7 Actors Who Hated Being On Doctor Who

Just like Tom Baker, Lalla Ward enjoyed working on Doctor Who for the most part, only to have her experience soured by one particular time period. In this case, that would be the time period when she worked with Matthew Waterhouse.

Ward - who joined the show in 1979 as Time Lord Romana - reportedly didn't like acting with Waterhouse, who was introduced in 1980 as the Doctor's companion Adric.

In fact, Ward has been rather clear about her dislike of her co-star on several occasions. During the DVD commentary for the Fourth Doctor story Warriors' Gate, she refused to even talk about one of the scenes she had with Waterhouse, because the mere thought of it wound her up so much:

"I think it’s a question you shouldn’t ask because I’m likely to let off such a stream of invective that it will all be bleeped to the point where we’ll collapse."

Then, in a making-of documentary for the serial Full Circle, she went further, casually mentioning that she wouldn't have minded if Adric had died by falling off a cliff:

"I think it would have been a wonderful idea if Adric could have, say, taken the plot over the edge of a cliff and never come back, but they didn’t see it that way, so he stuck, like a burr."

The funniest thing about all of this is that, if you pay close attention to some of the scenes they have together, you can almost see Ward's contempt for Waterhouse bleeding through the screen. This particular TARDIS team was not happy families.