September 14th, 2020
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Doctor Who Fury from the Deep Steelbook
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.
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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James
August 27th, 2020 - 11:05amThe Abominable Snowman and Evil of the Daleks been confirmed. Today’s Daily Mirror. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dr-who-stories-revived-fans-22582866.amp
booboo
August 27th, 2020 - 11:08amif true its a shame it can’t come the BBC
Prof Horner
August 27th, 2020 - 11:38amLet’s this hope this is true. If so it would mean only three Troughton stories are left to released on DVD. Not only that but it would mean that seasons one,two, five and six would be one story short of been complete. Let’s hope also that the rumours about Phil Morris and the seven missing episodes are true too , although you take these rumours with a pinch of salt.
Bobby Fackrell
August 27th, 2020 - 3:17pmOh the Daily Mirror, must be true then
Bobby Fackrell
August 27th, 2020 - 3:27pmIt’s okay the Radio Times are running with this too
SiCBB
August 27th, 2020 - 3:31pmBacked up the Radio Times.
Gordon
August 27th, 2020 - 3:33pmThe mirror do have some form for revealing the animations. They were the ones to break the macra and wheel animations months before it was actually revealed even if they did wrongly assume it was going to be the full thing of wheel. Radio times has just pretty much confirmed it via article by stating: RadioTimes.com understands more details about the animated versions of The Evil of the Daleks and The Abominable Snowmen will be released in due course
I’m sure the bbc will reveal things in due course
Bobby Fackrell
August 27th, 2020 - 3:33pmHopefully they have got this wrong and the actual story is the seven discovered episodes are The Evil of the Daleks
Dav McKenzie
August 27th, 2020 - 3:45pm‘Confirmation’ from Radio Times who usually are pretty spot on with these kinds of things; https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-08-27/doctor-who-lost-episode-animation/
Bobby Fackrell
August 27th, 2020 - 7:58pmThe problem is Evil is just so brilliant I’m almost worried about the animation
Bobby Fackrell
August 23rd, 2020 - 10:24pmI ordered this last October, I think that could be the longest ever pre order
Coleman
August 25th, 2020 - 2:40pmI’ve pre ordered off Big chief Studios and most of them have took 2 years to arrive
So you might be wrong.
Bobby Fackrell
August 26th, 2020 - 2:17pmI could be wrong but equally I could be right my statement was too vague and did not offer any specifics about what pre-orders I was referring to or whether I was talking about me personally or the whole world
Coleman
August 27th, 2020 - 10:19pmYes, too vague Bobby.
I thought you were talking generally.
Sarge
August 22nd, 2020 - 10:54pmNew Collection announcement next month…..maybe?
Bobby Fackrell
August 9th, 2020 - 10:23amWatching Deborah Watlins Myth Makers on Amazon Prime and starting to get really excited for this
Coleman
August 5th, 2020 - 1:11pmBoo Boo,
Have we had the small trailer yet that we always get with these releases, to see if we like the animation style?
Can’t seem to see it anywhere.
booboo
August 5th, 2020 - 1:25pmcame out last year.
Drano
August 4th, 2020 - 4:27pmCan’t wait for this as the release date only went live yesterday it hopefully will be out on the 14th which is why they left it so close to the date so as not having to keep putting it back ? but we’ll see.
Out of all the missing stories and being one of 4 originally released on cassette it’s one of my most listened to audio soundtracks before being replaced on cd so just Evil now to complete the 4.
And I love the steelbooks as always worth the little extra.
Gordon
August 3rd, 2020 - 10:58pmLike the dvd cover but I love the steelbook.
Richard
August 4th, 2020 - 3:05pmIt’s stunning. I have pre-ordered mine. It’s just as nice as a The Faceless Ones Steelbook.
Muz
August 3rd, 2020 - 8:17pmAny news on an Australian release for the steelbook? Or is that a UK-only thing?
Mitch
August 4th, 2020 - 3:57pmI’ve preordered it from Zavvi.com.au
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 7:59pmI’m so happy that they have made a making of for this story as the faceless ones was missing a making of and the slide audio drama sounds great as well!
Gordon
August 3rd, 2020 - 11:09pmWas announced last year at the same time as the animation. They actually filmed the making of at Red Sands sea fort where the original fury was made
Anonymous
August 4th, 2020 - 8:17amYea I remember the announcement last year but now we know more about it it sounds even more great
MJS
August 3rd, 2020 - 6:22pmBig Finish Creative Ltd? Are BF doing animations now? Is this their first?
