Adric

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 the 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 after returning the TARDIS to them.

Early life
Adric was born to Morell and Talisa on Alzarius in the 32nd century. (AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space, A Full Life) When he was a child, his parents quickly realised that he 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 that his parents and elder brother, Varsh put together. He believed that this might have been why Varsh dropped out and became an Outler. (PROSE: A Boy's Tale)

Ranked as an Elite, Adric was awarded a Star for Mathematical Excellence. (TV: Full Circle) His only friend was Zayn, whose family thought that he was strange. He once grew tired of everything that he interacted with was 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)

Not long after he turned twelve, Adric's parents died in a farming accident (PROSE: A Boy's Tale) or a forest fire, after which he and Varsh had to fend for themselves. (AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space, A Full Life) He wanted to join the Outlers and attempted to prove himself by stealing riverfruit, but he was unsuccessful. (TV: Full Circle)

Meeting the Fourth Doctor
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) Hoping to see the universe as the Doctor's companion, he stowed away in the TARDIS. (TV: State of Decay)

Travelling with the Fourth Doctor
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) However, he soon had no intention of taking him back. (AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space, 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) After two months of travelling, the Doctor was looking for a Charged Vacuum Emboitment to take them to N-Space. They found one near Ballustra but were forced to close it. (AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space) 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)

Although he grew close to K9 due to his love of dogs, (PROSE: A Boy's Tale) 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) 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)

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) He and the Doctor answered the Keeper's call for them to visit Traken, where he met and befriended Nyssa and helped defeat. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)

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

Landing in Mauritz's monastery, Adric and the Doctor met multiple possible versions of themselves. (PROSE: Mauritz) 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) 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)

Travelling with the Fifth Doctor
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)

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) In 2592, Adric met the Seventh Doctor, Roz Forrester and the Doctor's wife (PROSE: Cold Fusion) and later helped to defeat giant termites on Isopterus, (COMIC: On the Planet Isopterus) was taken over by the mother program in 1950s England (PROSE: First Born) and served as squire to Sir Keeyoht of la Koura. (AUDIO: The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius)

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) Upon leaving, they landed on Deva Loka where Adric used a Total Survival Suit to defend against the Mara-controlled Aris, (TV: Kinda) 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)

Determined to prove himself worthy of his place in the TARDIS, Adric chose to face the Celestial 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) In 1016, he introduced an Asian tribe to the longbow. The deaths that would result from this concerned the Doctor. (PROSE: The Immortals) He argued with Tegan whilst Nyssa was called by the Master's communication node. (AUDIO: The Toy)

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. After Autumn died, the Doctor told Adric that he could not use time travel to undo established events. (AUDIO: The Star Men) Afterwards, he helped to defeat the Red Queen (AUDIO: The Contingency Club) and, after attempting to land the TARDIS at Heathrow, Clarimonde on Zaltys. (AUDIO: Zaltys)

In 1920s England, Adric fought the Master once again and met Harry Houdini. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors) Tegan confided in him that she had begun to enjoy travelling in the TARDIS (AUDIO: Kingdom of Lies) and he joked that he did not wish to be banished to Australia knowing what she was like. (AUDIO: Ghost Walk) He helped to solve a murder on Argentia (AUDIO: Serpent in the Silver Mask) and was, like Nyssa and Tegan, kidnapped by Adam Mitchell after fighting Sontarans and Rutans, (COMIC: In Their Nature) later being rescued by multiple Doctors. (COMIC: Endgame)

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, TV: Earthshock) However, the two share solo adventures on Vaga (PROSE: The Key of Vaga) and Ixos-4. (PROSE: Planet of Fear) 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) At Cranleigh Hall, he dressed up as a pirate but refused to dance. (TV: Black Orchid)

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) On another occasion, Adric used Block Transfer Computation to make a cake for Christmas dinner. (PROSE: In the TARDIS: Christmas Day) The crew also celebrated Freedom Day on Lemuria. (PROSE: The Constant Doctor)

