Fury from the Deep
Encyclopedia
Fury from the Deep is a serial in the British
science fiction television series Doctor Who
, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 16 March to 20 April 1968. This story marks the final appearance of Deborah Watling
as Victoria
.
having landed in the sea off the eastern coast of England
, the Second Doctor
, Jamie
and Victoria Waterfield
investigate a nearby beach, which seems to have an improbably large amount of sea foam
as well as major gas pipe marked “Euro Sea Gas”. When the Doctor examines the pipe, he thinks he can hear a heartbeat from within. The trio are captured by Robson, a ruthless and highly-strung gas refiner, who heads a major pumping operation with a network of rigs spanning the North Sea
. His assistant is the more amenable Harris, who is deputed to lock the travellers away. It is clear Robson is very unnerved by the deliberate loss of contact with gas drilling Rig D at sea, plus an unexplained drop in the feed line from all the rigs. The Doctor suggests the supposed heartbeat could be a creature inside the pipe, which would account for the drop in pressure, but his further suggestion that the gas flow be suspended while he investigates is taken up by Harris but not by Robson.
At the Control Centre, Robson is pleased to have re-established contact with the silent rig, but all who watch are unnerved by the eerie calm of a man named Carney on-screen, who brushes away the communication loss and explains the emergency crew sent to the rig will be staying there temporarily. With the gas pressure continuing to fall, however, it is clear the emergency continues, and Robson becomes increasingly hostile to Harris’ suggestions, especially when a rig worker and Dutch Government employee called Van Lutyens arrives and also implies the situation is out of control. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria pick the lock on their cell and make it to the Control Centre, too, hiding away while an engineer on the control rig named Baxter calls in to let Robson know his men have detected a heartbeat noise in the pipe.
Harris sends his wife, Maggie, to retrieve a file from their quarters which contains details of the pressure drops; when she fetches it, she finds some seaweed on it which stings when she touches it, then oozes sea foam when she is not looking. She is soon feeling unwell and sends for her husband. He finds her in a bad way, hearing a distinct heartbeat noise pounding through her head. When he leaves to find a doctor, she rises from the bed in zombie fashion and starts to stalk out before regaining her composure. Shortly afterwards, two very odd men visit – one tall, one short – and they are both dressed in white suits and caps. Only Mr Oak, the smaller man, speaks, and he identifies his companion as Mr Quill. They claim to be maintenance engineers there to repair her faulty cooker. When Maggie Harris tries to flee they overpower her with toxic gas emitted from their mouths.
The Doctor and Jamie rescue Victoria, who has wandered off, from the Oxygen Room. Someone had deliberately trapped her inside while foam poured through the vents and formed some sort of seaweed creature, and she is badly shaken. Van Lutyens and Robson are alerted by the commotion, but the latter dismisses this story as nonsense and maintains the travellers are saboteurs. Van Lutyens, however, believes she was deliberately trapped, and recalls the noxious smell in the room by the time they arrived. Robson next hears that the enormous impeller pump that controls the flow of gas along the entire pipeline network has slowed down and become unreliable. Again, he rejects the appeal to shut down the pipes while the breach is investigated, even though without the impeller, the gas flow will not be channelled properly and could build to an explosive state. Robson’s answer is to open a release valve, which does provide a temporary solution but does not solve the falling rate of feed to the receiver stations. The situation takes a turn for the worse when Rig C does not respond to communications calls and then the impeller stops completely, revealing the steady sound of a heartbeat. Robson tries to dismiss the noise as a mechanical fault.
Harris has fetched the Doctor and his friends to take a look at his wife. They find her unconscious, with the stench of the same toxic gas as the Oxygen Room everywhere. She is made comfortable and Harris heads for the medicentre to arrange his wife’s transfer there. The Doctor bags and confiscates the clump of seaweed in the apartment, which he and his friends take back to the TARDIS and examine under laboratory conditions. The seaweed itself seems able to emit noxious gas and is clearly alive. It even expands with little prompting, threatening them with more gas, but retreats when Victoria screams at it. The seaweed is able to feed off natural gas under the sea and convert it to a more noxious version. The Doctor also consults the TARDIS library and shows Victoria a picture of the creature she saw, which is a monster identified by mariners in the North Sea.
