The Birds (film) The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It focuses on a series of sudden, unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California over the course of a few days. The film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (in her screen debut), supported by Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du
The Rani (Doctor Who) the Tetraps in her TARDIS. In "Dimensions in Time", for scenes set inside the Rani's TARDIS, the Doctor's console from the original series was set inside a TARDIS console room mock-up constructed for a recent fan convention as the Rani's original console room for the series had already been destroyed. The Rani (Doctor Who) The Rani is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". She was played by Kate O'Mara. The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an amoral scientist who considers everything secondary to her research; she has been known to enslave entire planets