Adric: Difference between revisions

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
m (Bot: Cosmetic changes)
 
(597 intermediate revisions by more than 100 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
"Now I'll never know if I was right." Matthew Waterhouse, Earthshock
{{subpage tabs}}
{{ImageLink}}
{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|image = [[Image:Adric.jpg|250px]]
|image             = Adric smiling.jpg
|Also known as = The Scorpion King
|alias            = The Scorpion King
|individual name = Adric
|species          = Alzarian
|race = [[Alzarian]]  
|origin            = [[Alzarius]]
|status = Deceased
|brother          = Varsh (Full Circle)
|home planet = [[Alzarius]] ([[E-Space]])
|father            = Morell
|home era = Unknown
|mother            = Talisa
|appearances = [[Adric - List of Appearances|Full List of Appearances]]
|spouse            = Asun
|actor = [[Matthew Waterhouse]] and [[Andrew Sachs]] (as the Scorpion King)
|spouse2          = Reebac
}}
|birth date        = [[32nd century]]. [[Alzarius]], [[E-Space]]
|death date        = [[Distant past#Tens of millions of years BC|65,000,000 BC]], [[Earth]]
|child            = Varsh (A Full Life)
|child2            = Neegat
|first cs          = Full Circle (TV story)
|appearances       = {{Appears}}
|actor            = Matthew Waterhouse
|other voice actor = [[Andrew Sachs]]
|clip              = A Question of Logic - Doctor Who - The Keeper of Traken - BBC
|clip2            = The TARDIS nurses the Doctor - Doctor Who - Castrovalva - BBC
|clip3            = Adric Dies - Doctor Who - Earthshock - BBC
}}{{you may|Andric|Adric Traken}}
'''Adric''' was a [[companion]] of the [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] and [[Fifth Doctor]]s.


'''Adric''' was a [[companion]] to [[the Doctor]] in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth]] and [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnations]].  
An [[Alzarian]] resident of [[E-Space]], Adric stowed away in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] after the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]] and [[K9]] visited his planet. He joined them on their adventures and into [[N-Space]], where the Doctor regenerated into [[Fifth Doctor|his fifth incarnation]] and was joined by [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Nyssa]]. He died aboard [[Briggs's freighter|a freighter]] after helping to defeat [[CyberNeomorph|Neomorph]] [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], trying to stop it from crashing into prehistoric [[Earth]].


==Biography==
Using [[Block Transfer Computation]], a [[bubble universe]] was created in which Adric survived and ruled a race of giant [[scorpion]]s. This Adric tried to get revenge on the Doctor and marry Nyssa, but eventually changed his mind and died indefinitely after returning the TARDIS to them.
Adric and his brother [[Varsh]] were members of a gang of teenage thieves on [[Alzarius]], a [[planet]] in [[E-Space]]. He had the ability to calculate vast sums in his head, who which he won a [[gold]] badge for mathematical excellence ([[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]''). Adric stowed himself aboard [[the TARDIS]], as [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Romana II|Romana]] would discover later. Cunningly, he pretended to share the agenda of the [[Three Who Rule]], a trio of [[vampire]]s who lorded over a small community. ([[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'')


After Romana left ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'') he acted briefly as apprentice to the sage-like Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') this would change, though [[Tegan]] and [[Nyssa]] joined the Doctor and Adric and when the Doctor [[regenerate]]d. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')  
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Adric was born on [[Alzarius]] to [[Morell]] and [[Talisa]] in the [[32nd century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)}}, {{cs|A Full Life (audio story)}}) He had a brother, [[Varsh (Full Circle)|Varsh]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}) who was about three and a half years older. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Full Circle (novelisation)}}) According to most accounts, Morell and Talisa died in a [[forest]] [[fire]] when Adric was one, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Full Circle (novelisation)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)}}, {{cs|A Full Life (audio story)}}) after which he and Varsh were raised by friends of their parents. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Full Circle (novelisation)}})


Often frustrated by his clumsiness, and fiercely competitive, Adric struggled to find a useful role with the others.
According to one account, Adric's parents did not die in a forest fire. They quickly realised that Adric had a flair for pure [[mathematics]] and, at the age of about eight, he was put into the [[Terradonian]] [[starliner]]'s accelerated learning programme. By the age of twelve, he was more intelligent than his parents and Varsh put together. Adric's parents then died in a [[farming]] accident. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Boy's Tale (short story)}})


Adric got to the decision of deciding to try to return to E-Space, when, caught up by events, he gave up his life by remaining on board Captain [[Briggs]]' freighter, which, [[time travel|travelling through time]], crashed into prehistoric [[Earth]] and caused the death of the [[dinosaur]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
When Adric was seven, a [[Decider]] gave him a [[coin]] which appeared to be [[gold]]; in fact, it only had a [[molecule]]-thin coating which gave it the appearance of being made of gold. He always carried it around in his pocket. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate (novelisation)}})


===As the Scorpion King===
Ranked as an [[Elite]], Adric was awarded a [[Star of Mathematical Excellence]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Full Circle (novelisation)}}) His only friends were [[Jiana]], whom he grew up with, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) and [[Zayn]], whose family thought that he was strange. He once grew tired with everything that he interacted with being made of [[metal]] and [[wire]]s and longed to have a [[dog]], eventually going with [[Máire (A Boy's Tale)|Máire]] to her settlement where she let him hold one of her dogs. He visited several times in secret in order to play with them. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Boy's Tale (short story)}})
Following interference by [[Fifth Doctor|the Doctor]] during an attempt to recover his TARDIS, his sub-consciousness assisted Adric in breaking the final logic code on the alien computer. Allowing Adric to crash land (though survivable) on Earth. Adric survived for 500 years, creating a City of Excellence and ruling over a sentient race of Scorpions that evolved rather than the dinosaurs. The world they and Adric inhabited was created by Adric from [[Block Transfer Computation]]s. Adric (after 500 years) re-met up with the [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]] of the Doctor and Nyssa, and accompanied them back to the Victorian era. Adric finally died after assisting the Doctor to recover his TARDIS from [[Thomas Brewster]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'')


Varsh left the starliner and formed the [[Outler]]s due to his frustration with the rules of Alzarian society, a frustration which Adric shared; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Full Circle (novelisation)}}) Adric believed that his being so much more intelligent than Varsh might have been the reason that he left. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Boy's Tale (short story)}}) He wanted to join the Outlers and attempted to prove himself by stealing [[riverfruit]], but he was unsuccessful. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}) His interest in being a rebel scared Jiana, who ran away from him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}})


== '''Character history''' ==
=== Travels in the TARDIS ===
==== Joining the Doctor ====
Adric met the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II|Romana]] and [[K9 Mark II|K9]] when he came across [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] after determining that [[Mistfall]] was not fiction. He helped to uncover the truth of the Alzarians and found his brother's body after he was overwhelmed by [[Marshman|Marshmen]]. [[Keara]] handed him Varsh's belt, which he wore. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}) Hoping to see the universe as the Doctor's [[companion]], he stowed away in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: {{cs|State of Decay (TV story)}})


Adric first appears in the Fourth Doctor serial, Full Circle. Attempting to escape from the mysterious Mistfall threatening his community, he stumbles across and finds refuge in the TARDIS, which has been drawn into E-Space via a wormhole-like phenomenon known as a Charged Vacuum Emboitment. He stowed away when the Doctor and Romana and K-9 Mark II left Alzarius and becomes a companion in the following serial, State of Decay, accompanying them on the rest of their adventures in E-Space. He remains with the Doctor when Romana and K-9 Mark II leave and the TARDIS finds its way back into its own universe.
==== Exploring E-Space ====
{{Section stub|Info from ''[[Pathfinders (short story)|Pathfinders]]'', ''[[Conundrum (short story)|Conundrum]]'', ''[[The Planet of Witches (audio story)|The Planet of Witches]]'', ''[[The Quest of the Engineer (audio story)|The Quest of the Engineer]]'' and ''[[Messages from the Dead (audio story)|Messages from the Dead]]'' needs to be added}}
Exiting the TARDIS on the [[vampire planet]], Adric was taken prisoner by the [[Three Who Rule]] and was reunited with the Doctor and Romana. He pretended to share the agenda of the vampires in order to save Romana from being sacrificed, but he failed. Ultimately, the pair were saved by the Doctor who, displeased with Adric having stowed away, told Adric that he was to be returned to Alzarius. ([[TV]]: {{cs|State of Decay (TV story)}}) However, he soon had no intention of taking him back. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)}}, etc.)


