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Doctor Who - Beneath the Surface (The Silurians [1970] / The Sea Devils [1972] / Warriors of the Deep [1984]) [DVD]

Jon Pertwee (Actor), Peter Davison (Actor) Rated: Parental Guidance Format: DVD
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Genre Music Videos & Concerts
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Contributor Johnny Bryne, Jon Pertwee, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Katy Manning, Roger Delgado, Malcolm Hulke, Nicholas Courtney, Caroline John, Peter Davison See more
Language English
Number of discs 4

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All three "Silurians"/"Sea Devils" stories in one quality box set. Two classic stories starring Jon Pertwee as the third Doctor, plus a third story starring Peter Davison as the fifth Doctor.

Extras include three Commentaries, Isolated Music, Photo Galleries, Subtitles, Subtitle Production Notes and Radio Times billings. Plus trailers, "Making Of" Documentaries, Special Effects, Music, Location, and Restoration featurettes.

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Bringing together the trio of adventures featuring Doctor Who’s most famous underwater foes, the Beneath The Surface boxset has Sea Devils, Silurians, and adventures from both the Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison eras.

It’s perhaps logical to get past the weakest of the three adventures in this set first, and that honour falls to the Peter Davison story, Warriors of the Deep. It’s not too bad though, even if it does display some of the silliness and budget constraints that helped define 1980s Doctor Who. It’s still fun, however, and worth a spin.

The two Pertwee adventures are terrific, though, and the real highlights of the set. The Silurians finds Jon Pertwee relatively new to the role, and blessed with an adventure that boasts excitement, adventure and a very good script. But our favourite is nonetheless the second story, The Sea Devils, which also brings Roger Delgado’s take on The Master into the mix. It’s a tense, involving adventure, and one of the finest of the Jon Pertwee area. That’s not something to be said lightly, either.

As is the norm with Doctor Who special edition DVDs, the set is then backed up with some terrific archive extras, along with commentary tracks and documentaries that all but justify the asking price alone. That you get two strong adventures and one reasonable one into the mix as well makes this one of the best classic Doctor Who boxsets released to date. Highly recommended. --Simon Brew

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20 x 15 x 4.5 cm; 308 g
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 7 hours and 5 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 14 Jan. 2008
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Nicholas Courtney, Caroline John, Katy Manning
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 2 Entertain Video
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000ZZ06XQ
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Czech Republic
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Malcolm Hulke, Johnny Bryne
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 4
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  • Frank Cooper
    5.0 out of 5 stars Doctor who DVD
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2025
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    The dvds were in a very good condition and I like doctor who dvds
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  • stanley david johns
    5.0 out of 5 stars Value for your money.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2024
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    As hallways this is a good product and good value for your money.
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  • Mike G
    5.0 out of 5 stars Two out of three ain't bad . . .
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 March 2011
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    For me, and I guess for many other fans of the classic series, this is a pure nostalgia treat. The marvellous Jon Pertwee era is here in all its glory, with typical seventies full use of colour, CSO and bold monster designs, all combined with cracking scripts and superb acting. Which all combine to make The Silurians and The Sea Devils compelling viewing - which I suppose more than compensates for the dire Warriors of the Deep! Oh dear, what were they thinking? Eighties Who produced many classics but this one is firmly placed at the opposite end of the scale. Still, as with the other two stories, there are excellent extras including some great documentaries that go into much detail about the makings (and the failings!) of each particular story. Lack of time and lack of money were sadly the two prevalent shortcomings of classic Who's final decade. Take a look at Remembrance of the Daleks if you want to see how good it could be; otherwise, keep your finger on the fast forward button for Warriors or else come previously armed with several bottles of wine to ease the pain.
    So, five stars for two great stories and a concealed raspberry for a complete failure. A fitting tribute to three great stars who are no longer with us: Jon Pertwee, Roger Delgado and Nicholas Courtney. Enjoy!!
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  • Connor Hanson
    4.0 out of 5 stars The Aliens from... Earth!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2011
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    Super set here! The three classic appearances of the aliens from earth, the Silurians and the Sea Devils. The two Pertwee serials do decimate the later one from Davison but all three are worth a viewing.

