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{{dab page|The Curse of Fenric (disambiguation)}}
{{dab page|The Curse of Fenric (disambiguation)}}
'''''The Curse of Fenric''''' was the sixth and final episode in the ''[[Tales of the TARDIS]]'' series, released on [[BBC iPlayer]] on [[1 November (releases)|1 November]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] by the [[BBC]], written by [[Pete McTighe]] and directed by [[Joshua M.G. Thomas]].
'''''The Curse of Fenric''''' was the sixth episode in the ''[[Tales of the TARDIS]]'' series, released on [[BBC iPlayer]] on [[1 November (releases)|1 November]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] by the [[BBC]], written by [[Pete McTighe]] and directed by [[Joshua M.G. Thomas]].


This story consists of two newly recorded scenes bookending the omnibus version of the TV story ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]''.
This story consists of two newly recorded scenes bookending the omnibus version of the TV story ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]''.
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
[[Ace]] appears in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Tales of the TARDIS)|remembered TARDIS]] and looks around to find both the Seventh Doctor's hat and the baseball bat that she once used to damage an [[Imperial Dalek]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') After the Seventh Doctor says that she gave the Dalek quite a beating, Ace embraces him before he takes his hat from her.
 
Ace tells the Doctor that he was a hologram the last time she saw him and he has become older. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') The Doctor goes on to explain that time streams are funny things and there are some time streams where he doesn't regenerate. After Ace explains that she was in a meeting when she appeared in the TARDIS, the Doctor explains that they are standing in a memory TARDIS where old friends come together to remember certain events.
 
The Doctor sits in a chair and moves a [[chess]] piece across the board before telling Ace that he thought about her every day. Ace says that she wishes she never left the Doctor, prompting the Doctor to tell her that the remembered TARDIS is forever and they can return to it whenever they like with a wish.
 
Ace remembers that she wished she was somewhere else, and she soon got her wish when she was transported to [[Iceworld|Iceworld]] by [[Fenric]] as part of his game of traps. She then becomes reluctant to remember her encounter with Fenric, but the Doctor tells her that they both should remember as pain comes to define them along with the joy. As the Doctor decides to remember the day that both he and Ace met Fenric, he takes Ace's hand as [[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|the memories begin to flood back]].


