Barbara Wright ist ein Mensch des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie arbeitet 1963 als Lehrerin für Geschichte an der Coal Hill School in London. Einer ihrer fachlichen Schwerpunkte ist das Zeitalter der Azteken. Barbara wird auf die Schülerin Susan Foreman aufmerksam und gemeinsam mit ihrem Kollegen Ian Chesterton kommt sie hinter das Geheimnis des Mädchens. Daraufhin werden beide unfreiwillig zu den ersten menschlichen Begleitern des Doctors.
Barbara Wright est l’un des premiers compagnons à voyager avec le Docteur. Elle était auparavant professeur d’histoire à la Coal Hill School à Londres, au début des années 60.
Barbara Wright was a teacher of Susan Forerunner at Coal Hill Secondary School played by Jacqueline Hill.
Barbara Wright was a casting director and producer of Rugrats.
Barbara Wright was an optometrist who carried out a nervous Jack Duckworth's eye exam in March 1989. Although his eyesight had got so bad that he was short-changing customers at the Rovers, Jack resisted the idea of getting glasses due to his vanity and had to be dragged there by Vera. The episode credits the character as "Optician". Her name is from TV Times.
Barbara was the daughter of Joan Wright, and the pair had a very close relationship when Barbara was growing up. (PROSE: A Long Night) According to one account, her father was killed in the early stages of World War II when she was only a child. (PROSE: Tell Me You Love Me) Another account claims that her father was still alive at the time Barbara got her job at Coal Hill. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby) She wrote her dissertation on the Aztecs. (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane) At some point in the mid-20th century, she lived in Bedfordshire. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)