TEXT: HORROR OF FANG ROCK BY: TERRANCE DICKS Part One Running time: 24:10 [SCENE_BREAK] VINCE: Ere, Reuben. Come and look, quick. REUBEN: What is it, boy? VINCE: This light, shot across the sky. Went under the sea, it did, and the sea was all glowing. Over there. REUBEN: Nothing there now. VINCE: Not now, maybe. I told you, it went under the sea. REUBEN: It could have been a, what do they call them, meteor. VINCE: Mmm. Weren't far off. BEN: Oh, sightseeing now, are we? Hoping to spot some of them bathing belles on the beach, eh? REUBEN: Vince here's been seeing stars. VINCE: I saw a light. Clear across the sky it came and went under the sea. BEN: Shooting star, eh? VINCE: Weren't no shooting star. I've seen them before. REUBEN: Bring you luck, boy, that will. Bit of luck coming for you. VINCE: On this rock? Not till my three month is up. BEN: Well, whatever it was, it's gone now. So long as it isn't a hazard to navigation we don't have to bother with it. VINCE: It were all red and glowing. BEN: Aye, well, I've heard enough about now, lad. I'm off downstairs for my supper. You just forget it. [SCENE_BREAK] REUBEN: The old days were simple enough. You just filled her up, trimmed the wick, and that old lamp just went burning away steady as you like. BEN: It wasn't only the lamp that burned sometimes though, was it. What about all those fires they had, eh? Towers gutted, men killed. REUBEN: Well, carelessness, that was. That or drink. Oil's safe enough if you treat her right. BEN: Now listen, Reuben. I've seen the inside of some of them old lighthouses
SUMMARY:
The TARDIS lands near an isolated rocky island lighthouse just after a comet strikes the nearby sea and a sudden chilling fog rolls in. Soon after, electrical problems take hold of the generator and one of the keepers dies mysteriously. Rueben, the eldest keeper, thinks it's the return of the legendary Beast of Fang Rock, but the Doctor suspects it's something worse that a legend.