get away from unhappy home. He enjoys the Navy and all it has to offer. Enjoys all sport, especially boxing and athletics - interested in all things mechanical and electrical and in true Navy fashion can turn his hand to most things, including basic cooking and sewing.
Temperament:
A realist, down to Earth, solid, capable and cautious. Inclines, on occasions, to be shy. He is slow to anger but somewhat thick skinned about his Cockney accent. (He thinks, mistakenly, that Polly looks down on him because of this.) He is also sensitive to Naval allusions made in fun - such as 'What ho, my Hearties' - 'Shiver me timbers' etc. He is intensely loyal and will risk anything for his two companions but won't take any nonsense from either.
Attitudes:
Wants to get back to his ship in Navy and resents Doctor Shanghai-ing him in the TARDIS also resentful of Polly for getting him into TARDIS in the first place. Apart from this he respects Doctor but thinks him impractical - i.e. the way he cannot predict where the TARDIS is going in Time and Space. Rises to Polly's jokes about the Navy and the Doctor's cracks about his 'quaint accent'.
From undated, revised series Format Guide.
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