September 14th, 2020
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Doctor Who Fury from the Deep DVD
Available to order in the UK from www.amazon.co.uk or www.zoom.co.uk
Available to order in Australia from www.sanity.com.au
BBC Studios can reveal artwork and extras for Doctor Who: Fury From The Deep starring Patrick Troughton as The Doctor. The new animated release will be available on DVD, Blu-ray and Steelbook from 14th September 2020. Pre-orders are available now from Amazon, HMV and Zoom.
Following the success of existing animations The Power of the Daleks, The Faceless Ones, Shada and The Macra Terror, Fury From The Deep fills another gap in missing Doctor Who content lost in the purge of the BBC’s archive in 1975.
The three-disc release gives fans the opportunity to enjoy Fury From The Deep in high definition, either in full colour or in black & white. The release will include the surviving clips from the original 1968 production as well.
Fury From The Deep is told across six episodes and stars Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling. The storyline concerns a colony of sentient, parasitic seaweed, last seen in the eighteenth century, returning to attack a number of gas instillations in the North Sea in an attempt to take over humanity.
The reversible cover…
Animated episodes from Big Finish Creative Limited in association with Digitoonz Media & Entertainment and Thaumaturgy are joined by a wealth of exciting extras.
A making-of featurette ‘The Cruel Sea – Surviving Fury From The Deep’ sees original cast members Frazer Hines, June Murphy and Brian Cullingford revisit filming locations with production assistant Michael Briant, assistant floor manager Margot Hayhoe and helicopter pilot Mike Smith. Other contributors to this segment include writer Victor Pemberton and actress Deborah Watling. There’s also an archive audio interview with director Hugh David.
Additional material includes:
- Audio commentaries
- The Cruel Sea – Surviving Fury From The Deep
- Original surviving footage
- Behind The Scenes 8mm footage
- Animating Fury From The Deep
- Archive interviews with Peter Day and Victor Pemberton
- Teaser Trailer
- Photo Gallery
- The Slide Audio Drama
- PDF scripts
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Lewis
August 4th, 2020 - 3:51pmSo I wonder when we can expect the next animation announcement?
Macra Terror announcement
5 December 2018
Release Date
25 March 2019
Faceless Ones announcement
4 June 2019
Release Date
16 March 2020
Fury From the Deep announcement
27 October 2019
Scheduled Release Date
14 September 2020
That’s 3 announcements in less than a year, and we haven’t had one for over 9 months now. COVID obviously hasn’t helped, but I wonder if we can expect another announcement by the end of the year?? Same for the blu ray sets, no new announcement since February!
Doctor Blu
August 8th, 2020 - 9:09pmWhat’s next after ‘Fury’? I think another two releases will be available next year. Likely one from each of the animation companies. I reckon Charles Norton’s crew will animate ‘The Evil of the Daleks’ next, and ‘Big Finish Creative’ will animate ‘The Abominable Snowmen’. That’s purely my prediction and with no insider knowledge.
Gordon
August 9th, 2020 - 1:27amWith 2 animation teams on the go and now running and releases being planned probably every 6 months or so they won’t need to announce things so far in advance. Probably won’t hear anything till November December time for a March release and it’s probably gonna be evil. The animations are done remotely from People’s homes so there shouldn’t be a problem completing the animation.
The collection sets could all depend on if they can get the next set finished or not. I’m hopeful with power out of the way and them spending this week on fury it may free up some time in the next couple of weeks to get some sort of announcement. If we don’t hear anything by the end of September we may not get another release this year
George
August 13th, 2020 - 12:25pmThey seem to be doing only Troughtons though.
Would love them to do something like The Mythmakers or The Smugglers.
Doctor Blu
August 15th, 2020 - 9:17amHistorical stories being animated are highly unlikely I’m afraid. That rules out much of the missing Hartnell era getting animated.
Doctor Blu
August 27th, 2020 - 1:40pmLooks like my instinct was right! ‘Evil of the Daleks’ and ‘Abominable Snowmen’ look likely to be the two stories being animated at present.
