4X. Doctor Who - Image Of The Fendahl (Season Fifteen)

Script Editor: Robert Holmes; Writer: Chris Boucher; Produced by: Graham Williams; Director: George Spenton-Foster; Designer: Anna Ridley; Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson;

Programme Description

A human skull is found by archaeologists. To determine its age it is subjected to a time scanner experiment and found to be over twelve million years old. The TARDIS is drawn to Earth by the Time scanner.

The skull is an artefact of Fendhal, an ancient creature that feeds of the life-force of others. Using Thea Ransome, who is unaware she is a medium, the entity is able to materialise on Earth.

Thea is eventually transformed into the Fendahl, and a group of acolytes assembled by black arts practitioner Maxillian Stael are transformed into the Fendahleen.

The Doctor is able to show the surviving people how to protect themselves using rock salt. Using the time scanner to cause an implosion the Doctor destroys the Fendhal. He and Leela take the skull to be jettisoned near a supernova.


Regular Cast

Leela: Louise Jameson; Voice of K-9: John Leeson;

Cast

Thea Ransome: Wanda Ventham; Professor Adam Colby: Edward Arthur; Martha Tyler: Daphne Heard; Ted Moss: Edward Evans; Maximillan Stael: Scott Fredericks; Doctor Fendahlman: Dennis Lill (1-3); David Mitchell: Derek Martin (1-2); Hiker: Graham Simpson (1); Jack Tyler: Geoffrey Hinsliff (2-4); Coven Member: Geoffrey Witherick (2);
Uncredited:
Security Guards:
David Elliott (2), Roy Pearce (2); Coven Members: (all 3-4) John Emms, Jay McGrath, Douglas Stark; Fendahl Core: Wanda Ventham (4);

Transmissions

Ep.TitleDateViewersPosition
462.Part One (BBC 1) Sat 29/10/1977 18:10 - 18:35 6.7M70th
463.Part Two (BBC 1) Sat 05/11/1977 18:10 - 18:35 7.5M64th
464.Part Three (BBC 1) Sat 12/11/1977 18:05 - 18:30 7.9M63rd
465.Part Four (BBC 1) Sat 19/11/1977 18:10 - 18:35 9.1M46th

Repeat Transmissions

This programme has not been repeated

Bloopers

This programme has no bloopers / mistakes. It's probably not perfect, just that they haven't been found / pointed out

Locations

Stargroves, East End, nr. Newbury, Hants;

Studios

Television Centre Studio 6;

Notes / Trivia

John Leeson's K-9 voice is not heard in this story, although the K-9 prop appears in Parts One and Four.

Working Titles

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