With a brilliant mathematical mind and sporting a star-shaped badge (blue enamel with gold backing) for mathematical excellence, Adric is also very well aware of his own intelligence. This, coupled with his relative immaturity, leads to a personality that is abrasive and occasionally crosses over into arrogance. As a result, Adric is one of the least popular companions among fans of the programme. However, it is obvious that Adric also desperately seeks validation from the Doctor as well as those around him, and is often hurt and resentful if he feels he is being sidelined or unable to contribute. As an Alzarian, Adric is a member of a species of extremely adaptable creatures, theoretically capable of genetically evolving to suit any environment, though it is unknown if his particular substrain is capable of this. It is known that he possesses an inhumanly rapid rate of healing, though not to the extent he can regenerate amputated body parts.
The TARDIS crew spent nine days at [[the Structure]], where Adric worried at how the two [[Time Lord]]s' concept of time might mean they would spend any length of time in one place. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|O, Darkness (short story)}}) After two months of travelling, the Doctor was looking for a [[Charged Vacuum Emboitement]] to take them to [[N-Space]]. They found one near [[Ballustra]] but were forced to close it. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)}})


Adric is present when, during the events of Logopolis, the Fourth Doctor falls from the Pharos Project radio telescope and regenerates into his fifth incarnation. He continues to travel in the TARDIS along with new companions Nyssa and Tegan, but his travels come to an end in Earthshock when he tries to stop a Cyberman-controlled freighter from crashing into prehistoric Earth. The navigational controls had been locked by logic codes, and Adric is entering the solution to the last code when the computer is destroyed by a dying Cyberman. He dies in the crash, while his fellow crewmates watch in horror on the TARDIS viewscreen. His last words before the explosion kills him are "Now I'll never know if I was right." Adric also dies not knowing that the freighter he was trying to stop was actually destined to be the "meteor" that would wipe out the dinosaurs (see Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event and Alvarez hypothesis).
On [[Veridis]], the Doctor and Romana died and Adric grew old and married [[Asun]], having two sons; [[Varsh (A Full Life)|Varsh]] and [[Neegat]]. Eventually, he built a time machine using [[crystal]]s from the TARDIS and saved them, changing time. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Full Life (audio story)}})


Adric's death affects his companions deeply. In Time-Flight, Tegan tries to persuade the Doctor to go back in time and save him, but the Doctor refuses to break the Laws of Time, even though it obviously pains him. The Xeraphin try to use an illusion of Adric pleading that if they traveled any further they would kill him, an effort by Xeraphin to stop Nyssa and Tegan from travelling further in the same story, but they see through the deception when they realise Adric is still wearing his badge (which the Doctor had destroyed in order to kill a Cyberman) and travel forth giving Adric another illusory death scene. Adric also appears as a hallucination at the end of The Caves of Androzani, and his name is the last word the Fifth Doctor says as he "dies", regenerating into the Sixth Doctor.
Although he grew close to K9 due to his love of dogs, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Boy's Tale (short story)}}) he felt that he was disruptive to the Doctor and Romana and temporarily left them on [[Purgatory 12]] where he considered making a copy of Varsh. He rejoined the Doctor and Romana afterwards. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Purgatory 12 (audio story)}}) He became part of a [[gestalt]] entity for a brief time and liked it, feeling a part of something and being somewhere that he belonged. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Chase the Night (audio story)}})


At [[the Gateway]], Adric prepared to leave his universe for E-Space and said goodbye to Romana and K9 when they chose to stay with the [[Tharil]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Warriors' Gate (TV story)}})


==== Another universe ====
{{Section stub|Info from ''[[Messages from the Dead (audio story)|Messages from the Dead]]'', ''[[Planet of the Elves (short story)|Planet of the Elves]]'' and ''[[Watchers (audio story)|Watchers]]'' needs to be added}}
He and the Doctor answered [[Keeper (The Keeper of Traken)|the Keeper]]'s call for them to visit [[Traken]], where he met and befriended [[Nyssa]] and helped defeat {{Pratt}}. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Keeper of Traken (TV story)}})
[[File:FourthAdricK9Conundrum.jpg|left|thumb|In the wake of [[K9 Mark II]]'s departure, the [[Fourth Doctor]] and Adric enjoy the company of a replacement. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Conundrum (short story)}})]]


== '''Appearances in other media''' ==
Adric missed Romana, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Psychodrome (audio story)}}) but especially missed K9, to whom he wrote letters which he threw out into [[space]] in [[bottle]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Boy's Tale (short story)}}) For a time, Adric and the Doctor travelled with [[K9 Mark III|another K9 model]], visiting [[Space Station Alpha]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Inter-Galactic Cat (short story)}}) [[Möbian space]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Conundrum (short story)}}) [[Elystria]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Planet of Paradise (short story)}}) [[Publius]] ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Plague World (comic story)}}) and [[Xiter]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Just a Small Problem (short story)}}) Eventually, the Doctor gave K9 to [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})


An image of Adric appears as a manifestation of the Doctor's guilt in the Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell. A ghost of Adric also features in the plot of the Past Doctor Adventures novel Empire of Death by David Bishop.
Landing in [[Mauritz]]'s [[monastery]], Adric and the Doctor met multiple possible versions of themselves. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mauritz (short story)}}) On [[Bellascon]], Adric was wiped from history after a spaceship carrying his ancestors was destroyed, but returned thanks to [[Narvin]] using time travel to prevent the explosion. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Erasure (audio story)}})


Adric appears in the Big Finish Productions audio drama [[The Boy That Time Forgot]], and is portrayed by [[Andrew Sachs]].
==== A new Doctor ====
The duo once again encountered the Master whilst attempting to repair the [[chameleon circuit]]. They were joined by Nyssa and [[Tegan Jovanka]] who helped them stop the Master and who joined the TARDIS crew after the Doctor [[regeneration|regenerated]] into [[Fifth Doctor|his fifth body]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Logopolis (TV story)}})


[[File:AdricRightProfile.jpg|thumb|left|Adric in the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s [[the TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Four to Doomsday (TV story)}})]]
Immediately after the Doctor's regeneration, the Master kidnapped Adric and held him in the [[Hadron web]], using his mathematical prowess to produce his own version of [[Block Transfer Computation]] to create [[Castrovalva]] as a trap for the Doctor. However, the Doctor saw through the trap and saved Adric, destroying the city and defeating the Master. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Castrovalva (TV story)}})


==== Aiming for Heathrow ====
{{Section stub|Info from ''[[Dr. Fifth (novel)|Dr. Fifth]]'', ''[[Secrets of Telos (audio story)|Secrets of Telos]]'' and ''[[God of War (audio story)|God of War]]'' needs to be added}}
The TARDIS next landed on the [[Psychodrome]] where Adric faced his fears of letting people down and facing a mathematical problem that he could not solve, all the while getting to know his new companions better. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Psychodrome (audio story)}})


== '''List of appearances''' ==
In [[2592]], Adric met the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Patience|the Doctor's wife]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cold Fusion (novel)}})


