Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl

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The model `baby' Fendahleen work far better, like particularly sinister little cobras. There is a bizarre moment when Thea collapses in a golden glow and two baby Fendahleen monsters appear sitting on her body. Bizarre, because it's effectively done and a dramatic moment, which everyone then seems to forget about within five minutes, including Thea's assumed boyfriend Adam, whose next scenes with Thea are mostly spent worrying about a disconnected telephone! Bucher-Jones’ stance is essentially: you think Fendahl is scary, but you don’t know the half of it. The Fendahl skull was found in Kenya in volcanic sediment. Thea Ransome's potassium-argon tests indicate it is 12 million years old (according to Colby, this is 8 million years older than it can conceivably be). However, the Fendahl was supposed to have been destroyed on the Fifth Planet, 107 million miles from Earth [a reasonable orbit for a planet between Mars and Jupiter]. Speaks Fluent Animal: The Doctor bids a herd of cows good morning and asks them if they know where the Macguffin is. If his claims in later stories that he can understand any animal are true, they don't have anything useful to tell him.

Meanwhile, the Fourth Doctor and Leela are in the TARDIS, worrying over the damaged K9. The Doctor insists on referring to K9 as an "it", to Leela's chagrin. As the Doctor tries to repair K9, the TARDIS is affected by a Relative Continuum Displacement Zone — a hole in time. The Doctor traces it to Earth, and the TARDIS lands near the Priory the next day. The Doctor and Leela find a man called Ted Moss. He says there are strange things going on in the Priory. Deleted and Extended Scenes' - from a low-quality copy of the location filming, but interesting to fans.Apocalypse Maiden: Thea Ransome, although most of the associated emotional turmoil is absent simply because Adam Colby never really figures out what is going on. Subverted later on when the Doctor is examining the dead Fendahleen. He comments that it is beautiful, but when Leela questions this he reveals he was actually talking about the way he killed it.

The Eighth Doctor later prevented the Time Lords from releasing the Fendahl in around 12,000,000 BC. ( PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5) Richard Leakey was also head of the Kenyan Wildlife Service – which is the context I once very briefly met him in, at a lecture. His work in conservation and in particular his robust approach to anti-poaching patrols, won him few friends in Kenya and he subsequently lost both legs in a plane crash, suspected to be an act of sabotage. Shirtless Scene: Limited — Adam Colby somehow manages to completely unbutton his shirt while tied to a pillar.

Plot

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.) 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! 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.