Fear Her (TV story)

Fear Her (TV story)

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Fear Her
Doctor:	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Rose Tyler
Main enemy:	Scribble Creature Chloe Webber's father
Main setting:	Stratford, 2012
Key crew
Writer:	Matthew Graham
Director:	Euros Lyn
Producer:	Phil Collinson
Release details
Story number:	176
Release number:	Series 2
Premiere broadcast:	24th June 2006
Format:	1 45-minute Episode
Production code:	2.11
Confidential:	[[confidential::The Fright Stuff|The Fright Stuff]]

Fear Her was the eleventh episode in the second series of Doctor Who.

Synopsis

London 2012, and the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler set off to see the Olympics, only to find terror in the most ordinary place.

Plot

The TARDIS materialises on Dame Kelly Holmes Close on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in between two skips, with the door facing the side of one, which prompts the Doctor to close the TARDIS and turn it around. On the street, concern is divided between preparation for the Games, as the torchbearer on the final leg, and the continued disappearance of children from their gardens. Rose also meets a ginger cat who walks into a cardboard box and disappears. Cars break down on the street, something which a council worker, Kel, states has been happening all week.

The source of the problems is a small girl, Chloe, who is able to cause people to disappear by drawing them.

Rose, while wandering down one of the estate streets, hears a noise coming from one of the garages and decides to investigate. As she opens the door a round, fuzzy scribble creature flies forward, hitting Rose square in the face. She falls backwards, landing flat on her back on the driveway. The scribble creature then begins to attack Rose, who swats at it helplessly. Luckily the Doctor arrives just in time, deactivating the scribble with his screwdriver. The scribble lands on Rose's chest, and the Doctor helps her to her feet. The Doctor is able to deduce from detection of residual energy and the carbon nature of a scribble that had attacked Rose that the problem is coming from an alien influence.

Intrigued, the Doctor investigates and through talking to Chloe, he discovers that the disappearance is related to the Isolus, an alien life-form, who had befriended Chloe as she had a troubled childhood including an abusive father. The Doctor warns that the Isolus is desperate for love too, and will use the billions of people watching Olympic opening ceremony to renumber its family.

The Doctor returns to the TARDIS, which locates the Isolus pod to the Close. However, the Doctor and thousands at the Olympic Stadium start to disappear, leaving Rose to dig the pod up (to Kel's protestations). Rose realises that she needs to offer the pod heat, which she does by throwing the pod towards the torch, which had subsequently became a morale beacon, that is passing the Close.

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The Doctor and Rose gazing skywards

As the missing children start to reappear, Rose realises that so will the demon-like drawing that Chloe had made of her father. Rose and Chloe's mother are able, though, to calm Chloe enough to destroy him.

As the torch-bearer approaches the Olympic Stadium, he staggers, but the Doctor completes the run and lights the Olympic Flame, allowing the Isolus to return home.

As the Doctor and Rose walk off to watch the Games, Rose remarks that however hard they attempt, nothing will ever split the two of them up. However, the Doctor does not seem so sure, as he surmises that a storm is approaching.

Cast

• The Tenth Doctor - David Tennant
• Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
• Trish Webber - Nina Sosanya
• Chloe Webber - Abisola Agbaje
• Maeve - Edna Dore
• Tom's Dad - Tim Faraday
• Kel - Abdul Salis
• Driver - Richard Nichols
• Neighbour- Erica Eirian
• Police Officer - Stephen Marzella
• Commentator - Huw Edwards

Crew

Executive Producers   Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner

Written by Matthew Graham	Produced by Phil Collinson	Directed by Euros Lyn	Director of Photography Rory Taylor	Production Designer Edward Thomas	Visual Effects The Mill
Make-up Designer Sheelagh Wells	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Murray Gold	Costume Designer Louise Page	Edited by Crispin Green	Special Effects Any Effects
Original theme music by Ron Grainer  •  With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