Adric believed the girls were a hindrance to his relationship with the Doctor and had a clear preference for the Fourth Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}}) However, the two shared solo adventures on [[Vaga]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Key of Vaga (short story)}}) and [[Ixos-4]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Planet of Fear (short story)}})


t
Adric helped to defeat giant [[termite]]s on [[Isopterus]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|On the Planet Isopterus (comic story)}}) was taken over by the mother program in [[1950s]] [[England]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|First Born (short story)}}) and served as [[squire]] to [[Keeyoht|Sir Keeyoht of la Koura]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius (audio story)}})
== elevison ==


Attempting to get Tegan to [[Heathrow Airport]], the TARDIS landed on [[Monarch's ship|a ship]] where Adric agreed with and joined [[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|Monarch]] before the Doctor managed to change his mind. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Four to Doomsday (TV story)}})


'''Season 18''' 
Upon leaving, they landed on [[Deva Loka]] where Adric used a [[Total Survival Suit]] to defend against the [[Mara]]-controlled [[Aris]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kinda (TV story)}}) for which he was scolded by the Doctor. In [[1666]], he helped Nyssa build a [[sonic booster]] to destroy a [[Terileptil]], [[Terileptil android|android]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Visitation (TV story)}})
[[Full Circle]]  
[[State of Decay]]  
[[Warriors' Gate]]  
[[The Keeper of Traken]]  
[[Logopolis]]


== Season 19 ==
Determined to prove himself worthy of his place in the TARDIS, Adric chose to face [[the Toymaker]]'s challenges, during which the Toymaker tried to turn him against the Doctor by showing him a [[hallucination]] of [[Jiana]] and [[Talisa|his mother]] and [[Morell|father]]. The hallucination reminded Adric of some of the things he had faced because of the Doctor, but Adric did not give in. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}})
[[Castrovalva]]  
Four to Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight (illusion)  
Season 21
The Caves of Androzani (quoted/Doctor's regeneration)


== '''Novels''' ==
In [[1016]], he introduced an [[Asia]]n tribe to the [[longbow]]. The deaths that would result from this concerned the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Immortals (short story)}})


Virgin Missing Adventures
He argued with Tegan whilst Nyssa was called by the Master's [[communication node]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Toy (audio story)}})
Cold Fusion by Lance Parkin
Past Doctor Adventures
Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell


== '''Short stories''' ==
Adric wanted to learn how to fly the TARDIS and ran a number of [[simulation]]s, killing everyone aboard in each. To help, the Doctor took the crew to [[Gallius Ultima]] where Adric had something of a romance with [[Autumn Tace]]. He used his mathematical ability to calculate the trajectory to pilot a satellite to deflect a crashing spaceship. When [[Rovus]] tried to possess him, Adric used mathematical sequences, such a [[prime number]]s and the [[Fibonacci sequence]], to concentrate his mind to stop it. After Autumn died, the Doctor told Adric that he could not use time travel to undo established events. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Star Men (audio story)}})


"A Boy's Tale" by Gary Russell (Short Trips: Companions)
Afterwards, when the TARDIS landed at the Contigency Club he was intrigued at what happened in there. Escaping with [[Marjorie Stonegood]], they discovered an underground bathhouse on their way back to the surface. He helped the Doctor escape from the [[Red Queen]] but was captured himself. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Contingency Club (audio story)}})
"Hearts of Stone" by Steve Lyons (Short Trips: Companions)
"The Immortals" by Simon Guerrier (Short Trips: Past Tense)  
"Mauritz" by Jonathan Morris (Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors)
"O, Darkness" by John Binns (Short Trips: Steel Skies)
"In the TARDIS: Christmas Day" by Val Douglas (Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury)  


He decided to start reading all the books on Vampires once he finished all the maths books. Tegan asked him to pilot the TARDIS back to Heathrow, but something went wrong and he disappeared from the console room. He landed on a ship and pretended to be [[Perrault]] to get information. He was was captured by [[Gevaudan]] but later escaped and told the Doctor that there was something wrong with the trajectory of the meteor. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Zaltys (audio story)}})


== '''audios''' ==
In [[1920s]] [[England]], Adric fought the Master once again and met [[Harry Houdini]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)}})


Tegan confided in him that she had begun to enjoy travelling in the TARDIS. He pretended to be an assassin contracted to stop [[the Scorpion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Kingdom of Lies (audio story)}})


The Boy That Time Forgot (played by Andrew Sachs)  
He searched through a set of catacombs with Nyssa where they were attacked by a mysterious force. After being flung into the future, he was trialled for stealing some bread and sentenced to death. The brotherhood of [[Sabaoth]] was interested with him. The Doctor and Nyssa saved him from being hanged. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Ghost Walk (audio story)}})
The Darkening Eye (adventure related by the character Nyssa)  


He helped to solve a [[murder]] on [[Argentia]], which he watched one of them happen. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Serpent in the Silver Mask (audio story)}})


== '''Comics''' ==
==== Final adventures ====
{{Section stub|Info from ''[[The Last Action Figure (comic story)|The Last Action Figure]]'', ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'', ''[[The Boy Wonder (poem)|The Boy Wonder]]'', ''[[The Merfolk Murders (audio story)|The Merfolk Murders]]'' and {{cs|The Great Beyond (audio story)}} needs to be added}}
[[File:Adric pirate.jpg|right|thumb|Adric dresses as a [[pirate]] for the [[Cranleigh Hall]] party. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Orchid (TV story)}})]]
When the crew visited [[Cranleigh]], Adric briefly met and flirted with [[Ace]], who was looking for one of the segments of the [[Key to Time]]. She threatened to give him a permanent limp if he continued. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Time & Time Again (comic story)}}) At [[Cranleigh Hall]], he dressed up as a [[pirate]] but refused to [[dancing|dance]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Orchid (TV story)}})


"Plague World" by Mel Powell (Doctor Who Annual 1982)
On one occasion, Adric, the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan spent [[Christmas]] with the [[renegade Time Lord|renegade Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]], who was fond of him. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Excelis Dawns (audio story)}})
"On The Planet Isopterus" by Glenn Rix (Doctor Who Annual 1983)
"Planet of the Dead" by Lee Sullivan and John Freeman (Doctor Who Magazine 141-142) - although technically that is not Adric, but someone pretending to be him.  


After grumbling to Nyssa during a [[chess]] game, he wandered out onto [[Planet (Hearts of Stone)|a planet of statues]] where he started to become one of them. The Doctor saved him, much to his annoyance, and Nyssa made him promise that he would wait a few months before he asked to return. Adric agreed. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Hearts of Stone (short story)}})


{{character stub}}
On another occasion, Adric used [[Block Transfer Computation]] to make a cake for Christmas dinner. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|In the TARDIS: Christmas Day (short story)}})


[[Category:Companions of the Fourth Doctor]]
He was, like Nyssa and Tegan, kidnapped by [[Adam Mitchell]] after fighting [[Sontaran]]s and [[Rutan]]s, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|In Their Nature (comic story)}}) later being rescued by multiple [[the Doctor|Doctors]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (POT comic story)}})
[[Category:Companions of the Fifth Doctor]]
 
[[Category:Television companions]]
The crew celebrated [[Freedom Day]] on [[Lemaria]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Constant Doctor (short story)}})
 
On [[Battlefield (The Darkening Day)|Battlefield]], Adric was stabbed in the chest but survived due to his [[heart]] being on the other side of his chest. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Darkening Eye (audio story)}})
 
He and Nyssa attempted to fly the TARDIS and landed on [[Fleming's Island]] where the crew faced the [[I Predator]], with which Adric was able to find a way to communicate. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Iterations of I (audio story)}})
 
=== Death ===
[[File:Adric - Earthshock.jpg|thumb|Adric, seconds before his death. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}})]]
Feeling left out by the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan, Adric told the Doctor that he wanted to be taken to [[Terradon]], a trip that the Doctor refused to make. Adric made the calculations ([[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}}) and unintentionally created a program whereby the TARDIS would return to E-Space should it pass close to a [[Charged Vacuum Emboitement|CVE]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mistfall (audio story)}}) However, he admitted to the Doctor that he was just making a point and did not want to go back as there was nothing for him in his universe.
 
