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| Image of the Fendahl | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - TV Stories |
| Season Number: | Season 15 |
| Story Number: | 94 |
| Doctor: | Fourth Doctor |
| Companions: | Leela K-9 |
| Enemy: | The Fendahl Maxamillion Stael |
| Setting: | Earth, 1977 |
| Writer: | Chris Boucher |
| Director: | George Spenton-Foster |
| Broadcast: | 29th October - 19th November 1977 |
| Format: | 4 25-minute Episodes |
| Previous Story: | The Invisible Enemy |
| Following Story: | The Sun Makers |
Contents |
An anachronistic twelve-million-year-old human skull has been discovered by archaeologists and is now being used by Professor Fendelman in his time scanner experiments at Fetch Priory in contemporary England. The skull is actually an artifact of the Fendahl, an ancient creature that feeds on the life force of others.
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.
The Doctor shows the remaining scientist, Adam Colby, and two locals, Martha Tyler and her son Jack, how to defend themselves against the Fendahleen using rock salt. By activating the scanner once more, he triggers an implosion that destroys both the Priory and the Fendahl core.
The Doctor and Leela are in the Tardis and arguing whether they can call K9 a man seeing as he is a robot. Meanwhile a Skull has been found and is in a lab that two palaeontologists Thea Ransome and Adam Colby are examing it. As Colby walks out she suddenly becomes engrossed by the skull. Dr. Fendelman the man in charge of the project says that the skull is over twelve millions years old which Adam thinks is wrong as humans where supposed to have evolved 4 million years before that. In the forest there is a man walking and an unseen creature follows him and begins to consume him. All of a sudden the Tardis is affected by a Time Hole. The Doctor traces it to Earth and the Tardis lands at the Priory. Thea is still being controlled by the power of the skull then faints. The next morning she wakes up to find that Adam has gone to walk the dog. Meanwhile the Doctor and Leela find a man called Ted Moss who says there are strange things going on in the Priory. Adam finds the body of the Hitchhiker dead which and tells all the people at the Priory. This leads to Dr Fendelman saying he must cover it all up as he does not want to attract media and police. Dr Fendelman gets his co worker Maximillian Stael to do a post mortem on the body. Dr. Fendalmen organises an secruirity team to cover the base. And a guard called David Mitchel gets into a disagrement with an old local woman Martha Tyler who is a white witch and the cook at the priory. The Doctor and Leela decide they must investigate the priory just as Thea switches on the time scanner she then begings to Merge with the skull agian. Leela and the Doctor have split up there search as Leela goes into a country cottage a gun goes of. The Doctor meanwhile is walking in the woods presumibly towards the Priory when he looses the power in his legs and begins to stop moving.
The Doctor regains control of his legs. Ted Moss, reloads his shotgun and starts to walk out of the Tyler cottage, when Leela overpowers him. Jack Tyler gets rid of Ted Moss and talks with Leela. Thea is being gradually taken over by the skull (the Fendahl). The Fendahl kills Mitchell, the secuiry guard. An unconscious Thea briefly transforms into a group of embryo Fendahleen. Doctor Fendahlman has the Doctor loced up in a storage room. Jack Tyler talks to Leela about his "gran" and the old religion, and being involved with "something nasty" Leela tells him that she thinks the Doctor can help. Thea and Adam go to talk to Dr. Fendahlman about the disconnected telephone. Fendahlman explains that he thinks the skull is extraterrestrial. Mrs. Tyler returns to the cottage, terrified. Max Stael is secretly the leader of a local coven. Fendahlman shows Adam the skull x-ray.
There is a pattern of a pentagram on surface of the skull. Mother Tyler says that something was after her, "hungry" for her soul. Thea enters the room where the time scanner is kept. She sees the x-ray of the skull. Max shows up and says that she is the key to his power, the chosen one. The Doctor enters the room where the skull is kept. He finds the skull. It begins to "power up", glowing brightly. It forces him to touch it. He yells in pain as the skull glow ever brighter
| Season 15 |
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| Horror of Fang Rock • The Invisible Enemy • Image of the Fendahl • The Sun Makers • Underworld • The Invasion of Time |
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