Interview by MARK WRIGHT
Wendy Padbury pictured in April 1968.
“It’s absolutely staggering”, declares Wendy Padbury. It’s Friday 4 May, and we’re waiting for coffee at the British Film Institute in London. It’s a serendipitous date; 50 years ago to the day at around 5.17pm, Episode 2 of The Wheel in Space was broadcast. It marked Wendy’s debut as new Doctor Who companion, space-age astrophysicist Zoe Heriot.