October 5th, 2015
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The Underwater Menace DVD Full Details
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Doctor Who, Underwater Menace
Featuring the imitable Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor and packed with wealth of un-missable extras, Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace will be available on DVD from 26th October.
The Underwater Menace is the fifth serial of the fourth season, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 14 January 1967 to 4 February 1967. The story introduces Jamie McCrimmon’s (Frazer Hines) on his first journey with the Doctor as a travelling companion.
This special release will contain the two re-mastered existing episodes, with the two missing episodes represented with restored audio and surviving stills, as well as over an hour of extras.
Extras
Commentary – For episode 1, Interview with actor Michael Troughton Part 2 (from Ice Warriors). For episodes 2 and 3, a commentary with actors Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines and Catherine Howe, special sounds supervisor Brian Hodgson and floor assistant Quentin Mann. For episode 4, archive material featuring Patrick Troughton, directors Julia Smith and Hugh David, and producer Innes Lloyd. Moderated and linked by Toby Hadoke.
A Fishy Tale (Feature, dur. 28’ 30”) – cast and crew look back on the making of the story. With actors Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines and Catherine Howe, AFM Gareth Gwelan, production assistant Berry Butler and new series writer Robert Shearman. Narrated by Peter Davison.
The Television Centre of the Universe – Part Two (dur. 32’ 10” ) – Yvette Fielding continues her tour of BBC Television Centre in the company of actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson, with contributions from former colleagues along the way. With senior camera supervisor Alec Wheal, AFM Sue Hedden, former BBC producer and writer Richard Marson, exhibitions assistant Bob Richardson, production assistant Jane Ashford and videotape engineer Simon Anthony.
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Anonymous
February 7th, 2018 - 10:02pmNothing in the world can stop me now!
stephen lloyd
January 23rd, 2016 - 11:46amcan i ask if you don’t mind this dvd the underwater menace what’s been restorted with one of the missing epsidoe is it going to be out in shops on region 2
booboo
January 23rd, 2016 - 12:12pmits been out for a while, the missing episode is just telesnaps
The Flying Shark
November 17th, 2015 - 7:16pmI got this yesterday as a present, can’t wait to watch it.
Pudsy who?
November 14th, 2015 - 8:42amI’m not shure about getting this intl after Christmas I might not Evan buy it then last Time I got a telesnap dvd (the web of fear)
I didn’t like it don’t get me wrong I loved the story it’s just the quilty I don’t like shame the brigs 1st story wasn’t saved from the ol Bunson burner shame cuase I like the yeti
skaroman
October 29th, 2015 - 7:59pmAnother feature that the DVD has is the censored clips from episodes 1 and 4. But, for some reason, they weren’t featured in the reconstructions.
Oh well, at least the DVD has all the materials.
Tim M
October 26th, 2015 - 9:12pmNice to finally have ‘The Underwater Menace’ on DVD. The telesnap versions of parts 1 and 4 are okay, but dig out the loose cannon versions if you can, as they are much better in comparrison. I found it a tad ironic though, that the first line on the booklet inside the inner DVD case says “This is as close as Doctor Who ever got to being a cartoon”…That’s right…parts 1 and 4 SHOULD have been animated, as it’s a story that perfectly fits being partly cartoon! But all in all we can’t really grumble…when it looked like we would never see this story released with a fully restored part 2. Must add that I was happy to see the reverse cover was added…fits better in with the overall collection.
whorules
October 26th, 2015 - 3:38pmgot it! finally after how many years the underwater menace is out. ok, the recons are very basic, but i’ve got the narrated cd so next time i watch this the cd’s of eps 1 and 4 will be played with the dvd soundtrack off making more sense of the story!
David Harding
October 27th, 2015 - 10:24pmThe recons are absolutely dreadful, especially part 1. The BBC should be ashamed of themselves for this half assed effort
TheDaleksDeath
October 28th, 2015 - 6:13pmHey David. May I ask what’s wrong with the recons? Also, does episode 1 and 4 contain the titles/credits part?
whorules
October 29th, 2015 - 2:54pmvery simple recons, just photos and soundtrack. what that means is it’s very hard to know what is happening. eps 1 for example introduces ara in a scene where the doctor stops a guard hitting her. however, the unnarrated soundtrack doesn’t convey that information making ara’s helping the doctor later in the episode seem a bit out of the blue.
