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2 unusual facts about Horror of Fang Rock


Horror of Fang Rock

On 22 November 1987 a broadcast of Horror of Fang Rock by Chicago television station WTTW was interrupted for around 90 seconds by a pirate broadcast featuring an individual disguised as television character Max Headroom.

Paddy Russell

She directed three further Doctor Who serials: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974), Pyramids of Mars (1975) and Horror of Fang Rock (1977).


Flannan Isle

The poem Flannan Isle is quoted by Tom Baker as the Doctor at the end of the Doctor Who story Horror of Fang Rock, which was set on a lighthouse and involved an alien explanation for the tragedy that befell the three keepers there and survivors of a shipwreck.


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