Adric was caught up in a failed plan of the [[Neomorph]] [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] to bombard Earth with [[Briggs (Earthshock)|Briggs]]'s [[Briggs's freighter|freighter]] in [[2526]] whilst the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan were stuck on the TARDIS with the [[Cyber-Leader (Earthshock)|Cyber-Leader]], whom the Doctor killed using Adric's [[Star of Mathematical Excellence|star-shaped badge]]. Adric tried to change the freighter's course but the control system was damaged by a Cyberman. Clutching onto [[Varsh (Full Circle)|Varsh]]'s sash, Adric resigned himself to his fate and died as the freighter crashed into prehistoric Earth, causing the [[K-T extinction event|extinction of the dinosaurs]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}})
 
=== Fate ===
The [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] believed that Adric had survived his apparent death, being rescued at the last minute by {{Ainley}} who later tried to use the captive Adric as leverage in a revenge scheme against [[the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cyber Files (novel)}})
 
According to some accounts, however, Adric had indeed died. He then found himself in the [[Nethersphere]], where [[Seb]] tried to convince him to become a [[Cyberdear|Cyberman]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Seb (short story)}}) [[Missy]], a later incarnation of the Master and the ruler of the Nethersphere, recorded Adric's presence in her [[Masterplan Journal]] with particular delight. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)}}) This environment ultimately perished with everything in it after the [[3W Institute]] was exposed and after Missy's [[Cyberdear|Cyberman army]] was destroyed by [[Danny Pink]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Death in Heaven (TV story)}})
 
According to yet another account, in the [[19th century]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] attempted to use [[Block Transfer Computation]] to redirect his TARDIS to him. He subconsciously appeared to Adric on the freighter as a [[ghost]] just before he died and fed him numbers for entry into the computer, creating a [[bubble universe]] in which Adric survived the freighter's descent to [[Earth]].
 
Adric tamed the giant [[scorpion]]s on prehistoric Earth and built and ruled a [[City of Excellence]] using Block Transfer. He extended his own life and lived for five hundred years, hoping to get revenge on the Doctor for not saving him as well as to take Nyssa as his wife. When the Doctor and Nyssa finally arrived, the scorpions turned against Adric to prevent him from leaving, and thus destroying, the bubble universe. Adric learnt his lesson and, after helping [[Thomas Brewster]] pilot the TARDIS back to the Doctor and Nyssa, finally died. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)}})
 
=== Undated events ===
At some point, Adric was taken to the [[Black Archive]] by [[UNIT]] to have his record as a [[companion]] of the Doctor taken. His memories of the visit were subsequently erased and he was sent on his way. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}})
 
Whilst he was [[regeneration|regenerating]], the Fifth Doctor psychically called out to his companions for help. Adric told him that he "''mustn't die''". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Winter (audio story)}}; [[TV]]: {{cs|The Caves of Androzani (TV story)}})
 
== Legacy ==
Adric's death would haunt Tegan for the rest of her life, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TotT TV story)}}) and led the Doctor to swear that he would not allow any of his other companions to die during his fifth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Goth Opera (novel)}}) Indeed, the [[Fifth Doctor]] did not forgive himself and eventually came to realise that he had mistreated Adric because the boy reminded him of [[the Doctor's early life|his own younger self]] ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Conversion (BFM audio story)}}) and, just before he [[regeneration|regenerated]], the last word he said was "Adric?" ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Caves of Androzani (TV story)}})
 
An illusion of Adric appeared to Nyssa and Tegan to dissuade them from entering [[The Master|Kalid]]'s inner sanctum, warning them to turn back or they would destroy him. The girls thought at first this was the real Adric, who from their perspective had only recently died, until they noticed that the illusion was wearing Adric's by-now-destroyed star-shaped badge. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time-Flight (TV story)}}) Nyssa named her only son [[Adric Traken|Adric]] in his honour. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Heroes of Sontar (audio story)}})
 
When the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and [[Marcipor]] visited the [[Welkin Sanatorium and Centre for Wellness]] they saw an apparition of him. This caused them to get agitated. He protected the Doctor and Tegan when [[Luchino (The Lost Resort)|Luchino]] attacked the Doctor. He was created from [[Aether Beauregarde]]'s machine but told the Doctor that this was a half life. He switched off the machine after letting the Doctor say his last goodbyes. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Lost Resort (audio story)}})
 
On [[Adeki]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] found what appeared to be Adric, along with other former companions, alive again and desperate to leave in the TARDIS. He learned that these were actually [[Gwanzulum]]s, a race of [[shapeshifter]]s. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Planet of the Dead (comic story)}})
 
While in a [[Hell]]-like world composed of the Seventh Doctor's mind, [[Ace]] met an eerie, ghost-like recreation of Adric along with other companions of his who had died because of him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}})
 
Whilst in the [[Divergent Universe]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] was shown an illusory version of Adric by the [[Kro'ka]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Last (audio story)}})
 
The [[Tenth Doctor]] watched Adric die again — this time as a manifestation of the TARDIS Matrix, and grieved his loss. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Forgotten (comic story)}}) [[The Lost (The Lost)|The Lost]] later mentioned Adric to him as one of the many losses the Doctor had endured during his life. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Lost (audio story)}}) The Tenth Doctor was infuriated when [[the Advocate]] used Adric's death against him in order to estrange him from his companions. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Tesseract (comic story)}})
 
Whilst speaking to the Doctor's [[Holo-Doctor|AI hologram]] in the midst of an invasion by [[Cyber-Warrior]]s, Tegan challenged it on what she thought of when she saw Cybermen. The hologram, having taken the form of the Fifth Doctor, correctly answered that it was Adric. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}}) When she and the Doctor reunited in the [[remembered TARDIS]], they talked of Adric and his death in the Cyber-invasion. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TotT TV story)}})
 
While discussing everything terrible that the Doctor had experienced over their lifetimes, both the [[Fourteenth Doctor|Fourteenth]] and [[Fifteenth Doctor]] sadly mentioned the loss of Adric. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})
 
== Personality ==
Adric was a mathematical genius and was proud of his [[Elite]] status, which he believed made him better than other people. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}) His greatest fears were a mathematical problem that he could not solve and not fitting in, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Psychodrome (audio story)}}) with the latter manifesting when he wanted to be part of the [[Outler]]s ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}) and when he felt left out by the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}})
 
[[Aukon]] believed that Adric had the strength of spirit to survive becoming a [[vampire]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)}}) He was stubborn and set in his beliefs, including [[sexism|sexist]] ones such as his insistence that women were "mindless, impatient and bossy". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Four to Doomsday (TV story)}}) Two days after she met him, Tegan told Nyssa that Adric "rubbed [her] up the wrong way" and accused him of being condescending and "a male chauvinist." ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Psychodrome (audio story)}}) However, she warmed to him and believed that he was not a boy but a developing young man who would "strike out" on his own and forge his own future. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) The Fourth Doctor believed that Adric would "love it" on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Warriors' Gate (TV story)}})
 
Adric felt that the only person who understood him was [[Varsh (Full Circle)|Varsh]], with whom he shared a dislike for the restrictions of Alzarian society. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Full Circle (novelisation)}}) When Varsh died, Adric kept his marshreed belt, a symbol of Outler membership, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}) and blamed himself for his death. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Purgatory 12 (audio story)}}) Although he generally did not think about his family after their deaths, he did begin to think of them more, especially [[Talisa|his mother]], after visiting [[Traken]]. He formed a strong attachment to [[K9 Mark II|K9]] and missed him greatly when he stayed in [[E-Space]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Boy's Tale (short story)}})
 