SiCBB
August 27th, 2020 - 2:32pmAccording to the Mirror 27.08.20 ‘Evil of the Daleks’ and ‘The Abominable Snowmen’
the 14th doctor
August 4th, 2020 - 9:42amthis looks great! for me this is the best cover so far! i will probably wait til christmas to get it though as i can’t afford to pay quite that much at the moment.
Philip Shaw
August 6th, 2020 - 4:46pmI wouldn’t wait too long, steelbooks tend to sell out quicker than the stadard blu ray and dvd versions.
the 14th doctor
August 9th, 2020 - 1:37pmsorry i was talking about the dvd
Gordon
August 3rd, 2020 - 10:22pmGot to admit it’s looking like a smashing release. Both a black and white and colour animation. A telesnap reconstruction with the option of narration by Fraser Hines. Mark Ayers has confirmed that it will include a 5.1 mix. A Commentary of some description. A making of the story and a separate making of for the animation. We are even getting production subtitles on animated episodes for the first animation since the invasion and Richard bignell has confirmed its by Martin wiggins. he also confirmed the teaser is just for fury. Restored clips and archive interviews With Peter Day and Victor Pemberton. The slide audio Photo gallery and pdf files. This feels very special. I actually quite like the cover. It gives a horror b movie type vibe. Gary Russell said he was going to go for a scarier feel and the cover goes for this direction. It feels like a very special release.Only thing really missing is the Tom Baker narrated audiobook however looking at the disc space there may have not have been space for it.
Whorules
August 3rd, 2020 - 11:52pmHave to agree Gordon it does seem impressive. It is a shame about the Tom Baker, especially after his potd version was on. Got to admit not to keen on these animated covers but its just a cover and the content is more important. And the content looks great.
Prowl 1701
August 4th, 2020 - 12:08amNormally I don’t care for the standard release art for the animations and just get the steelbook, but I do actually like the art for this one so I many double dip and get the standard release too (I’ve had the steelbook on preorder since it was announced.). I actually enjoy the power SE art and bought it so the standard release of fury would fit well next to it.
Anonymous
August 4th, 2020 - 8:22amThey can add the Tom baker narrated Audiobook of Fury from the deep when the season 5 blu ray boxset is released so it doesn’t really matter that’s it’s missing as we have plenty of other great stuff on this release
Anonymous
August 4th, 2020 - 10:03amIt matters to those of us who don’t buy bluray!
Coleman
August 4th, 2020 - 12:55pmCome on anonymous, don’t be arguing with yourself, (again).
booboo
August 4th, 2020 - 12:56pmthey are all different people as i have said before
Coleman
August 4th, 2020 - 12:57pmYes, sorry BooBoo,
Just find it very funny, that’s all.
Dalek Eye Stalk
August 3rd, 2020 - 9:40pmSeptember 14th release date… No doubt that WON’T be the actual release date, and sometime in October is more likely.
Anonymous
August 5th, 2020 - 1:49amThey seem to tend to drop back a week or so. So 21st Sept is more likely but hopefully it will be on time
Joel
August 3rd, 2020 - 6:25pmAny word on when this will be available to purchase in the U.S. ?
booboo
August 3rd, 2020 - 6:42pmthey tend to be some weeks/months behind
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 11:36pmBooboo months is more accurate for older Who. Season 14 BluRay is only coming out tomorrow here in NA despite being available for at least six months in the UK (yes I know they sold out but still). I’m not complaining, just rather miffed as it would have helped pass time in quarantine. Honestly seeing as I only use my Blu Ray player for Doctor Who now, I may just purchase the region 2 of ‘Fury from the Deep’ when it comes out in UK and re-set my player. The half-a-year wait is becoming increasingly frustrating. Yes I know the market here isn’t as big as across the pond with all of you but I find that my interest is completely dead by the time they are released here. ‘Faceless Ones’ isn’t even coming out until October 20th over here (according to amazon)!!
