Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl

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This story had a working title of The Island of Fandor. (It didn't. This myth originated when Gordon Blows, then editor of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society magazine TARDIS, misheard the title of the story over the phone and reported it incorrectly. The Big Finish story Island of the Fendahl was set on Fandor as a nod to this.)

From ‘ The Road’ – Kneale’s lost 1963 play, ‘ Fendahl’ takes the time fissure in the woods. The Kneale Play is set in mediveal England but there are unearthly sounds breaking through. If you don’t know how the play develops, I will leave you to find out for yourself and is it is worth discovering unspoilered. Let us just say that the ghosts are from the future, rather than the past. The TV story is long lost, but Toby Hadoke recently adapted it for BBC Radio and it is well worth a listen if you can find it. Drawn by the operation of the scanner, the Doctor and Leela arrive as the experiments reach a peak. The skull is exerting an influence over the mind of Thea Ransome, one of the scientists in Fendelman's team, and glowing with power each time the scanner is activated. Thea is eventually transformed into the Fendahl core, and a group of acolytes assembled by Maximillian Stael - another of Fendelman's team, who is trying to harness the creature's power for his own ends - are converted into snake-like Fendahleen. Discover more high quality Doctor Who figurines with the Doctor Who Figurine Collection! From iconic box sets like the Doctor Who Story Figurine Box Sets: Image of the Fendahl to individual figurines of your favorite Doctor Who character, you won’t want to miss this collection! The Doctor asked if my name was real. Fendelman. Man of the Fendahl. Don’t you see? Only for this have the generations of my fathers lived. I have been used! You are being used! Mankind has been used!Finally this story joins the ranks of those that literally neglect to include some important moments in the final edit. The ending of part 1 is choppy, there’s leaps of faith with no explanation and I’m sure I don’t have to mention part 4’s scene in the Tardis.

Howe, David J& Walker, Stephen James (1998). Doctor Who: The Television Companion (1sted.). London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0-563-40588-7. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) On present day earth [as of the year of transmission] the tardis arrives in the british countryside near a country priory where scientists are conducting expermients on an ancient skull. Scificollector are pleased to be able to now make it available to collectors and this Death Dalek mega sculpt makes for a fitting completion to the collection. Look past the painted eyelids, and there’s something unutterably disturbing about Image of the Fendahl, Chris Boucher’s 1977 masterpiece starring Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson’s Leela. Millennia ago, Time Lords didn’t destroy the Fendahl, which haunts them and prepares to kill. At a haunted priory in haunted woods, an impossibly old skull revived the Doctor’s nightmares and drew Thea Ransom as her scientific team scanned a hole in time threatening the Earth. The story focused on the skull until the Doctor arrived asking about deaths.Whilst the ending of the story and the defeat of a menace that has been built up as incredibly dangerous, perhaps feels a bit perfunctory, the lengths they have to go to actually destroy the menace – trapping the core and the Fendahleen inside the imploding priory and having to drop the skull into the heart of a supernova, also help to sell the nature and scale of the menace. How do you kill death itself? Well, take all of that with a pinch of salt… Barnes, Alan (28 February 2007). "The Fact of Fiction: Image of the Fendahl". Doctor Who Magazine (379): 42–50.