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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== Crew ==
== Crew ==
''to be added''
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|Writer=Pete McTighe
|Producer=Scott Handcock
|Director=Joshua M.G. Thomas
|1stAD=Michael Williams
|2ndAD=Lauren Pate
|3rdAD=Micah Joshua Brown
|FloorRunner=Callum Gronert
|ProductionCoOrdinator=Florence Boyd-Gorst
|AsstProductionCoOrdinator=Jamie McKee
|ExecutiveAsstTo1=Dee Brooker
|AssistedExec1a=Jane Tranter
|ExecutiveAsstTo2=Kaleigh O'Boyle
|AssistedExec2a=Julie Gardner
|ExecutiveAsstTo3=Gwenno Hughes
|AssistedExec3a=Russell T Davies
|AssistedExec3b=Phil Collinson
|ExecutiveAsstTo4=Sophie-May Twose
|AssistedExec4a=Joel Collins
|LocationAssistant=Joe Coombes
|StudioManager=Richard Balshaw
|StudioAssistant=Lloyd Di Mauro
|ProductionAccountant=Sean Kenneally
|AsstAccountantPayroll=Sarah Taylor
|CameraOperator=Martin Stephens
|FocusPuller=Cai Thompson
|ClapperLoader=Josh Greenway
|CameraTrainee=Ben Bellingham
|DigitalImagingTechnician=David Buckley
|KeyGrip=Ken Hodgson
|GripTrainee=Rhys Jones
|ScriptSupervisor=Ines Mayorga
|1stAssistantSound=Tom Markwick
|2ndAssistantSound=Hugo Lagnado
|SoundTrainee=Dan Lewis
|Gaffer=Jon Down
|BestBoy=Matt Hutchings
|DeskOperator=Alan King
|Electrician=Chris Hughes
|Electrician2=Benji Hutchings
|StandbyRigger=Elliot Williams
|StandbyCarpenter=Phil Sharrocks
|SupervisingArtDirector=Robyn Paiba
|StandbyArtDirector=Nikki Joseph
|SetDecorator=Adrian Anscombe
|PropMaster=Nick Thomas
|StandbyProps=Phillip Bull
|PropHand=Atiff Tahir
|PropHand2=Ingo Hans
|PropHand3=Jason White
|PropHand4=John Thomas
|PropHand5=Mathew Shrimpton
|PropHand6=Stuart Rankmore
|Graphics=Stephen Fielding
|Playback=Ryan-Sam Marshall
|CostumeSupervisor=Laura Baker
|AsstCostumeDesigner=Pandora Ellis
|CostumeStandby=Charlotte Woods
|CostumeSeamstress=Nia Kanellaki
|CostumeAsst=Ellie Finch
|HairMake-upArtist=Rebecca Cole
|HairMake-upArtist2=Dianne Jamieson
|TraineeHairMake-upArtist=Lois Weekes
|TransportManager=Julian Binning
|UnitDriver=Paul Watkins
|CateringSuppliedBy=Scene Cuisine
|HODHealthSafetyMedical=John Fillingham
|AsstSafetyManager=Terry Davies
|Medic=Daniel Taylor
|FacilitiesManager=Bob Gurney
|CastingAssociate=Becky Rossmaur
|CastingAssistant=Kristian Wall
|1stAsstEditor=Emily Lawrence
|PostProdSupervisor=Liv Duffin
|Colourist=Gareth Spensley
|Colourist2=Christine Kelly
|OnlineEditor=Geraint Pari Huws
|AudioPostProduction=Bang Post Production
|Titles=Painting Practice
|VisualEffects=Painting Practice
|VFXCoOrdinator=Siân Reynish
|CastingDirector=Andy Pryor
|OriginalTheme=Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
|Music=Sam Watts
|DOP=Ryan Eddleston
|ProductionDesigner=Phil Sims
|CostumeDesigner=Pam Downe
|Make-upDesigner=Julie Kendrick
|Editor=Joseph Keirle
|Re-recordingMixer=Emilie Thomson
|PostProdProducer=Ceres Doyle
|LineProducer=Medyr Llewelyn
|ProductionExec=Steffan Morris
|JuniorProductionExec=Charlotte Cox
|DirectorOfProduction=Emily Russell
|ProductionExecBBCStudios=John Hamer
|ExecutiveProdForTheBBC=Rebecca Ferguson
|CommissioningEditorBBC=Lindsay Salt
|ExecutiveProd3=Jane Tranter
|ExecutiveProd2=Julie Gardner
|ExecutiveProd4=Joel Collins
|ExecutiveProd5=Phil Collinson
|ExecutiveProd=Russell T Davies}}


== Worldbuilding ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* When Ace asks why he looks so old, the Doctor cryptically replies how "[[time stream]]s are funny things" and that his regenerating is "all a matter of perspective."
* When Ace asks why he looks so old, the Doctor cryptically replies how "[[time stream]]s are funny things" and that his regenerating is "all a matter of perspective."
* The Doctor mentions [[the Rani]], and suggests she may have played a role in his and Ace's falling out.
* The Doctor mentions [[the Rani]], and suggests she may have played a role in his and Ace's falling out.
* After she left the Doctor, Ace visited [[Kathleen Dudman]] before she died in a care home, and believes she recognised her as the yiung woman who helped her flee [[Maiden's Point]] for [[London]].
* After she left the Doctor, Ace visited [[Kathleen Dudman]] before she died in a care home, and believes she recognised her as the young woman who helped her flee [[Maiden's Point]] for [[London]].
* The [[chess set]] set up between the two chairs is set up in the same way the Doctor set up the game for Fenric. The Doctor also plays the solution.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
[[File:TOTT The Curse of Fenric.jpg|thumb|Official [[BBC iPlayer]] thumbnail for the episode.]]
''to be added''
''to be added''