Sorry Booboo. Don’t mean to rant. Just saying that despite it being more expensive, it’s probably just easier in the long run to find a cheap second-hand Bluray player and set it to Region 2 (UK) and just buy the UK releases and watch it that way. The only other option is to find a TARDIS and hop forward 6 months!! XD
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:33pmIs the cover reversible to match the other dvds?
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:39pmEvery time…
booboo
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:48pmwould think so, we always get these so will put up images as we have done for the last few
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:58pmNot sure why this question is asked all the time… the DVDs have had reversible cover for something like a decade now.
booboo
August 3rd, 2020 - 5:03pmThey might just change their minds one day, i doubt it but if someone asked the they deserve a reply.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 5:39pmWhy don’t they just release the roundel cover at the same time as the 2018 logo cover?
Gordon
August 4th, 2020 - 11:30amBecause it won’t be visible in shops. It would also confuse some people thinking there is an alternative cover version available to buy and they may skip the normal cover version. People may also ask is there any differences to the 2 covers content wise.
Grant P
August 4th, 2020 - 11:55amI would ask the question as a collector to make sure it matches my other dvds so I think it is reasonable to ask without having a snotty remark!
Anonymous
August 4th, 2020 - 12:13pmHere’s a point. If it doesn’t have a reversible cover then it doesn’t have a reversible cover and that’s that. Whether it matches or not it’s important it’s the content that is important. Doctor who fans have been spoilt by the BBC as they have provided matching cover styles for 20 years now. They really didn’t have to. But they did. For me if they don’t provide a reversible cover it won’t adversely affect my life. I collect mainly books and I have very few series or authors that completely match. Different sizes. Different cover styles. Different spine colours, author name size title size. It’s just one of those things. I look at my collection and it’s a sea of different colours and sizes. My DVD collection is the same. Different colours and fonts on the spines. We have been spoilt as who fans. But it’s pretty much moot. This will have a reversible cover. Why would they stop now?
Coleman
August 4th, 2020 - 1:45pmGordon, I see your point.
Not everybody’s psychic
Lewis
August 3rd, 2020 - 3:27pmIs the teaser trailer just the one for fury from the deep or is it a teaser for the next animation I wonder?
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:11pmProbably the fury one
Big Steve
August 3rd, 2020 - 3:22pmI quite like the cover. The style of the characters look very “scooby-do ish”.
So far, I have really enjoyed these animated stories; especially the recent POTD Special edition.
I’d love to see “The Space Pirates” animated – so much potential for a unique interpretation by the animators, as there is so little source material available. Risk it!!
Callum Eales
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:24pmWhats the highlanders on the specail edition tempted to buy just for that.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:40pmHighlanders not on DVD as has been mentioned many times in last three odd months
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 7:51pmThe style is definatly comic book ish
Fledershrew
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:53pmFantastic. This is the most anticipated Troughton story for me. I’ve listened to this story on audio cassette as well – it was such a treat…. I can’t wait to see the animated version!
So pleased with all the extras they’ve included too!
The cover design is terrific – I’d love to see that on a T-shirt.
Seek – locate – preordered!
D84
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:42pmVery happy! Hopefully the cover will be reversible!
Only disappointment is that the Tom Baker narrated audiobook isn’t included, but it is nice to have “The Slide”.
The Evil Dalek
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:02pmFor anyone not knowing, The Slide was the original version of Fury from the Deep that Victor Pemberton offered to Doctor Who during Season 2 but was turned down by David Whitaker who didn’t like the script. But at the same time, Pemberton also offered it to BBC Radio Drama which was over seen by Peter Bryant, who commissioned it. Later, Peter Bryant became the Script Editor for Season 5 and he hired Victor Pemberton to be his assistant. When Bryant was offered the role of producer, he offers Pemberton the role of script editor which Pemberton kindly declined, stating he wanted to get back into freelance writing. So, wanting to use Pemberton’s services and fondly remembering The Slide, Bryant asked Pemberton if he could submit an updated version of The Slide for Doctor Who which Pemberton happily agreed. The new version of The Side would become The Colony of Devils and later, Fury from the Deep
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:43pmI’ve got the script book and pemberton says it was always a radio drama and wasn’t sent into TV or doctor who.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 3:19pmIt was a radio drama, not written for doctor who. After it was shown apparently an outline for a who version was tentatively submitted but rejected.
