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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)
Country of Origin:
UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 12 March 1999
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 5 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: BBC / Comic Relief
Executive Producer: Richard Curtis
Producer: Sue Vertue
Production Manager: Alison MacPhail
SCRIPT
Script: Steven Moffat
Daleks Created By: Terry Nation
DIRECTION
Director: John Henderson
1st Assistant Director: Tim Lewis
2nd Assistant Director: Shawn Ricketts
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Chris Howard
Camera Operators: Martin Foley, Jamie Harcourt
Camera Assistants: Stuart Clayton, David Hedges
Camera Trainee: Sarah Welsh
Lighting Gaffer: Colin McCarthy
Electricians: Paul Barlow, Dick Crane, Michael Plumley
Key Grip: Ray Hall
Grip: Darren Quinn
Vision Engineer: Simon Lyon
Crane Operator: Dave Foster
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Offline Editor: Nick Arthurs
MUSIC
Music Consultant: Mark Ayres
Theme Music: Ron Grainer
(uncredited)
SOUND
Sound Recordist: John Midgley
Boom Operators: June Prinz, Clive Osbourne
Dubbing Editors: Glenn Calder, Philip Mechan
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up Designer: Jan Sewell
Make Up: Julie Dartnall, Mandy Gold
Costume Designer: Rebecca Hale
Wardrobe Supervisor: Clare Grant VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Andy McVean, Mike Tucker
Post-Production Effects: Liz Browne, Dave Houghton, Ben Turner
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Simon Kimmel
Art Director: Sarah Milton
Production Buyer: Bob Warans
Props Master: Paul Emerson
Standby Props: Andrew Mortimer, Steve Smith, Gary Watson
Standby Carpenter: Phil John
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Lorraine Anderson
Stage Manager: Mark Palmer
Artist Booker: Samantha Taylor
Production Assistant: Debbie Somerville
Production Runner: Charlotte Browne
LOCATIONS
Studio: Pinewood Studios, England, UK
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Pinewood Studios; ComacLighting; Positive Film and Television;
Arri Modin; The Mill; Willie's Wheels; Video Sonics; The Spot Company;
Michael Samuelson Company; The Location Cafe; Ashley Neal Fuller;
Stephen Cranford; Dick Clarke; Chris Kirk; Gary Gillatt; David Saunders;
Andrew Beech
STUNTS
Stunts: Gabe Cronnelly CAST
Rowan Atkinson
(The Doctor)
Jonathan Pryce (The Master)
Julia Sawalha (Emma)
Richard E. Grant
(The Doctor)
Jim Broadbent
(The Doctor)
Hugh Grant (The
Doctor)
Joanna Lumley
(The Doctor)
Roy Skelton, Dave Chapman (Dalek voices)
PLOT SUMMARY
The Doctor decides that it's time to settle down and wants to marry
his companion, Emma. But his old enemies The Master and the Daleks
are determined to kill him, triggering a series of increasingly unlikely
regenerations.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Not as funny as it could have been, there's still much to enjoy in
The Curse of Fatal Death. Atkinson makes for a surprisingly
good Doctor and Pryce is superb as The Master. Sawalha is so good that
one can't help wonder how things would have turned out if she'd accepted
the offer to play Ace opposite Sylvester McCoy's Doctor. A few neat
one-liners and throwaway quips don't quite make up for the surfeit of
tit and fart gags, but it's all done in the spirit of fun and charity
and there have certainly been a lot worse crimes committed in the name
of Doctor Who.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributors: BBC; UK Gold
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1999
February
22: UK - recording begins
24: UK - recording ends
March
12: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1 (as part of Comic Relief))
2003
November
22: UK - telvision broadcast (on UK Gold (as part of Doctor Who @
40 Weekend))
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Doctor Who (1963 - 1989)
Doctor
Who (1996)
Doctor Who (2005)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
In-Vision no.106 (2003) pp.2-13 (UK)
production notes, credits KEYWORDS
aliens, cyborgs, daleks, time travel
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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