Adric watched recordings of ''[[Monty Python]]'' in the TARDIS's television lounge and often quoted from the series. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (short story)}}) He did not enjoy [[dancing]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Orchid (TV story)}}) and had a big appetite. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Four to Doomsday (TV story)}}, {{cs|Black Orchid (TV story)}}) He never enjoyed [[music]], far preferring the symphony of numbers. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Contingency Club (audio story)}})
 
== Appearance ==
Adric was a snub-nosed, round-faced boy ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Kinda (novelisation)}}) with dark hair ([[TV]]: {{cs|Full Circle (TV story)}}, etc.) and wicked, black button eyes. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Castrovalva (novelisation)}}) His usual expression was one of cheerful impudence. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Four to Doomsday (novelisation)}})
 
He wore a dull-coloured shirt beneath a yellow tunic with his [[Star of Mathematical Excellence]] affixed to an orange breast-pocket and a pair of muddy-coloured trousers tucked into boots. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Earthshock (novelisation)}}, {{cs|Full Circle (novelisation)}}) Because of his outfit, Tegan nicknamed him Pyjama Boy. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Contingency Club (audio story)}}) He wore the same outfit for most of his travels in the TARDIS, with a costume for a party at [[Cranleigh Hall]] being a notable exception. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Black Orchid (TV story)}}) He often forgot to bathe, resulting in him smelling sweaty and unpleasant. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}})
 
== Alternate timelines ==
In an [[alternate timeline]], Adric was stuck on [[Veridis]] with [[K9 Mark II|K9]] and the dying TARDIS after the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I|Romana]] died to shut down [[Tivorg]]'s machine. He became a [[doctor]] and married [[Asun]], having two children named [[Varsh (A Full Life)|Varsh]] and [[Neegat]]. After their children grew up, the couple travelled Veridis and helped its inhabitants.
 
Following Asun's death, Adric grew close to [[Reebac]] and his grandson. He began to have dreams of the Master and his [[entropy wave]] destroying [[N-Space]] and knew that only the Doctor could stop it. Discovering that his [[Time Lord]] companions did not have to die to stop the machine, he constructed a [[Space-time vessel|time machine]] using [[crystal]]s from the TARDIS and prevented their deaths. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Full Life (audio story)}})
 
In another alternate timeline, the Doctor was able to save Adric. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|So Vile a Sin (novel)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* [[Andrew Smith (writer)|Andrew Smith]] developed a backstory for Adric in order to understand the character, although it was not explored in ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]''. In this backstory, Adric had discovered that [[Draith]] caused his parents' deaths in order to keep people from wanting to disembark the starliner.<ref name="Sullivan">http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/5r.html</ref>
* [[Andrew Smith (writer)|Andrew Smith]] has stated that he imagined Adric to be 16 years old in ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]''.
* His character was pitched as "The Artful Dodger in space".
* [[Matthew Waterhouse]] has said that the reason he thought the Doctor found Adric annoying was that he noticed some of himself in the boy. Waterhouse theorised that Adric had many qualities of the comparatively young and arrogant [[First Doctor]], whom the Fifth Doctor, in particular, seemed to want to distance himself from. ([[DOC]]: ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor (documentary)|The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor]]'')
* According to [[FASA]]'s ''[[The Master (reference book)|The Master]]'', which this wiki does not consider a [[valid source]], Adric was saved from his death by the Celestial Intervention Agency, and became the Time Lady Lemora's companion.
* The character of Adric evolved from a young pacifistic female Marshchild who would have sacrificed herself keeping the Doctor and Romana safe.<ref name="Sullivan"/>
* He was killed off because it was decided that three companions was too many and that the character was unpopular. [[Matthew Waterhouse]] was upset at this decision, but was mollified slightly by the fact that the Doctor could still visit Adric at any point in time.
* He was originally going to be killed off in an unmade story called ''[[The Enemy Within]]''.
 
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}
{{Companions of the Fourth Doctor}}
{{Companions of the Fifth Doctor}}
{{NameSort}}
[[es:Adric]]
[[he:אדריק]]
 
[[Category:Companions of the Doctor]]
[[Category:Fourth Doctor companions]]
[[Category:Fifth Doctor companions]]
[[Category:Mathematicians]]
[[Category:Mathematicians]]
[[Category:32nd century individuals]]
[[Category:Criminals]]
[[Category:Individuals who have witnessed regeneration]]
[[Category:Individual time travellers]]
[[Category:TARDIS stowaways]]
[[Category:Travellers between universes]]
[[Category:Individuals who have been kidnapped]]
[[Category:Alzarians who have been inside the Doctor's TARDIS]]
[[Category:Individuals who have been inside the Master's TARDIS]]
[[Category:Prisoners]]
[[Category:Individuals who have been inside the Clocksmith's TARDIS]]
[[Category:Non-heterosexual individuals]]
[[Category:Thieves]]

Latest revision as of 03:50, 22 October 2024

Adric
Appearances
You may be looking for Andric or Adric Traken.

Adric was a companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors.

An Alzarian resident of E-Space, Adric stowed away in the TARDIS after the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 visited his planet. He joined them on their adventures and into N-Space, where the Doctor regenerated into his fifth incarnation and was joined by Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa. He died aboard a freighter after helping to defeat Neomorph Cybermen, trying to stop it from crashing into prehistoric Earth.

Using Block Transfer Computation, a bubble universe was created in which Adric survived and ruled a race of giant scorpions. This Adric tried to get revenge on the Doctor and marry Nyssa, but eventually changed his mind and died indefinitely after returning the TARDIS to them.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Adric was born on Alzarius to Morell and Talisa in the 32nd century. (AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space [+]Loading...["The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)"], A Full Life [+]Loading...["A Full Life (audio story)"]) He had a brother, Varsh, (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) who was about three and a half years older. (PROSE: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (novelisation)"]) According to most accounts, Morell and Talisa died in a forest fire when Adric was one, (PROSE: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (novelisation)"]; AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space [+]Loading...["The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)"], A Full Life [+]Loading...["A Full Life (audio story)"]) after which he and Varsh were raised by friends of their parents. (PROSE: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (novelisation)"])

According to one account, Adric's parents did not die in a forest fire. They quickly realised that Adric had a flair for pure mathematics and, at the age of about eight, he was put into the Terradonian starliner's accelerated learning programme. By the age of twelve, he was more intelligent than his parents and Varsh put together. Adric's parents then died in a farming accident. (PROSE: A Boy's Tale [+]Loading...["A Boy's Tale (short story)"])

When Adric was seven, a Decider gave him a coin which appeared to be gold; in fact, it only had a molecule-thin coating which gave it the appearance of being made of gold. He always carried it around in his pocket. (PROSE: Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate (novelisation)"])

Ranked as an Elite, Adric was awarded a Star of Mathematical Excellence. (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"], PROSE: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (novelisation)"]) His only friends were Jiana, whom he grew up with, (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"]) and Zayn, whose family thought that he was strange. He once grew tired with everything that he interacted with being made of metal and wires and longed to have a dog, eventually going with Máire to her settlement where she let him hold one of her dogs. He visited several times in secret in order to play with them. (PROSE: A Boy's Tale [+]Loading...["A Boy's Tale (short story)"])

Varsh left the starliner and formed the Outlers due to his frustration with the rules of Alzarian society, a frustration which Adric shared; (PROSE: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (novelisation)"]) Adric believed that his being so much more intelligent than Varsh might have been the reason that he left. (PROSE: A Boy's Tale [+]Loading...["A Boy's Tale (short story)"]) He wanted to join the Outlers and attempted to prove himself by stealing riverfruit, but he was unsuccessful. (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) His interest in being a rebel scared Jiana, who ran away from him. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"])

Travels in the TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Joining the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Adric met the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 when he came across the TARDIS after determining that Mistfall was not fiction. He helped to uncover the truth of the Alzarians and found his brother's body after he was overwhelmed by Marshmen. Keara handed him Varsh's belt, which he wore. (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) Hoping to see the universe as the Doctor's companion, he stowed away in the TARDIS. (TV: State of Decay [+]Loading...["State of Decay (TV story)"])

Exploring E-Space[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section's awfully stubby.

