Night Thoughts
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Ace and Hex to a stormy island, where Hex admits to experiencing strange visions of an incident in an operating room that he’s never personally witnessed, and Ace has a vision of her own near a body of water, and falls in. Spotting a nearby house, the Doctor decides they should seek shelter there, but the handful of people in the house are as unsettling as any of the strange things they’ve seen so far. Everyone there seems to be trying to keep some kind of a secret under wraps, but when one of them turns up dead, they’re all suspects…and so are the time travelers. It turns out that the TARDIS may not be the only time machine on the island, and that none of the residents of the house may have chosen to be here - and every layer of the secret that is revealed seems to cost another life.
written by Edward Young
directed by Gary Russell
music by ERSCast: Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hex), Bernard Kay (Major Dickens), Joanna McCallum (The Bursar), Andrew Forbes (Dr. O’Neil), Lizzie Hopley (Sue), Ann Beach (The Deacon), Duncan Duff (Joe Hartley)
Review: A nicely atmospheric horror story that draws as much inspiration from Agatha Christie as it does from “The Island Of Dr. Moreau,” Night Terrors makes good use of the regular characters and offers something meaty to all of the guest performers as well. The result is performances with conviction, and an atmosphere of growing dread. (more…)