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Doctor Who: The Horror of Fang Rock
Starring: Tom Baker , Louise Jameson
Directed by: Paddy Russell
Produced by: Graham Williams
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Around the turn of the 20th century, the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela seek shelter at the lighthouse on Fang Rock, a small island off the English coast. As bad luck would have it, they also share the island with an alien Rutan whose spaceship has just crashed into the sea.
Item Number: 13390
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- 1 hour 40 minutes
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
- Audio commentary by actors Louise Jameson and John Abbott and writer Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction A look the writer?s 6-decade career in books and television
Paddy Russell: A Life in Television- specially shot retrospective interview of the director?s 40-year TV career as an actress, stage manager and director
The Antique Doctor Who Show- Short film from 1993 on Doctor Who collectibles
Photo Gallery
Around the turn of the 20th
century, the Fourth Doctor (Tom
Baker) and Leela seek shelter
at the lighthouse on Fang Rock,
a small island off the English
coast. As bad luck would have
it, they also share the island with
an alien Rutan whose spaceship
has just crashed into the sea.
Changing its form, killing at
will and inhabiting the bodies
of its victims, the Rutan thwarts
the Doctor's attacks by reverting
to its natural form as an
amorphous jelly. Meanwhile, the Rutan mothership approaches the
island, intending no good. What now? One of the scariest Doctor Who
episodes ever filmed, now digitally remastered and loaded
with special features from the BBC archives.
The TARDIS arrives on Fang Rock, a small island off the English coast, around the start of the 20th Century. The Doctor and Leela seek shelter at a lighthouse where the island's only inhabitants - Ben, Vince and Reuben - operate the recently-installed electric lamp to warn ships off the treacherous rocks.
Vince has just seen a bright object fall from the sky into the sea. Ben then disappears and his body is later discovered hidden behind the generator - he has been electrocuted. A passing ship crashes on the rocks as a freak fog bank descends, and the survivors - Colonel Skinsale, Lord Palmerdale, Adelaide Lesage and Harker - stumble into the lighthouse. There they find themselves prey to a Rutan - one of the race engaged in a perennial war with the Sontarans - whose spaceship has crashed in the sea.
The Rutan can change its form at will and has been masquerading as Reuben, having killed the old keeper and hidden his body. Vince and the wreck survivors are also killed but the Doctor fights back by blasting the Rutan, now reverted to its natural form of an amorphous jelly, with a makeshift mortar bomb.
The Doctor then rigs up the lighthouse lamp with a diamond taken from a cache held by the now dead Skinsale, thereby creating a powerful laser beam to destroy the approaching Rutan mothership.
Vince has just seen a bright object fall from the sky into the sea. Ben then disappears and his body is later discovered hidden behind the generator - he has been electrocuted. A passing ship crashes on the rocks as a freak fog bank descends, and the survivors - Colonel Skinsale, Lord Palmerdale, Adelaide Lesage and Harker - stumble into the lighthouse. There they find themselves prey to a Rutan - one of the race engaged in a perennial war with the Sontarans - whose spaceship has crashed in the sea.
The Rutan can change its form at will and has been masquerading as Reuben, having killed the old keeper and hidden his body. Vince and the wreck survivors are also killed but the Doctor fights back by blasting the Rutan, now reverted to its natural form of an amorphous jelly, with a makeshift mortar bomb.
The Doctor then rigs up the lighthouse lamp with a diamond taken from a cache held by the now dead Skinsale, thereby creating a powerful laser beam to destroy the approaching Rutan mothership.
Cast
The Doctor - Tom Baker
Leela - Louise Jameson
Adelaide - Annette Woollett
Ben - Ralph Watson
Harker - Rio Fanning
Lord Palmerdale - Sean Caffrey
Reuben - Colin Douglas
Skinsale - Alan Rowe
Vince - John Abbott
Production Credits
Director - Paddy Russell
Assistant Floor Manager - Bill Hartley
Costumes - Joyce Hawkins
Designer - Paul Allen
Film Cameraman - John Walker
Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
Make-Up - Jackie Hodgson
Producer - Graham Williams
Production Assistant - Peter Grimwade
Production Unit Manager - John Nathan-Turner
Script Editor - Robert Holmes
Special Sounds - Dick Mills
Studio Lighting - Bob Gell
Studio Sound - David Hughes
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Peter Pegrum
Writer - Terrance Dicks
The Doctor - Tom Baker
Leela - Louise Jameson
Adelaide - Annette Woollett
Ben - Ralph Watson
Harker - Rio Fanning
Lord Palmerdale - Sean Caffrey
Reuben - Colin Douglas
Skinsale - Alan Rowe
Vince - John Abbott
Production Credits
Director - Paddy Russell
Assistant Floor Manager - Bill Hartley
Costumes - Joyce Hawkins
Designer - Paul Allen
Film Cameraman - John Walker
Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
Make-Up - Jackie Hodgson
Producer - Graham Williams
Production Assistant - Peter Grimwade
Production Unit Manager - John Nathan-Turner
Script Editor - Robert Holmes
Special Sounds - Dick Mills
Studio Lighting - Bob Gell
Studio Sound - David Hughes
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Peter Pegrum
Writer - Terrance Dicks
This is the last time you'll see Leela with
red eyes. In later Doctor Who adventures, actress Louise
Jameson abandoned her uncomfortable red contact lenses,
revealing her natural baby blues.
