Tag: Victor Pemberton

Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep

by Derelict Space Sheep on February 24, 2021 in 42 Word Retrospectives

Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep

by Victor Pemberton; dir. Hugh David (BBC, 1968/2020)

This lost story always had good wraps—a tightly written, claustrophobic six-parter bolstered by Dudley Simpson’s tense score (and a resolution that validates the screaming companion!). Its rebirth in animated form makes for a welcome addition, albeit that Troughton remains quintessentially inimitable.

Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep

by Derelict Space Sheep on July 6, 2018 in 42 Word Retrospectives

Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep

by Victor Pemberton (Target, 1986)

Having opened on a well-staged cliffhanger, Pemberton proceeds with a workmanlike retelling of this lost serial, contented more or less to prosify his own script. Off-screen as on-, his only feat of note is the puckish metatextualising of Doctor Who’s screaming companion.