The Terror: The Dundee links with Franklin's doomed expedition which sets sail for BBC Two
© SYSTEM A digital print from the artist Alessia Pelonzi depicting Gordon as John Weekes in The Terror. Dundee actor Gordon Morris has been chipping away at the city’s links with Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition in 1845. Gordon, from Douglas, plays John Weekes, a carpenter on board HMS Erebus, in the supernatural drama The Terror which is coming to BBC Two and iPlayer. The series centres on the disastrous attempt by the crews of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to discover a sea route through the Canadian Arctic to the Orient, with both ships becoming icebound in the Canadi...