Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep (1968)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 16 March 1968 - 20 April 1968
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Peter Bryant

SCRIPT
Script: Victor Pemberton
Story Editor: Derrick Sherwin

DIRECTION
Director: High David

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Sam Neeter
Film Camera: Ken Westbury

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Colin Hobson

MUSIC
Theme Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Theme Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

SOUND
Studio Sound: David Hughes
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Martin Baugh

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Peter Day, Len Hutton

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Peter Kindred

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Michael Briant
Assistant Floor Manager: Margot Hayhoe

LOCATIONS
Locations: Red Sands Sea Fort, Red Sands, Thames Estuary, UK

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Victor Maddern (Robson)
Roy Spencer (Harris)
Graham Leaman (Price)
Peter Ducrow (guard)
June Murphy (Maggie Harris)
John Garvin (Mick Carney)
Hubert Rees (Chief Engineer)
John Abineri (Van Lutyens)
Richard Mayes (Chief Baxter)
Bill Burridge (Quill)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Victor Maddern (Robson)
Roy Spencer (Harris)
Graham Leaman (Price)
June Murphy (Maggie Harris)
Hubert Rees (Chief Engineer)
John Abineri (Van Lutyens)
Bill Burridge (Quill)
John Gill (Oak)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Victor Maddern (Robson)
Roy Spencer (Harris)
Graham Leaman (Price)
June Murphy (Maggie Harris)
Hubert Rees (Chief Engineer)
John Abineri (Van Lutyens)
Bill Burridge (Quill)
John Gill (Oak)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Victor Maddern (Robson)
Roy Spencer (Harris)
Graham Leaman (Price)
June Murphy (Maggie Harris)
Hubert Rees (Chief Engineer)
John Abineri (Van Lutyens)
Richard Mayes (Chief Baxter)
Bill Burridge (Quill)
John Gill (Oak)
Margaret John (Megan Jones)
Brian Cullingford (Perkins)

Episode 5
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Victor Maddern (Robson)
Roy Spencer (Harris)
Graham Leaman (Price)
Hubert Rees (Chief Engineer)
Bill Burridge (Quill)
John Gill (Oak)
Margaret John (Megan Jones)
Brian Cullingford (Perkins)

Episode 6
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Victor Maddern (Robson)
Roy Spencer (Harris)
Graham Leaman (Price)
June Murphy (Maggie Harris)
Hubert Rees (Chief Engineer)
Margaret John (Megan Jones)
Brian Cullingford (Perkins)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Derek Chafer, Charles Finch (guards)
Bobby Beaumont, Robert Pearson, Bill Straiton. Vic Taylor (technicians)
Michael Durham, Terry Nelson, Roy Pearce, Keith Sissons, Mike Smith, Roy Stevens, Raymond Turson, Tom Wadden, Wallace Wilding (walk-ons)

The TARDIS materialese on the sea off the East Coast of London and they are shot with tranquiliser darts when they try to get ashore. They are taken to a gas refinery where they learn of the base's problems with a feed pipe from an offshore drilling facility. The Doctor investigates and learns that a parasitic form of seaweed has attacked the rigs and is releasing a strange foam that allows it to possess anyone who comes into contact with it.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1968
February
4: UK - location filming takes place
5: UK - location filming takes place
6: UK - location filming takes place
7: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B, London, UK
8: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B, London, UK
9: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B, London, UK
12: UK - location filming takes place
24: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK

March
2: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
5: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
6: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
9: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
16: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
23: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
20: UK - UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove TC1, London, UK
30: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast (on BBC1)

April
6: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast (on BBC1)
13: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast (on BBC1)
20: UK - Episode 6 television broadcast (on BBC1)

Colony of Devils - working title

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.130-136
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.144-146
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens; time travel; the ocean; underwater; seaweed; gas rigs

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009