The Underwater Menace
Joe Siegler
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The Underwater Menace
This Story: Season 4, Story 5. Production Code GG.
Overall: Story 32, Episodes 145-148
Airdates: 14 Jan 1967 – 4 Feb 1967
Written by Geoffrey Orme. Directed by Julia Smith.
Notes
- Episodes 2 & 3 exist. 1 & 4 do not. This was the final story released on the old DVD range, and at the time the BBC didn’t want to fund an animation of Episodes 1 & 4, despite them planning to do so. As such, the missing episodes were handled with an official reconstruction. I started using the official one, but it was inferior in quality to the Loose Canon version, so I switched back to the LC version.
Links
[ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | SPS Historium | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK DVD | Eps 1 & 4 Recon ]#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 145 - The Underwater Menace 1/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 14 Jan 1967. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 9, 2022
First of "The Underwater Menace"; a story that's been mostly missing forever. It has a pretty bad reputation overall, possibly due to the 2nd ep cliffhanger overacting. pic.twitter.com/UeRqtHTtKU
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 145 - The Underwater Menace 1/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 14 Jan 1967. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 9, 2022
After some beach exploration, our crew are captured and are to be sacrificed. The Doctor realizes Professor Zaroff is here, and gets saved. Zaroff wants to revive Atlantis. pic.twitter.com/JCmb0YlaJY
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 146 - The Underwater Menace 2/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 21 Jan 1967. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 11, 2022
The earliest surviving Troughton is the first ep where the Second Doctor starts to feel like the one we know from here on out; his performance crystallizes. I liked this ep. pic.twitter.com/c5wopsM4Wf
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 146 - The Underwater Menace 2/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 21 Jan 1967. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 11, 2022
The Doctor battles Zaroff who is obviously mad in his attempt to revive Atlantis. After the various characters are separated & reuinted, the Doctor is turned over to Zaroff. pic.twitter.com/Z6xQ09fQfb
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 147 - The Underwater Menace 3/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 28 Jan 1967. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 12, 2022
Zaroff dives deeper into his madness over his Atlantis plan. The Doctor is saved from execution by Ben who pretends to be a god. The Doctor then plans a revolution with the pic.twitter.com/ehn0Q9Anvd
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 147 - The Underwater Menace 3/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 28 Jan 1967. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 12, 2022
fish people. He succeeds in stopping the food supply. Zaroff takes Polly hostage, attacks Ramo, & ends up in the most over the top cliffhanger line in all of Doctor Who. pic.twitter.com/AVPPqbLr7q
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 148 - The Underwater Menace 4/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 4 Feb 1967. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 12, 2022
The Doctor continues in his rebellion against Zaroff by overloading a reactor, which leads to a flood. Zaroff refuses to abandon his plan and drowns. Our crew escapes. pic.twitter.com/oIsWFlEDfn
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 148 - The Underwater Menace 4/4 (Serial GG, Story 32) - 4 Feb 1967. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) January 12, 2022
I always had this story in my mind as a crap one, but I have to say I enjoyed it more this go around than I remember doing so in the past. Shame it wasn't animated on DVD. pic.twitter.com/ynFAcex0UH
