Fury from the Deep
For its first full-length animated commission, Big Finish was offered what creative director Gary Russell describes as a “poisoned chalice” – in other words, reviving a 1968 Doctor Who story held in special reverence by many.
Today, very few fans can claim to have actually seen the original transmission of Fury from the Deep, whose master videotapes were erased by the BBC in the early 1970s. But, thanks to the precious off -air audio recordings made by the late Graham Strong and other heroes in the 1960s, we know that Fury at least sounds incredible. One of the finest examples of the ‘base under siege’ format, Fury is a glorious melodrama of mankind versus seaweed, performed with conviction by a uniformly powerful cast. Even on audio, it’s clear that director Hugh David infused the proceedings with almost Hitchcockian suspense, resulting in some memorable spinetingling cliff hangers.