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 Day) 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) 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)

Death
He finally told the Doctor that he wanted to return to E-Space. After showing the Doctor his computations to engineer the return, Adric admitted he really wished to remain on the TARDIS. He was caught up in a failed plan of the Cybermen to bombard the Earth with Briggs' freighter in 2526, while the Doctor and his companions were stuck on the TARDIS with the Cyber-Leader who, upon learning that his attempt to destroy the human race had, in fact, made its evolution possible in the first place, decided to kill the time travellers to prevent them from enjoying their victory. The Doctor took Adric's star badge and rubbed its gold edge into the chest unit of the Cyber-Leader, fragmenting the badge in the process. In a panic, the dying Cyber-Leader fired its gun wildly, blasting the TARDIS console with one of its wayward shots. The Doctor wrested the gun from the Cyberman and killed it, but the damage to the TARDIS console made it impossible to operate and go after Adric.

On his own, Adric, who had been made to stay on the freighter by the Cyber-Leader, attempted to steer the spaceship away from the Earth, but a wounded Cyberman quietly limped into the control room and opened fire on him before it succumbed to its injuries. While the Cyberman missed Adric, it destroyed the freighter control system, making it impossible for Adric to change the freighter's course. Adric resigned himself to his fate and clutched his fallen brother's sash never knowing whether he was right. With Adric on board, the freighter, having travelled backwards in time due to the Cybermen's interference, crashed into prehistoric Earth, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Nyssa and Tegan wept at his loss, while the Doctor was at a loss for words over his failure to save a close friend. (TV: Earthshock)

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: The Day of the Doctor)

The bubble universe
As the freighter was plummeting towards Earth, Adric attempted to redirect the ship through the use of Block Transfer Computation. Meanwhile, in the 19th century, the Fifth Doctor was trying to recover his TARDIS through Block Transfer Computation after it was stolen by Thomas Brewster. At its completion, the Doctor subconsciously appeared as a "ghost" to Adric on the freighter, feeding him numbers for entry into the Cyberman computer, creating a bubble universe in which Adric successfully lands the ship on prehistoric Earth.

There, Adric created a City of Excellence and ruled over a sentient race of scorpions which he had made intelligent. All of this was done with Block Transfer Computations. The computations also extended Adric's life far beyond its natural length. Five hundred years later, Adric met the Doctor and Nyssa. He accompanied them back to the Victorian era. Adric finally died after helping Thomas Brewster pilot the TARDIS back to the Doctor and Nyssa in 1868. (AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot)

Legacy
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, until they noticed the illusion was wearing Adric's by-now-destroyed star-shaped badge. (TV: Time-Flight)

Adric's death led the Doctor to swear that he would not allow any of his other companions to die during his fifth incarnation. (PROSE: Goth Opera) The Fifth Doctor did not forgive himself. He came to realise that he had mistreated Adric because the boy reminded him of his own younger self. (AUDIO: Conversion)

Just before he regenerated, the last word the Fifth Doctor said was "Adric?" (TV: The Caves of Androzani) Adric's death haunted the Doctor for many years. His tenth incarnation watched Adric die again — this time as a manifestation of the TARDIS Matrix. (COMIC: The Forgotten)

Nyssa named her only son Adric in his honour. He had one older sister named Neeka. (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar)

Adric was unwittingly responsible for Nyssa becoming trapped in E-Space, as a program he had created that would direct the TARDIS to home in on a nearby CVE had been accidentally programmed into the TARDIS before his death, with this program being activated when the Doctor was trying to take Nyssa for a reunion with her son, (AUDIO: Mistfall) with Nyssa forced to stay behind to operate the equipment needed to send the TARDIS back to N-Space. (AUDIO: The Entropy Plague)

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)