Without repair the impeller starts up again and then slows and stops. Van Lutyens insists that Robson take the matter seriously and shuts down the gas flow, but the controller will hear none of it. The Chief Engineer, an old friend, tries to calm him down, but this just sends Robson over the edge. Robson hides in his quarters, where Mr Oak pumps seaweed into his room. Luckily Harris arrives in time to get him out, but Robson has been exposed to the stuff in large quantities and runs away, clearly in great pain. Harris assumes control of the compound on Van Lutyens’ insistence, and a search is set for Robson.
The Doctor and his friends return to the Control Centre. En route they have been to the Harris’ apartment, which has now been over-run by seaweed and foam. He updates the gasmen on his research but is stunned to hear that Maggie Harris was never moved from her apartment. She has, in fact, gone to the beach, where she and Robson are entranced by the heartbeat noise. She follows a deep compulsion to wade into the sea, while Robson walks away in a zombified state, making little sense to Harris when he's found.
Contact has now been lost with Rigs A, C and D, but contact has been made with Megan Jones, Director of Euro Sea Gas, who is coming to investigate the compound in a few hours. Van Lutyens now decides to investigate the impeller shaft himself, but while doing so is taken by the creature in the pipe. The Doctor and Jamie venture into the impeller shaft after Van Lutyens and soon find his torch. Above them, in the impeller room, Oak and Quill reappear and tamper with the operation. The Doctor and Jamie climb back out, having again evaded the seaweed creature.
Megan Jones and her officious aide Perkins have now arrived at the compound, and she seems to care for little other than the drop in gas production. However, a helicopter report from the silent rigs reveals they have been over-run by seaweed and she is forced to concede that things have gone badly awry. Robson briefly returns to the Control Centre in a manic state, which the Doctor ascribes to mind control. Another report now arrives from Baxter in Control Rig, who tells them the rig is being over-run by seaweed before the feed cuts out. All the rigs are soon incommunicado, too, and a colony of seaweed creatures is now developing that threatens far more than just gas production. The Doctor surmises that a rig awakened the creature, which has systematically attacked senior people to destabilize the compound, and guesses the seaweed in the Harris’ apartment was intended not for Maggie but her husband, Frank. The Doctor also deduces that the reason Victoria was attacked in the Oxygen Room was because the oxygen supplies were being sabotaged; they could well be deadly to the seaweed creature and those it controls. This prompts Oak and Quill, who have been watching silently, to slip away and empty the remaining oxygen cylinders. When discovered, the depletion of the oxygen stocks proved there were enemies moving within the compound. Victoria soon identifies Quill and Oak as saboteurs. The latter is knocked out by Jamie, though the former escapes.
Harris has prioritised the capture of Robson, who is found sedate in his room, and Megan Jones demands to see him. He has sunk into a very depressed state and will not be rallied for more than a few brief seconds, when he begs his old friend to help him. They leave him and he rests. On awakening, the heartbeat sound returns to his head, stronger than ever, and he heads off. Within minutes, he has found Victoria and taken her hostage. He has now begun to display seaweed through his skin, and is well advanced in a transformation. He forces her into a helicopter and flies it out to sea. Using a communicator, he invites the Doctor to “come to us” if he wants to see Victoria again.
The seaweed has pumped itself up into the impeller pipe in the impeller room and is soon expanding and throbbing, in the same way the sample in the TARDIS had done. It soon bursts the pipe, flowing everywhere, and starts to fill different rooms. The Doctor is sorry to leave with the compound in crisis, but must travel out to the rig where Victoria has been taken. He commandeers a helicopter and travels with Jamie to the rig, where they find Robson now mostly transformed into a seaweed creature. With the typical bravado of the invader, he says humanity is doomed beneath the seaweed, and tries to gas the Doctor with his breath. Jamie has meanwhile found Victoria and they all escape in a helicopter, but not before Victoria has again repelled the creature using her screams.