Info from Pathfinders, Conundrum, The Planet of Witches, The Quest of the Engineer and Messages from the Dead needs to be added

Exiting the TARDIS on the vampire planet, Adric was taken prisoner by the Three Who Rule and was reunited with the Doctor and Romana. He pretended to share the agenda of the vampires in order to save Romana from being sacrificed, but he failed. Ultimately, the pair were saved by the Doctor who, displeased with Adric having stowed away, told Adric that he was to be returned to Alzarius. (TV: State of Decay [+]Loading...["State of Decay (TV story)"]) However, he soon had no intention of taking him back. (AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space [+]Loading...["The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)"], etc.)

The TARDIS crew spent nine days at the Structure, where Adric worried at how the two Time Lords' concept of time might mean they would spend any length of time in one place. (PROSE: O, Darkness [+]Loading...["O, Darkness (short story)"]) After two months of travelling, the Doctor was looking for a Charged Vacuum Emboitement to take them to N-Space. They found one near Ballustra but were forced to close it. (AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space [+]Loading...["The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)"])

On Veridis, the Doctor and Romana died and Adric grew old and married Asun, having two sons; Varsh and Neegat. Eventually, he built a time machine using crystals from the TARDIS and saved them, changing time. (AUDIO: A Full Life [+]Loading...["A Full Life (audio story)"])

Although he grew close to K9 due to his love of dogs, (PROSE: A Boy's Tale [+]Loading...["A Boy's Tale (short story)"]) he felt that he was disruptive to the Doctor and Romana and temporarily left them on Purgatory 12 where he considered making a copy of Varsh. He rejoined the Doctor and Romana afterwards. (AUDIO: Purgatory 12 [+]Loading...["Purgatory 12 (audio story)"]) He became part of a gestalt entity for a brief time and liked it, feeling a part of something and being somewhere that he belonged. (AUDIO: Chase the Night [+]Loading...["Chase the Night (audio story)"])

At the Gateway, Adric prepared to leave his universe for E-Space and said goodbye to Romana and K9 when they chose to stay with the Tharils. (TV: Warriors' Gate [+]Loading...["Warriors' Gate (TV story)"])

Another universe[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section's awfully stubby.

Info from Messages from the Dead, Planet of the Elves and Watchers needs to be added

He and the Doctor answered the Keeper's call for them to visit Traken, where he met and befriended Nyssa and helped defeat the Decayed Master. (TV: The Keeper of Traken [+]Loading...["The Keeper of Traken (TV story)"])

In the wake of K9 Mark II's departure, the Fourth Doctor and Adric enjoy the company of a replacement. (PROSE: Conundrum [+]Loading...["Conundrum (short story)"])

Adric missed Romana, (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"]) but especially missed K9, to whom he wrote letters which he threw out into space in bottles. (PROSE: A Boy's Tale [+]Loading...["A Boy's Tale (short story)"]) For a time, Adric and the Doctor travelled with another K9 model, visiting Space Station Alpha, (PROSE: Inter-Galactic Cat [+]Loading...["Inter-Galactic Cat (short story)"]) Möbian space, (PROSE: Conundrum [+]Loading...["Conundrum (short story)"]) Elystria, (AUDIO: Planet of Paradise [+]Loading...["Planet of Paradise (short story)"]) Publius (COMIC: Plague World [+]Loading...["Plague World (comic story)"]) and Xiter. (PROSE: Just a Small Problem [+]Loading...["Just a Small Problem (short story)"]) Eventually, the Doctor gave K9 to Sarah Jane Smith. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

Landing in Mauritz's monastery, Adric and the Doctor met multiple possible versions of themselves. (PROSE: Mauritz [+]Loading...["Mauritz (short story)"]) On Bellascon, Adric was wiped from history after a spaceship carrying his ancestors was destroyed, but returned thanks to Narvin using time travel to prevent the explosion. (AUDIO: Erasure [+]Loading...["Erasure (audio story)"])

A new Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

The duo once again encountered the Master whilst attempting to repair the chameleon circuit. They were joined by Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka who helped them stop the Master and who joined the TARDIS crew after the Doctor regenerated into his fifth body. (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])

Adric in the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"])

Immediately after the Doctor's regeneration, the Master kidnapped Adric and held him in the Hadron web, using his mathematical prowess to produce his own version of Block Transfer Computation to create Castrovalva as a trap for the Doctor. However, the Doctor saw through the trap and saved Adric, destroying the city and defeating the Master. (TV: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"])

Aiming for Heathrow[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section's awfully stubby.

Info from Dr. Fifth, Secrets of Telos and God of War needs to be added

The TARDIS next landed on the Psychodrome where Adric faced his fears of letting people down and facing a mathematical problem that he could not solve, all the while getting to know his new companions better. (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"])

In 2592, Adric met the Seventh Doctor, Roz Forrester and the Doctor's wife. (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Loading...["Cold Fusion (novel)"])

Adric believed the girls were a hindrance to his relationship with the Doctor and had a clear preference for the Fourth Doctor. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"], TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"]) However, the two shared solo adventures on Vaga (PROSE: The Key of Vaga [+]Loading...["The Key of Vaga (short story)"]) and Ixos-4. (PROSE: Planet of Fear [+]Loading...["Planet of Fear (short story)"])

Adric helped to defeat giant termites on Isopterus, (COMIC: On the Planet Isopterus [+]Loading...["On the Planet Isopterus (comic story)"]) was taken over by the mother program in 1950s England (PROSE: First Born [+]Loading...["First Born (short story)"]) and served as squire to Sir Keeyoht of la Koura. (AUDIO: The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius [+]Loading...["The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius (audio story)"])

Attempting to get Tegan to Heathrow Airport, the TARDIS landed on a ship where Adric agreed with and joined Monarch before the Doctor managed to change his mind. (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"])

Upon leaving, they landed on Deva Loka where Adric used a Total Survival Suit to defend against the Mara-controlled Aris, (TV: Kinda [+]Loading...["Kinda (TV story)"]) for which he was scolded by the Doctor. In 1666, he helped Nyssa build a sonic booster to destroy a Terileptil, android. (TV: The Visitation [+]Loading...["The Visitation (TV story)"])

Determined to prove himself worthy of his place in the TARDIS, Adric chose to face the Toymaker's challenges, during which the Toymaker tried to turn him against the Doctor by showing him a hallucination of Jiana and his mother and father. The hallucination reminded Adric of some of the things he had faced because of the Doctor, but Adric did not give in. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"])

In 1016, he introduced an Asian tribe to the longbow. The deaths that would result from this concerned the Doctor. (PROSE: The Immortals [+]Loading...["The Immortals (short story)"])

He argued with Tegan whilst Nyssa was called by the Master's communication node. (AUDIO: The Toy [+]Loading...["The Toy (audio story)"])

Adric wanted to learn how to fly the TARDIS and ran a number of simulations, killing everyone aboard in each. To help, the Doctor took the crew to Gallius Ultima where Adric had something of a romance with Autumn Tace. He used his mathematical ability to calculate the trajectory to pilot a satellite to deflect a crashing spaceship. When Rovus tried to possess him, Adric used mathematical sequences, such a prime numbers and the Fibonacci sequence, to concentrate his mind to stop it. After Autumn died, the Doctor told Adric that he could not use time travel to undo established events. (AUDIO: The Star Men [+]Loading...["The Star Men (audio story)"])