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
{{section cleanup|As per [[Forum:Non-valid Continuity sections, categories, and prefixes#Continuity sections]], this section needs to be written from an '''out-of-universe perspective'''.}}
{{section cleanup|As per [[Forum:Non-valid Continuity sections, categories, and prefixes#Continuity sections]], this section needs to be written from an '''out-of-universe perspective'''.}}
* Ace finds [[Ace's baseball bat|her baseball bat]] while searching the console room, and the Doctor reminds her how she used it to destroy a [[Dalek]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* A [[Red Kang]] flag hangs from one of the consoles. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')
* The Doctor quotes himself when he retrieves his hat from Ace, using the same words when he reclaimed it from her in [[Perivale]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
* Ace finds [[Ace's baseball bat|her baseball bat]] while searching the console room, and the Doctor reminds her how she used it to destroy a [[Imperial Dalek|Dalek]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor quotes himself when he retrieves his [[Panama hat]] from Ace, using the same words when he reclaimed it from her in [[Perivale]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
* Ace says that the Seventh Doctor was a [[hologram]] the last time she saw him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'')
* Ace says that the Seventh Doctor was a [[hologram]] the last time she saw him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'')
* Ace recalls how she met the Doctor on [[Iceworld]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') after being transported there by [[Fenric]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')
* Ace recalls how she met the Doctor on [[Iceworld]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') after being transported there by [[Fenric]], as part of one of Fenric's games. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') This alludes to her and [[Hex]] being part of another one of his games. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'')  
* Ace recalls the deaths of [[Sorin]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') [[Mike Smith]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') [[Karra]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') and [[Bellboy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'')
* Ace recalls the deaths of [[Sorin]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') [[Mike Smith]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') [[Karra]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') and [[Bellboy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'')
* The Doctor learns that he once again dropped off a departing companion in the wrong place. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]'')
* Ace keeps [[Ace's jacket|her old jacket]] on a hanger in her office. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Promise (webcast)|The Promise]]'')
* The Doctor mentions an encounter with the Rani as one of his and Ace’s final adventures as it happened not long before they fell out. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'')
* As the Doctor and Ace prepare to take off, they take turns quoting the speech the Doctor gave as they left Perivale. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
* As the Doctor and Ace prepare to take off, they take turns quoting the speech the Doctor gave as they left Perivale. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')


Latest revision as of 19:57, 27 July 2024

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You may wish to consult The Curse of Fenric (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

The Curse of Fenric was the sixth episode in the Tales of the TARDIS series, released on BBC iPlayer on 1 November 2023 by the BBC, written by Pete McTighe and directed by Joshua M.G. Thomas.

This story consists of two newly recorded scenes bookending the omnibus version of the TV story The Curse of Fenric.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Ace meet again and remember their battle against an ancient evil in World War Two where a Viking curse is bringing the dead back to life.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ace appears in the remembered TARDIS and looks around to find both the Seventh Doctor's hat and the baseball bat that she once used to damage an Imperial Dalek. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) After the Seventh Doctor says that she gave the Dalek quite a beating, Ace embraces him before he takes his hat from her.

Ace tells the Doctor that he was a hologram the last time she saw him and he has become older. (TV: The Power of the Doctor) The Doctor goes on to explain that time streams are funny things and there are some time streams where he doesn't regenerate. After Ace explains that she was in a meeting when she appeared in the TARDIS, the Doctor explains that they are standing in a memory TARDIS where old friends come together to remember certain events.

The Doctor sits in a chair and moves a chess piece across the board before telling Ace that he thought about her every day. Ace says that she wishes she never left the Doctor, prompting the Doctor to tell her that the remembered TARDIS is forever and they can return to it whenever they like with a wish.

Ace remembers that she wished she was somewhere else, and she soon got her wish when she was transported to Iceworld by Fenric as part of his game of traps. She then becomes reluctant to remember her encounter with Fenric, but the Doctor tells her that they both should remember as pain comes to define them along with the joy. As the Doctor decides to remember the day that both he and Ace met Fenric, he takes Ace's hand as the memories begin to flood back.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics


Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.


Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • When Ace asks why he looks so old, the Doctor cryptically replies how "time streams are funny things" and that his regenerating is "all a matter of perspective."
  • The Doctor mentions the Rani, and suggests she may have played a role in his and Ace's falling out.
  • After she left the Doctor, Ace visited Kathleen Dudman before she died in a care home, and believes she recognised her as the young woman who helped her flee Maiden's Point for London.
  • The chess set set up between the two chairs is set up in the same way the Doctor set up the game for Fenric. The Doctor also plays the solution.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Official BBC iPlayer thumbnail for the episode.

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section needs a cleanup.

As per Forum:Non-valid Continuity sections, categories, and prefixes#Continuity sections, this section needs to be written from an out-of-universe perspective.

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