Horror of Fang Rock

And you think if you'd have just been able to do something set in London or Shropshire or something, you could have just used sets from, you know, whatever, that soap opera over there or that, you know.

I mean, the few times he does write Horror of Fang Rock, Image of the Fendal, they look great.

Yeah,

and they're always the best ones and they look the least shonky.

But then...

No one's ever asked to do Horror of Fang Rock either.

So it's like...

Wow.

Also, it's Graham Williams' first year and he hasn't quite got a handle on.

So all the money is being spent on stuff like Image of the Fendal, which looks really great, and Horror of Fang Rock, which looks really great.

Invisible Enemy, which looks, you know, middling.

And then the money just ran out at the end of the season.

Everything else is just very plotty and very straightforward, and I think, I think that we're going to see an improvement in the '70s again, and I think we're going to see an improvement in the '70s because we get first, um, Terrance Dicks and then Robert Holmes, you know, eventually helping him and, and, you know, making up for the deficiencies in the way he writes dialogue, I think.

I mean, I partially agree with that, but I also think that that is a symptom of what you've identified in the past, Nathan, which is people not wanting to give something like Horror of Fang Rock to Graham Williams.

They always say, "Well, it's a, it's a Philip Hinchcliffe leftover," because Graham Williams couldn't possibly have done something like that that well.

Um, people don't want to give Terry his due for the good dialogue that he does present.

they were airing an episode of Doctor Who called "The Horror on Fang Island."

Fang Rock.

Fang Rock.

"The Horror of Fang Rock."

You have to say it like that, though.

[laughs] "The Horror of Fang Rock."

Thank you.

And this is the Tom Baker Doctor.

And I looked it up, because that's the kind of person I am.

Apparently the episode was The Horror of Fang Rock.

I've never watched an episode of Doctor Who.

Well, it takes place on a lighthouse on the south coast of England.

...

Horror of Fang Rock.

Like, she can direct television.

Yeah.

big problem is with these? And I'll just very quickly address this, because I won't ever get a chance to talk about them again on Finish Big, is that the editor, Andy Frankham-Allen...

He's absolutely obsessed with the past, right? And so he does one called The Beast of Fang Rock, and it's just the horror of Fang Rock again.

Hold on.

Let's just talk

you should listen to that one through the next one is called the beast of fang rock fucking hell which is

a prequel to the

horror of fang rock features and travers i've read this as well and it's basically surely i have read this it's Horror of Fang Rock just redone slightly differently.

No, worse.

Mm.

So I have this sort of theory that, uh, everyone likes to credit Philip Hinchcliffe for Horror of Fang Rock because they don't want to give Graham Williams a win.

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