Doctor RevWho
November 3rd, 2015 - 4:24pmIn all of the recons I’ve seen, text runs across the bottom of the screen whenever an action happens, so that the viewer knows what is happening in that scene. However, in these recons, there was no text, so, if you don’t own the CDs and don’t know what is happening in each scene, it is almost impossible to tell what is going on. Although I understand why there was no animation, I don’t see why the BBC couldn’t put some form of effort into these recons. They didn’t even include the title sequences or end credits. It was just the music playing over a photograph in each case. But, as I say, if you own the CDs then you can just listen to those. Or, alternatively, you can watch the superior Loose Cannon recons on Dailymotion. I would say that this DVD is still worth getting since it is the last one we’ll be getting for a while, and the extras are great to watch.
Plydoc
October 25th, 2015 - 11:21amGot mine yesterday,fun to watch and brill to finish the collection.
Anonymous
October 24th, 2015 - 7:21pmHave all surviving stories of who been released
skaroman
October 24th, 2015 - 11:32pmYep. They have.
All we have to do now is wait for more missing episodes to be discovered.
Any…
time…
soon…
Rikki Krystal
October 28th, 2015 - 1:14amNo,There one episode of web of fear out there,maybe one day it will be returned.
DasBjoern
October 28th, 2015 - 3:58pmErm… there are 96 (I think) more episodes which are in the same status like the gap in “Web of fear”…
But to answer the main question: There is no officially surviving episode left, that hasn’t been put on DVD 🙂
Rikki Krystal
November 1st, 2015 - 4:19amWhen they found web of fear,all 6 episodes were found,but as we now know,
One was stolen,that is what i meant,about one episode out there.
DasBjoern
November 3rd, 2015 - 3:37pmOh… that’s what you mean. You’re right then, Rikki.
I actually hadn’t heard, that episode was discovered and then stolen 🙁
Doctor RevWho
November 3rd, 2015 - 4:27pmLet us hope that whoever took it will return it soon. The Web of Fear is a great story and I’d love to see it complete.
skaroman
November 8th, 2015 - 6:10pmThe Enemy of the World was much better than the Web of Fear though…
skaroman
October 24th, 2015 - 5:30pmBooboo. Could you update the Classic Doctor Who DVD interactive list with the image of the Underwater Menace DVD cover please?
Gordon
October 24th, 2015 - 1:10pmMy copy arrived and have watched the 2 documentaries very nice even though I thought the TV centre one didn’t really fit there but I can’t complain. At least it’s out. The recons are basic as you can get but its not the reason I bought it. The restored version of episode 2 is far superior to the leaked version and the censor cuts aren’t noticeable unlike the leaked version which is very noticeable
whorules
October 23rd, 2015 - 3:44pmmine was sent this afternoon
Warrior
October 21st, 2015 - 4:14pmHas anyone’s copy been dispatched? Mine hasn’t.
Anonymous
October 21st, 2015 - 5:48pmYes mine has
matparks08
October 21st, 2015 - 8:50pmGot mine on Tuesday
Warrior
October 21st, 2015 - 10:46pmMine’s been dispatched! 😀
whorules
October 22nd, 2015 - 7:58pmmine hasn’t either
David Harding
October 27th, 2015 - 10:25pmGot it on the morning of the 24th
Neil Shoebridge
October 20th, 2015 - 2:33pmAmazon are listing this as their #1 Best Seller in TV science fiction. So despite all the reservations over telesnaps it seems to be selling very well.
matparks08
October 20th, 2015 - 9:53amSomewhat early…just got my copy this morning. For me, though very glad to see it, it suddenly means 25 years of collecting, first videos and then dvds that that is it…nothing left to get from the past………for now 😉
Tim M
October 17th, 2015 - 7:40pmShame to see that ‘The Underwater Menace’ will have the most basic telesnap recon for parts 1 and 4 on DVD. As I think being the type of story it is, it would have worked perfectly with animated episodes. As ‘The Underwater Menace’ is a very cartoony type of story anyway. I’ll still buy it though…just to complete my collection. But the fact parts 1 and 4 can’t even have opening/closing titles or clips seems a bit fishy to me…and as the last classic series DVD release, it all ends on a bit of a damp squib…pardon the puns! 🙂
simonhanlon77
October 19th, 2015 - 1:18pmyeah i was also dissapointed that telesnaps for opening/closing titles are going to be just that. seems odd that they have made no effort at all with this release!!!
booboo
October 19th, 2015 - 1:43pmits clear they got it to market as the fans wanted i the cheapest way as to not loose money, especially as many people gleefully point out they have already seen the recovered episode via an illegal upload. It was a cancelled release.
It wont be a huge seller for them
Justin Barnes
December 20th, 2015 - 11:13pmI live in the USA and we cannot get it until March 1st 2016, and to The DW DVD restoration team did not do this DVD.It was canceled and they were disbanded before it was compiled.