The trio return to the Control Centre and discover that Mr Quill has been treated for his possession and is now almost completely recovered, thanks to sound vibrations treatment. It is now clear that sound offers the best defence against the seaweed creature. The Doctor believes the nerve centre of the seaweed creature on the Control Rig can be challenged, using the gas pipeline itself to transmit sound. Loudspeakers are rigged up and Victoria’s screams are recorded for playback and use, all amplified by the Doctor’s technical modifications. With the seaweed creature in the compound now frothing furiously and expanding its size rapidly, the Doctor switches the apparatus on. The scheme is a success. At the compound and on each of the rigs the seaweed has receded, revealing Robson, Maggie Harris and Van Lutyens amongst the survivors, shaken but alive. It is only a matter of time before the gas production resumes.
Victoria has found the battle with the seaweed creature totally draining, and determines to leave the TARDIS crew. She is tired of the constant peril. The Harrises welcome her to their home and though the Doctor is stoic, Jamie is clearly upset by her decision. The Doctor and Jamie stay another day to check that she is sure and then depart in the TARDIS, leaving Victoria watching them from the beach.
). The master videotapes for the story were the final 1960s Doctor Who episodes to be junked; they were authorised for wiping in late 1974.
This is the latest chronological Doctor Who story of which all episodes are missing from the archives. A few seconds of the start of episode 1 (the TARDIS descending vertically to land on the sea) survives due to it being used a year later in episode 10 of The War Games, as does the scene where Oak and Quill launch their toxic gas attack, which survives because it was cut from Australian broadcasts by the censors, and never returned to the BBC.
, was published by Target Books
in May 1986. The cover advertised the volume as a special "bumper" edition, referring to its increased length in comparison to other Target novelisations and as explanation of the consequently higher retail price.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
science fiction television series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 16 March to 20 April 1968. This story marks the final appearance of Deborah Watling
Deborah Watling
Deborah Watling is a British actress best known for her role as Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who....
as Victoria
Victoria Waterfield
Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A native of Victorian England, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1967 to 1968.-Character history:Victoria first...
.
Plot
With the TARDISTARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
having landed in the sea off the eastern coast of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, the Second Doctor
Second Doctor
The Second Doctor is the second incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by character actor Patrick Troughton....
, Jamie
Jamie McCrimmon
James Robert "Jamie" McCrimmon is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A piper of the Clan McLaren who lived in 18th century Scotland, he was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1966...
and Victoria Waterfield
Victoria Waterfield
Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A native of Victorian England, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1967 to 1968.-Character history:Victoria first...
investigate a nearby beach, which seems to have an improbably large amount of sea foam
Ocean foam
Sea foam, ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. These compounds can act as surfactants or foaming...
as well as major gas pipe marked “Euro Sea Gas”. When the Doctor examines the pipe, he thinks he can hear a heartbeat from within. The trio are captured by Robson, a ruthless and highly-strung gas refiner, who heads a major pumping operation with a network of rigs spanning the North Sea
North Sea
In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...
. His assistant is the more amenable Harris, who is deputed to lock the travellers away. It is clear Robson is very unnerved by the deliberate loss of contact with gas drilling Rig D at sea, plus an unexplained drop in the feed line from all the rigs. The Doctor suggests the supposed heartbeat could be a creature inside the pipe, which would account for the drop in pressure, but his further suggestion that the gas flow be suspended while he investigates is taken up by Harris but not by Robson.
At the Control Centre, Robson is pleased to have re-established contact with the silent rig, but all who watch are unnerved by the eerie calm of a man named Carney on-screen, who brushes away the communication loss and explains the emergency crew sent to the rig will be staying there temporarily. With the gas pressure continuing to fall, however, it is clear the emergency continues, and Robson becomes increasingly hostile to Harris’ suggestions, especially when a rig worker and Dutch Government employee called Van Lutyens arrives and also implies the situation is out of control. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria pick the lock on their cell and make it to the Control Centre, too, hiding away while an engineer on the control rig named Baxter calls in to let Robson know his men have detected a heartbeat noise in the pipe.