Afterwards, when the TARDIS landed at the Contigency Club he was intrigued at what happened in there. Escaping with Marjorie Stonegood, they discovered an underground bathhouse on their way back to the surface. He helped the Doctor escape from the Red Queen but was captured himself. (AUDIO: The Contingency Club [+]Loading...["The Contingency Club (audio story)"])

He decided to start reading all the books on Vampires once he finished all the maths books. Tegan asked him to pilot the TARDIS back to Heathrow, but something went wrong and he disappeared from the console room. He landed on a ship and pretended to be Perrault to get information. He was was captured by Gevaudan but later escaped and told the Doctor that there was something wrong with the trajectory of the meteor. (AUDIO: Zaltys [+]Loading...["Zaltys (audio story)"])

In 1920s England, Adric fought the Master once again and met Harry Houdini. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors [+]Loading...["Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)"])

Tegan confided in him that she had begun to enjoy travelling in the TARDIS. He pretended to be an assassin contracted to stop the Scorpion. (AUDIO: Kingdom of Lies [+]Loading...["Kingdom of Lies (audio story)"])

He searched through a set of catacombs with Nyssa where they were attacked by a mysterious force. After being flung into the future, he was trialled for stealing some bread and sentenced to death. The brotherhood of Sabaoth was interested with him. The Doctor and Nyssa saved him from being hanged. (AUDIO: Ghost Walk [+]Loading...["Ghost Walk (audio story)"])

He helped to solve a murder on Argentia, which he watched one of them happen. (AUDIO: Serpent in the Silver Mask [+]Loading...["Serpent in the Silver Mask (audio story)"])

Final adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section's awfully stubby.

Info from The Last Action Figure, The Toy, The Boy Wonder, The Merfolk Murders and The Great Beyond [+]Loading...["The Great Beyond (audio story)"] needs to be added

Adric dresses as a pirate for the Cranleigh Hall party. (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"])

When the crew visited Cranleigh, Adric briefly met and flirted with Ace, who was looking for one of the segments of the Key to Time. She threatened to give him a permanent limp if he continued. (COMIC: Time & Time Again [+]Loading...["Time & Time Again (comic story)"]) At Cranleigh Hall, he dressed up as a pirate but refused to dance. (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"])

On one occasion, Adric, the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan spent Christmas with the renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme, who was fond of him. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns [+]Loading...["Excelis Dawns (audio story)"])

After grumbling to Nyssa during a chess game, he wandered out onto a planet of statues where he started to become one of them. The Doctor saved him, much to his annoyance, and Nyssa made him promise that he would wait a few months before he asked to return. Adric agreed. (PROSE: Hearts of Stone [+]Loading...["Hearts of Stone (short story)"])

On another occasion, Adric used Block Transfer Computation to make a cake for Christmas dinner. (PROSE: In the TARDIS: Christmas Day [+]Loading...["In the TARDIS: Christmas Day (short story)"])

He was, like Nyssa and Tegan, kidnapped by Adam Mitchell after fighting Sontarans and Rutans, (COMIC: In Their Nature [+]Loading...["In Their Nature (comic story)"]) later being rescued by multiple Doctors. (COMIC: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (POT comic story)"])

The crew celebrated Freedom Day on Lemaria. (PROSE: The Constant Doctor [+]Loading...["The Constant Doctor (short story)"])

On Battlefield, Adric was stabbed in the chest but survived due to his heart being on the other side of his chest. (PROSE: The Darkening Eye [+]Loading...["The Darkening Eye (audio story)"])

He and Nyssa attempted to fly the TARDIS and landed on Fleming's Island where the crew faced the I Predator, with which Adric was able to find a way to communicate. (AUDIO: Iterations of I [+]Loading...["Iterations of I (audio story)"])

Death[[edit] | [edit source]]

Adric, seconds before his death. (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"])

Feeling left out by the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan, Adric told the Doctor that he wanted to be taken to Terradon, a trip that the Doctor refused to make. Adric made the calculations (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"]) and unintentionally created a program whereby the TARDIS would return to E-Space should it pass close to a CVE. (AUDIO: Mistfall [+]Loading...["Mistfall (audio story)"]) However, he admitted to the Doctor that he was just making a point and did not want to go back as there was nothing for him in his universe.

Adric was caught up in a failed plan of the Neomorph Cybermen to bombard Earth with Briggs's freighter in 2526 whilst the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan were stuck on the TARDIS with the Cyber-Leader, whom the Doctor killed using Adric's star-shaped badge. Adric tried to change the freighter's course but the control system was damaged by a Cyberman. Clutching onto Varsh's sash, Adric resigned himself to his fate and died as the freighter crashed into prehistoric Earth, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"])

Fate[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Celestial Intervention Agency believed that Adric had survived his apparent death, being rescued at the last minute by the Tremas Master who later tried to use the captive Adric as leverage in a revenge scheme against the Doctor. (PROSE: The Cyber Files [+]Loading...["The Cyber Files (novel)"])

According to some accounts, however, Adric had indeed died. He then found himself in the Nethersphere, where Seb tried to convince him to become a Cyberman. (PROSE: Seb [+]Loading...["Seb (short story)"]) Missy, a later incarnation of the Master and the ruler of the Nethersphere, recorded Adric's presence in her Masterplan Journal with particular delight. (PROSE: The Secret Diary of the Master [+]Loading...["The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)"]) This environment ultimately perished with everything in it after the 3W Institute was exposed and after Missy's Cyberman army was destroyed by Danny Pink. (TV: Death in Heaven [+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"])

According to yet another account, in the 19th century, the Fifth Doctor attempted to use Block Transfer Computation to redirect his TARDIS to him. He subconsciously appeared to Adric on the freighter as a ghost just before he died and fed him numbers for entry into the computer, creating a bubble universe in which Adric survived the freighter's descent to Earth.

Adric tamed the giant scorpions on prehistoric Earth and built and ruled a City of Excellence using Block Transfer. He extended his own life and lived for five hundred years, hoping to get revenge on the Doctor for not saving him as well as to take Nyssa as his wife. When the Doctor and Nyssa finally arrived, the scorpions turned against Adric to prevent him from leaving, and thus destroying, the bubble universe. Adric learnt his lesson and, after helping Thomas Brewster pilot the TARDIS back to the Doctor and Nyssa, finally died. (AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot [+]Loading...["The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)"])

Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]

At some point, Adric was taken to the Black Archive by UNIT to have his record as a companion of the Doctor taken. His memories of the visit were subsequently erased and he was sent on his way. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Whilst he was regenerating, the Fifth Doctor psychically called out to his companions for help. Adric told him that he "mustn't die". (AUDIO: Winter [+]Loading...["Winter (audio story)"]; TV: The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"])

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Adric's death would haunt Tegan for the rest of her life, (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TotT TV story)"]) and led the Doctor to swear that he would not allow any of his other companions to die during his fifth incarnation. (PROSE: Goth Opera [+]Loading...["Goth Opera (novel)"]) Indeed, the Fifth Doctor did not forgive himself and eventually came to realise that he had mistreated Adric because the boy reminded him of his own younger self (AUDIO: Conversion [+]Loading...["Conversion (BFM audio story)"]) and, just before he regenerated, the last word he said was "Adric?" (TV: The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"])

An illusion of Adric appeared to Nyssa and Tegan to dissuade them from entering Kalid's inner sanctum, warning them to turn back or they would destroy him. The girls thought at first this was the real Adric, who from their perspective had only recently died, until they noticed that the illusion was wearing Adric's by-now-destroyed star-shaped badge. (TV: Time-Flight [+]Loading...["Time-Flight (TV story)"]) Nyssa named her only son Adric in his honour. (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar [+]Loading...["Heroes of Sontar (audio story)"])

