MISSING IN ACTION!
FIRST BROADCAST 16 March – 20 April 1968
Fury from the Deep exists! Well, that’s a headline every fan would love to see. But in a way, Fury from the Deep does still exist. It exists in the minds of a lucky few – a dwindling few – now in their 50s or older who watched this six-part Doctor Who serial on BBC1 in 1968. (You may of course be slightly younger and caught it when it was shown later in other countries.) I have two friends who are not fans but followed the programme religiously in the 1960s. Both said something along the lines of: “Oh, the one with the seaweed! That was the best. I’d love to see that again – can I borrow the DVD?” Picture their dismay when I told them the videotapes had been wiped long ago. One friend recalled: “When the girl [Victoria] was trapped in a room and this slimy thing attacked her through a vent – that scared the s*** out of me.” Fury from the Deep is the one story still vivid in their memories.