Harris sends his wife, Maggie, to retrieve a file from their quarters which contains details of the pressure drops; when she fetches it, she finds some seaweed on it which stings when she touches it, then oozes sea foam when she is not looking. She is soon feeling unwell and sends for her husband. He finds her in a bad way, hearing a distinct heartbeat noise pounding through her head. When he leaves to find a doctor, she rises from the bed in zombie fashion and starts to stalk out before regaining her composure. Shortly afterwards, two very odd men visit – one tall, one short – and they are both dressed in white suits and caps. Only Mr Oak, the smaller man, speaks, and he identifies his companion as Mr Quill. They claim to be maintenance engineers there to repair her faulty cooker. When Maggie Harris tries to flee they overpower her with toxic gas emitted from their mouths.
The Doctor and Jamie rescue Victoria, who has wandered off, from the Oxygen Room. Someone had deliberately trapped her inside while foam poured through the vents and formed some sort of seaweed creature, and she is badly shaken. Van Lutyens and Robson are alerted by the commotion, but the latter dismisses this story as nonsense and maintains the travellers are saboteurs. Van Lutyens, however, believes she was deliberately trapped, and recalls the noxious smell in the room by the time they arrived. Robson next hears that the enormous impeller pump that controls the flow of gas along the entire pipeline network has slowed down and become unreliable. Again, he rejects the appeal to shut down the pipes while the breach is investigated, even though without the impeller, the gas flow will not be channelled properly and could build to an explosive state. Robson’s answer is to open a release valve, which does provide a temporary solution but does not solve the falling rate of feed to the receiver stations. The situation takes a turn for the worse when Rig C does not respond to communications calls and then the impeller stops completely, revealing the steady sound of a heartbeat. Robson tries to dismiss the noise as a mechanical fault.
Harris has fetched the Doctor and his friends to take a look at his wife. They find her unconscious, with the stench of the same toxic gas as the Oxygen Room everywhere. She is made comfortable and Harris heads for the medicentre to arrange his wife’s transfer there. The Doctor bags and confiscates the clump of seaweed in the apartment, which he and his friends take back to the TARDIS and examine under laboratory conditions. The seaweed itself seems able to emit noxious gas and is clearly alive. It even expands with little prompting, threatening them with more gas, but retreats when Victoria screams at it. The seaweed is able to feed off natural gas under the sea and convert it to a more noxious version. The Doctor also consults the TARDIS library and shows Victoria a picture of the creature she saw, which is a monster identified by mariners in the North Sea.
Without repair the impeller starts up again and then slows and stops. Van Lutyens insists that Robson take the matter seriously and shuts down the gas flow, but the controller will hear none of it. The Chief Engineer, an old friend, tries to calm him down, but this just sends Robson over the edge. Robson hides in his quarters, where Mr Oak pumps seaweed into his room. Luckily Harris arrives in time to get him out, but Robson has been exposed to the stuff in large quantities and runs away, clearly in great pain. Harris assumes control of the compound on Van Lutyens’ insistence, and a search is set for Robson.
The Doctor and his friends return to the Control Centre. En route they have been to the Harris’ apartment, which has now been over-run by seaweed and foam. He updates the gasmen on his research but is stunned to hear that Maggie Harris was never moved from her apartment. She has, in fact, gone to the beach, where she and Robson are entranced by the heartbeat noise. She follows a deep compulsion to wade into the sea, while Robson walks away in a zombified state, making little sense to Harris when he's found.
Contact has now been lost with Rigs A, C and D, but contact has been made with Megan Jones, Director of Euro Sea Gas, who is coming to investigate the compound in a few hours. Van Lutyens now decides to investigate the impeller shaft himself, but while doing so is taken by the creature in the pipe. The Doctor and Jamie venture into the impeller shaft after Van Lutyens and soon find his torch. Above them, in the impeller room, Oak and Quill reappear and tamper with the operation. The Doctor and Jamie climb back out, having again evaded the seaweed creature.
