The Savages
Joe Siegler
The Savages
This Story: Series 3, Story 9. Production Code AA.
Overall: Story 26, Episodes 119-122
Airdates: 28 May 1966 – 18 Jun 1966
Written by Ian Stuart Black. Directed by Christopher Barry.
NOTE: This is the first Doctor Who story to abandon the use of individual episode titles. From this point forward, each story is Episode 1, 2, etc – at least until the modern show relaunch in 2005.
Links: [ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | Reconstruction ]
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 119 - The Savages 1/4 (Serial AA, Story 26) - 28 May 1966. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 15, 2021
The Savages is a totally lost story, it's all telesnaps. Overall it's a pretty common Sci-Fi story. Two societies inhabit a plant, and one of them is exploiting the other, and our pic.twitter.com/IJN8Nj9tHg
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 119 - The Savages 1/4 (Serial AA, Story 26) - 28 May 1966. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 15, 2021
characters get in the middle of it. The two are called Elders & Savages. As usual, things are not as they initially appear, despite the Doctor being well respected by the Elders. pic.twitter.com/mlRKjqhTja
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 120 - The Savages 2/4 (Serial AA, Story 26) - 4 Jun 1966. #DoctorWho
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 16, 2021
We learn more about the Elders. They literally keep themselves healthy by draining the life force from the Savages. The Doctor is appalled, tries to stop it, and gets put in the machine. pic.twitter.com/rbQuxGbbF2
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 121 - The Savages 3/4 (Serial AA, Story 26) - 11 Jun 1966. #DoctorWho
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 16, 2021
The energy taken from the Doctor results in them wanting energy from Dodo & Steven who are then hunted by guards. Said hunt takes up the bulk of this episode. Hartnell barely in this ep. pic.twitter.com/ULeuruNwyY
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 122 - The Savages 4/4 (Serial AA, Story 26) - 18 Jun 1966. #DoctorWho 1/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 18, 2021
Steven & Dodo escape with the Doctor who is very affected by the energy drain. Our crew are helped by the Savages. Jano the Elder leader is affected by the transfer, seemingly acting pic.twitter.com/goUFy4N1aK
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 122 - The Savages 4/4 (Serial AA, Story 26) - 18 Jun 1966. #DoctorWho 2/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 18, 2021
like the Doctor. In the end, Jano helps our people destroy the transference machine.
This is also the final story for Steven. At the end, he makes an emotional goodbye from the show. pic.twitter.com/veJkSf0JGi
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 122 - The Savages 4/4 (Serial AA, Story 26) - 18 Jun 1966. #DoctorWho 3/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 18, 2021
Overall, I really liked this story - while watching I found myself wanting to watch the real story more. This was never one of my favs, but this rewatch changed that opinion for sure. pic.twitter.com/u3GJL3Hx60
