Adric /ˈædrɪk/ is a fictional character played by Matthew
Waterhouse in the long-running British science fiction television
series Doctor Who. He was a young native of the planet Alzarius, which
exists in the parallel universe of E-Space. A companion of the Fourth
and Fifth Doctors, he was a regular in the programme from 1980 to 1982
and appeared in 11 stories (40 episodes). The name Adric is an anagram
derived from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Paul Dirac.Adric first
appears in the Fourth Doctor serial Full Circle. Attempting to escape
from the 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
stows away when the Doctor, Romana and K-9 Mark II leave 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 leave and the TARDIS finds
its way back into its own universe.With a brilliant mathematical mind
and wearing a star-shaped badge for mathematical excellence, Adric is
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, or even "most hated", of the Doctor's companions among fans
of the programme. However, Adric also seeks validation from the Doctor
and 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 highly adaptable species, theoretically capable of
genetically evolving to suit any environment, although it is unknown
whether 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.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 Earth. The navigational controls are 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 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 dies not knowing that the freighter he was trying to
stop would become the "meteor" that would wipe out the dinosaurs and
lead to the rise of mammals and eventually humans (see
Cretaceousâ€"Paleogene extinction event and Alvarez hypothesis). Adric Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter