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Doctor Who: Horror Of Fang Rock

Doctor Who (1963)

Doctor Who: Horror Of Fang Rock

Warner Bros. (Sep 03, 1977)
TV Series | Adventure | Fantasy | Science Fiction | Television
UK | English | Color | 00:25
Episode 92
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
794051231727
| 1 disc
Region 1
Keep Case

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.


Cast View all

Tom Baker Doctor Who
William Hartnell Dr. Who
Jon Pertwee Doctor Who
Patrick Troughton Dr. Who
Frazer Hines Jamie
Nicholas Courtney Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart
Pat Gorman Guard
Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith
Jacqueline Hill Barbara Wright
William Russell Ian Chesterton
Katy Manning Jo Grant
John Scott Martin Dalek
John Levene Sergeant Benton
Peter Davison The Doctor
Janet Fielding Tegan
John Leeson K9
Terry Walsh Primitive
Gerald Taylor Dalek
Robert Jewell Dalek
Carole Ann Ford Susan Foreman
Peter Hawkins Dalek Voices
Cy Town Dalek Operator
Roy Skelton Daleks
Wendy Padbury Zoe
Sarah Sutton Nyssa

Episodes View details

1 Horror of Fang Rock (1) 25 min | Sep 03, 1977

The English channel, the 1900s AD. The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now only by three light-house keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling star sighted earlier that night?

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
Guest stars: John Abbott
2 Horror of Fang Rock (2) 25 min | Sep 10, 1977

The survivors of a wrecked ship are stranded with the lighhouse crew on Fang Rock as a deadly menace slithers through the fog. Has the Beast of Fang Rock returned?

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
Guest stars: John Abbott, Sean Caffrey, Annette Woollett, Rio Fanning
3 Horror of Fang Rock (3) 25 min | Sep 17, 1977

The Doctor barricades everyone in the lighthouse to protect them from the mysterious deadly creature in the fog. But it may already be inside, biding its time…

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
Guest stars: John Abbott, Sean Caffrey, Annette Woollett, Rio Fanning
4 Horror of Fang Rock (4) 25 min | Sep 24, 1977

The Rutan starts picking off the surviving humans one by one as the Doctor and Leela struggle to defeat not only the alien but an entire fleet waiting to occupy Earth.

Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: Terrance Dicks
Guest stars: John Abbott, Sean Caffrey, Annette Woollett