Megan Jones and her officious aide Perkins have now arrived at the compound, and she seems to care for little other than the drop in gas production. However, a helicopter report from the silent rigs reveals they have been over-run by seaweed and she is forced to concede that things have gone badly awry. Robson briefly returns to the Control Centre in a manic state, which the Doctor ascribes to mind control. Another report now arrives from Baxter in Control Rig, who tells them the rig is being over-run by seaweed before the feed cuts out. All the rigs are soon incommunicado, too, and a colony of seaweed creatures is now developing that threatens far more than just gas production. The Doctor surmises that a rig awakened the creature, which has systematically attacked senior people to destabilize the compound, and guesses the seaweed in the Harris’ apartment was intended not for Maggie but her husband, Frank. The Doctor also deduces that the reason Victoria was attacked in the Oxygen Room was because the oxygen supplies were being sabotaged; they could well be deadly to the seaweed creature and those it controls. This prompts Oak and Quill, who have been watching silently, to slip away and empty the remaining oxygen cylinders. When discovered, the depletion of the oxygen stocks proved there were enemies moving within the compound. Victoria soon identifies Quill and Oak as saboteurs. The latter is knocked out by Jamie, though the former escapes.
Harris has prioritised the capture of Robson, who is found sedate in his room, and Megan Jones demands to see him. He has sunk into a very depressed state and will not be rallied for more than a few brief seconds, when he begs his old friend to help him. They leave him and he rests. On awakening, the heartbeat sound returns to his head, stronger than ever, and he heads off. Within minutes, he has found Victoria and taken her hostage. He has now begun to display seaweed through his skin, and is well advanced in a transformation. He forces her into a helicopter and flies it out to sea. Using a communicator, he invites the Doctor to “come to us” if he wants to see Victoria again.
The seaweed has pumped itself up into the impeller pipe in the impeller room and is soon expanding and throbbing, in the same way the sample in the TARDIS had done. It soon bursts the pipe, flowing everywhere, and starts to fill different rooms. The Doctor is sorry to leave with the compound in crisis, but must travel out to the rig where Victoria has been taken. He commandeers a helicopter and travels with Jamie to the rig, where they find Robson now mostly transformed into a seaweed creature. With the typical bravado of the invader, he says humanity is doomed beneath the seaweed, and tries to gas the Doctor with his breath. Jamie has meanwhile found Victoria and they all escape in a helicopter, but not before Victoria has again repelled the creature using her screams.
The trio return to the Control Centre and discover that Mr Quill has been treated for his possession and is now almost completely recovered, thanks to sound vibrations treatment. It is now clear that sound offers the best defence against the seaweed creature. The Doctor believes the nerve centre of the seaweed creature on the Control Rig can be challenged, using the gas pipeline itself to transmit sound. Loudspeakers are rigged up and Victoria’s screams are recorded for playback and use, all amplified by the Doctor’s technical modifications. With the seaweed creature in the compound now frothing furiously and expanding its size rapidly, the Doctor switches the apparatus on. The scheme is a success. At the compound and on each of the rigs the seaweed has receded, revealing Robson, Maggie Harris and Van Lutyens amongst the survivors, shaken but alive. It is only a matter of time before the gas production resumes.
Victoria has found the battle with the seaweed creature totally draining, and determines to leave the TARDIS crew. She is tired of the constant peril. The Harrises welcome her to their home and though the Doctor is stoic, Jamie is clearly upset by her decision. The Doctor and Jamie stay another day to check that she is sure and then depart in the TARDIS, leaving Victoria watching them from the beach.
Continuity
- At the beginning of Episode 1, Victoria mentions that the TARDIS always seems to land on Earth. The previous 24 episodes, as well as the six episodes of Fury from the Deep, were all set on Earth, the longest run of consecutive Earthbound episodes prior to the Third DoctorThird DoctorThe Third Doctor is the third incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee....
era. - Episode 1 marks the first appearance of the Doctor's sonic screwdriverSonic screwdriverThe sonic screwdriver is a fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spinoffs. It is a multifunctional tool used by The Doctor. Its most common function is that of a lockpick, but can be used to perform other operations such as performing medical scans,...
. Its initial design is a simple penlight.
Production
- Working titles for this story included The Colony of Devils.
- The footage of the TARDIS landing in the sea in episode 1 is later reused in episode 10 of The War GamesThe War GamesThe War Games is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from 19 April to 21 June 1969. It was the last regular appearance of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, and of Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines as companions Zoe...
in the next season. - Episode 3 on the soundtrack starts with the original theme, instead of the version used for most stories since The Faceless OnesThe Faceless OnesThe Faceless Ones is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April 8 to May 13, 1967. The story concerns a race of identity-stealing aliens known as the Chameleons...
