Doctor Who #94: Image of the Fendahl

Title: Doctor Who: “Image of the Fendahl"
Year: 1977
Network: BBC
Creators: Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber, Donald Wilson
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Chris Boucher
Starring: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson
Music: Ron Grainer (theme), Dudley Simpson
Episodes: 4, at 25 minutes; the third story (of 6) from season 15
Synopsis: four scientists (two of which are up to no good with a "time scanner") find a 12-million-year-old skull
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay).
Objective Rating: 4/10 (gets points for dialog, pacing, acting and subjective rating) c. 2.0/4 (Indifferent).

My synopsis sounds much more interesting than the actual story turned out to be. What briefly promised to be science fiction quickly devolved into one of the more melodramatic and cornier of the gothic horror stories. Baker's shenanigans save it, but only just barely.