It was certainly a great line to go out on.

It also sounds very much like something the Doctor might say as his last words. I get why fans back then didn't like Adric so much but apparently some of the writers didn't either since they outright killed him off.

@@ashleybrooke2087 I actually liked him growing up

@@ashleybrooke2087 that is weird - i was just a kid and totally fell in love with Adric and he for me was when Dr Who became - less safe and predictable. It was a glorious season

He was right.

Laffalot with the fashion police hot in pursuit of him for crimes against fashion?

AdamiRose I can't work put why his outfit simultaneously looks terrible and awesome

It was the 80’s all of it was terrible and awesome.

The Fashion Police are too busy trying to stop the 6th Doctor.

Kimberley Downing Been watching the pink windmill kids recently, and Adric wouldn't look out of place there

It was the only way to save nyssa and tegan

*Whovian:* Um...Uh.....Ok he uses lasers and other space guns, but he sure as hell doesn't use Earth guns. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ouCdobOkm5qvZ2g.html *Whovian:* FUCK!!!

This was a big bone of contention, as the TARDIS is meant to be in a state of grace inside which renders weapons useless.. yet it was ignored for earthshock

@@roundtheloopandback which has since been dubbed "a clever lie" by the Doctor

@@Shanethefilmmaker not sure I've ever heard music like that alongside the Doctor... It fits! Tom breaking that guy's neck has to be the worst, best and funniest example of his violence though and there's no weapon there! Anyway yeah the Doctor bears arms a lot even a few times in New-Who, but it does make sense that he might have developed an aversion to guns since the Time War and didn't have the same taboos and issues in his first 8 faces. He does seem to be generally more trigger happy and ready to kill (directly or indirectly) when it's clear his opponents can't be reasoned with until New-Who. And the times when he's been shown to pick up a gun since then have - off the top of my head - always been when the time war or reminders of it have been involved (the end of time, a town called mercy) or when in anguish over a companion (Rose in bad wolf, but like he said "like he was ever gonna shoot" or over bloody Clara in Hell Bent, when he actually did go ahead and shoot the General which was actually unbelievably bad now I think about it, and done for all the wrong reasons - over Clara of all companions and of course to enable the bait regeneration - not because it's what the Doctor - certainly not the 12th Doctor - would really do)...

I never knew that! Sounds quite funny... flambé Fielding! 😂😂😂😂😂

Miopod ow

Yikes. I hope she wasn't seriously hurt, though I can't blame her for being startled.

2:05 doctor shoots the cyberman with his own gun.

@@trollzynisaacjohan1793 that's a good spot. The doctor never uses guns...

Well, the "Behind the Sofa" in the new Blu Ray ruined it for me as Janet and Sarah admitted they, as Tegan and Nyssa, were straight out laughing when they hugged after Adric's death. Given that information, is pretty noticeable when you watch it.

Yes that was unforgettable. I was only a kid when I saw that, but the BBC didn't run the proper end credits/music. But it was just silent with the broken badge.

@@PaulMichaels2010 I liked that they did that. A moment of silence for Adric. I call that respect. 😢

Yeah I remember that

But did he ever go out with a bang in Caves of Androzani 😎🍿

I always remember that in order to get their tragedy the writers had to come up with this incredibly convoluted explanation in the next episode as to why the doctor couldnt just simply nip back in the tardis to a few minutes earlier, pull adric off the bridge of the freighter, and bog off out of it. They had the dues et machina right there and the doctor just chose not to use it. None of his explanations really satisfied, especially as he was in such a rush to rescue him before. But the plot problem is - with a time machine you would literally have all the time in the world to fix the tardis and do the rescue. Doctor Who just takes everyone on holiday in the next story to cheer them up. He just came across as a callous prat.

@@scudder91 That's really the problem with every single Who adventure if one digs that deeply, there's no issue that can't be solved Bill and Ted style by just going back and setting up the things you need later, but that of course removes any danger or drama. Thus the show has to resort to hand waving and phrases like "fixed points in time" and all that. New Who is just as guilty, see "Angels of Manhattan" for just one example

Which is ironic because the stories started getting better after this point...

