History Recap / DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep

'''Production code:''' RR

Written by Victor Pemberton. This six-episode serial first aired from March 16 to April 20, 1968.

-> ''Why can't we go anywhere pleasant? Where there's no fighting, just peace and happiness?''

JustForFun/TheOneWith a sonic screwdriver. [[SarcasmMode Bet you ''that's'' not gonna show up again anytime soon]].

JustForFun/TheOneWith a sonic screwdriver. Bet you ''that's'' not gonna show up again anytime soon.

* RealityEnsues: Seeing as Victoria's spent the bulk of the last few adventures screaming and getting captured, it shouldn't come as any surprise that all she wants at this point is to be comfortable and safe.

-->-- '''Victoria''' never did get it

* ControlFreak: Robson. He is obsessed with maintaining the outward appearance of his rigs working in perfect harmony, and by the midpoint he's reduced to screaming and frothing about how it's all his operation and nobody else's.

* FreakOut: Robson.

* HairpinLockpick: Used successfully by Victoria.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Megan Jones, who gives the Doctor all the help she can once she is convinced of the truth of what he's saying.

* YouAreInCommandNow: After Robson is taken over by the weed monster, Harris assumes control of the refinery.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/TheLonelyIsland They're on a boat.]][[note]]No, a ''dinghy''.[[/note]]]]

The one with a sonic screwdriver. Bet you ''that's'' not gonna show up again anytime soon.

* OffModel: The animation was generally praised... except for the fact that all the characters' arms are ''slightly'' [[UncannyValley too long]].

* NextSundayAD: The animated version adds calendars revealing the story takes place in 1975, which coincidentally sets it one year before the real-world airing of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom "The Seeds of Doom"]], which featured a similar base premise of malevolent vegetation.

"Fury from the Deep" is the only Second Doctor serial to not begin with the word "the". It's also the debut of the Sonic Screwdriver, which would become the Doctor's signature do-anything gadget during the 1970s. Here, it's used to... unscrew some screws.

* NotHimself: More and more people in the complex.

* RaceLift: One of the unnamed employees that falls under the weed's grasp is changed from a white man to a South Asian Sikh man.

"Fury from the Deep" is the only Second Doctor serial not begin with the word "the". It's also the debut of the Sonic Screwdriver, which would become the Doctor's signature do-anything gadget during the 1970s. Here, it's used to... unscrew some screws.

This was also the first serial to use 16mm film for location shooting, superseding prior 35mm equipment: as 16mm is a much smaller gauge than 35mm, the equipment for it was much smaller and thus more practical to use for extensive periods of time. 16mm would remain in use all the way until the last four seasons of the Classic Series, when the show went all-videotape due to professional camcorders becoming more practical for the BBC's use. That said, the Beeb didn't ''completely'' abandon 35mm after adopting 16mm equipment: it would still be utilized for occasional effects shots before the switch to fully-videotaped stories, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the 1996 TV movie]], following American production standards, would be shot entirely on 35mm film (though it was edited on videotape due to the extensive use of CGI). Episode Two of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E6TheSpacePirates "The Space Pirates"]] was also inexplicably shot entirely on 35mm, which led the BBC to preserve it for historical purposes.

Written by Victor Pemberton. This serial first aired March 16-April 20, 1968.