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Image of the Fendahl is a tale of an ancient skull from outer space taking over a woman and turning her into a gestalt creature hell bent on world domination. A wonderfully rich and complex story with an amazingly simple solution – salt. It is a story that harks back to the Phillip Hinchcliffe era of Doctor Who with gothic horror and great characters. 10/10
Commentary Commentary is by Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Wanda Ventham who played Thea Ransome and the Fendah and Edward Arthur who played Adam Colby. It is dull in places. Tom Baker is sometimes irritating with his lovable old fart act. I used to adore him, but I think he is becoming far too much trouble. Wanda and Louise are too busy half the time talking about plays they’ve been in on the stage or Eastenders and forgetting about the action on screen. Edward Arthur I forgot all about half the time, since he contributed so little. Too many actors and no director or producer seems to be the problem. An actor/crew mix is the best kind of commentary. 7/10
Extras After Image is the ‘making of’ documentary and it actually covers a lot more technical detail than the commentary because the actors went off on so many tangents in that. Wanda Ventham speaks very well in the documentary about her role. So does Louise Jameson, and Anthony Read, script editor and Colin Mapson, visual effects – which there were quite a lot of in this story – have their moment in front of camera. 9/10
5/10 Trailer is a very short piece of the original trailer for the episode. Nothing special. 5/10
0/10 Coming Soon trailer presages The Deadly Assassin in a series of cuts that don’t tell very much about the story. 7/10 And there is an Easter Egg with Louise Jameson talking about when they made a 12 inch Leela doll. She did a four hour photo session and then the doll looked nothing like her! Such is life. 9/10 On the whole, not a bad presentation. The dull commentary lets it down.
7 out of 10
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Deleted
and Extended Scenes is a sequence of material cut from the story presented
in a low-quality monochrome recording. It is quite difficult to watch
and I don’t think much of it really adds to the finished production
copy. It was well off on the cutting room floor.
TV
times Billings – I still don’t see the point of them but
eventually I suppose I might have a set for every episode of Doctor
Who EVER!
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