@@acerumble4991 Yeah Claras death bugged me a bit for this reason, it's like Doc, you've dealt with this exact scenario, just go fine a Teselector and let it take the hit (its probably still in the Tardis I mean he's shit at giving stuff back), it's really not that hard, I mean a few billion years being atomized and re-intergrated may of fried your mind a bit, but seriously

"A lot...ish maybe"

Yes

But how many more have lived because of his name!

Like 2 or 3

And not for very long.

This is hilarious😂😂😂

the doctor: an entire planet

Rose killed about half a million Daleks, then helped the Doctor send millions more to the void where they probably didn't survive. Ian, Barbara, Donna, Oswin and Clara all caused to have a lot of Daleks killed as well off the top of my head! Ace also killed at least one (the baseball bat), Jack killed six, blasting three the same way (including the Crucible's Supreme Dalek) and disintegrating another three using the Anne-Droid, and Martha killed a passel of their pig-slaves (with Spiderman and Tallulah helping, but she came up with the plan). Jack also either managed to kill a couple of Toclafane or get a couple of soldiers killed fighting them - or both. Of course Jack probably did a lot of killing but probably not counting as a companion, he's a bit of a special case. Unless he's not and just scores a very high body count amongst companions! Suppose if River counts... And Mickey's Cybermen... Rory probably ended up killing a lot of people as a Roman too and speaking of Cybermen was the Doctor's willing partner when he blew up all those cybermen in A Good Man Goes to War. Jamie has definitely killed a Cyberman or two as well, he shot one with the x-ray gun in Tomb and he wasn't exactly against Toberman killing any of the others. I'm sure Ben had a go too. Jamie basically accidentally killed a guy with that test gun in part 1 and 2 of Tomb as well. Jack killed a Cyberman too when he and the others shot down CyberLisa after she took the pizza girl's body (horrible; again though not really a companion anymore then, kind of a special case), and they probably had to deal with a few cybermen themselves wherever they were when they appeared! Oh yeah Tegan and Nyssa both take down a Cyberman each in this story! With cyber-guns! Just off the top of my head but I just thought they were interesting/odd examples to choose! But yeah Adric probably comes out on top anyway - the genocidal maniac! ...But he did save the people of Earth in the time the ship was from and enable their existence to be fair though... Was kind of the cybermen who killed the dinosaurs... Adric just inadvertently became part of history and inadvertently avoided causing a paradox-ish where had he let the ship crash in the future - the conference the cybermen were concerned with wouldn't be happening, nor would their human enemies be there, so the freighter would never have been made so couldn't crash and whatever it did crash into (maybe more evolved dinosaurs) would experience the same catastrophe as the past dinosaurs would have done perhaps even leading to a much delayed human race that may or may not end up recreating the same events (paradox-ish)!

@@them1ghtyalex don't forget Leela killed like two dozen people during her time on the show

@@Myne1001 I was trying to focus on Cybermen (and Daleks) since it was Earthshock, outside of that there will be many more of course! Although I don't actually remember the savage killing many people on screen I thought the Doctor didn't approve and held her back often but I can't say I remember for sure, have seen all the Leela stories but not for a while; I think her run is one of the best of the show

FOR REAL DUDE

it's not his death that makes me cry it's the credits.

It had such an impact on the Doctor, that the very next episode, when Teagan says let's have time to grieve, he's like "Who wants to go on a holiday?" And, from that point on Adric is but a quickly forgotten memory.

The silent credits & their scrolling over Adric's broken Badge For Mathematical Excellence was definitely VERY effective. And to top it off it was the 1st time an actual companion died (characters like Brett Vaughn can't br counted as companions even though they did travel with the Doctor - because they were only in 1 story arc).

