The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)
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Cast
- Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker
- Leela: Louise Jameson
- Magnus Greel: Michael Spice
- Li H'sen Chang: John Bennett
- Mr. Sin: Deep Roy
- Henry Gordon Jago: Christopher Benjamin
- Professor Litefoot: Trevor Baxter
- Sergeant Kyle: David McKail
Crew
Bad Guys
Story Notes
- Michael Spice also provided the voice of Morbius in the story The Brain of Morbius.
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Continuity
Cultural References
- 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.
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