August 11th, 2023
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Doctor Who The Underwater Menace DVD
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
BBC Studios continues to offer Doctor Who fans the opportunity to extend their at home collection by announcing the latest release Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace on DVD and Blu-Ray. The two-disc box set contains the fourth series story as well as special features. This classic series stars the second Doctor Patrick Troughton and co-stars Anneke Wills as Polly, Michael Craze as Ben and Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon.
The original 1967 master recordings of all except episodes two and three of The Underwater Menace were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings of the missing two episodes have survived and have been used to create a brand new fully animated presentation of this lost classic.
This story sees these characters navigate through their adventures in the underwater city of Atlantis where they meet with Professor Zaroff, who plots to destroy the Earth by draining the oceans. Fans can expect a super jam-packed series bursting with unseen exclusive content. All episodes have been animated in colour and black and white whilst including original film elements.
DISC ONE (Main Feature)
- Episodes 1-4 – Animation – Colour
- Episodes 1-4 – Animation – Black and White
DISC TWO (Special Features)
- Episode 1 – Reconstruction
- Episodes 2 & 3 – Original 1967 Episode
- Episode 4 – Reconstruction
- A Fishy Tale – Making of Documentary
- Australian Censor Clips
- The Man from Miditz
- Frazer Hines Introduction for episode 2 as per the original VHS release
- BBC News Report (South Today)
- BBC Radio Solent Piece (audio only)
- Photo Gallery
- Animation Gallery
- PDF material including camera script
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace will be available for fans to buy from November 2023.
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Alzie Who 66
November 13th, 2023 - 5:19pmMy DVD has arrived today. Shall watch tonight.
Nick
September 24th, 2023 - 9:57amLoving this new DVD release cover and it’s colours! Looking forward to watching this in November.
James
September 23rd, 2023 - 4:01pmNothing against the artworks they do for these animations but why did they stop doing the normall grey covers?
booboo
September 23rd, 2023 - 4:03pmthey are (the dvd’s) usually reversible
James
September 24th, 2023 - 10:20amIs it the same for the blu ray?
SV7
September 24th, 2023 - 3:23pmUsually yes 🙂
anon
September 22nd, 2023 - 7:39pmI’ll be happy when 13/11/23 rolls around for it’s release!
1963
September 23rd, 2023 - 11:02amme too,,, hope it as a reversible cover
Zaroff’s pet octopus
August 14th, 2023 - 8:21amI will likely swap the anticipated cartoon dvd cover for the original photographic dvd cover of ‘The Underwater Menace’ from 2015.
Steven taylor
August 14th, 2023 - 8:57amYeah same, even though the reconstruction is terrible, the cover is one of my favourites
the 15th doctor
August 13th, 2023 - 11:43amcan they put 8 x 25 minutes on one dvd usually they put 4 episodes on one and 4 on the other
Gordon
August 13th, 2023 - 1:33pmThey can fit 8 episodes on dvd. Problem is that it’s 10 eps that need to fit on it seeing as there is 4 colour/4 black and white animation/2live action. Probably could still fit but would be extremely compressed. If it was for blu ray only they could have fitted all 10 episodes on the same disc. Shame they still follow this silly rule that the dvd and blu ray must have the contents repeated. Hopefully if they notice the complaints they might change their stance and swap out the colour animation with the recons/live action eps and swap places so they are on the same disc. If it’s not I’m most certainly sure it will be rectified by the collection season 4 release
cosmosboy98
August 12th, 2023 - 11:26amDo we know who the producer/ production company of this is?
Gordon
August 12th, 2023 - 12:30pmAnne Marie Walsh is producing (faceless/evil) and it’s the bbc studios team though some of the people involved have changed (no rob Ritchie)
Vortexsurfer
August 12th, 2023 - 9:45amFunny they seem to have put both animated versions on one disc and the existing episodes on the other. Normally they pair up the existing episodes on the same disc as the black and white animation so you can watch them through without changing the disc.
me
August 12th, 2023 - 8:49amnow this is coming out ,,,NOZHING in the world can stop me now
Callum Eales
August 11th, 2023 - 6:41pmI know i will buy this anyway but the creatures look a but too scooby doo for my liking.
bryan
August 11th, 2023 - 8:24pmI thought they were priests in the Temple with Masks on. The Fish People (creatures) are not in these scenes. The only real baddies are Zaroff and Damon ,and the soldier’s/security people.
fantastic news and Well timed as I was going to go with the DVD.
atl
August 11th, 2023 - 4:09pmso happy for this to be re released to replace the dvd of it that come out years ago i may have to keep my original for the feature ‘The Television Center Of The Universe’ Part Two if is not on this and o do hope there are more to follow
Bookcollector
August 11th, 2023 - 4:26pmThought the same thing, I’ll put all three into the same box and keep using the original DVD cover.