Whofan44
August 3rd, 2020 - 1:35pmThe Slide? I am interested to learn more about this audio drama as its not one I have heard about before and I think might be new to this release.
Prof Horner
August 3rd, 2020 - 1:53pmJune Murphy and Brian Cullingford met on fury ,do we know if they are still married? I hope so it is just the sort of thing my dear late mother would like.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:21pmThe slide was written by victor pemberton in 1966. It was a 7 part BBC radio drama starring roger Delgado. It shares similarities with fury. It’s ok but it’s of its time
Whofan44
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:42pmNow I am a bit disappointed. I was hoping it would be a new exclusive Doctor Who audio drama.
Graham
August 4th, 2020 - 12:02pmIf anyone is interested in listening to The Slide prior to this release, it is being broadcast weeknights at 6pm from Monday 10th August on BBC radio 4 extra
Anonymous
August 5th, 2020 - 1:52amIt’s worth listening to. It’s not brilliant but its not terrible either. Roger Delgado and Miriam margolyes are good. The stories of slide and fury are similar but different enough to enjoy.
Neil
August 3rd, 2020 - 1:17pmThe covers for these animated releases are unimaginative and pretty awful. Surely better covers could be done?
Dr. Woo
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:54pmI agree. Probably the worst cover so far, redesign the cover.
Dalek Eye Stalk
August 3rd, 2020 - 9:49pmI’m going to be using Christopher Loftus DVD cover for ‘Fury from the Deep’. Used his DVD covers as replacements for ‘Power of the Daleks’ , ‘The Macra Terror’ and ‘The Faceless Ones’. I don’t like the cartoon covers.
Anonymous
August 5th, 2020 - 1:54amI’ve got those as well. Will be sticking to fury a i did with the others. They just fit better aesthetically.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 1:17pmThe covers for these animated releases are unimaginative and pretty awful. Surely better covers could be done?
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:59pmHope there is a reconstructed version as well. The slide audio drama is ok, I’ve heard it once and it’s interesting but not overly brilliant. Was also hoping the Tom Baker narrated audio would be there as well
joey
August 3rd, 2020 - 1:35pmYes, there is! Telesnap Reconstruction Episodes 1-6 with Optional Narration by Frazer Hines.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 2:22pmThat’s good. I like the animations but it’s nice to have the full original version on as well.
Oh my giddy aunts
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:57pmWhat a lovely birthday present for me
Oh my giddy aunts
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:56pmWhat a lovely birthday present for me
M
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:15pmJust been confirmed by Zoom, out on September 14th. Covers on their website.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:55pmProbably be delayed as most seem to be at the moment. However at least we know it should be September now. Still not keen on these art covers but I’ve got custom ones so it makes no difference really. Looking forward to this
Anonymous
May 14th, 2020 - 8:07amBooboo, is there any news on the cover for this?
booboo
May 14th, 2020 - 9:32amnot yet
Gordon
May 14th, 2020 - 11:30amProbably when it’s final release date gets announced. Faceless was a month before release so I guess this will be the same. It’s still at least a couple of months off. August/September at a guess (animation started 6 months after faceless so it’s probably due August/September time)
rowie4life
July 26th, 2020 - 12:59pmAny word on the release date?
Gordon
July 26th, 2020 - 1:17pm14th September according to zavvi
rowie4life
July 26th, 2020 - 7:18pmCheers Gordon.
