Horror of Fang Rock

Story Code: 4V / Season 15	UK Airdate: 3 Sep to 24 Sep 1977	Doctor: Tom Baker
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following known countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

United Arab Emirates	Jun 78?	PAL
United States*	Dec 78	NTSC
Australia	Feb 79	PAL
Chile	c May 79	NTSC
Mexico	Jan 80	NTSC
Costa Rica	Feb 80	NTSC
Gibraltar	Apr 80?	PAL
Puerto Rico	Jul 80?	NTSC
Nicaragua	Aug 80	NTSC
Colombia	Oct 80	NTSC
Canada	Dec 80	NTSC
Ecuador	Dec 80	NTSC
Brazil	80?	PAL
Brunei	80?	PAL
Swaziland?	81?	PAL
Venezuela	82?	NTSC
Honduras	?	NTSC

• (*) The US date is based on the airdates for WTEV, which was the first US station to screen the initial package of 98 Tom Baker episodes.
• This story was dubbed into Spanish (for Latin America).
• It was during a 1987 broadcast of this story on Chicago's WTTW that "Max Headroom" hijacked the signal: "The Max Headroom Pirating Incident"

Reissue

• The story was reissued in the mid-1980s, during the THIRD WAVE of sales.

Saudi Arabia	early 86?	NTSC
Armed Forces Network	Jul 86	NTSC
New Zealand	Sep 87	PAL

• The story was released on DVD in the Netherlands in the mid-2000s.

US TV Guide descriptions

More Information
Title: Horror of Fang Rock

• Part 1: The Doctor and Leela investigate a dark lighthouse on Fang Rock.
  
• Part 2: Survivors of a shipwreck seek refuge at the mysterious lighthouse.
  
• Part 3: The list of victims grows, but there is no trace of the killer.
  
• Part 4: The killer reveals himself and battles Dr. Who and Leela.
  
• Compilation: The Doctor and Leela investigate disappearances at a mysterious lighthouse.

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