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image of the fendahl

story 94 : season 15 : serial 4X : 4 episodes

Producer: Graham Williams
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Chris Boucher
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Anna Ridley

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Louise Jameson (Leela); Wanda Ventham (Thea Ransome); Daphne Heard (Martha Tyler); Scott Fredericks (Maximillian Stael); Denis Lill (Dr. Fendelman); Edward Evans (Ted Moss); Edward Arthur (Adam Colby); Derek Martin (David Mitchell); Graham Simpson (Hiker); Geoffrey Hinsliff (Jack Tyler);

crew information

Karilyn Collier (Assistant Floor Manager); Amy Roberts (Costumes); Elmer Cossey (Film Cameraman); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Pauline Cox (Make-Up); Prue Saenger (Production Assistant); John Nathan-Turner (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Jim Purdie (Studio Lighting); Alan Fogg (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Colin Mapson (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 29 October 1977 at 18:10 24'38" 6.7mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 5 November 1977 at 18:10 24'44" 7.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 12 November 1977 at 18:05 24'22" 7.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 19 November 1977 at 18:10 20'32" 9.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL (this tape suffers from a small amount of dropout at the beginning)
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 034 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: John Geary
26 July 1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: John Geary
ISBN: 0 426 20077 2

plot synopsis

Time experiments around an ancient skull, led by Doctor Fendelman with his team of scientists based at Fetch Priory, unwittingly release the power of the Fendahl, an energy force that drains the energy of life itself from humans. As the slug-like Fendahleens start to materialise, and Thea Ransome becomes possessed by the power which turns her into a human manifestation of its evil, the Doctor uses science and the folklore magic of old Martha Tyler to overcome the threat. .

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