Jack Palance
May 10th, 2020 - 6:36amNo one really wants Underwater Menace in a very basic telesnap version? Surely they would do the missing B&W episodes animations, we don’t need to have 4 colour episodes either, just to help it flow like previous releases
Error
May 14th, 2020 - 3:47amI would agree with the idea that four color-animated episodes would not be necessary, but if they want to use Loose Cannon for that episode instead of animation, that should be fine. Both ways work. Without Loose Cannon, the animation isn’t even possible. What’s surprising that the Crusade doesn’t have a DVD release since it’s only missing half of its episodes.
Gordon
May 14th, 2020 - 11:38amCrusade is far too expensive and time consuming at present and has about 3 stories worth of Characters sets and costumes of animation to create. Plus after the success of the animations I don’t think they have any interest in making any more main feature releases where the gaps are filled with telesnaps
Error
March 31st, 2020 - 7:40pmI wonder if they’re planning on doing all the Troughton’s, including this one, The Evil of the Daleks, The Wheel in Space, The Space Pirates, and The Highlanders.
Don’t really need to worry about the Web of Fear and the Underwater Menace due to their DVD releases.
Jack Palance
May 10th, 2020 - 6:35amNo one really wants Underwater Menace in a very basic telesnap version? Surely they would do the missing B&W episodes animations, we don’t need to have 4 colour episodes either, just to help it flow like previous releases
Anonymous
May 10th, 2020 - 9:25amI think it is likely we’ll get evil, snowmen, wheel and due to them having iconic villains, I’d like to think that we’d see Highlanders as it is Frazer Hines’ first story but we’ll see about the tartan, space pirates might be hindered by its poor fan reception but could be reappraised if animated similar to how enemy of the world was when the lost episodes were found. Underwater may also be left a while as it already has a DVD release, however power is now getting tweaks and improvements before all the other stories that haven’t got an animation or dvd release so who knows…
Gordon
May 10th, 2020 - 12:36pmEvil abominable and wheel all have good chances of being animated. They all have memorable monsters plus 2 of them have companions debut stories. Underwater menace had a dvd release but the dvd had a reconstruction which was not up to anybody’s par. Even the person that made the reconstruction wanted something better for it but however was instructed otherwise by those that was in charge at the time. It’s time for a revisit and animation should finally happen for it. If web 3 doesn’t turn up I can see them animating it (it’s only 1 ep) in the next couple of years to give us a complete season 5. Space pirates isn’t popular but there is no telesnaps to do any sort of decent recon so an animation might be the best way forward with it. That just leaves the highlanders. Charles norton described it as too complex. Part of the problem I hear is that there is so much tartan all of which would need to get animated by hand. It’s also a historical which is a tougher sell especially after the reign animation did extremely poorly sales wise. It may get done some day (they are going to run out of easy animations at some point) but it won’t be soon
Error
May 14th, 2020 - 3:53amWasn’t the Reign of Terror a poorly received episode in the first place? It’s too bad for me because I thought it was the best episode of that first season of Doctor Who… oh well.
Anonymous
March 10th, 2020 - 4:08pmI’ve just been charged by Zoom for this and The Faceless Ones DVD, yet Fury from the Deep is still showing as unreleased on their site (Faceless Ones released on Monday).
WC
March 2nd, 2020 - 11:26amI know it’s a pointless thing, but is anyone else at all annoyed that the covers aren’t consistent with the layout of the rest of the classic era? I love that they are being made either way, but it wouldn’t be that hard to make them with the template, and the way they are currently they stick out among the rest.
Anonymous
March 2nd, 2020 - 11:57amThey’re reversible aren’t they?