@@DigitalBath742 I've just seen Terminus for the first time the other day and Turlough (who I like to be fair) just gets to move into Adric's room (which looks just like it did in Earthshock and so must have remained untouched by The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan since they lost him) and Tegan helps him and beyond picking up a Kinda necklace (which might have been more about remembering her experience with the Mara again than remembering Adric; Adric's full circle music does get played again though, as does Nyssa's Traken music later and that definitely was about Nyssa) doesn't seem to care, she's much more focused on her suspicions of Turlough to be fair but I think she even says something like "I don't care" at some point in that scene. And I don't think the Doctor or Nyssa acknowledge at any point that Turlough has moved into Adric's room or even that he is replacing him (though it does seem like the Doctor was thinking about Adric when meeting Turlough and inviting him aboard throughout Mawdryn Undead)!

I agree it's all spoilt today I like to find out when it happens. I hope there's a few surprises in the new series of Dr who this autumn

Back then we didn't have the Internet to spoil things like this. When I first saw this as a teem my month dropped! I was like that couldn't be happening! To think that a companion could die. I was also shocked by Peri's death as well(the Vateyard made up one).

I'm not sure if the character Adric was hated aka disliked or Mathew Waterhouse on set. Remember Tom was having a fling with one of his female costars then she left. I know latter on Mathew wrote the tell all book and some did not like it. Part of it pointed out Tom's drinking. I feel later Tom realized what he had as a lifetime role. Then came around and embraced the fans WHO loved him and the Doctor. I think it is time to FORGIVE Mathew on his book. For I respect him for being who he was and @ a young age in an Amazing Adventure.....

@@danielueblacker9118 what?

@ 5 1/2 you had a great mind.....

I just instinctively knew that he was safe one minute and in danger the next and that he really should have gone with them. I think I knew that he was going to die even though it wasn't reported back then in the way that it is today when a character was leaving and I was too young to be aware of the media.

It's agonising to watch Adric leave everyone else to try to save the freighter when you know his fate. You're aware of what's about to happen but you want more than anything for him to bail and save himself.

I just watched this ep last night. the end credits nearly made me cry. in the ep before- he could have given the Doctor the cordinates back to e-space and he would have been safe. but no- he stayed and died. ❤️rip adric, the best in all doctor who history❤️🪦

My experience is similar. I think we got it a bit later in Canada and I was a bit older but I still remember this scene very well, it really stuck with me for some reason. For some reason I misremembered it somewhat as Aldric saying something along the lines of "At least now I know how the dinosaurs died."

***** people don't find this shocking but literally it was

The look of the Cybermen from that period is still my favorite. So much better than what we have today.

jrice73 that's true I liked those Cybermen david's Cybermen were good too but I don't like the new ones with matt and peter

Beatleslokiandbread that's true

Fast-forward to now where the Cybermen's return was ruined by the trailers.

Badum- tsss

Good one my liege

Yes my sister was very upset. I was much older so not bothered. Not many main characters suddenly killed off in a show shown in kids viewing time in the 80’s.

HA, YOU MADE A FUNNY

How dare you Adric dies 😂😂

I blame the retro modern movement of the far future. They thought they were being cute, making those controls look like that.

XD I noticed that

And if he weren’t standing back from the keyboard like it was going to explode at any second (bad acting on Matthew Waterhouse’s part).

@@collegeman1988 Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that!

I guess I can't blame him. He's young and it really was going to explode at any moment with those sparks.

You again.

I don't want to experience this...so sad.

The First Doctor Don't worry you've got about another 3 life's before you experience this :)

Doctor Who Nerd A hand full of heart beats for a Timelord, my boy.

The First Doctor Hey! Adric traveled with me long after I regenerated out of you!

I was 5 at the time and I had the same inkling that he was due to cop it at the point where he leaves the escape pod at the last minute because I realised that there was no going back.