The Underwater Menace DVD was thrown to get on a DVD by BBC Worldwide to Shut Us all up.The Special Features had been done years ago,there was no budget for this DVD for the Restoration Team to doing anything with it,see Doctor Who Magazine Issue #488 article Doctor Who On Home Video Part 3 to get all info.
Enjoy your Last Doctor Who Classic Series DVD!
FYI I ordered the UK PAL DVD and still it won’t reach me until Jan 11th 2016! : (
Orange Dalek 26
October 15th, 2015 - 8:03pmAccording to DWM the reconstructed episodes 1&4 won’t include the surviving clips or even the opening and closing titles.
TheDaleksDeath
October 16th, 2015 - 8:24pmNow that’s just stupid. Clips I can understand. But no opening/closing credits!?! Sheer poppycock.
Gordon
October 18th, 2015 - 12:27amIt’s just business. Saving money. No footage or opening/closing means they don’t need to spend money getting the bbfc to classify the 2 reconstructions. The existing footage are elsewhere on the DVD. For bbc ww they fully expect this to lose money. They didn’t want to release it because they expected it to lose it money. They only released this due to fan pressure as this was cancelled. They are spending little as possible so if it loses money it will lose as little as possible
Gordon
October 18th, 2015 - 12:28amI don’t agree with the decision but I get the decision
#1 Fan
October 8th, 2015 - 9:41amBest episode since Picard left, may the force be with him. RIP in peace.
#2 Fan
October 8th, 2015 - 11:27amBeam me up Scotty!
Cpl. Hicks
October 7th, 2015 - 11:02pmI recieved a BBC shop email regarding this, and it says contains a previously unreleased episode….I thought both had been released?
Sam Richard Bentley
October 7th, 2015 - 11:19pmOh yeah! That is odd – it could always mean the recons, though I doubt it highly… but then I also doubt that they have found an episode, otherwise we would know by now.
whorules
October 8th, 2015 - 12:23amepisode 2 has never been released before
Sam Richard Bentley
October 8th, 2015 - 12:58amAh that’ll be it then.
Cpl. Hicks
October 8th, 2015 - 9:53pmMy mistake, I thought the “lost in time” DVD had both episodes
Warrior
October 7th, 2015 - 4:48pmEven though I will be getting this to complete my collection, I think this is really expensive considering it’s only 2 full episodes. Fair point if it were 4 full episodes or the 2 episodes animated, but for 2 reconstructed episodes, I’d price it at £9.
Gordon
October 8th, 2015 - 8:01amThey tried selling some of the lesser liked stories and 2 parters at that price (timelash black orchid sontaran experiment and 1 or 2 others) and they stopped doing that as they weren’t big enough sellers to continue doing them
Grant
October 7th, 2015 - 9:09am£13.99 on BBC site!
whorules
October 15th, 2015 - 3:11pmyou have to add postage though
booboo
October 15th, 2015 - 3:13pmpostage is free
whorules
October 16th, 2015 - 3:24pmthey charged me postage!
booboo
October 16th, 2015 - 3:37pmare you in the UK?
otherwise BBC shop is free posting on everything so you need to contact them
SomeFunnyDrWhoReference
October 6th, 2015 - 2:11pmPart one was shown 4 days after I was born… shame it’s still missing
prof. Horner
October 6th, 2015 - 10:56amAn xmas present from one of my brothers I think.
WFK DVD Collector 15
October 6th, 2015 - 8:37amI’m still over the moon this is finally coming out! I’m actually quite excited to see the reconstructed episodes 1 & 4! 🙂
thedoctortrash
October 5th, 2015 - 10:33pmCant wait to get my hands on it!
Class 68’s
October 5th, 2015 - 7:52pmJulia Smith the director would go on the create EastEnders
Jammy2305
October 5th, 2015 - 8:11pmA Doctor Who fan who’s named themself after the latest UK loco type… You wouldn’t happen to be called Jacob would you? (Because it’s a small world if so!).
booboo
October 5th, 2015 - 8:21pmDRS’s Locos, but give me a pair of 20’s any day, see I know my stuff!
Class 68’s
October 6th, 2015 - 3:36pm@Jammy2305 haha yes I am.
@Booboo I like Class 20’s but 68’s are hellfire
Class 68’s
October 6th, 2015 - 3:47pmYes I am Jacob. would love to see a 68 popped up in Doctor Who 😛 Class 20’s are good
Jammy2305
October 9th, 2015 - 7:19pm@Booboo You’re a railway-man too? (Hellfire!)
@Jacob If you haven’t worked out, this is James (I’ll pm you on FB…)
Class 20’s are hellfire, but for DRS locos, class 37’s any day…