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* No episodes of this six-part story exist in the [[BBC Archives]] and it is the last story to be completely missing. | * No episodes of this six-part story exist in the [[BBC Archives]] and it is the last story to be completely missing. | ||
* This story features the first appearance of [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]], it was at first a common screwdriver, the script saying it is the Doctor's "own version of a screwdriver" but upon seeing it production assistant [[Michael Briant]] suggested the use of one working with sonic waves and Troughton picked up a penlight from the Visual Effects department. ([[DWM 277]]). But on-screen, the prop eventually used was a safety whistle<ref>[https://thezeroroomblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-2nd-doctors-sonic-screwdrivers.html prop research and picture analysis essay] by [[Lee Moone]]</ref> taken from [[Deborah Watling]]'s life-preserver, due to Troughton accidentally dropping the penlight prop into the pipe on the day of shooting.<ref>[https://twitter.com/NothingLane/status/909107817830895616 Extract] of [[Peter Day]]'s interview by [[Richard Bignell]] for [[Loose Cannon Productions]]' ''Doctor Who - The Making of Fury from the Deep''</ref> | * This story features the first appearance of [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]], it was at first a common screwdriver, the script saying it is the Doctor's "own version of a screwdriver" but upon seeing it production assistant [[Michael Briant]] suggested the use of one working with sonic waves and Troughton picked up a penlight from the Visual Effects department. ([[DWM 277]]). But on-screen, the prop eventually used was a safety whistle<ref>[https://thezeroroomblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-2nd-doctors-sonic-screwdrivers.html prop research and picture analysis essay] by [[Lee Moone]]</ref> taken from [[Deborah Watling]]'s life-preserver, due to Troughton accidentally dropping the penlight prop into the pipe on the day of shooting.<ref>[https://twitter.com/NothingLane/status/909107817830895616 Extract] of [[Peter Day]]'s interview by [[Richard Bignell]] for [[Loose Cannon Productions]]' ''Doctor Who - The Making of Fury from the Deep''</ref> | ||
* This story was based on a drama that Victor Pemberton wrote for radio entitled ''The Slide'', which focused on sentient mud rather than seaweed. ''The Slide'' was commissioned by Peter Bryant (who produced this serial), it featured [[David Spenser]] (Pemberton's real life partner), [[Maurice Denham]], [[Miriam Margolyes]], [[Michael Kilgarriff]] and furthermore, Josef Gomez — the character who was, essentially, taking the role of the Doctor — was played by [[Roger Delgado]], who would later go on to portray | * This story was based on a drama that Victor Pemberton wrote for radio entitled ''The Slide'', which focused on sentient mud rather than seaweed. ''The Slide'' was commissioned by Peter Bryant (who produced this serial), it featured [[David Spenser]] (Pemberton's real life partner), [[Maurice Denham]], [[Miriam Margolyes]], [[Michael Kilgarriff]] and furthermore, Josef Gomez — the character who was, essentially, taking the role of the Doctor — was played by [[Roger Delgado]], who would later go on to portray {{Delgado}}. | ||
** Pemberton's first draft of ''Fury from the Deep'' was also entitled ''The Slide'' and was submitted to the ''Doctor Who'' production office at around the same time as his radio script (shortly before the beginning of [[Season 2]]). But story editor [[David Whitaker]] rejected it, feeling it wasn't appropriate for the show and commenting that it was "rather a stew pot of all other science fiction serials we have ever done, with bits of Nigel Kneale scattered about. I don't think the dialogue is very good and I am quite sure it is not right for ''Doctor Who''". ([[DWM 277]]) | ** Pemberton's first draft of ''Fury from the Deep'' was also entitled ''The Slide'' and was submitted to the ''Doctor Who'' production office at around the same time as his radio script (shortly before the beginning of [[Season 2]]). But story editor [[David Whitaker]] rejected it, feeling it wasn't appropriate for the show and commenting that it was "rather a stew pot of all other science fiction serials we have ever done, with bits of Nigel Kneale scattered about. I don't think the dialogue is very good and I am quite sure it is not right for ''Doctor Who''". ([[DWM 277]]) | ||
* [[Peter Ducrow]] provided the voice of the guard in episode one (heard over a speakerphone) on duty at the main entrance of the ESGO refinery, who refuses Maggie Harris access. He is perhaps better known as Adam Adamant's arch-enemy, the Face, a leather-masked villain who spoke in sinister whispering tones, in the offbeat fantasy/adventure series ''Adam Adamant Lives!'' (1966-67). That series was created by [[Sydney Newman]] and produced by [[Verity Lambert]]; the creator and original producer of ''Doctor Who'' respectively. | * [[Peter Ducrow]] provided the voice of the guard in episode one (heard over a speakerphone) on duty at the main entrance of the ESGO refinery, who refuses Maggie Harris access. He is perhaps better known as Adam Adamant's arch-enemy, the Face, a leather-masked villain who spoke in sinister whispering tones, in the offbeat fantasy/adventure series ''Adam Adamant Lives!'' (1966-67). That series was created by [[Sydney Newman]] and produced by [[Verity Lambert]]; the creator and original producer of ''Doctor Who'' respectively. | ||
