Special Video. Title: The Curse of Fatal Death Two 10-minute episodes.
An all-star Doctor Who parody sketch made for Britain's semi-annual Comic Relief charity telethon.
The Doctor (now in his ninth body) arranges to meet his old adversary
the Master at a deserted castle on the
planet Tersurus, where he reveals his plans to settle down, retire,
and get married to his assistant Emma.
What follows is a rather goofy adventure when the Master and the Doctor
outdo each other setting boobytraps
in the past, communication with aliens via flatulence, an alliance
with the Daleks, and multiple regenerations
by the Doctor...
starring Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor, Julia Sawalha as Emma, and Jonathan
Pryce as the Master.
guest starring Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, and Joanna
Lumley as the Doctor, and Roy Skelton
and Dave Chapman as the Dalek Voices.
Written by Steven Moffat, Executive Produced by Richard Curtis, Produced
by Sue Vertue, and
Directed by John Henderson.
Originally transmitted on 12 March 1999.
The special is followed by a half-hour documentary about the making
of the special, which includes interviews
with the entire cast and crew. In many ways, this is even funnier
than the special itself.
The documentary is followed by three other Doctor Who comedy sketches from BBC programs in the 1980s.
The first is an unused sketch from French &
Saunders where Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders play extra
monsters who can't get their lines and actions straight
during the making of a Doctor Who episode. Actually shot
on the set used for the real Doctor Who serial
The
Trial of a Time Lord.
The second is a very short sketch starring Jim Broadbent where the Doctor confronts his old enemy Crayola.
The third is from The Lenny Henry Show where
Colin Baker's Doctor regenerates into Lenny Henry.
He lands in Earth in the near future and finds it
taken over by the Cybermen who are led by a cybernised
Margaret Thatcher.





