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Doctor Who: The Curse Of Fenric

Doctor Who (1963)

Doctor Who: The Curse Of Fenric

BBC Home Video (Oct 25, 1989)
TV Series | Adventure | Fantasy | Science Fiction
UK | English | Color | 01:36
Episode 158
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
794051199324
| 2 discs
Region 1
Keep Case

The TARDIS materialises at a secret naval base off the coast of Northumberland toward the end of the Second World War. Dr Judson, a scientist there, has created the Ultima Machine, an early computer designed to break German codes. The base's Commander Millington plans to let a Russian commando unit led by Captain Sorin steal the Machine's core, which he has booby-trapped with deadly toxin.

Judson uses the Machine to translate some ancient runes from the crypt of the nearby St Judes church and this leads to the release of Fenric, an evil entity from the dawn of time whom the Doctor trapped seventeen centuries earlier in a Chinese flask by defeating it at chess. The flask was later stolen and buried at the church by Vikings.

The base and church are attacked by Haemovores. These are humans who have been transformed into hideous vampiric creatures by the Ancient Haemovore - the last survivor of a pollution-ravaged future Earth, who has been brought back in time by Fenric. Fenric takes over Judson's body to challenge the Doctor to a rematch at chess, and Ace unwittingly helps it to win.

Fenric, now in Sorin's body, reveals that Ace, Judson, Millington, Sorin and Wainwright, the vicar of St Judes, are all 'Wolves of Fenric' - pawns in its battle against the Doctor. It now plans to release the deadly toxin but the Doctor succeeds in turning the Ancient Haemovore against it and its host body is killed by the gas.

The baby daughter of a young woman whom Ace helped to escape from the Haemovores is revealed to be her future mother.


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

8 The Curse of Fenric (1) 25 min | Oct 25, 1989

England, the 1940s. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!

Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
Guest stars: Stevan Rimkus, Marcus Hutton, Christien Anholt, Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch, Nicholas Parsons, Janet Henfrey, Tomek Bork, Peter Czajkowski, Mark Conrad, Joann Kenny, Joanne Bell, Anne Reid, Kathleen Dodman, Aaron Hanley
9 The Curse of Fenric (2) 25 min | Nov 01, 1989

England, the 1940s. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!

Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
Guest stars: Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch, Nicholas Parsons, Janet Henfrey, Tomek Bork, Peter Czajkowski, Joann Kenny, Joanne Bell, Anne Reid, Kathleen Dodman, Stevan Rimkus, Marcus Hutton, Christien Anholt, Aaron Hanley
10 The Curse of Fenric (3) 25 min | Nov 08, 1989

England, the 1940s. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!

Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs
Guest stars: Kathleen Dodman, Aaron Hanley, Stevan Rimkus, Marcus Hutton, Christien Anholt, Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch, Nicholas Parsons, Tomek Bork, Peter Czajkowski, Joann Kenny, Joanne Bell, Anne Reid
11 The Curse of Fenric (4) 25 min | Nov 15, 1989

England, the 1940s. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!

Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Ian Briggs, David Laskey
Guest stars: Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch, Tomek Bork, Joann Kenny, Joanne Bell, Anne Reid, Kathleen Dodman, Aaron Hanley, Stevan Rimkus, Marcus Hutton, Raymond Trickitt