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the curse of fenric

story 158 : season 26 : serial 7M : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel
Designer: David Laskey

cast information

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor); Sophie Aldred (Ace); Dinsdale Landen (Dr. Judson); Alfred Lynch (Commander Millington); Nicholas Parsons (Reverend Wainwright); Tomek Bork (Captain Sorin); Janet Henfrey (Miss Hardaker); Peter Czajkowski (Sgt. Prozorov); Marek Anton (Vershinin); Mark Conrad (Petrossian); Joann Kenny (Jean); Joanne Bell (Phyllis); Anne Reid (Nurse Crane); Cory Pulman (Kathleen Dudman); Aaron Hanley (Baby); Stevan Rimkus (Captain Bates); Marcus Hutton (Sgt. Leigh); Christien Anholt (Perkins); Raymond Trickett (Ancient Haemovore);

crew information

Judy Corry (Assistant Floor Manager); Ken Trew (Costumes); Mark Ayres (Incidental Music); Denise Baron (Make-Up); Paul Harding (OB Cameraman); Alan Jessop (OB Cameraman); Winifred Hopkins (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Tip Tipping (Stunt Arranger); Keff McCulloch (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Graham Brown (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 25 October 1989 at 19:35 24'23" 4.3mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 1 November 1989 at 19:35 24'09" 4.0mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 8 November 1989 at 19:35 24'11" 4.0mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 15 November 1989 at 19:35 24'16" 4.2mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL
    » A 71-edit exists also

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Curse of Fenric
Written by: Ian Briggs
Number 151 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
15 November 1990 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20348 8

plot synopsis

The TARDIS lands at a naval base at the height of World War Two, where the crippled Doctor Judson is trying to decode the elaborate Viking inscription discovered on the walls of a local tomb. Commander Millington, who runs the base, has become obsessed with cracking the code, but there is a darker side to their work. The encryption machine Judson is working with has been booby-trapped, so that when a group of Russian Commandos in the area try to steal it, a lethal nerve gas will be released from within when they get it back to their base. Fenric, an ancient evil, causes the Haemovores, vampiric creatures from the depths of the sea, to rise and move in on the base, where he has manipulated the Doctor into arriving through time, influencing Ace ever since she joined him on the TARDIS, The Doctor knows he has to destroy Fenric once and for all.

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