The
TARDIS materializes on the North Sea and the travelers use a rubber dingy
to reach the shore. The crew are then knocked out by tranquillizer
darts after attempting to open an inspection plate on a pipeline, that
the Doctor claims to have heard a strange beating in. The Doctor
and his companions awake to find themselves suspected of sabotage at a
North Sea gas refinery of the east coast of England. The refinery
boss, Robson, blames them for the disappearance of rig crews, and leaks
and pressure build-ups in the pipelines. The Doctor reports strange
'heartbeats' from the pipelines but Robson refuses to halt the gas flow.
The noises come from a form of parasitic seaweed, which absorbs Human
brains and transforms men into Weed creatures. The Weed, exhaling
toxic gases, launches an attack on the refinery, but after Victoria's
screaming kills one, the Doctor realizes that the creatures can be destroyed
by high-frequency sound waves. After having killed all the creatures,
the Doctor is ready to go on but Victoria decides to remain at the refinery
and ia adopted by the Harrises.
The Doctor: Patrick Troughton
Jamie McCrimmon: Frazer
Hines
Victoria Waterfield: Deborah
Watling
Guest Appearances:
Robson: Victor Madden
Harris: Roy Spencer
Price: Graham
Leaman
Guard: Peter
Ducrow
Maggie Harris: June
Murphy
Carney: John
Garvin
Chief Engineer: Hubert Rees
Van Lutyens: John
Abineri
Baxter: Richard
Mayes
Quill: Bill
Burridge
Oak John
Gill
Megan Jones: Margaret
John
Perkins: Brian Callingford
Producer: Peter
Bryant.
Script Editor: Derek
Sherwin.
Writer: Victor
Pemberton.
Director:
Hugh David.
Designer: Peter
Kindred.
Costume:
Martin Baugh.
Make up: Sylvia James.
Visual Effects: Peter
Day, Len Hutton.
Music : Dudley
Simpson.
Novelised
as "Doctor Who - Fury From The Deep by
Victor Pemberton (0 426 20259 7) first published by W.H. Allen
(now Virgin Publishing Ltd.) in 1986 with cover by David McAllister.
Also published in "The Doctor Who Omnibus" by Book Club
Associates in 1977. Target library number 110.
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a
Not availabile on video due to loss fo
story.a
Released
in 1992 as "Fury From The Deep" as a double-cassette.
(catalogue number ZBBC 1434, ISBN: 0563 401079) presented by Tom Baker,
via the BBC Audio Collection. First released in 1993 with photomontage
cover.
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Features
the final appearance of Deborah Watling and the debut of the long-used
sonic screwdriver.
All six
episodes are missing. Telesnaps (off-air camera photographs) from this
story exist in the BBC Archives. Several short clips from episodes 2,
4 and 5 were recovered after being located in Australia in October 1996
Ealing
filming on Stage 3A/B. (7-9
February 1968)
Ealing filming, Stage
Unkonwn. (5-6 March 1968)
Studio Recording Lime Grove D1. (24
February; 2, 9, 16, 23, March 1968)
Studio Recording TC1.
(29 March
1968)
Botony Bay, Kingsgate, Kent. (4-6
February 1968)
Radio 390 Offshore Platform, Red Sands Sea Fort, Thames Estuary. (4-6
February 1968)
Denham Aerodrome, Tilehouse Lane, Denham Green, Bucks.
(12 February
1968)
None Noted
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