Sunday, 27 November 2016

The Underwater Menace

(Series 4, Episodes 20-23)

Summary: Newsflash!  Atlantis is not lost!  They’re still hanging around under the sea, waiting for a crazy Russian scientist to help them rise from the waves.  Jamie, despite being from the 18th century, is remarkably nonplussed by all this.  Polly, predictably, spends a lot of time screaming, but doesn’t get to make any tea.  The Doctor and Ben have a Titanic moment as the city floods, but thankfully both make it out alive.

Watch it because: The fish people of Atlantis are curiously beautiful.


Original Air Date: 14 January – 4 February 1967.
Doctor: Patrick Troughton.
Companions: Ben Jackson (Michael Craze), Polly (Anneke Wills) and Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines).
Writer: Geoffrey Orme.
Director: Julia Smith.
Producer: Innes Lloyd.

Available on DVD? Yes, although Episodes 2 and 4 are reconstructions.

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