Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl

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The more gold paint they put on Wanda Ventham, the more desirable she became. I was disturbed for hours after!" It’s a convincing argument. He argues that, in the face of Mary Whitehouse complaining about dolls that kill, the Doctor drowning, and Leela’s skirt being too small (as if that’s a thing), the BBC had to rein Doctor Who in. And it did so by airing one of the most chilling stories ever. “Both on television and as a book, Image is a superlatively creepy story – it creeps you out (and I’d argue that if it doesn’t, you haven’t yet understood everything it’s saying and doing),” he writes. “Indeed, I shall show that it is, implicitly, the scariest Doctor Who story, and I mean that literally – for its terror lies in its implications… If Mary Whithouse had understood Image, she might’ve found it more offensive than a few mere strangulations and a toy with a dagger.” During her final transformation into the Fendahl Core, Wanda Ventham blinks just as the top of her face is transformed A Doctor Fendelman is studying a human skull which archaeologists estimate to be 12 million years old — far older than it can conceivably be — when the Doctor and Leela arrive. Fendelman is using a "Time Scanner" to study the skull, and it is this which has not only drawn the TARDIS to the lab, but also causing the skull to glow with power every time it is activated. His snarky colleagues (including Benedict Cumberbatch's mum) are stumped as to how the skull can even exist.

The Fifth Planet thing in Episode 3 is fairly flagrant padding, but that's forgivable as the rest of the story works so well, and the omission of K-9 (because they didn't know if they were keeping him or not) is a bit obvious, but the story is a triumph. Writer Chris Boucher was unable to complete rewrites to the script due to his appointment as script editor on the BBC television series Blake's 7 so incoming script editor Anthony Read took over. This fact explains why, for a Boucher script, the story is unusually full of info-dumps, whereas they tend to crop up in Read's work, such as The Horns of Nimon. [1] But Tom Baker's fourth season in the role did contain this story, a script originally commissioned during those earlier years, and as a result it's pretty much the last attempt at gothic horror they mounted.

There are four scientists in this house, and by the end of the story, only one will be left alive, just one - and it's the immensely likable Adam Colby, beautifully played by Edward Arthur - I wonder what happened to him.

Howe, David J& Walker, Stephen James (1998). Doctor Who: The Television Companion (1sted.). London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0-563-40588-7. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Fendelman, well you assume is gong to be the villain of the piece – it is a nice feint in the story structure which leaves him as the patsy – his whole life a fiction, manipulated into serving the Fendahl and facilitating its rebirth. While this is by no means a perfect story it’s one I rewatch again and again, so whilst accepting my nostalgia for it, it’s just such great fun to watch. a commentary from tom baker and louise jameson, who played his companion leela, plus wanda ventham and edward arthur who play characters in the story. There are four thousand million people here on your planet, and if I'm right, within a year, there will just be one left alive. Just one."

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The Doctor is familiar with the story of the Fendahl, having heard about it as a myth during his childhood. He confesses that the story was one that terrified him. We hear more of Time Lord myths, legends and ‘bed-time stories’ in adventures including State of Decay and Vincent and the Doctor. Story Review only until I get my copy and see the extras. A very good story close to, but not quite a classic. Chris Boucher offers a strong script (sadly his last for the show) mixing the occult and Sci fi in a Nigle Kneale-tastic kind of way. While the menace is clearly alien it has aspects which are pure horror film- it can be harmed by salt in an early stage and a look into the eyes of another stage brings doom! The Mega Death to the Daleks Death Dalek #11 was the final Mega to be produced and was unreleased at the point that Eaglemoss went into administration. Ten years ago, while working on a missile guidance system, Fendelman noticed what he calls a "sonic shadow".