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“At naughty Tegan’s instigation, Adric is operating the TARDIS while the Doctor has gone,” explains Matthew Waterhouse, who plays Adric, “and this leads to unfortunate consequences although I have to say he doesn’t cause the unfortunate consequences! But he gets stuck to the TARDIS console and then disappears, and finds himself in a world that’s part science-fiction, part horror film. It’s a story that’s crawling with monsters.”
“Tegan is also taken from the TARDIS, and becomes involved with this very, very slick character called Clarimonde played by Niamh Cusack, who’s rather magnificent,” smiles Janet Fielding (Tegan). “Her character enjoystaunting, and is very smooth. And it’s nice to see a woman character being like that, because usually that’s a man’s character that kind of threatening, urbane thing is less common for women.”