"Doctor Who" Fear Her (2006)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Euros Lyn

Writer:

Mathew Graham (written by)

TV Series:

"Doctor Who" (2005)

Original Air Date:

24 June 2006 (Season 2, Episode 11)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The Doctor and Rose travel to London in 2012 to see the Olympics - only to find that children are mysteriously disappearing before peoples very eyes...

Plot Keywords:

Tardis | Fantasy Episode | Alien | Time Lord | Companion

Cast

David Tennant	...	The Doctor
Billie Piper	...	Rose Tyler
Nina Sosanya	...	Trish
Abisola Agbaje	...	Chloe
Edna Doré	...	Maeve (as Edna Dore)
Tim Faraday	...	Tom's Dad
Abdul Salis	...	Kel
Richard Nichols	...	Driver
Erica Eirian	...	Neighbour
Stephen Marzella	...	Police Officer
Huw Edwards	...	Commentator (voice)

Runtime:

45 min | 45 min (50 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:PG

Trivia:

This episode takes place in summer but was actually filmed in January. Concerns over the fact that the actors' breath was sometimes visible (most notably in the scene where the neighbors are yelling at each other in the middle of the street) prompted the inclusion of the Doctor's line at the beginning referencing the cold and wondering if someone was sucking the heat out.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When the Doctor starts sniffing in a man's garden, just before Rose says she can smell metal, the camera is reflected in the house's window.

Quotes:

The Doctor: I was a dad once.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969)

Very Dull

This is considered to be the weakest story of series two and it's not very difficult to see why . Coming after a couple of stories , one of which is considered to be a modern classic ( The Impossible Planat/Satan Pit ) while the other ( Love And Monsters ) is one of the most radical pieces of television produced Fear Her was never going to be all that well received , but its Luke warm reception is to do mainly with the fact it's a very dull predictable story

If you watched the " next time " trailer from the previous week then you'll know in advance as to what the story is about and therefore there's no suspense . You also can't help notice that because the plot was one of those written on the back of a cigarette packet efforts then there's so much padding centered around on dysfunctional family issues , in this case single parenthood . Really I often think some of the writers would be more at home working on EASTENDERS or CORONATION STREET . All this is bad enough but we've got a bloody stupid sequence of the Doctor carrying the Olympic torch ! It shows had badly constructed the episode was when you've got to include crap like that