Adric's circumstances aside, the fear of not knowing whether you're right or wrong in the decisions you make can really screw with you. Adric's pain is totally understandable here.

probably because Adric actually died. Ten's whining just comes off as metacommentary from RTD

​@@cement_eatereither that or a completely and unnecessarily childish temper tantrum thrown by The Doctor, himself.

@@DoctorWhoKage por que no los dos?

@@cement_eaterde acuerdo. Son los dos.

Radio Shack at that....!

@@cannong1728 My father had that exact model and I noticed it at the time.

Yeah well, what do you talk to your multimeters about then? 🥴

I think most incarnations used weapons , TARDIS, sonics, nitro9, hand of omega, the moment, a dalek gun, cyber guns and companions. However only one incarnation CARRIED a gun...the war doctor!

@@NeilCWCampbell m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ouCdobOkm5qvZ2g.html Of particular note is 0:49 where he's not even using a sci-fi gun just a regular pistol, and the ending where he fucking snaps a guy's neck.

12th doctor literally shot and killed the general lol

He shoots him 9 times. He wanted the Cyber Leader dead, dead, dead!

Yep, that's called *C H A R A C T E R D E V O L P M E N T*

I wish I had that boom sound when I realised that.😂

But it would've been too confusing for the NuWho fans.

I hate that they dont reference the classic Who series enough in the NuWho.I guess they dont want to piss off millenials who mostly like the new series but dont research the classic

the producers still were angry Mathew wrote that tell all book... buttheads, he only told the truth and in the end Tom B. came back to embrace the role and his fans forever. God Bless them all.

@@MrJacMac1968 Hur dur milleniansl are the bad hur durr with those cellphone things

@@arrowtt3364 that's a pretty dumb excuse not to embrace the shows own history.

+Cryer24597 I like State Of Decay and The Visitation with Adric in too

Don't believe everything you've heard about him - he wasn't as awful a character as he's often made out to be. In a lot of ways he was just a typical, headstrong teenage boy who'd been told he was super-clever all his life, to the point where he believed it more strongly and more often than perhaps he should've. Which, in the end, contributed to his death...

You know, I think a better plot of the Series 8 finale would be the TARDIS getting a telepathic message from Adric, and the Doctor getting really freaked out; he and Clara would then search for the source of this message (getting help from Tegan and Nyssa), and finding 3W and Missy. Then when the Cybermen awake it could be Adric that saves Clara (and anyone else there with her). He could then lead the army of Cybermen into the clouds to destroy them, and as he did that he would make some kind of quip about 'doing it again'. I apologize for my poor writing, and if you think this makes no sense, then just spit it out.

It's not that it doesn't make sense. It's that the execs would never allow it. Part of the reason DW's lasted so long is because it doesn't become too embroiled with continuity in the long run, and the one time it did, (6th Doctor era,) the show got canceled soonafter. So I don't think the writers would want to make a character that hasn't been seen in over 30 years a prominent plot element.

kkhohoho1 So like the Brigadier.

He was vaporized, does that mean he'd feel like nothing?

@@mr.barcode3186 how could adric be a cybermen when his body was destroyed

Yeah I was like that's enough

I see what you did there XD.

You gotta wonder if there is hidden meaning here with what may transpire on Saturday.

jrice73 Well, TARDISArchives already knows ;)

Hey! It's you! I'm subbed to you :)

jrice73 Who nose, who nose.

In his defence, if you listen to the DVD commentaries Waterhouse is pretty aware of the quality of his acting

hey is that sarcasm i detect Jack lol

The impact that wipes out the dinosaurs is pretty much the daddy of "fixed points in time".

@@thecoachmansfolly The impact, yes. Adric's death, no.

Yeah but that TARDIS wasn't accurate.

Damaged console from the randomly firing cyberman.

@@joolsfreeman4359 Right. So you spend a few hours fixing it, then travel back _through time and space_ and grab him. Yes?

They simplified it since those days. You can do it in five now. 'I don't want to go.'

@@Xylarxcode I can do it in three. "Raggedy man, goodbye."

