Deleted and Extended Scenes' - from a low-quality copy of the location filming, but interesting to fans. Costume designer Amy Roberts deemed Louise Jameson's costume to be in need of replacement, having now been in use for almost a year. Initially, Graham Williams was inclined to simply have a replica constructed, but he eventually decided to proceed with a new, more form-hugging design. Image of the Fendahl' was the last story in the legendary Gothic era of `Doctor Who'. It has all the elements of a classic of this period but I'm not at all sure that it is. 4* with reservations.

Good performances from Uncle Tom who always seems to enjoy himself with a bit of horror and Louise J, whose Leela is always at home with a bona fide monster. viewable as PDF files, which you can look at if you view the disc on a computer, are the radio times listings for the story.Writer Chris Boucher was unable to complete rewrites to the script due to his appointment as script editor on the BBC television series Blake's 7 so incoming script editor Anthony Read took over. This fact explains why, for a Boucher script, the story is unusually full of info-dumps, whereas they tend to crop up in Read's work, such as The Horns of Nimon. [1] a commentary from tom baker and louise jameson, who played his companion leela, plus wanda ventham and edward arthur who play characters in the story.

Two days after filming was completed Tom Baker and Louise Jameson attended the world's first ever Doctor Who convention in London.Thea is again drawn to the room where the time scanner is kept and sees the x-ray of the skull. Stael appears and, revealed as the leader of the local coven, proclaims she is the key to his power, the chosen one. Thea tries to leave, but Stael grabs her and uses chloroform to render her unconscious.

With dark forces lurking and horrible things happening to a hitch hiker, the fate of the world is at stake... Summary: I vaguely recall something about a skull, worms, Medusa Lady, the mad-as-a-box-of-frogs Gran, and the costumes.But Tom Baker's fourth season in the role did contain this story, a script originally commissioned during those earlier years, and as a result it's pretty much the last attempt at gothic horror they mounted. Shirtless Scene: Limited — Adam Colby somehow manages to completely unbutton his shirt while tied to a pillar. Marco Fendelman wanted to resurrect the Fendahl after the files of the incident at Fetch Priory. The Fendahl manipulated Gwen Cooper into become it's core. Gwen eventually managed to overcome this due to her Torchwood training. ( AUDIO: Night of the Fendahl)

DOCTOR: Well, telepathy and precognition are normal in anyone whose childhood was spent near a time fissure, like the one in the wood. Dr. Fendelman: Fendel-man — man of the Fendahl! I have been used! You have been used! MANKIND HAS BEEN USED!! The Doctor asked me if my name was real. Don't you see? Fendelman. Man of the Fendahl. Only for this moment have the generations of my fathers lived. I have been used. You have been used. Mankind has been used." The Doctor says 'We're being dragged towards a relative continuum displacement zone' (his other explanation 'a hole in time' is more understandable). GoofsIt should come as no surprise that Bucher-Jones is a big fan of Image of Fendahl: after all, he co-authored the 1999 novel, The Taking of Planet 5 with Mark Clapham (and yes, a handy appendix points out places where Fendahl‘s narrative is expanded). But he’s not blinded to its faults. In fact, there’s a section balancing out the good and the bad. Although I find some ‘bad’ points are easy to explain away, his sheer enthusiasm for the story shines through in the ‘good’, pleasingly including script extracts featuring Mother Tyler. Image of the Fendahl was released to DVD in the UK in April 2009 and in North America in September 2009. DOCTOR: No. Well, I should have thought it. I was frightened in childhood by a mythological horror. X-rays of the skull reveal the shape of a pentagram which Fendelman thinks is a form of 'neural relay'. The Doctor says that the skull must have come to Earth, taking in Mars on the way - which he describes as dead (see The Ice Warriors). Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping wrote in The Discontinuity Guide (1995) that Image of the Fendahl was "one of the best stabs at outright horror in Doctor Who's history". They said it was "possibly one episode too long... but the verve of the production more than makes up for this." [7] In The Television Companion (1998), David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker felt that the scripts were "a little vague when it comes to certain details about the Fendahleen" and the Fendahl was "something of a disappointment", but they praised the supporting characters, in particular Daphne Heard's performance, who "plays the role to perfection and is largely responsible for conveying the sense of high tension and anticipation in the latter episodes". They considered Image of the Fendahl to be "one of the last truly frightening Doctor Who stories". [8]