Lewis frisby
August 12th, 2023 - 10:39pmWhat is the television centre of the universe documentary about and which dvd or collection boxset can it be found on
Gordon
August 12th, 2023 - 11:00pmIt’s got Peter Davison, janet fielding mark Strickson and Yvette Fielding walking round television centre remising over things that happened there and meeting various people. It’s in 2 parts and part 1 can be found on the visitation special edition and part 2 can be found on the original underwater menace dvd. It is has yet to be ported over to the blu ray sets though the best place for it is probably season 21.
Rex F
August 13th, 2023 - 12:59amLewis: It’s the first result on Google.
atl
August 11th, 2023 - 4:09pmso happy for this to be re released to replace the dvd of it that come out years ago i may have to keep my original for the feature ‘The Television Center Of The Universe’ Part Two if is not on this and o do hope there are more to follow
Lewis Frisby
August 12th, 2023 - 10:37pmWhat is the television centre of the universe documentaries and where can the be found which dvds or boxsets
anon
August 11th, 2023 - 3:36pm@Gordon: Is the feature ‘The Television Centre Of The Universe’ Part Two on this new version ~ Do you know?
Gordon
August 11th, 2023 - 7:56pmNo it’s not. Not too surprised it’s not either considering that it was only on the disc because there was nowhere else to put it being the last planned dvd release of the range at the time. More fitting to be on either season 20 or 21 considering it has Janet Sarah and Peter on it as well as the underwater menace filmed at riverside studios not tv centre.
anon
August 12th, 2023 - 12:28pmThanks for your timely reply Gordon
Gordon
August 12th, 2023 - 9:29pmIt’s not on season 20 according to Richard bignell so either season 21 or the long rumoured wilderness set
D84
August 12th, 2023 - 9:54pmOoooh “Wilderness Years” have we heard anything on that recently?
Gordon
August 12th, 2023 - 11:01pmNothing recently
Grant P
August 11th, 2023 - 3:34pmGreat news! But Am I reading it wrong?? On Amazon says release date is 31 Dec. 2025?
Rory
August 11th, 2023 - 4:10pmPlaceholder until the date is confirmed.
They always do that.
Rex F
August 11th, 2023 - 4:20pmOne of their placeholder dates, because they don’t like “TBC”.
Grant P
August 11th, 2023 - 5:09pmPhew panic over ha ha
Prowl 1701
August 11th, 2023 - 9:04pmMost of the media posts are saying November 2023
booboo
August 11th, 2023 - 9:10pmits actually on every page on this site from official PR but with no specific date
Bookcollector
August 11th, 2023 - 2:42pmBrilliant news. This is one that desperately needs to have an animated and reconstructed episodes. Great.
Nick
August 11th, 2023 - 2:18pmBrilliant! Bring the animations on!
Anonymous
August 11th, 2023 - 1:32pmSo glad to see the animations are being continued!
pupbenny
August 11th, 2023 - 1:13pmOh very cool!!!! Great to get more of Ben & Polly as well as Troughton & Jamie!!
Ian
August 11th, 2023 - 1:07pmI’ve never seen any of this story. I’ll buy it at the time it comes out
Kenny
August 11th, 2023 - 12:54pmVery welcome news.
Neil
August 11th, 2023 - 12:45pmFantastic news! Hadn’t expected all of the episodes to be animated, thought it would just be the missing parts, so this is wonderful! Hopefully this is the start of a regular release pattern for animated versions of stories with missing episodes
Zaroff’s pet octopus
August 11th, 2023 - 12:30pmNothing in the world can stop this story being completed.
Grem
August 13th, 2023 - 10:13amHope they keep the cover design from all of the other DVDs!
D84
August 14th, 2023 - 8:27amI would have thought it will follow the same pattern as the others with the Movie Style on one side, and the classic DVD range style on the reverse
We’ll get to see the cover details soon enough i expect if this is coming out in November
Snowman
August 11th, 2023 - 12:29pmJust Ordered.
James
August 11th, 2023 - 12:25pm1 down just the smugglers to be Offical announced. Means that we now know the season 4 collection will be a few years away. Won’t release so soon after this standalone release. So when/if smugglers is released will just leave the highlanders for season 4. Maybe 1 recon per set but seems a shame not to do highlanders then this will be a full visual season 4 release. 4 others (fury, evil, power and macra) already animated, moonbase and tenth completed.
godlek
August 11th, 2023 - 6:11pmIs the Smugglers rumoured to be animated as well then?
Prowl 1701
August 11th, 2023 - 9:05pmYeah the rumor was that smugglers and UWM animations were coming.
James
August 12th, 2023 - 12:47pmYh story in the daily mirror at start if the year.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/lost-doctor-who-episodes-brought-28859152