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Season 26 | EP 2
"I've lit the blue touch paper and found there's nowhere to retire to"
Episode Title | Premiere Date |
Episode 1 | 04/10/1989 |
Episode 2 | 11/10/1989 |
Episode 3 | 18/10/1989 |
London, 1983: An old house mysteriously burns to the ground. One hundred years earlier, the Doctor and Ace arrive at a sinister mansion in the rural hamlet of Perivale. Horrors old and new await the Doctor amongst the peculiar residents of Gabriel Chase… But it is Ace who must confront her own worst nightmares when she discovers that her past and the house’s future are inextricably linked…
The Doctor: Sylvester McCoy
Ace: Sophie Aldred
Josiah: Ian Hogg
Mrs. Pritchard: Sylvia Syms
Redvers Fenn-Cooper: Michael Cochrane
Control: Sharon Duce
Gwendoline: Katharine Schlesinger
Reverend Ernest Matthews: John Nettleton
Nimrod: Carl Forgione
Inspector Mackenzie: Frank Windsor
Light: John Hallam
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Alan Wareing
Scriptwriter: Marc Platt