General production staff Production Manager - Marcus Prince Location Managers - Gareth Lloyd, Gareth Skelding Unit Manager - Rhys Griffiths Production/Script Secretary - Claire Roberts Production Runner - Victoria Wheel Production Accountant - Endaf Emyr Williams A/Production Accountants - Debi Griffiths, Kath Blackman, Bonnie Clissold Finance Manager - Richard Pugsley Script department Script Editor - Simon Winstone Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Peter Bennett 2nd Assistant Director - Steffan Morris 3rd Assistant Director - Lynsey Muir Continuity - Non Eleri Hughes Focus Puller - Steve Rees Grip - John Robinson Camera Assistant - Penny Shipton Boom Operator - Jeff Welch Gaffer - Mark Hutchings Best Boy - Peter Chester Electricians - Chris Davies, Clive Johnson	Art department Supervising Art Director - Stephen Nicholas Art Department Production Manager - Jonathan Marquand Allison Production Buyer - Joelle Rumbelow Set Decorator - David Morison A/Supervising Art Director - James North Storyboard Artist - Shaun Williams Design Assistants - Peter McKinstry, Al Roberts Standby Props - Phil Shellard, Matthew North Standby Carpenter - Silas Williams Standby Art Director - Lee Gammon Standby Rigger - Bryan Griffiths Standby Scenic Artist - Louise Bohling Property Master - Adrian Anscombe Assistant Props Master - Paul Aitken Props Chargehand - Phil Lyons Props Storeman - Stuart Wooddisse Specialist Prop Maker - Mark Cordory Props Maker - Penny Howarth Construction Manager - Matthew Hywel-Davies Construction Chargehand - Allen Jones Practical Electrician - Albert James Art Department Driver - Patrick Deacy Graphics - BBC Wales Graphics Costume department Costume Supervisor - Anna Lau Costume Assistants - Lindsay Bonaccorsi, Kirsty Wilkinson	Make-up and prosthetics Make-up Artists - Anwen Davies, Steve Smith, Moira Thomson Movement Stunt Co-ordinator - Dave Forman Casting Casting Associate - Andy Brierley General post-production staff Post-production Supervisors - Chris Blatchford, Samantha Hall Post-production Co-ordinator - Marie Brown Assistant Editor - Ceres Doyle On-line Editor - Matthew Clarke Special and visual effects Visual FX Producer - Will Cohen Visual FX Supervisor - Dave Houghton Visual Effects Co-ordinator - Kim Phelan SFX Co-ordinator - Ben Ashmore SFX Supervisor - Paul Kelly SFX Technicians - Danny Hargreaves, Richard Magrin 3D Artists - Chris Petts, Jean Yves Audouard, Paul Burton, Jean Claude Deguara, Nicholas Hernandez, Will Pryor, Matthew McKinney, Neil Roche, Chris Tucker, Mark Wallman 2D Artists - Sara Bennett, David Bowman, Melissa Butler-Adams, Joseph Courtis, Bronwyn Edwards, Michael Harrison, Simon C. Holden, Russell Horth Colourist - Mick Vincent Digital Matte Painter - Alex Fort Sound Sound Recordist - Simon Fraser Dubbing Mixer - Tim Ricketts Sound Effects Editor - Paul Jefferies Sound Editors - Paul McFadden, Doug Sinclair

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.

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor mentions that he "was a dad once," a reference which was previously implied numerous times by his relationship as grandfather to Susan Foreman. This could also refer to his relationship to his adopted daughter Miranda Dawkins. However, this is a shock to Rose.

Galactic Law

• The Doctor invokes the Shadow Proclamation.

Music from the real world

• Trish sings "Kookaburra" to Chloe.

Races and species

• The Isolus are beings that can draw power from other beings' extreme emotion.
• Humanoid catkind are mentioned.

Story notes

• Fear Her is a story which replaces an unwritten script originally allocated to Stephen Fry.
• The Doctor has travelled with several children throughout all his lives, but this is the first televised story to deal with actual child abuse.
• In 2009, Doctor Who Magazine conducted a reader poll to rank the first 200 Doctor Who stories in order of preference. Fear Her ranked 192nd out of 200, earning it the dubious distinction of being the lowest-ranked story of the 2005-present revival.
• The London 2012 logo seen at the start is the bid logo, not the current logo.
• The writer, Matthew Graham, noted on the DVD commentary that the scribble creature was never to be called a "scribble monster", as the Doctor would never call anything a monster.
• The idea of a child bringing things to life through drawings was also featured in the 1991 Eerie Indiana episode 'Who's Who'.
• The Tenth Doctor's involvement in the 2012 Olympics has sparked a petition from thousands of fans all over the world wishing David Tennant to carry the Olympic Torch.

Ratings

• 7.14 million

Myths

to be added

Filming Location

Temorfa, Cardiff

Production errors

• The BBC News Channel uses the the BBC News 24 logo. This logo was no longer used as of 2007 and the episode is set in 2012. Although this was unknown at that time.
• When the Doctor and Rose are walking down the lane, the road is perfect, with no blemishes. However, when the Doctor later picks up theIsolus pod, there is a clear paving spot.

Continuity

• The Doctor uses his telepathy as he did in DW: The Girl in the Fireplace.
• 2012 previously featured in DW: Dalek, and is the home era of Adam Mitchell.
• Each of the kids reacts to coming back from being in their pictures just as people did in DW: The Idiot's Lantern when regaining their faces.
• The Doctor previously had a sensation in his hands in DW: The War Machines.

Timeline

• This story takes place after DW: Love & Monsters
• This story takes place before DW: Army of Ghosts

Home video releases

• This was released on a vanilla DVD (a DVD release containing no extra features) along side Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.
• It was also released as part of the Series 2 DVD boxset.

'Vanilla' DVD covers

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  Series 2 Volume 5 UK DVD cover

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  Series 2 Volume 5 Australian DVD cover

Series 2 DVD box set covers

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  UK release DVD box set cover

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  US release DVD box set cover

See also

to be added

External links

• BBC - Doctor Who - Episode Guide - Fear Her
• Fear Her at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Fear Her at The Whoniverse
• Fear Her at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
• Fear her at The Locations Guide