Doctor Who: Classic 26x3: "The Curse of Fenric" Parts 1-4 | Reaction!

Curse of Fenric has been one of my favourite DW stories for a very long time. It's 100 minutes of near Lovecraftian horror with eerie music, disgustingly great monsters, a twisted Elder God and Viking curses, all wrapped in a deliciously atmospheric WW2 setting with good side characters (Wainwright, Judson, Millington, etc), all wrapping up Ace's background story in one fell swoop before the season finale. That episode 3 cliffhanger is spine-chilling, and the music when Wainwright confronts the haemovores for the first time has always stuck in my mind. I'll always remember 7th crushing Ace's faith to win the day.

Something they have put in older subtitles but not in newer versions, when the Doctor is praying to show faith driving the creatures away, he's actually saying the names of his companions. "Susan, Barbara, Ian...".

You were right first time Alex it was "Pyramids of Mars" with Sutekh.

Classic Doctor Who stories were often effectively a team effort although one writer is credited. It was script editor Andrew Cartmel who was guiding storylines these last 2 seasons, so the tying of the different threads together would be his work

The Doctor does indeed notice the chess set in Silver Nemesis. He either comments on the position that the game is in, or plays a move in the game, or both - I can't quite remember which... but there is a seemingly (then) throwaway moment featuring it.

So you liked our Ancient one did you ? Lol it’s one of my favourite creations/stories too. Happy days.

Classic Who Playlist should be on School and University Syllabuses because Richard gives massive history info dumps on the historical stories 😁

Probably my absolute favourite Classic story, this one. So deliciously atmospheric, so wonderfully dark and arch and thematically rich. Expertly directed, WONDERFULLY scored and brilliantly performed. That Doctor Who was cancelled after airing a story THIS good is next to criminal.

I absolutely love this story. Such a great one, great Monsters with the vampiric Haemovore’s and the Ancient One, and Ace in this story is brilliant and the reveal at the end is so heartbreaking. I also really love the concept of Faith they use against the Haemovores in the story too. But next week is the end but the moment has been prepared for… btw thanks for uploading this on my birthday!!

When my Dad showed me this as a 7 year old i shat myself and was so scared lol. Fact check Victoria died January 22nd 1901 not 1910, thats when her son Edward died.

You mentioned artificial rain. No, it was just unpredictable British weather making continuity a nightmare for the production team, so much so that they added a line about Fenric messing with the weather.

This is my favourite 7th Dr story.

The hair loss is probably genetic, but it may possibly be due to the fact that you could never seem to stop brushing it.

Ghost light is 1883. Fenric is 1940-something. Visitation and Black orchid are 1666 and 1925

I understood the story about King Cnut, who was a Dane, although the term 'Dane' then covered people from southern Norway as well as what we now know as Denmark, to actually be that Cnut was making a point to his courtiers about their silliness in flattering him by saying how he was so majestic even the waves would obey him. The moral is the same though

This is definitely one of my favorite story's from Classic Doctor Who. Great plot, great villian and a nicely written end to the mystery behind Ace being flung into the future in Dragonfire. I especially love the story because its production values are great from an era where there wasn't much backing from the BBC.

The British contribution to the Manhattan Project was significant, and they played a crucial role in the development of the atomic bomb. The British government and scientists were aware of the potential of nuclear fission and began their own research in 1941, even before the United States. The British project was known as “Tube Alloys.” In 1942, the British and American governments signed the Quebec Agreement, which established a joint effort to develop the atomic bomb. The British contributed scientists, resources, and expertise to the project, including the famous physicist James Chadwick, who led the British Mission to the Los Alamos Laboratory The USA stole the completed project going back on the agreement to share the results, and the UK had to recreate it all again.

An awesome story and the way the 2 girls turn into vampiric creatures is awesome in billions of ways.

You are spot on with Ghost Light. Never understand the comments. Relatively simple if very surreal and unusual and rather brilliantly spooky and atmospheric.

The older lady (Judson's assistant/carer) is played by the same woman who played Mrs Finnegan (another haemovore) in Smith and Jones.