7M. The Curse of Fenric
Writer: Ian Briggs
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Designer: David Laskey
Incidental Music: Mark Ayres
Stunt Arranger: Tip Tipping (2-4)
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
689. Part One 25.10.89 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.3M/Outside Top 100/67%
690. Part Two 01.11.89 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.0M/Outside Top 100/68%
691. Part Three 08.11.89 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.0M/Outside Top 100/68%
692. Part Four 15.11.89 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.2M/Outside Top 100/68%
CAST:
DR JUDSON: Dinsdale Landen; COMMANDER MILLINGTON: Alfred Lynch; CAPTAIN SORIN: Tomek Bork;
VERSHININ: Marek Anton; JEAN: Joanne Kenny; PHYLLIS: Joanne Bell, NURSE CRANE: Anne Reid;
KATHLEEN DUDMAN: Cory Pulman; CAPTAIN BATES: Stevan Rimkus; SGT LEIGH: Marcu Hutton; THE REV MR
WAINWRIGHT: Nicholas Parsons (1-3); SGT PROZOROV: Peter Czajkowski (1-3); BABY (AUDREY DUDMAN): Aaron
Handley ( 1,3,4); MISS HARDAKER: Janet Henfrey (1-2); PRIVATE PERKINS: Christien Anholt (1,3); PETROSSIAN:
Mark Conrad (1); ANCIENT HAEMOVORE: Raymond Trickett (4). UNCREDITED: DOUBLE FOR ACE: Tracey Eddon (3);
PARISHIONERS: (all 1) Nina Downey (1), Danny Fitzgerald, Robin Yarnton; MARINES: Christian Barr, Paul Betts,
Russell Cleed, Stephen Cookson, Mark Coxon, Martin David, Ray Davies, Dickie Dean, Nick Dwyer, Mark Fairweather, Peter Gandy,
Jock Gardyne, Mark Goddard, Joe Hobbs, Ron Keyes, Ben Losh, Patrick Lynch, Jack Power, Andrew Rose, Terry Russelton, Andy Lees
Small, Stephen Sparshatt, Jonathon Trussm, Ian White, Gordon Wray; HAEMOVORES: Jennifer Crome, Ian Collins, Ian Elliott,
Perry Evans, Ann Graham, Raymond Martin, Jacqui Nolan, Tony Ryan, Graham Stagg, Cy Town; WRENS Marianne Bergin, Mandy
Demetrious, Sheryl Leigh Fraser, Claudia Lyster, Nicola Maddock, Suzi Mollett, Jane Perry, Roslyn Riley, Kate Shury, Wendy
Spear; TECHNICIANS: Robert Frank, Kevin Horan, JJ Walker, Joe Wenbourne; RUSSIAN COMMANDOS: Andy Combs, Nigel
Parkes Davies, Ken Dee, Martin Dew, Stephen Fitzalan, david Foster, Damon Jeffrey, Mark Ponsford, Vince Sears, Derek Van Weenan
STORY:
The TARDIS lands at a Northumberland secret naval base near the end of the Second World War. Doctor Judson has invented a
computer that can crack any code. The base Commander, Commander Millington, has booby-trapped the machine and is waiting for
the Russians to steal it. After the war, when the Russians were no longer allies, Commander Millington would send a word for
the Russians to crack, which would cause the machine to emit a dealy toxin.
However, Dr. Judson has used the machine to crack ancient Viking carvings, and released Fenric, and evil entity from the dawn
of time trapped seventeen centuries earlier by the Doctor. Fenric unleashes the haemovores, and sets in motion a plan to summon
the Great One and destoy all life on Earth.
The Doctor convinces the Great One that Fenric's plan is wrong, while setting a similar trap to the one he had set seventeen
centuries earlier, although Ace unwittingly gives Fenric the answer to the trap. Fenric orders the Great One to destroy the
Doctor, but it turns on Fenric, takes him into a cublicle and releases a sample of the deadly toxin.
BLOOPERS:
Episode 1: When Kathleen's baby Audrey is revealed for the first time, she has a teddy bear, which disappears almost
immediately. This is not surprising, since it is actually a Superted, originating circa 1984.
Episodes 1-4: The roadside signposts visible throughout should have been removed at that point in history as part of the
defence preparations against possible invasion.
Episode 2: As Jean and Phyllis jump into the water to go swimming, they're fully clothed and wearing skirts. As they
swim, the tell-tale fog rises around them, and they get turned into Haemovores. When they're done transforming, they come out
of the water with big hairdos, long claws - and pants.
Episode 3: When Ace is climbing down her rope ladder, a Haemovore grabs her around the waist. She jumps off, and his
fingernails get caught on her skirt. And for the longest time, the world gets a view of her underpants, stocking tops and
suspender belt.
Episode 3: When Ace is being attacked by the Haemovores, she bops one of them on the head, causing its mask to go up
and reveal part of the actor's neck.
Episode 3: When Ace is at the top of the ladder her underpants are black. By the time she gets down, they have changed
to white.
Episode 3: When the Russian soldiers are running to save Ace from the Haemovores, the shadow of somebody can be seen
casually walking in the opposite direction.
Episode 4: At the end, when Ace and the Doctor run out of the exploding bunker, the Doctor stumbles in the mud and puts
his hand out to stop himself falling, getting mud all over it, which he even stops to look at in an almost symbolic gesture.
Then they go in for the close-ups with him and Ace and when he puts his hand up to rub her nose (same hand), it's perfectly
clean.
Episode ?: Somebody's finger is holding the door open for the Haemovores.
LOCATIONS:
Crowborough Training Camp, Crowborough, E. Sussex; St. Lawrence Parish Church, The Moor, Hawkhurst, Kent; Cellar of Bedgebury
School, Lower Scholl, Lillesden, Hawkhurst; Cottage, Slip Way Hill, Hawkhurst; Tunnel at Yew Tree Farm, Slip Way Hill,
Hawkhurst; Lulworth Cove, Weld Estate, Dorset
WORKING TITLES:
Wolf Time, The Wolves of Fenric
NOVELISATION:
The Curse of Fenric
Ian Briggs
VIDEO:
The Curse of Fenric