"MUCH PRETTIER THAN A COMPUTER!" INTRODUCING ZOE HERIOT!

Introducing Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot, in a rather bizarre BBC photo shoot taken around various London sites. Colourisation by Clayton Hickman.

Back in April 1968, Deborah Watling may have made a sad departure from the Troughton Who era, but an equally attractive and no less spirited replacement would soon board the TARDIS in the pixie-esque, shapely form of the delightful Wendy Padbury, playing the keen, young, at first logically aloof astro physicist Zoe Heriot, one of the human team stationed on The Wheel in Space, helping the second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon fight off the invading Cybermen, then heading off into all kinds of memorable adventures with the duo during the close of the classic monochrome era. On and offscreen, this new trio would be one of the finest seen in the entire series. 

Still as lovely, radiant and fun as ever, Miss Padbury has been both an actor and an agent in the profession, and remains a convention favourite worldwide.

London calling! Out and about as Zoe.

Posing for the press on the bridge of the Silver Carrier spaceship.

A specially shot image of Padbury as Zoe, used for a specific Cyberman-related scene from The Wheel in Space. Colourisation by Clayton Hickman.