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The serial was written by Terrance Dicks, who had worked on the programme as script editor from 1969 to 1974, and had penned three previous serials of his own for the programme, one uncredited. Horror of Fang Rock was in fact a late replacement for the scripts Dicks had originally submitted, a vampire-based tale entitled The Witch Lords, which was cancelled close to production as it was feared it could detract from the BBC's high-profile adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel Count Dracula, which was due for transmission at a similar time. A re-written version did, however, eventually see production in 1980 as State of Decay, part of the eighteenth season of Doctor Who.

Starring Tom BakerThomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is a British actor, mainly associated with the role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who whom he played for seven years. Baker was born in Liverpool. His father was a J as the Fourth Doctor and Louise JamesonLouise Jameson (born 20 April 1951) is a British actress, most famous for playing Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the mysterious Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who''. Jameson has also appeared on as his companion Leela, the serial is notable for being the only one of the programme's original twenty-six year run to have been produced at BBC studios outside of LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri. Engineering work meant that it was made at the Pebble Mill StudiosPebble Mill Studios are located in the leafy suburbs of Birmingham, England. Opened by HRH Princess Anne on the 10th November 1971, Pebble Mill has remained a landmark ever since. The land for Pebble Mill was acquired by BBC Birmingham in the 1950s but pl of BBC BirminghamThe Mailbox, current home to BBC Birmingham BBC Birmingham is one of the oldest regional arms of the BBC. It was the first region outside of London to start brodcasting both the corporation's radio (in 1922) and television (in 1948) transmissions from the instead. It was directed by Paddy Russell , and produced by Graham Williams , his first story as producer to air. The script editor was Robert HolmesThis entry is about the television scriptwriter. For the composer of the same name, see Robert Holmes (composer). Robert Holmes (born 1928, Hertfordshire, England; died May 24 1986) was a British television scriptwriter, who for over twenty-five years con.

Horror of Fang Rock was released on VHSThe Video Home System better known by its acronym VHS is the recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC and launched in 1976. It became a standard format for consumer recording and viewing in the 1980s after compe by BBC WorldwideBBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. BBC Enterprises had been operating the commercial exploitation of BBC progra in 1998. It has also been regularly repeated on the satellite television station UK Gold since the early 1990s, and shown abroad in various countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. A showing of the story on the Chicago PBS station WTTW-TV Channel 11 in November 1987 gained particular notoriety when the broadcast was interrupted for eighty-eight seconds by a pirate television transmitter overriding the station's transmission signal to broadcast a video of himself in a mask being spanked. This incident has subsequently gained a degree of cult myth about it.