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Zoe Herriot travelled with the Doctor between The Wheel in Space and The War Games. Zoe was a very clever mathematician who could do Machine Code in her head. She was a slightly bored librarian aboard the Wheel in Space when The Doctor and Jamie arrived. She stowed away in the TARDIS, recognising the chance of adventure. Her intellect was often instrumental in resolving problems, but sometimes it could also be the cause of her getting into trouble - which The Doctor had to get her out of. She formed a close bond with both The Doctor and Jamie and they made up something of a family unit for a while. They were parted, abruptly, by the Time Lords, who returned both Jamie and Zoe to their own time with their memory of all but their first meeting with The Doctor erased. This was part of his punishment for disobeying them and their farewells were poignant.
Wendy Padbury was born on 7 December 1947 in Warwickshire. After stage school she came to prominence as an actor in 1966, when she joined the cast of the long-running ATV soap opera Crossroads. She played the role of Stephanie "Stevie" Harris, foster daughter to the show's main character, Meg Mortimer (Noele Gordon). She was cast as the Second Doctor's new companion, Zoe Heriot, in
Doctor Her connection with Doctor Who, after she left the programme (at the same time as Hines and Troughton) was not quite over. She appeared in Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday (1974), a stage play at the Adelphi Theatre London based on the television series, in which she played a companion named Jenny, opposite Trevor Martin as the Doctor. She then made a cameo appearance, again opposite Hines and Troughton in Doctor Who's 20th anniversary story, The Five Doctors. Other roles include co-presenter of the second series of Score With The Scaffold. She was also in Freewheelers in which she played Sue. She made a series of appearances in the British soap opera Emmerdale (then known by its original title Emmerdale Farm) co-incidentaly opposite Frazer Hines, one of the major stars of that show. In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Padbury explained that she no longer appears at Doctor Who conventions, nor does she speak about her time on the programme, as she feels she no longer has anything new to say about her time in the show. She now acts as a theatrical agent. Nicholas Courtney, Colin Baker and Mark Strickson, all former Doctor Who actors, are among her clients.
Film And TV Doctor Who The Wheel in Space: Episode 1 (27 April 1968)
- Zoe Heriot
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Who in 1968. She became very close to her co-stars Frazer Hines and
Patrick Troughton. Wendy tells many fond stories about the practical
jokes they would play on each other during rehearsals; perhaps the
most famous tale she told about this was when, in rehearsal, she fell
asleep. As she was wearing a kilt, Patrick Troughton undid the clasp
and then woke her up. Startled, she leaped up and the kilt fell off.
In those days, the rehearsals for Doctor Who were held in a Church
hall - the moment Wendy leaped up and screamed was the exact moment
the Vicar walked into the hall. Wendy now says, very fondly of Patrick
Troughton that he had deliberately timed it so.
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