When the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Marcipor visited the Welkin Sanatorium and Centre for Wellness they saw an apparition of him. This caused them to get agitated. He protected the Doctor and Tegan when Luchino attacked the Doctor. He was created from Aether Beauregarde's machine but told the Doctor that this was a half life. He switched off the machine after letting the Doctor say his last goodbyes. (AUDIO: The Lost Resort [+]Loading...["The Lost Resort (audio story)"])

On Adeki, the Seventh Doctor found what appeared to be Adric, along with other former companions, alive again and desperate to leave in the TARDIS. He learned that these were actually Gwanzulums, a race of shapeshifters. (COMIC: Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (comic story)"])

While in a Hell-like world composed of the Seventh Doctor's mind, Ace met an eerie, ghost-like recreation of Adric along with other companions of his who had died because of him. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)"])

Whilst in the Divergent Universe, the Eighth Doctor was shown an illusory version of Adric by the Kro'ka. (AUDIO: The Last [+]Loading...["The Last (audio story)"])

The Tenth Doctor watched Adric die again — this time as a manifestation of the TARDIS Matrix, and grieved his loss. (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"]) The Lost later mentioned Adric to him as one of the many losses the Doctor had endured during his life. (AUDIO: The Lost [+]Loading...["The Lost (audio story)"]) The Tenth Doctor was infuriated when the Advocate used Adric's death against him in order to estrange him from his companions. (COMIC: Tesseract [+]Loading...["Tesseract (comic story)"])

Whilst speaking to the Doctor's AI hologram in the midst of an invasion by Cyber-Warriors, Tegan challenged it on what she thought of when she saw Cybermen. The hologram, having taken the form of the Fifth Doctor, correctly answered that it was Adric. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) When she and the Doctor reunited in the remembered TARDIS, they talked of Adric and his death in the Cyber-invasion. (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TotT TV story)"])

While discussing everything terrible that the Doctor had experienced over their lifetimes, both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctor sadly mentioned the loss of Adric. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Adric was a mathematical genius and was proud of his Elite status, which he believed made him better than other people. (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) His greatest fears were a mathematical problem that he could not solve and not fitting in, (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"]) with the latter manifesting when he wanted to be part of the Outlers (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) and when he felt left out by the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan. (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"])

Aukon believed that Adric had the strength of spirit to survive becoming a vampire. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"]) He was stubborn and set in his beliefs, including sexist ones such as his insistence that women were "mindless, impatient and bossy". (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"]) Two days after she met him, Tegan told Nyssa that Adric "rubbed [her] up the wrong way" and accused him of being condescending and "a male chauvinist." (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"]) However, she warmed to him and believed that he was not a boy but a developing young man who would "strike out" on his own and forge his own future. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"]) The Fourth Doctor believed that Adric would "love it" on Gallifrey. (TV: Warriors' Gate [+]Loading...["Warriors' Gate (TV story)"])

Adric felt that the only person who understood him was Varsh, with whom he shared a dislike for the restrictions of Alzarian society. (PROSE: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (novelisation)"]) When Varsh died, Adric kept his marshreed belt, a symbol of Outler membership, (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) and blamed himself for his death. (AUDIO: Purgatory 12 [+]Loading...["Purgatory 12 (audio story)"]) Although he generally did not think about his family after their deaths, he did begin to think of them more, especially his mother, after visiting Traken. He formed a strong attachment to K9 and missed him greatly when he stayed in E-Space. (PROSE: A Boy's Tale [+]Loading...["A Boy's Tale (short story)"])

Adric watched recordings of Monty Python in the TARDIS's television lounge and often quoted from the series. (PROSE: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life [+]Loading...["Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (short story)"]) He did not enjoy dancing (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"]) and had a big appetite. (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"], Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"]) He never enjoyed music, far preferring the symphony of numbers. (AUDIO: The Contingency Club [+]Loading...["The Contingency Club (audio story)"])

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

Adric was a snub-nosed, round-faced boy (PROSE: Kinda [+]Loading...["Kinda (novelisation)"]) with dark hair (TV: Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"], etc.) and wicked, black button eyes. (PROSE: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (novelisation)"]) His usual expression was one of cheerful impudence. (PROSE: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (novelisation)"])

He wore a dull-coloured shirt beneath a yellow tunic with his Star of Mathematical Excellence affixed to an orange breast-pocket and a pair of muddy-coloured trousers tucked into boots. (PROSE: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (novelisation)"], Full Circle [+]Loading...["Full Circle (novelisation)"]) Because of his outfit, Tegan nicknamed him Pyjama Boy. (AUDIO: The Contingency Club [+]Loading...["The Contingency Club (audio story)"]) He wore the same outfit for most of his travels in the TARDIS, with a costume for a party at Cranleigh Hall being a notable exception. (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"]) He often forgot to bathe, resulting in him smelling sweaty and unpleasant. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"])

Alternate timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]

In an alternate timeline, Adric was stuck on Veridis with K9 and the dying TARDIS after the Fourth Doctor and Romana died to shut down Tivorg's machine. He became a doctor and married Asun, having two children named Varsh and Neegat. After their children grew up, the couple travelled Veridis and helped its inhabitants.

Following Asun's death, Adric grew close to Reebac and his grandson. He began to have dreams of the Master and his entropy wave destroying N-Space and knew that only the Doctor could stop it. Discovering that his Time Lord companions did not have to die to stop the machine, he constructed a time machine using crystals from the TARDIS and prevented their deaths. (AUDIO: A Full Life [+]Loading...["A Full Life (audio story)"])

In another alternate timeline, the Doctor was able to save Adric. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin [+]Loading...["So Vile a Sin (novel)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Andrew Smith developed a backstory for Adric in order to understand the character, although it was not explored in Full Circle. In this backstory, Adric had discovered that Draith caused his parents' deaths in order to keep people from wanting to disembark the starliner.[1]
  • Andrew Smith has stated that he imagined Adric to be 16 years old in Full Circle.
  • His character was pitched as "The Artful Dodger in space".
  • Matthew Waterhouse has said that the reason he thought the Doctor found Adric annoying was that he noticed some of himself in the boy. Waterhouse theorised that Adric had many qualities of the comparatively young and arrogant First Doctor, whom the Fifth Doctor, in particular, seemed to want to distance himself from. (DOC: The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor)
  • According to FASA's The Master, which this wiki does not consider a valid source, Adric was saved from his death by the Celestial Intervention Agency, and became the Time Lady Lemora's companion.
  • The character of Adric evolved from a young pacifistic female Marshchild who would have sacrificed herself keeping the Doctor and Romana safe.[1]
  • He was killed off because it was decided that three companions was too many and that the character was unpopular. Matthew Waterhouse was upset at this decision, but was mollified slightly by the fact that the Doctor could still visit Adric at any point in time.
  • He was originally going to be killed off in an unmade story called The Enemy Within.

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/5r.html
v • e
Companions of the Fourth Doctor
Original to television
Multi-adventure
Single-adventure
Original to prose
Multi-adventure
Single-adventure
Original to comics
Multi-adventure
Single-adventure
Original to audio
Multi-adventure
Single-adventure
If a medium is not mentioned, then this incarnation did not have companions who were original to that medium; it does not mean that this Doctor failed to appear in that medium.
v • e
Companions of the Fifth Doctor
Original to television
Adric  • Tegan Jovanka  • Nyssa  • Turlough  • Kamelion  • Peri Brown
Original to prose
Original to comics
Original to audio
If a medium is not mentioned, then this incarnation did not have companions who were original to that medium; it does not mean that this Doctor failed to appear in that medium.
Retrieved from "https://tardis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Adric&oldid=3879674"