Two: No stars

I can also do it in 2,they make it really easy these days "Rose Tyler..."

Aaaand I knew I shouldn't have looked at the comments

I think the favourite fan explanation is that Cyber Leaders had limited emotional capability in order to make leadership decisions on instinct. Kind of like how the renegade Daleks used mindslaved school girls in their battle computer.

Cryer24597 Meh I prefer the Tenth Planet ones with the suspicious accents

Ian Warner yeah, my favorite part "Have you no heart" Cyberman-in its sing songy voice "That is a part we removed" XD

If you think THESE Cybermen showed emotions, wait till you see Revenge Of The Cybermen.

Robert Lythgoe Again it was only the leader showing emotions which fits with the theory.

+Andrewnuva199 Especially for the 8th Doctor :'( He suffered the most out of them all. And He barely had any time to shine in the TV. It's just sad how brilliant all those stories where and how brave they were.

It is sad. You can have such scary villains like the Weeping Angels and the Silence, but not have the level of violence that they had in the original show. The Ark in Space, The Brain of Morbius, The Seeds of Doom, Remembrance of the Daleks, Earthshock, Attack of the Cybermen, The Curse of Fenric, Terror of the Autons, Spearhead from Space, Inferno. They all had a great deal of violence in them.

That's 'cause of the Time War. The Doctor learned the hard way that violence isn't the answer.

and we loved it,too!

+Jero Briggs resurrection of the daleks as well

If you think this is violent, you should see Colin Baker's first season. Pretty much every story was filled with green alien blood (with a bit of human blood thrown in just for the heck of it)!

Pretty much, yeah. But hey, at least Adric got a cool death. Wesley just kind of kept going to spite all of us.

Hypothetical exchange between the Fifth Doctor and a fan at a convention. Fan: But you-- you killed Adric! Fifth Doctor actor/Peter Davison: (nonchalantly) And so???? Fan: (Thumbs up) Good going, man! Fifth Doctor: That scene still pays off dividends at fan-cons over 30 years later! Patrick Stewart, at the same con: Dammit! I always wanted to arrange for Wesley to go, too! Maybe a good transporter accident or the computer 'accidentally' opening the shuttle bay and turning off the forcefield when he was the only one there!

Except that Adric actually did die.die.die Are you old enough to remember usenet?

Adric came first. so technically it should be Westley, the Adric of Star Trek

I think that's more Clara Oswald today

I actually love the new Cyberman design. It looks brutal, efficient and cool. And having shooty things attached right to the armor just makes sense and adds to the efficiency. But I agree, it is a flaw that they now just look like robots and that you won't recognise that there is a human being under all that metal.

Sorry I was meant to say fourth & Fifth lol.

Speaking of the 4th Doctor, I wonder how he felt about Adric's death

from what I've heard it was very traumatic for him and the doctor wasn't the same after Adric's death

+Lucas Chamberlain because time is a great big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. Also the metro crashed into Mexico not Korea.

***** There was only about 8 Cybermen costumes, the only scene where you see more is that episode 3 cliffhanger where they use a mirror effect to make it look like there are 3 groups when it's just one group

Lord Slarr When they did that they not of put the Cyberleader costume in front because then it looks like there are 4 of them when there is just 1.

8 Cybermen is a lot. In Revenge of the Cybermen, they only had 3. Same with the Daleks in Day of the Daleks.

Jero Briggs They actually had 4 3 silver ones and the black headed Cyberleader

It’s Garrrrrruuaaaahhh

In the following story Tegan and Nyssa ask the Doctor to go back in time and save Adric (as Nyssa points out, the TARDIS is surely capable of it). He replies that even he can;t break some rules (this one being the First Law of Time, enforced by the Time Lords - they cannot interfere in their own time-line), that adrics death must be accepted, and never ask him to to do anything like that again.

Metal_Dog At least Clara saved the 5th doctor more than adric 🤫

+Hell of A bird yeah by being Mary Sue they have that power.