Animations
August 3rd, 2020 - 6:25pmthey used to be planet 55. they did reign of terror,tenth planet and moonbase.
D84
August 3rd, 2020 - 10:13pmExcellent news re the animators (ex planet 55) IMO Tenth Planet and The Moonbase are fantastic animations so im really looking forward to this. Steelbook pre order has been bagged since announcement day. Feels like a lifetime ago now though
Anonymous
August 5th, 2020 - 12:15pmI loved the moonbase animation, was quite happy with reign but I’m not keen on tenth planet. There’s something odd about the mouths of the characters when they speak. It’s still good and better than no moving images at all but it’s one of the weaker ones for me.
Philip Shaw
August 7th, 2020 - 1:46pmI found that both of Reign of Terror’s wete so different in style to be distracting. The first episode tried to be too different with strange camera angles and too much character motion, seemed very anime. The latter episode had settled down and was more in keeping of a slower Hartnell period episode.
Anonymous
August 7th, 2020 - 5:36pmI like all of those stories, but the animation just wasn’t for me. I prefer the company who did TMT & TFO
Anonymous
August 8th, 2020 - 8:42pmTo be honest I’ll settle for animation I’m not keen on in order to increase the releases. Reign tries to be modern in its cutting but its distracting after you have watched 3 full episodes of the original. But I’d rather have the animation than not.
Gordon
August 8th, 2020 - 10:45pmThink reign had a problematic production. They tried new ways of animation that didn’t work and had to bin some of it and eventually ran out of time on it. I think the animation itself was fine it was the constant cutting that was problematic. Think if it was recut it probably would work better. They did get better With 10th planet and again with moonbase. I’ll be surprised if it got a special edition of it though. The original reign release did very poorly according Steve Roberts a few years back plus there isn’t telesnaps of episodes 4 and 5 to do a proper recon of those episodes plus I think you would struggle to think of new extras to tempt rebuyers as it is pretty much got all the usual features (making of/commentary/production notes for the surviving episodes).
Anonymous
August 9th, 2020 - 9:57pmI’m happy enough with reign Gordon, yes the cutting is distracting as I say but the actual animation is fine. No point in doing a new version really. Does make you wonder if they’ll try any historical stories as full animation. I’d love the smugglers and Highlanders but would they be commercially viable I wonder?
RPG74
August 3rd, 2020 - 4:01pmNice steelbook but i actually prefer the Blu ray cover. Think I’ll buy that. Good times!
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 1:12pmI like this animation style. It’s very beautiful.
Lee D
August 3rd, 2020 - 3:24pmCan’t wait for this ! Looks smashing.
Joe 90
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:09pmZoom have just announced the release date of 14/09 along with the cover art from the Blu Ray and Steelbook.
MJS
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:11pmGorgeous!!!!
skaroman
August 3rd, 2020 - 12:17pmLooks FANTASTIC!
The extras include a teaser trailer… BUT FOR WHAT??!!
Gareth Pugh
August 3rd, 2020 - 1:28pmskaroman, I think it means the teaser trailer for this, i.e. Fury (that was unveiled at ComicCon London last October, and then used by BBC on social media to promote the upcoming release). I don’t think they mean ‘the first reveal of what the next animation will be’ but I’ll be happy to be wrong!
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2020 - 3:21pmThe teaser was already released on The Faceless Ones DVD. They may just be releasing it again.
Gareth Pugh
August 6th, 2020 - 10:42pmYep, they have confirmed (on Gallifrey Base) that the Teaser Trailer is the one for this (Fury) again.
Anonymous
July 22nd, 2020 - 10:30amFury from the deep will have a feature in next months DWM so I think it’s safe to assume that we can expect this very soon.
Gordon
July 22nd, 2020 - 11:54amMight be out in September then. That 14th September zavvi has might not be far off
Gordon
May 31st, 2020 - 5:56pmOut 14th September according to the steelbook listing on zavvi
James
May 5th, 2020 - 11:24amAnyone heard of a release date yet?
Robert Barker
March 30th, 2020 - 6:06pmDo we have an estimated release date for fury?
Lee
November 9th, 2019 - 4:22pmI went on to Zoom to order this today and tried the SIGNUP10 code. Got a message saying the code can no longer be used as it’s only for the first order. So seems like Zoom has finally stopped allowing the welcome code. Surprised it has taken them this long tbh!
