10 MORE Times Doctor Who Lied To Your Face

All of us probably experienced our parents lying to us about death in our youth. Spoiler alert: your rabbit didn't get taken to a special rabbit farm. Oh, and Matthew Waterhouse isn't in Time-Flight!

Now yes, before you write in, Matthew Waterhouse is in Time-Flight. He appears as an illusion of Adric in Part Two, but we're specifically talking about the decision to include him in the Radio Times credits for Part One. As that particular issue of the Radio Times would have gone to press before Earthshock Part Four had aired, producer John Nathan-Turner was keen to protect the big surprise that Adric would be killed off in the final moments of that episode.

Apparently, Waterhouse's contract also extended into the production of Time-Flight, which gave Nathan-Turner and writer Peter Grimwade the opportunity to deploy Adric. So while the Radio Times listing wasn't strictly a lie, the implication that the listing made was a huge misdirection about the fate of Adric, and was intended to make people believe he would still be alive.

Lesser producers than JNT wouldn't even consider the implications of not including Matthew Waterhouse in the pre-broadcast credits for Time-Flight. It's proof of Nathan-Turner's commitment to the viewer experience, by protecting big surprises like the death of Adric.