Fear Her

176 – "Fear Her"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
Others
  • Nina Sosanya – Trish
  • Abisola Agbaje – Chloe Webber
  • Edna Doré – Maeve
  • Tim Faraday – Tom's Dad
  • Abdul Salis – Kel
  • Richard Nichols – Driver
  • Erica Eirian – Neighbour
  • Stephen Marzella – Police Officer
  • Huw Edwards – Commentator
Production
Directed byEuros Lyn
Written byMatthew Graham
Script editorSimon Winstone
Produced byPhil Collinson
Executive producer(s)Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Music byMurray Gold
Production code2.11[1]
SeriesSeries 2
Running time45 minutes
First broadcast24 June 2006 (2006-06-24)
Chronology
← Preceded by
"Love & Monsters"
Followed by →
"Army of Ghosts"
List of episodes (2005–present)

"Fear Her" is the eleventh episode of the second series of the British science-fiction series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 June 2006. It was written by Matthew Graham and directed by Euros Lyn.

The episode takes place in London on the day of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Doctor (David Tennant) and his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) investigate the lonely girl Chloe Webber (Abisola Agbaje), who has the ability to make people disappear by drawing them.

The episode was brought in to be a low-budget replacement for a script by Stephen Fry that had been pushed back. Location work was filmed mainly in the Tremorfa area of Cardiff in January 2006, with other scenes shot in Cardiff and in the studio in Newport in January and February. Graham was asked to write an episode primarily for children which would soften the much darker finale that would be broadcast after. The episode was watched by 7.14 million viewers in the UK, and was given an Appreciation Index of 83. The episode received praise from reviewers for the acting and the housing estate setting, and was criticised for having a "formulaic" and "ordinary" plot which "plods along". Graham received letters from children who enjoyed the episode, while also later discovering that adult fans' reactions were poor.

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