Summary
DoctorWhoseason 15 will give one seemingly minor character from season 14 an important role. Season 14 focused on new companion Ruby Sunday’s search for her birth family. LikeeveryDoctor Whocompanionin the post-2005 continuation of the long-running sci-fi series, Ruby was torn between staying with her family and traveling with the Doctor and occasionally came home when a story demanded it. Before meeting the Doctor, Ruby lived with her adoptive mother, Carla, and grandmother, Cherry, who was often bedridden, and was friendly with her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Flood.
All of the characters from Ruby’s previous life seemed to be minor, though the series has built up a mystery around Mrs. Flood’s true identity since she revealed she was familiar with the existence of the TARDIS at the end of the Christmas special. Two ofDoctor Who’s best storiesof the season centered involved Ruby’s family. “73 Yards” included a subplot in which alternate-timeline Ruby was completely rejected by her adoptive family, andboth Carla and Cherry got a death scene in “Empire of Death” before being resurrected and welcoming Ruby’s birth mother into their home.
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Doctor Who season 14 is Ncuti Gatwa’s first full outing as the Doctor, and he is joined by an exciting cast of newcomers and familiar faces.
Cherry Sunday Is The Only Doctor Who Character Who Knows Something’s Up With Mrs. Flood
She Has Yet To Inform Anyone Of What Happened Between Them
Mrs. Flood displayed a darker side to Cherry after being asked to sit with her while Carla ran to UNIT headquarters with Ruby. This was the first of severalclues toDoctor Who’s Mrs. Flood’s true identity, making it clear she wasn’t the kindly neighbor she claimed to be. She refused to get Carla a cup of tea and later, as Sutekh approached, declared she would destroy God’s golden gates of Heaven and lamented that she would die before her plans for Cherry could be completed.
Angela Wynters, who plays Cherry, and Anita Dobson (Mrs. Flood) are both well-known for the British soapEastenders.
Nobody else was there when Mrs. Flood made these pronouncements, and Cherry has yet to mention them. It’s possible that she doesn’t fully remember and that her memory will return during season 15.Kate Lethbridge-Stewart acknowledged that her memories after being turned to dust were hazy, so it’s possible that memories of just before it happened are too, or that Cherry thinks she dreamed the incident with Mrs. Flood but will change her mindwhen something else happens that demonstrates her neighbor’s evil streak.
Cherry Sunday Deserves A Bigger Role In Doctor Who Season 15
She Should Have More To Do Than Beg For a Cup Of Tea
Cherry Sunday didn’t have much to do during season 14, but she deserved more than what her story has allowed.For the most part, she had only two lines in episodes where she appeared: asking for a cup of tea that she never got and warning Carla and Ruby that the Doctor was a source of troublethey didn’t need. Her insistence that the Doctor was trouble was particularly intriguing, as it was never explained what made her feel that way.
Doctor Whocould take this character in several interesting directions during season 15, especially now that Cherry is the only one who knows that Mrs. Flood isn’t as nice a person as she seems.
There may be more to Cherry than has been revealed so far, which could make for a compelling twist as season 15 progresses. It also has not been explained what illness causes her to be bedridden most of the time, which could also play into what’s going on between her and Mrs. Flood.Doctor Whocould take this character in several interesting directions during season 15, especially now that Cherry is the only one who knows that Mrs. Flood isn’t as nice a person as she seems.
Doctor Whoseason 15 will stream on Disney+
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Doctor Who: Released on Jul 16, 2025, this series follows the Doctor and their companion as they journey across time and space, encountering a range of extraordinary friends and adversaries, expanding the universe of the long-running British science fiction series.
