Shown on Legend Extra today,this British thriller was based on
the 1959 novel of the same name
by prolific sci-fi and crime writer
John Lymington.
Here, whilst Britain shivers in
deepest winter, the remote
Scottish isle of Fara experi-
Scottish isle of Fara experi-
ences an inexplicable heatwave
- the result of an alien incursion.
The story was first adapted for ITV's Play of the Week in 1960,
and starred Bernard Cribbins,
- the result of an alien incursion.
The story was first adapted for ITV's Play of the Week in 1960,
and starred Bernard Cribbins,
Bernard Archard, and Leonard
Grahame. Released in the UK by Planet Films in 1967 (then in America in
1971 as Island of the Burning Damned), the production featured genre
stalwarts Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, and seven
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
- Pip [Ernest Albert] and Jane Baker were also writers of The Mark of the Rani, Terror of the Vervoids, (part 14 of) The Ultimate Foe and Time and the Rani for TV, the novel Race Against Time (1986), then BBV Productions' The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind (2000)
- William [Thomas] Lucas [born Clucas] (Stanley) was Range in Frontios
- Kenneth [Charles] Cope (Mason) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
- Jack [Hodges] Bligh (Siddle) was Gaptooth in The Smugglers (4)
- Charles Rayford (Player) was Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks
- Malcolm [Neville] Lockyer was the composer on Dr. Who and the Daleks too
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