Gordon
November 10th, 2019 - 11:56pmWondered how long it would take for that loophole to stop. It was good while it lasted
Lee
November 13th, 2019 - 1:10pmWell I used it on a lot of orders, so definitely no complaints from me. 😀
TIM M
November 2nd, 2019 - 6:50pmSo, if no historical stories are to be animated, then that likely leaves only 9 more potential animations of missing/incomplete stories. The contenders for potential future animation would be ‘Galaxy 4’ , ‘The Daleks Masterplan’ , ‘The Celestial Toymaker’ and ‘The Savages’ for Hartnell. Plus ‘The Underwater Menace’ , ‘The Evil of the Daleks’ , ‘The Abominable Snowmen’ , ‘The Wheel in Space’ and ‘The Space Pirates’ for Troughton.
TIM M
November 3rd, 2019 - 1:06pmOh yeah, I did forget ‘The Web of Fear’. But as only episode 3 is missing. I think I’d rather just have a photographic reconstruction of the episode. Or hope someone sees sense and hands it back.
Anonymous
November 3rd, 2019 - 1:59pmI wish a lower budget team could just animate the 3 episodes total of the underwater menace and web of fear, I doubt they’d animate all the episodes of underwater menace and even more sure they wouldn’t do Web. If they do all the other troughtons except the Highlanders when it’s the introductory story of a popular companion, I’d be shocked. Hopefully they could do the Highlanders and the smugglers just to complete a season that’s within the realms of possibly completing
Anonymous
November 3rd, 2019 - 2:06pmI’d imagine each team would in order and share assets when they need to, so 2020 will see faceless ones and fury, 2021 will see evil and wheel, 2022 could be snowmen and space pirates, and possibly 2023 smugglers and Highlanders for a completed season 4, they could then do the easier hartnell animations such as galaxy 4 and savages in 2025…
Anonymous
November 3rd, 2019 - 2:07pm2024*
Gordon
November 3rd, 2019 - 11:30pmI wouldn’t rule out historicals completely. They are going to run out of monster and sci-fi based stories in the next 4-5 years. I’d be surprised if they didn’t want to at least try one of the easier historical stories at some point as a test case. Highlanders would be tricky as it’s full of tartan all of which would need to be hand drawn and would make it expensive. Myth makers doesn’t have telesnaps for reference and crusade and Marco Polo would be too expensive. Smugglers would be a good way to test as it wouldn’t be too expensive and has telesnaps.
The problem with doing either web 3 or
the underwater menace is you would be focusing on stories that have already had dvd releases. Doing a story that has never had a stand alone release has way more sales potential than a story that has already had a dvd release. I’m sure they will get tackled eventually but I doubt they are in a rush to fill these gaps at this precise moment when they are far more bigger and appetising gaps that are still possible on the current budget.
I do think it’s possible that they may do web 3 when they do abominable as abominable is pretty much the easiest Troughton to do in terms of cast sets and costumes and it might be possible that they will be able to do both at the same time. As for underwater menace i think it will be fully animated. Listening to the convention panel and part of the reason they fully animated and in colour the faceless ones it’s more accessible to larger audiences so I think if it’s animated it will be fully animated
DPHill
August 4th, 2020 - 12:51pmI have a feeling that maybe if they got closer to getting web 3 then they would do a special edition release with that and full special features and perhaps an abominable snowmen with it.
If they don’t find it, I hope they do a small box set of abominable snowmen and web of fear special edition as I’m not sure everyone would pay for just one animated episode and doing a box set of the two yeti stories seems more fitting.
Does anyone reckon that there will be anymore dvd box sets? I think it seems unlikely but the yeti tales and master plan seem the likeliest contenders – also, a better underwater menace release alongside highlanders could work…
David Simon
October 30th, 2019 - 8:17pmif you order anything on Amazon between now and end of day tomorrow(31st) totalling over £25. put in the code “GIFT05” to get £5. off. your welcome
Rob W
October 30th, 2019 - 9:00pmThe code is for selected customers only mate, glad you got it.
Prof Horner
October 29th, 2019 - 1:06pmWell this is great news. Am I right in thinking there is now one team doing season 4 and one doing season 5 ? It is just sad that Debbie and Vic are not around to see this..
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 9:04pmWas going to order from hmv but think I’ll wait still they put the correct prices on.