Anonymous
March 2nd, 2020 - 12:31pmThey’re on the back. It’s a reversible Gordon will tell you
Gordon
March 2nd, 2020 - 2:51pmYeah. They always will offer a reversible cover. I’m amazed people still complain.
bob hellier
February 24th, 2020 - 1:31pmnice to see fury from the deep being released i wonder if wheel in space will be released as a dvd maybe this year or next
Gordon
February 25th, 2020 - 12:52amIt’s been mentioned at the Gallifrey 1 convention that the hope is to do 2 animations a year. As we already have faceless ones and fury from the deep so it definitely won’t be this year. Think there is a 50/50 chance next year. Fairly certain the next animation from the faceless team is evil due to how faceless ends on a cliffhanger and it follows directly on from faceless plus it’s a fairly easy animation in terms of characters and sets. As for the next animation from the fury team it could either be abominable or wheel. Abominable has the same tardis team as fury and has the smallest cast and sets of any of the troughton’s outside of web 3. Gary russell who heads up the fury animation was asked about abominable on twitter and he said he’d love to do it 1 day but let’s see the reaction to fury first. Alternatively Wheel does follow on from fury so it could be a possibility next but they may want the team that’s tackling the faceless ones to do it as it would be the same team that did the minisode a few years back which would mean an early 2022 release date if they do that after evil. Think it’s very likely within the next 3 years especially if they are sticking with the Troughton era.
Peter
November 8th, 2019 - 2:33pmAt this rate we’ll never get a Hartnell. Oh well, can’t complain about what we did get.
Anonymous
November 8th, 2019 - 5:20pmActually at this rate it will take a maximum of 4 years to get a Hartnell, which is pretty good considering this previously looked like a pipe dream.
Peter
November 13th, 2019 - 2:06pmTrue, it is quite hard to believe how lucky we are sometimes.
Anonymous
November 13th, 2019 - 5:05pmIs love to see the smugglers, savages and galaxy 4 as they are probably the easiest of hartnell to animate
MJS
March 31st, 2020 - 9:00pmThis really only affects season 2-4 as there’s enough including existing animation for season 1.
Anonymous
October 29th, 2019 - 9:37am2021 it is most likely to be abominable snowman and wheel in space because they are close to do season 5 and of the do animate those stories we can have a Troughton season set
Gordon
October 29th, 2019 - 10:25amI would think that evil and wheel are more likely as they follow on from faceless ones and fury. The stories chosen aren’t influenced in any way by the box set releases.
The 14th Doctor
November 8th, 2019 - 6:02pmAlso it is likely to be big finish that animate evil because big finish did a poll on their twiter about which story would people want to be animated next and evil won.
TheQuestion
October 28th, 2019 - 5:49pmThey will have changed the logo by then
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 9:02pmHere we go again another tedious logo comment…
Anonymous
October 29th, 2019 - 9:42amthe logo does not bother me the cover is always reversible the only thing i don t like is at the beginning of all the dvd s now when the tardis appears followed by the new logo the sound goes in and out and i always think there is something wrong with my tv
Anonymous
October 29th, 2019 - 7:17pmLol, same here, I check my TV everytime!
Callum
October 28th, 2019 - 8:59amI really glad we are getting more of the 2nd doctor. Wheel in space or space pirates next please.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 8:05pmAgreed
Darren
October 28th, 2019 - 3:39amAll 3 say currently unavailable on Amazon, hopefully they are available to pre order properly soon
The Ergon
October 28th, 2019 - 12:12amI, so want this so that it matches up with the rest of the DVD collection but what year can we expect season 5 collection on Bluray, i wonder. I would certainly upgrade those first six seasons It would be pointless to get Bluray editions twice,so I can afford to wait for now.
Robert Sienicki
October 28th, 2019 - 7:30amI am hoping they will animate all the missing episodes and The Collection will be complete. I was struggling, cause If they will include the animations in the Collection then I will have doubles, but I feel good to pay them for the animated Blu-Rays now, cause I feel like they have the money to do it (they have a studio now and two teams working on animation, so we can have two per year), so I feel like I helped a little.
Gonna need to sell the standalone Blu-Rays if the Collection will get here.
Gordon
October 28th, 2019 - 8:10amAt least 2022 at a minimum I would think. Maybe 2023. All depends on which stories are done next.