.
Missing episodes
None of the six episodes of this serial is known to exist in full (see Doctor Who missing episodesDoctor Who missing episodes
The Doctor Who missing episodes are the instalments of the long-running British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who that have no known film or videotape copies. They were wiped by the BBC during the 1960s and 1970s for economic and space-saving reasons...
). The master videotapes for the story were the final 1960s Doctor Who episodes to be junked; they were authorised for wiping in late 1974.
This is the latest chronological Doctor Who story of which all episodes are missing from the archives. A few seconds of the start of episode 1 (the TARDIS descending vertically to land on the sea) survives due to it being used a year later in episode 10 of The War Games, as does the scene where Oak and Quill launch their toxic gas attack, which survives because it was cut from Australian broadcasts by the censors, and never returned to the BBC.
Cast notes
- Roy Spencer had previously played Manyak in The Ark.
- Hubert Rees later played Captain Ransom in The War GamesThe War GamesThe War Games is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from 19 April to 21 June 1969. It was the last regular appearance of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, and of Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines as companions Zoe...
and John Stevenson in The Seeds of DoomThe Seeds of DoomThe Seeds of Doom is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 31 January to 6 March 1976...
. - June Murphy later played 3rd Officer Jane Blythe in The Sea DevilsThe Sea DevilsThe Sea Devils is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 26 to April 1, 1972.-Synopsis:...
. - John Abineri later played General Carrington in The Ambassadors of DeathThe Ambassadors of DeathThe Ambassadors of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from March 21 to May 2, 1970.-Plot:...
, Richard Railton in Death to the DaleksDeath to the DaleksDeath to the Daleks is a four-part serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. First broadcast from February 23 to March 16, 1974, it comprises four 25-minute episodes. The narrative begins as the TARDIS suffers an energy drain and crash-lands on the planet Exxilon...
and Ranquin in The Power of KrollThe Power of Kroll*When script editor Anthony Read asked Robert Holmes to write the story, there were two requirements: that it include the largest monster in series history and that Holmes minimise the humour that many scripts from the era were known for. This second requirement was a request from higher up at the...
. - Margaret John later played Grandma Connolly in "The Idiot's LanternThe Idiot's Lantern"The Idiot's Lantern" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on 27 May 2006.-Plot:...
".
In print
A novelisation of this serial, written by the series scriptwriter Victor PembertonVictor Pemberton
Victor Pemberton is a British writer and television producer.Victor Pemberton's scriptwriting work included BBC radio plays, and television scripts for the BBC and ITV, including Doctor Who, The Slide and The Adventures of Black Beauty.His television production work included the British version of...
, was published by Target Books
Target Books
Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. The imprint was established as a children's imprint to complement the adult Tandem imprint, and became well known for their highly successful range of...
in May 1986. The cover advertised the volume as a special "bumper" edition, referring to its increased length in comparison to other Target novelisations and as explanation of the consequently higher retail price.
VHS, DVD and CD releases
- The visual material that has remained (very short clips from episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5, behind-the-scenes 8mm colour film, and raw film trims from the recording of episode 6) was released on VHS as part of the "Missing Years" documentary
- They also appeared on DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
as part of the Lost in Time boxset. - The audio soundtracks have been released commercially. In 1993, an abridged audio cassette version was released featuring linking narration by Tom BakerTom BakerThomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is a British actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981.-Early life:...
in character as the Doctor. In 2004, a newly remastered CD version was released with linking narration by Frazer Hines. See List of Doctor Who audio releases. - The unabridged novelisation reading by David Troughton was released by AUDIOGO on 7 July 2011. The reading, complete with new music and sound effects, is presented over six discs, and is available for digital download from AUDIOGO.
- A fan-made documentary entitled The Making of Fury from the Deep was released in 1999 as part of a telesnap reconstruction of the story. Edited by Richard Bignell, it lasts fifty minutes and includes interviews with key members of the production team.
External links
- Photonovel of Fury from the Deep on the BBC website
- Doctor Who Locations - Fury from the Deep