Rob W
October 29th, 2019 - 9:22am£28.99 is most likely the price you’ll pay so I wouldn’t worry about paying over the odds.
Anonymous
October 30th, 2019 - 8:10pmPrices have dropped on hmv so ordered now
Prowl
October 28th, 2019 - 8:40pmJust got mine pre-ordered on amazon. I’ve never seen a recon or listened to the audio for Fury so this is a real treat for me. I’ve always heard Fury is one of the great stories from Patrick’s era.
Martyn weekes
May 14th, 2020 - 3:30pmYou are correct. This must be in the top five of the greatest Patrick troughton stories of all time. I remember watching these adventures when they were first broadcast. The best one of troughton’s era ( in my opinion ) has to be ” evil of the Daleks .” An adventure fought across three time periods which ends in the destruction of the Daleks on their home planet. I specifically remember the special effects which were astonishing for a 60’s to show at the time. The climactic battle at the end is just etched into my memory and I have never forgotten it. So I am hoping that either they actually discover this lost adventure and bring it back to the BBC which would be preferable or as the last resort produce an animation but to a high standard! We will have to wait and see.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 5:49pmWell I will be buying dvd and steelbook as a completionist. Can’t wait for the artwork.
Joe 90
October 28th, 2019 - 10:25amThe link is live on Zoom but Amazon currently shows unavailable
Also available to order at HMV but they have a current release date of 2022 and at £39.99
Nothing on Zaavi yet
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 7:40pmIt’s live on Amazon now…
I Cotterill
October 28th, 2019 - 10:20amAny idea yet as to what additional content the steelbook will have compared to the main DVD and Blu-Ray releases?
Gordon
October 28th, 2019 - 10:41amIt will be announced closer to release. The bonus content won’t be finalised for a good while yet
BtsR
October 28th, 2019 - 12:10pmIt will feature a making of documentarie called “The cruel sea: surviving fury from the deep”, a opening shot as well as animation previews were shown at the panel. Theres a full panel video on YouTube.
Gordon
October 28th, 2019 - 1:21pmThat is going on all 3 versions and isn’t exclusive to the steelbook
Pete X
October 28th, 2019 - 9:19pmBtsR, do you have a link or a title for the panel video. Had a look for comic con postings for the last day and a half on You Tube, couldn’t see anything specific for the animation or Blu-ray panels.
Prowl
October 29th, 2019 - 12:15amGorden has a link to the panel posted under the Fury of the Deep announment thread. but I can copy paste it.
https://youtu.be/2drCOXex0d0
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 10:16amHas anyone managed to pre order the steelbook fro Amazon?
booboo
October 28th, 2019 - 10:20amnot yet, it was supposed to be live at midnight, this happened before, all the orders are going to Zoom at the moment
Paul Armstrong
October 28th, 2019 - 9:50amI applaud the efforts made to produce these animations. I know they dont please everyone, which is fair enough, but personally I think this is a marvellous enterprise to restore these classics to be enjoyed again.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 10:46amI wasn’t too impressed with macra but will still happily buy fury and faceless. I’d rather have them and risk not being impressed by them than not have them made at all. Incidentally I enjoyed power and shada, I’m really not sure why macra left me cold.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 11:46amIt was pollys hair
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 12:50pmIt wasn’t so much the physical animation more the choices made in telling the story I think.
Bobby Davros
October 28th, 2019 - 7:35pmMacra is a much duller story than it could have been, let’s face it. I dont find it had much rewatch/listen potential.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 8:58pmAlways enjoyed the audio so still can’t put my finger on my feelings for the animation. Still, doesn’t matter as I’ll watch the animations again at some point and I was very happy with the recon. I’ll approach faceless and fury with an open mind. If I enjoy the animations (and I did like power and shada) then great if not hopefully there will be recons on as well.
Flo
October 28th, 2019 - 8:33amGordon I don’t understand… These animated épisodes won’t be available in the Blu-ray collection ?
Gordon
October 28th, 2019 - 8:41amAnything that is animated will be included in the collection. Due to how expensive animation is it needs to get released on its own beforehand to recoup costs
flo
October 28th, 2019 - 11:19amThat’s what I thought. Thanks.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2019 - 12:11amCan’t wait! Any update on when The Faceless Ones is out?
Gordon
October 28th, 2019 - 12:19amAnne-Marie Walsh who is heading up the animation for the faceless ones has said the animation will be complete in the next 2-3 weeks so it’s probably be anounced soon