Whereas it reaffirms just how much I adore her and her deep relationship with Nyssa.
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I love her in the audios, mind. She's a little more than just nonsensical shouting and anxiety there.
I've long wondered, for those two Mara focused serials (and maybe for the "mini-sode") did Janet Fielding chew upon those tablets that supposed to reveal tartar deposits for those scenes when the Mara was in control? Her gums and teeth seemed to have an unnaturally reddish hue. However it was achieved, it certainly had the intended effect.
Yup. I think it was in the nonfiction handbook covering Davison's era that revealed the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
Worked great, regardless. Classic DW took cheap items and repurposed them amazingly... even bubble wrap, which was fairly new at the time when they did "The Ark in Space". Any kid who hadn't seen it would likely be needing a change in trousers as a result of seeing Noah transmogrified by it, or the grub crawling about - save for the one moment where the opening is in near-direct view of the camera lens for all to see...
As a friend, bed buddy, or what? It's getting past cookie-cutter cliche how every character on screen is always assumed to be in a sexual relationship, especially if done retroactively by people who never created nor wrote for the characters involved. The platonic friendship, if not familial-like nature was clearly present but reading into things too much is also a possibility (since I sometimes do it, myself.) Now maybe the creator had an inkling and could only go so far due to censors of the time and so on. Dunno. Either way, they left it open to the imagination. (Especially as Barry Letts had to openly tell the "'shippers" in a DVD commentary that Jo and the Doctor were in a familial relationship and not dating/mating/whatever. But that's another story, from a bit over a decade ago...)
Not to mention other instances that really can be misread. There's a notoriously unintentional one in "The Five Doctors" too...
The Mara's temptation being, "In another universe, we're together." Hard to read that as purely friends.
I saw Davidson's crew as a family unit - The Doctor and Tegan were the parents, and Adric and Nyssa were the bickering children. 
That's where the children got it from. 
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