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Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Special Edition
Starring: Tom Baker , Louise Jameson
Directed by: David Maloney
Produced by: Philip Hinchcliffe
Written by: Robert Holmes
Death stalks the fogbound streets of Victorian London and gangs of hoodlums terrorize the innocent. The Doctor (Tom Baker) is about to come face to face with the sinister force bent on shredding the human race. Digitally remastered picture and sound. Extras include audio commentary, fascinating featurettes and more.
Item Number: 16343
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 2 1/2 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 3
- Closed Captions / Subtitles:
- This Product has English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
- Special Features:
• Audio Commentary
• The Last Hurrah
• Moving On
• The Foe from the Future
• Now & Then
• Look East
• Victoriana and Chinoiserie
• Music Hall
• Limehouse - A Victorian Chinatown
• Photo Gallery
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Plus Bonus Disc of extras from 2003 DVD
• Production Note Subtitles
• Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
The Doctor brings Leela to Victorian London to meet her ancestors (though Agincourt might have been more to her liking). The TARDIS materializes in the darkest heart of the city, where life- and death- is anything but dull. A hapless cabbie is slain by agents of a secret Chinese cult. Young women are disappearing at an alarming rate, and Li H'sen Chang, the Palace Theatre's celebrated magician, may know more about that than he admits. Li H'sen's ventriloquist dummy, Mr. Sin, appears to have a life of its own, and the rat problem in the sewers is bigger than anyone can imagine.
Death stalks the fogbound streets of Victorian London. Young women are going missing. Horribly mutilated bodies are found floating in the Thames. And criminal gangs terrorize the innocent.
At the heart of this tangled web sits the mysterious Li H'sen Chang, sorcerer and hypnotist, and his grotesque sidekick - the all-too-lifelike ventriloquist's dummy, Mister Sin.
The Doctor dons deerstalker hat and cape to seek out the sinister force lurking in the shadows of the metropolis. For the talons of Weng-Chiang are reaching out to shred the human race.
Cast
The Doctor - Tom Baker
Leela - Louise Jameson
Buller - Alan Butler
Casey - Chris Gannon
Chinese Workman - John Wu
Cleaner - Vaune Craig-Raymond
Ghoul - Patsy Smart
Ho - Vincent Wong
Jago - Christopher Benjamin
Lee - Tony Then
Li H'sen Chang - John Bennett
Mr. Sin - Deep Roy
P.C. Quick - Conrad Asquith
Professor Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
Sergeant Kyle - David McKail
Singer - Penny Lister
Teresa - Judith Lloyd
Weng-Chiang - Michael Spice
Production Credits
Director - David Maloney
Assistant Floor Manager - Linda Graeme
Costumes - John Bloomfield
Designer - Roger Murray-Leach
Fight Arranger - Stuart Fell
Film Cameraman - Fred Hamilton
Film Editor - David Lee
Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
Producer - Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Assistant - Ros Anderson
Production Unit Manager - Chris D'Oyly-John
Production Unit Manager - John Nathan-Turner uncredited
Script Editor - Robert Holmes
Special Sounds - Dick Mills
Studio Lighting - Mike Jefferies
Studio Sound - Clive Gifford
Title Music - Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Visual Effects - Michealjohn Harris
Writer - Robert Holmes
A pile of straw seen in the road as Weng-Chiang searches for the time cabinet was placed there to hide a modern car which had, despite requests to the contrary, been parked in the road prior to filming.
First Transmitted
1 - 26/02/1977 18:30
2 - 05/03/1977 18:35
3 - 12/03/1977 18:30
4 - 19/03/1977 18:30
5 - 26/03/1977 18:30
6 - 02/04/1977 18:30
