5.29-34 Fury from the Deep

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Episode 1 (animated):
This is the animated version of Fury from the Deep.
The TARDIS lands the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria in the middle of the sea.
Using a dinghy, the trio rowed ashore to a nearby shore.
Quite fun when they saw foam there and had fun with it.
Afterwards they got tranquilised and knocked unconscious.
They unknowingly stepped into the restricted area of Euro Sea Gas.
They are taken to the refinery base where they came to and interrogated by the man who runs the base Robson and he is not exactly a pleasant man.
Before they were shot down the time travellers heard movement in the pipes. In fact whilst inspecting the pipes the Doctor produced the sonic screwdriver marking its first appearance.
Ultimately this presents strange goings-on at the rigs.
A horrifying moment comes when Mrs Harris, the wife of the base's second-in-command was looking at a file that her husband needs and found a sea weed there which stung her!
When we first see foam near the start of this episode there were presented for fun effect for the TARDIS crew.
At the end however it is for the opposite as it plays with menacing effect as it surrounded Victoria and marking the cliffhanger with tendrils coming at her!
A curious thing about the animation is that the base has wanted posters of the Delgado Master.
The Delgado Master and the Master in general only made his debut just some years after Fury from the Deep originally came to air.

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Episode 2 (animated):
Victoria is rescued just in time by the Doctor and Jamie.
Meanwhile Maggie Harris feels ill after being stung by the seaweed.
Her husband is unable to get hold of the base's doctor and asked instead for the Doctor for help even though the Doctor and his friends are meant to be prisoners.
Maggie is now alone in her quarters when she gets a visit from a Mr Oak and Mr Quill who said they were sent to do work there by Robson.
Unfortunately for Maggie, Oak and Quill became a terror for her when they came in her room.
At this moment they opened their mouths producing a hissing sound and causing Maggie to cough.
When Harris came back with the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria they discover that Maggie is in a coma.
They also discover the menace of the seaweed and the Doctor deduces that Mr Harris was meant to be the target for the seaweed not his wife due to it having been in the file that Harris was looking for.
In addition to the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, Robson is having another headache with the visiting Van Lutyens.
Quite an unusual cliffhanger with Van Lutyens saying that something is in the darkness waiting.

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Episode 3 (animated):
Funny with Harris being concerned for his wife that he left the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria alone even though they were supposed to be prisoners!
With experiments in the TARDIS, the TARDIS trio are horrified to discover that the seaweed is alive.
Robson is getting more unhinged with Harris, Van Lutyens and the Chief Engineer now all ganging up against him to turn off the gas which he would not do.
Horrifying with the sea weeds continuing their attacks including disturbing sights of them at Robson quarters and on the Harrises' bed.
Horrifying cliffhanger with both Maggie Harris and Robson being possessed and the former getting into the sea.

Noticed the loudspeaker in the animation is from International Electromatics which would not turn up in the series until a year after this story in The Invasion as well also playing a pivotal part later on in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel.


Maggie Harris is sleeping peacefully just as I sleep peacefully next to Karen Gillan.

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Episode 4 (animated):
Victoria is becoming tired with the things that she has been seeing with her travels with the Doctor as she states among these experiences Daleks and Cybermen.
I didn't think the Doctor was helpful when he added the Yeti into the mix as that rather emphasises Victoria's frustration.
A foreshadowing of a certain decision she would made when all this is over.
Van Lutyens becomes a victim of the weed creature when he made an inspection
Megan Jones, Robson's superior, arrives at the base with his assistant Perkins.
At first skeptical, Jones is willing to believe the Doctor about the weed creature.
In the animation, the wanted poster of the Delgado Master was in the piperoom.
The Doctor was in the piperoom but did he see that poster?
Oak and Quill continues to be creepy with their encounter with Victoria here being a particular point.
The Doctor believes that the weed creature intends to cut off the gas supply to Britain so it can take over the British Isles.
Ominous cliffhanger as the Doctor declares the first part of this invasion.

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Episode 5 (animated):
Oak and Quill gets made here and Jamie gives one of them a thrashing but it was Victoria's scream that brought them down.
The climax here is Victoria gets taken by Robson and takes her to a rig.
Soon the Doctor and Jamie follows them there and what a cliffhanger by how they are greeted by Robson and others and how they are presented in appearance.
Also good joke the Doctor made about the water being lovely as they were in the mist of foam!

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Episode 6 (animated):
Conclusion.
When the Doctor was piloting a helicopter he mentioned Astrid Ferrier from The Enemy of the World, just two stories before this in which Astrid had piloted a helicopter with the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria were her passengers.
Enthralling end to this story with Victoria's scream being used to destroy the seaweed creatures.
Robson, Maggie Harris and others who were possessed are now back to normal
When I first read about this scream in this story, I read it was something that Victoria Waterfield could not live down.
Having earlier expressed her tiredness with what she saw with her travels with the Doctor, it should not be surprising that Victoria decided not to continued her travels with the Doctor and Jamie.
The Doctor then asked the Harrises if they could take care of Victoria and they gladly agree to this request.
A bittersweet farewell to Victoria as she waved goodbye as the Doctor and Jamie are back in the TARDIS for their next adventure, one without Victoria.

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2002 stage play:
In 2002, the Patrick Troughton story Fury from the Deep was adapted on stage at The Old Portsmouth Arts Centre.
This starred Nick Scovell and it ran for about 100 minutes which is considerably less than the running time that it was based on as that consist of six half-hour episodes.
Overall it is a pretty good adaptation of the story managing to address the salient points from the TV story.
Curious aspects of this stage adaptation includes the characters of Van Lutyens and Perkins, male in the original being made female here.
This stage adaptation is very enjoyable and the realisation of the seaweed creature is not half-bad.
Like the original this has Victoria deciding to stay behind and quite sad seeing this played out.

After this stage adaptation saw the story's original writer Victor Pemberton and the stage adaptation director Rob Thrush on an afternoon programme for Portmouth TV.

This include Pemberton not having the TV story to look at when he wrote the novelisation as it has been wiped and having to tell the story in said running time on stage.

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On Fury From The Deep DVD release saw the documentary The Cruel Sea: Surviving From From The Deep on the making of Fury from the Deep.
Fury from the Deep is the story that introduced the sonic screwdriver and therefore it is addressed here as a subject.
This focus on the sonic screwdriver included an example from NuWho by showing clips of Age of Steel when the Doctor and friends were surrounded by Cybermen.
This gave the viewer the impression the Doctor used the sonic screwdriver on the Cybermen with a blast on them coming out of his hand.
However it soon occur to me that wasn't the sonic screwdriver the Doctor used on the Cybermen.
It was instead the power cell from the TARDIS the Doctor used on the Cybermen.