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Summary: For completists only!
Review: A number of stories vie for the unenviable position of the worst Doctor Who story ever made. This is one of them.'The Underwater Menace' is a tale of unbelievable science being practiced by a truly insane megalomaniac (his plan must result in his own death) in an unlikely setting. The TARDIS arrives on a desert island, and its crew are captured one by one. They find themselves prisoners in the lost kingdom of Atlantis. The Atlanteans are being aided by Professor Zaroff in their plan to raise the island back to the surface. But there is more to Zaroff's plans than even the Atlanteans know... About the only thing we are spared is the over the top acting of Joseph Furst as Professor Zaroff in this fairly straightforward adaptation of a Doctor Who series that should never have been made. Get it if you must.
Rating:
Summary: For completists only!
Review: A number of stories vie for the unenviable position of the worst Doctor Who story ever made. This is one of them. 'The Underwater Menace' is a tale of unbelievable science being practiced by a truly insane megalomaniac (his plan must result in his own death) in an unlikely setting. The TARDIS arrives on a desert island, and its crew are captured one by one. They find themselves prisoners in the lost kingdom of Atlantis. The Atlanteans are being aided by Professor Zaroff in their plan to raise the island back to the surface. But there is more to Zaroff's plans than even the Atlanteans know... About the only thing we are spared is the over the top acting of Joseph Furst as Professor Zaroff in this fairly straightforward adaptation of a Doctor Who series that should never have been made. Get it if you must.
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Summary: A story that transcends it's limited handling
Review: The Underwater menace is written in an average manner but it doesn't make a difference. The story is so strong, the characters are so big that everything leaps off the page. The Doctor and his trio of companions end up in Atlantis nearly get sacrificed to a pagan god and murdered by a mad scientist intent on destroying the world. What we actually have here is a mediation on the old religion vs. science conflict told in very broad terms. Professor Hermann Zaroff is not just a mad scientist but a really really REALLY mad scientist! The climax is suitably ironic with both science and religion destroying one another then the story pulls back in favor of science. A bit of a cheat really since it was science that comes within three minutes of destroying the planet and, only the intervention of religion, allowed the Doctor to save the world. Incidentally, the story takes place far in the future of 1976. A fun novelization of yet another destroyed serial. Darn that BBC anyway!
Rating:
Summary: A story that transcends it's limited handling
Review: The Underwater menace is written in an average manner but it doesn't make a difference. The story is so strong, the characters are so big that everything leaps off the page. The Doctor and his trio of companions end up in Atlantis nearly get sacrificed to a pagan god and murdered by a mad scientist intent on destroying the world. What we actually have here is a mediation on the old religion vs. science conflict told in very broad terms. Professor Hermann Zaroff is not just a mad scientist but a really really REALLY mad scientist! The climax is suitably ironic with both science and religion destroying one another then the story pulls back in favor of science. A bit of a cheat really since it was science that comes within three minutes of destroying the planet and, only the intervention of religion, allowed the Doctor to save the world. Incidentally, the story takes place far in the future of 1976. A fun novelization of yet another destroyed serial. Darn that BBC anyway!
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