Shayla Nash she is perfect ,too good

I tried liking Clara, I really tried. But unlike Amy and Bill, Clara just made the show staid and boring to watch. I found Series 9's episodes were best whenever it was "Clara-lite"

G_Man You can like whoever you want like that’s good but there’s no denying Clara has done the most for the doctor , and also the doctor cares the most for Clara than any companion

That moment was fantastic

Hideyoshi Lacan. Personally my favourite episode is where the doctor dismantles capitalism in the 21st century through video streaming services on the internet.

Both OldWho and NewWho have had awful stories and episodes. Brain of Morbius comes to mind in OldWho, as does Kill The Moon in NewWho. We still get 5+ decades of episodes to choose from to watch and watch again [minus the desolate years], which is more than any other franchise, any other character, any other hero offers us, anywhere. We shoud be overjoyed at that, rather than picking out one of the worst stories in NewWho to compare to this video's storyline.

Mary Ann Bittle I though Brain of Morbius was a good adaptation of Frankenstein tbh

IMO, it would have been fine, had it stuck to canon. Instead, it tries to tell us there were other iterations of the Doctor before Hartnell's, and that just doesn't make any sense at all the way the entire Whoniverse was constructed throughout the rest of the years, before or after that. It destroyed all of that. You have to ignore most of that whole episode if you want to believe in the entire rest of the stories. That's the one thing that runs through the entire story of the Doctor, that it's nearly always consistent with canon. When a writer ignores that canon, like with Brain of Morbius, I have a hard time forgiving them.

Mary Ann Bittle Wait, I always thought they were Morbius' past regenerations. Hmm, maybe I need to watch it again.

Only some of them were supposed to be Morbius', others were supposed to be the Doctor's.

The lesbian couple barely able to conceal their smirks as the gay boy got killed off LOL

+Anna Wells same with me here, I' ve just seen a few episodes of "classic" doctor who, but adric is my favourite companion, I don't understand why almost everyone seems to hate him, he was so so smart

+Little Lou : He was the Wesley Crusher of "Doctor Who".

+Stephanie Crane I know nothing about star trek but i suppose your're right

Anna Wells agree with you. Loved the actor and the character. What if Captain Jack could meet Adric now, what a couple.... Torchwood new much needed but with the old writers.

🙏🕯️

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what

Yes, he also says: "you know, Adric had a choice- this is the way he wanted it." 🤣 He wanted to die??!!

@@stephenmcconnell1000 That doesn't sound like something The Doctor would say

@johannahyde-parker8422 well he said it

Clara died tonns of times.

I meant the first time

Moonlight Dragon when she fell?

I loved Clara, but her death was stupid.

TRANCE DANCE GEMINI no it wasn't it was perfect...then Hellbent happened....clara isn't Jesus. she shouldn't be the most important person in the universe. the impossible girl made all companion deaths worthless. mean nothing her death shoewed that she was getting cocky. she was trying too much to be like the doctor and she died because of that. poetry in motion

Or Adrick

Haha I never noticed that before.

That is correct.

I'm just glad that Adric did the Big splash! I liked his brother Vash (I think) way better! He should have went with The Doctor, and left smarmy Adric on the Starliner!

Yeah

Nah he died a hero but did feel the sadness of a death of a companion

Finding out the actor Mathew Waterhouse is gay before streaming the series he stared in I was in love with the idea. Remember I had read about his writing the book about staring on the show and had comments on Tom's drinking. That had turned fans against him WHO loved Tom.. Truth at that time he was having an affair Tom that is with his female costar then she left the show. So he most likely was bored and drank a bit. But I think afterwards years down the road he realized what a lifetime part he had and embraced the fans WHO loved the show and him at those conventions. He was at peace and I feel fans should forgive Mathew for his book. Lord a 21 year old gay boy in a role of a lifetime.... WHO could imagine....

@@danielueblacker9118 what does him being gay have to do with the role?

@@ungabunga1106 I din't get it too. Someone Explain it.