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Doctor Who: The Target Storybook (2019) — Autor — 68 Exemplare
Doctor Who: The Visitation [TV serial] (2005) — Actor — 35 Exemplare
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday [DVD] (1982) — Actor — 24 Exemplare
Doctor Who: Logopolis [TV serial] (2014) — Actor — 24 Exemplare
Doctor Who: Castrovalva [TV serial] (2007) — Actor — 23 Exemplare
Doctor Who: Black Orchid [TV serial] (2008) — Actor — 23 Exemplare
Doctor Who: Kinda [DVD] (2011) — Actor — 19 Exemplare
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken [TV serial] (1981) — Actor — 18 Exemplare
Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Box Set (2014) — Erzähler — 13 Exemplare
The Contingency Club (2017) — Erzähler — 11 Exemplare
The Star Men (2017) — Erzähler — 10 Exemplare
Zaltys (2017) — Erzähler — 10 Exemplare
Talkback, Volume Three: The Eighties (2007) — Interviewee — 9 Exemplare
Serpent in the Silver Mask (2018) — Performer — 8 Exemplare
Kingdom of Lies (2018) — Performer — 8 Exemplare
Ghost Walk (2018) — Performer — 7 Exemplare
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 9, Volume 1 (2020) — Erzähler — 5 Exemplare
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 9, Volume 2 (2020) — Erzähler — 4 Exemplare
Shilling & Sixpence Investigate (2018) — Erzähler — 2 Exemplare

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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 he joined the cast, and also because he did almost no other screen acting; for a lot of the Old Who actors, it was one more job, often quite a short one, in a career which had other heights which they wish were remembered better, but for Waterhouse it was an intense experience, which he knew was important at the time and whose memories haven't been faded out by later work.

Waterhouse has chosen to tell the story in the third person, which seemed really pretentious when I first heard about the book (cf Julius Caesar), but actually it works really well - it allows him to establish some distance from his not always terribly happy childhood, and from the intense experience of working with the very temperamental Tom Baker on his last few stories. Once Davison arrived and the regular team settled down (though of course Waterhouse was the first to be written out) it seems to have been more fun, though he still took it pretty seriously. I deeply sympathise with his approach, as reported in an exchange with Janet Fielding who played Tegan:

'“The trouble with you, Matthew,” she said more than once, “is that when it comes to Doctor Who you suspend your critical judgement.” This was a well-made point, but then she had no emotional involvement with it and Matthew did. He was intelligent enough to know that if too critical an approach was taken to Doctor Who, every last moment of it would collapse to dust.'

Anyway, it's a good book that made me feel interested in and sympathetic to the author, and gave me insights into Doctor Who that I had not thought of before.
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nwhyte | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 29, 2019 |
I enjoyed the book, the "behind the scenes" point of view from a star on Doctor Who was interesting. Never read an autobiography where a author wrote about themselves in the third person before but easy to get used to I guess.
 
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stevendrowe | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 18, 2016 |
It's one thing to read the memoir of someone who was in a television show like Doctor Who. Now that I'm no longer a teenager, my interest in that kind of thing has distinctly lessened, but it can be interesting to find out more about a person beyond what you saw on television, to get some insight to the times they lived in or how they found their artistry. That's the appeal, for instance, of Anneke Wills' two memoirs, which only very sparingly relate to Doctor Who even though it's clearly most if not all of the reason she has readers. She has had a fascinating life, and it's thrilling to realize someone you barely had a glimmer of before has actually done...well...so much else.

The inverse happens with Blue Box Boy. I have little doubt Matthew Waterhouse has also lived through many interesting things and has an interesting perspective on his times. The problem is how little that is represented here. Taking this book at its face value, playing Adric for two years is the central defining event in Waterhouse's life, and it changed him - not necessarily for the better. What really comes through in Boy is a portrait of an insecure young man who absolutely adored a television show, and that same show chewed him up and spit him out. His comments on many of his co-stars aren't snipey and mean, as I was really expecting, but much more hurt, wounded, and disappointed. Waterhouse experienced a very rude awakening during his time on Doctor Who.

The book already feels odd and distant - a bit like a therapeutic exercise more than a narrative - because Waterhouse has made the choice to write it in third person. What really makes it uncomfortable, though, is the structure. After more than 75 pages of almost obsessively listing and describing the different artifacts and merchandise of Doctor Who the young Matthew adored, almost another 200 cover his hiring and the creation of season eighteen, fraught with egos, tension, and more than an unhealthy amount of Tom Baker. After that, the new regime with Peter Davison seems almost like a walk in the park, and Matthew bounces through it, stopping primarily to tell us about things that made him feel unhappy, sad, awkward, or anxious. Even the death of Adric and Waterhouse leaving the program are glossed over fairly quickly. There's an odd quality to it all, as if Waterhouse is so wrapped up in self-pity he can't make himself reflect on the nice times (although he does - very occasionally). It's uncomfortable - deeply uncomfortable - to read, and because it isn't really balanced by much of Matthew's post-Doctor Who life or career, it's all a bit relentless. "I've told you my sad story," Matthew - at least, the book's Matthew - seems to say at the end. "Aren't you sad, too, now?"

All of that would even be okay if I felt like the book achieved some catharsis. Perhaps for its author it did. For this reader, though, it just seemed like exposure to someone's deep-held resentment. It left me feeling voyeuristic more than anything else.
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saroz | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 22, 2015 |
The concept of writing autobiigraphy in 3rd person seems strange, but works quite well, here. I wasn't quite ready for some of the more biting observations, but they are well-written, on the whole. Another edition would correct some of the lingering typos, making the book better. If you're a fan of Doctor Who (that is, the original series), then this book is a must-have.
 
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JWarren42 | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 10, 2013 |

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