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*[[Magnus Greel]] - [[Michael Spice]]
*[[Magnus Greel]] - [[Michael Spice]]


*[[Li H'sen Chang]] - [[John Bennett]]
*[[Li H'sen Chang]] - [[John Bennett]]

Revision as of 15:56, 15 June 2008


Synopsis

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Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

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Story Notes

  • Some associations and influences have been noted for The Talons of Weng-Chiang; among these are:
  • Magnus Greel's deformed face, the mask he uses to hide it, and the climactic scene in which the mask is torn off to reveal his true face, are all strongly reminiscent of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera.
  • The Doctor wears a deerstalker hat, the characteristic headgear of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes.
  • The giant rat is reminiscent of animals grown to enormous size in the H.G. Wells novel Food of the Gods. It also may be another Holmes reference, since there is a famous reference to a never-told mystery involving "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."
  • Li H'sen Chang is reminiscent of Fu Manchu, the villain of a series of novels by Sax Rohmer.

Ratings

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Myths

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Location Filming

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

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Continuity

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DVD, Video, and Other Releases

DVD Releases

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Released as Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang in a two disc set.

Released:

PAL - BBC DVD BBCDVD1152
NTSC - Warner Video E1814

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Video Releases

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Released as Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Released:

PAL - BBC Video BBCV4187

Notes: The video had some slight edits to remove material of the Doctor breaking and entering, as well as being edited into a movie-format.

Target Novelisations

External Links

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