Adric - Appearances in Other Media

Appearances in Other Media

Adric's sole appearance in the Virgin Missing Adventures range was in the Lance Parkin novel Cold Fusion. In addition to this an image of Adric appears as a manifestation of the Doctor's guilt in the Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell and a ghost of Adric also features in the plot of the Past Doctor Adventures novel Empire of Death by David Bishop.

Adric appears in the Big Finish Productions audio drama The Boy That Time Forgot, and is portrayed by Andrew Sachs, where he was unintentionally saved by Block Transfer Computations subconsciously sent to him by the Doctor during a 'seance'; this caused him to be sent into a pocket dimension based on an Aztec jungle, populated primarily by giant scorpions and insects. Kept alive for centuries by the computations, Adric was eventually reunited with the Doctor and Nyssa when they sought the TARDIS after its theft by Thomas Brewster ("The Haunting of Thomas Brewster"). Driven insane by centuries of isolation and bitterness, Adric refused to accept The Doctor’s attempts to make him realise that he was now essentially just an elderly teenager, complaining when he didn’t get his way and believing that the world should jump to his every whim, attempting to force Nyssa to become his bride. The Doctor admits that he permitted Adric to die, only for Adric to forgive him and use the last of his strength to send his friends home and recover the TARDIS, before dying himself.

In the IDW Publishing comic Doctor Who: The Forgotten by Tony Lee, a manifestation of Adric appears in the TARDIS Matrix, saving the Tenth Doctor's life and, in the process dying a second time. This time however Adric is aware of his sacrifice, stating that "it's not a pointless death."