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Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock (Episode 92)

starring: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson

: Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock (Episode 92)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419813146
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1419813145
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 13561
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1975



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The Doctor and Leela become top suspects in the mysterious deaths that occur when an eerie fog engulfs the Fang Rock lighthouse in this turn-of-the-century adventure.

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'Something is going on here. Something I don't understand.' So states the old lighthouse keeper on the remote, fog-shrouded island of Fang Rock in this haunting story from Doctor Who's 15th season. If you are a new visitor to the universe of this venerable British sci-fi series, no doubt you will share his sentiment.

But for this particular story, you need not know that Doctor Who is a Time Lord who travels the cosmos in a spacecraft called the TARDIS, an interplanetary time machine that looks like a police call box, or that Tom Baker, who portrays him here, is the fourth and perhaps most popular incarnation of the good Doctor.

Horror of Fang Rock is as much ghost story as science fiction. The TARDIS has deposited the vacation-bound Doctor and his companion, Leela, on Fang Rock ('You told me I would like Brighton,' an unimpressed Leela remarks about the desolate surroundings), just after a strange light was witnessed plummeting from the sky into the sea. A mysterious fog envelopes the lighthouse, and one of its inhabitants is mysteriously killed. When a ship runs aground, its passengers take refuge in the lighthouse and find themselves stalked as well. Is it the mythical Beast of Fang Rock or, as the Doctor suspects, an alien menace?

The cheesy mid-1970s-vintage special effects are part of this show's charm. Like Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, what Doctor Who lacks in production values, it more than makes up for in verbal ingenuity. 'Are you in charge?' someone asks the Doctor. 'No,' he responds, 'but I'm full of ideas.' --Donald Liebenson



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - My favorite Tom Baker episode
In a series about a character who can travel to any place in any time, it seems a little ironic that ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - CLASSIC WHO!
The premiere story of season fifteen, "Horror of Fang Rock" is a fantastic four-parter from the classic ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The beginning of a new era
The first story of season 15 finds the show picking up a new producer and starting with another great story. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Another Great Dr. Who episode
This was another episode that only Tom Baker could have done when compared to the previous and future doctor. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great Episode!
Three guys manning a lighthouse take shifts on the watch -- the youngest of them spots a strange light come down ... Read More

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