Blue Box Boy

This is a very different sort of autobiography, and you realise that from the very beginning. The author writes about himself in the 3rd person, which takes a bit of getting used to. So rather than writing “I was excited about the audition”; we get “Matthew was excited about the audition” and so on.......more

[URL not allowed] Adric is not at the top of many people's list of favourite companions, but I must say this memoir is a very sympathetic account from Matthew Waterhouse, who played him. It's particularly interesting because Waterhouse was a huge fan of the programme before......more

I've been a Doctor Who fan for 30+ years--finding the show on my local PBS station about the time Matthew Waterhouse was being cast in the part of Adric. For me, Adric is the most memorable of characters. I wanted to name my first-born after him, but I was (perhaps wisely) vetoed by his other parent......more

As a kid (11-12 years old) I loved Adric, and when I met Matthew Waterhouse briefly at a Doctor Who convention in Chicago (1982, I think, when I was 12 -- he actually writes about this convention in the book, and it's good for me to read his view of it), he seemed like a thoughtful and good-humored......more

Strangely compelling even though the author (writing in the third person) comes across as very opinionated and aloof - almost as if you don't agree with him, you are a brainless idiot (for example, he doesn't like Swap Shop whereas I loved it. He also seems to like things which it is considered 'coo......more