Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Excel Companion Panel (Nyssa) Sarah Sutton + (Adric) Matthew Waterhouse 

i was so upset by the end of earthshock when i watched it. i spent the whole serial being so pleased that they finally got back on track with adric's characterization!! when he was the companion for four (and romana) he was pretty consistently done. maybe not astoundingly original material, and matthew wasn't the greatest actor at the time, but generally inoffensive and pretty charming to see working with four. post-regeneration he got a lot of short ends to a lot of sticks. adric's personality just kind of went up and down once there were two other full-time companions AND a new doctor for the writers to focus on. adric was always one of my favorite classic companions. i thought that the doctor saw some of himself as a kid in him and that he was genuinely fond of him in both regenerations. with time to mature and the examples the doctor/romana set for him, i thought that he could have grown up and gone on to do some really wonderful things out in the universe. he looked up to the doctor and wanted to do good for people. he was clever and adventurous, but inexperienced and insecure. that's what always makes his departure so especially sad to me. adric didn't get to fall in love or grow attached to some planet that needed his help. he didn't get to have a near-miss in earthshock that spurred him to realize ways that he might need to change or grow, even if it meant going somewhere else to do it. no, after a bumpy road with a new regeneration that they'd only JUST started patching up, adric died pointlessly, trying to save tegan's planet from a fixed point that he thought was a disastrous attack. he died trying to do something good, and thinking that he'd failed in something overwhelmingly more important than his own safety. adric's death was tragic to me because it wasn't only this team tardis losing a friend/the younger brother/son figure of their ragtag family unit. it was a loss of potential for both adric's future accomplishments and his character development overall.

Nyssa!! My favorite 5th Doctor Companion! Her character had so much more potential than they used! Criminal miss use of a great companion. She was still a great companion though.

Matthew Waterhouse is a great talent!

I always hoped (and still do for that matter) that they could kind of bring Adric back from the dead years later to these current episodes explaining how he was maybe saved by the master or by the Cybermen at the very last minute only he was badly injured. I had this scenario in my head that Adric would be angry, bitter and vengeful towards the Doctor for “leaving him to die” on that ship which would eventually culminate in Adric saving the Doctor and them both reconciling in future seasons. Kind of makes up for the cheesy way he was killed off.

I'm probably the only person on the planet who has a soft spot for Adric, yes he wasn't the best actor, but he also wasn't given much in the way of character development, or any good dialogue for that matter. They sketched him out as an "Artful Dodger-type" and he ended up a whiny brat who always seemed to take the villain's side, was arguing with the Doctor regularly and was looked on by Nyssa and Tegan as a petulant baby brother. He was actually VERY good in his final appearance on the show, and what a way to go out,.....

He was adorable then and cute now.

Actually Tom got on well with pretty much every actor/actress. Tom was even married to Lalla for a while and if you watch the episodes of them together they do a lot of looking in each others eyes. Even Mary Tamm and Tom were notorious for pretending to snuggle on the set. There are clips on RU-vid of Tom and Mary messing around. Tom and Mary also attended events years later together. Tom, Liz and Ian Marter loved working together. Louise and Tom got off to a rocky start, because of how badly he missed Lliz, but talked things thru and now do Doctor Who audio adventures together. He also enjoyed working with certain writers. Tom is not perfect and will admit he had issues with some of the later writers and could have behaved better. Like Mayhew said though Tom could be one of the sweetest guys and they had some very good moments together. Tom's last year or two was rough for also because he was ill on and off and decided to leave a show and character he truly loved. He was feeling it physically and emotionally.

Aww sarah sutton played nyssa well

Adric is wonderful!

Also why did you cut out Sarah talking about Tom. There some great photo's of Tom and Sarah on the set of Doctor Who with is hands around her shoulders.

Matthew looks like my older brother there.

I was in that room!

Who is the moderator conducting the interview?

Love Matthew

"Adric! Which hole did you put it in?" Adric: "The bum..now i'll never know if I was right"

Sarah and I were born th same day

Is there another part?

Ahh thanks anyway.