While in the Divergent Universe, the Eighth Doctor was shown an illusory version of Adric by the Kro'ka. (AUDIO: The Last)

It infuriated the Tenth Doctor when the Advocate used Adric's death against him in order to estrange him from his companions. (COMIC: Tesseract)

Personality
Adric was a mathematical genius. He was very proud of his Elite status. He wished to be accepted by his brother Varsh's gang, the Outlers, and tried to steal riverfruit to prove himself, but failed. When his brother died, he kept his belt, a symbol of Outler membership. (TV: Full Circle) Otherwise, the belonging to that rebel party, as well as later attempts to provoke revolutionary riots (TV: State of Decay) denoted him as a young Turk.

He pretended to go along with the plans of the vampires in a ploy to rescue Romana, with whom he got on well. (TV: State of Decay) Aukon sensed Adric had the strength of spirit to survive becoming a vampire. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)

Adric was fiercely loyal to the Doctor and had a generally amicable relationship with the Time Lord, who acted as his mentor. Adric wanted desperately to be brave and accepted; he defied the Master (TV: The Keeper of Traken) and died trying to solve a math/computer problem, in order to prevent a freighter from crashing into the Earth. As he crashed to his death, unable to access the computer system to input his last mathematical calculation, he held his brother's belt and said almost wistfully, "Now I'll never know if I was right." (TV: Earthshock)

Two days after she met Adric, Tegan told Nyssa that he "rubbed [her] up the wrong way" and accused him of being condescending and "a male chauvinist." (AUDIO: Psychodrome)

Adric once described Tegan as being "unreasonably highly strung". (AUDIO: The Toy)

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

He wore a dull-coloured shirt beneath a yellow tunic with his Star for Mathematical Excellence affixed to an orange breast-pocket and a pair of muddy-coloured trousers tucked into boots. (PROSE: Earthshock) 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) He often forgot to bathe, resulting in him smelling sweaty and unpleasant. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)

Other information
Adric watched recordings of Monty Python in the TARDIS' television lounge and often quoted from the series. (PROSE: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life)

Tegan once referred to Adric as "Pyjama Boy". (AUDIO: The Contingency Club)

Alternative timelines
In an alternate timeline, Adric arrived with the Fourth Doctor and Romana on a planet called Veridis where a man named Tivorg built a machine that brought dead back to life and had successfully resurrected his granddaughter, Asun. The resulting overpopulation and the flood of people that travelled to Tivorg's hometown in order to have their loved ones brought back resulted in chaos, which the Doctor knew would only spread to the rest of E-Space, and possibly N-Space, should anyone beyond Veridis find out about it. The Doctor and Romana discovered that the machine had somehow become alive from all the people it had resurrected, preventing it from being shut down. The two Time Lords gave their own lives in order to shut down the machine, leaving Adric alone on Veridis with K9, with the TARDIS slowly dying following the Doctor's own death.

After his friends' deaths, Adric started to make a life for himself on the strange planet, marrying Asun and having two children named Varsh and Neegat. He eventually became a doctor and, after his children grew up, started to travel Veridis with Asun, helping people not only as a doctor but also in a manner similar to how the Doctor helped people. When Asun died, Adric started a new relationship with a man named Reebac and became close with his grandson. Sometime later he began to have dreams of the Master and his entropy wave destroying all of N-Space, and he knew that this would happen because the Doctor was not around to stop it. After looking into the Doctor's and Romana's deaths and realising that they could have stopped the machine without giving their lives, Adric used crystals salvaged from the TARDIS to construct a time machine in order to prevent their deaths. He was successful in doing so. It is unknown whether or not this alternate timeline ceased to exist or if he simply disappeared from it, though the fact that his recorded story was heard to be fast-forwarded and rewound by an unknown listener suggests the latter. (AUDIO: A Full Life)

In another alternate timeline, the Doctor was able to save Adric. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

Behind the scenes

 * 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 Sourcebook, 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.