    The best place to start would be at the beginning; DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS from 1970. The longest and darkest tale of the bunch here. Following a series of strange power losses the UNIT team are called to a government project at Wenley Moor where they are doing some work on the atom. Just before the team arrive two of the junior technicians have an accident potholing, one is killed but the other speaks of reptile-men and has become a great cave drawing artist... This tale depicts the Doctor trying to make peace between humanity and the Silurians and at some points you cannot tell whether humans are the hostile ones or the Silurians! The Silurians work well here in the dim lighting and their voices are very strange. Whilst I am a great fan of the Pertwee era and deem Season 7 to be the best series of all by a fair way the story does drag a bit and I sometimes find myself turning off at around Part 4 and resuming later but I have been entertained during each of my repeat viewings!

    Next up is THE SEA DEVILS, arguably the best of the bunch which is a lighter tale from '72. After the events at Devils end during THE DAEMONS the Master is locked up in a prison on an island and Jo and the Doc are off to visit him. Around the area several ships have sunk and when the Doctor hears about this he takes off full steam ahead for the (authentic) naval base - HMS Seaspite. He inspects a charred lifeboat and eventually reunites with Jo and investigates a nearby sea fort. Here he encounters a Sea Devil and becomes concerned. This story is once again a peace-making story with the Master mixed in trying to stir up a war between the two civilizations. The Doctor Who production team had managed to secure naval co-operation and this makes the tale superb with location footage from on sea, aboard a naval ship and shots of authentic equipment make this a must have adventure!

    Now to the weakest of the tales; WARRIORS OF THE DEEP. A purely studio-bound adventure from 1984 the attitudes of the Sea Devils and Silurians are much more militaristic and the story is ridden with continuity errors and flaws. The mostly wooden cast look on this tale with gloom on the extra features and if you throw a terrible Myrka into the pot then you get an awful tale which, unfortunatley, we got. Davisons last line in the story sums up the entire production flop "There should have been another way".

    Overall though 4 stars, had Warriors of the Deep not been included in the package then we would have had a 5 star set. Buy this for the Pertwee Stories and excellent extras which include; Commentaries, Making of Documentaries (the one for THE SEA DEVILS called HELLO SAILOR is particularly interesting!), Music Scores, Trailers, Subtitles, Production Notes (In subtitle form), Special Effects Feature and a little feature on the restoration process.
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  • sean cutter
    5.0 out of 5 stars stay out of the water...and the caves!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2011
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    One of the few box sets that actually make sense. The Sea Devils has all the best elements of Jon Pertwee's era - good story-line (disappearing ships and crews), Jo Grant, the Master, UNIT, real RN ships, location-shooting and plenty of action. The Silurians has stuck in my memory from first viewing in the early 70s with underground passages and Silurian prison cells giving the story a claustrophobic feel. The Silurians' sonic head-piece was a gem of a special effect and why they dropped it in Warriors...? Above ground the Silurians give us some haunting scenes (I can't spoil them). Both stories deserve top marks. I gave Warriors a second chance and watched the DVD but ended up giving it to charity as it has no place on my shelves.
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  • uerige58
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bargain!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2023
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    Three classic excellent tales for a bargain price, you cant go wrong! I wasn't particularly looking for Pertwee or Davison stories but for a seven, six and a four episode story at £12.99 at the time I can't complain.
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  • Paul neagle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dr who
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2023
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    It's Dr who at a great price if you are a Dr who fan you will be just as excited about this as me
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  • Rick Adams
    5.0 out of 5 stars Has 2 of my all time fave stories in it!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2013
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    3 complete stories in 1 boxset for the price it currently is is amazing. I may be a bit biased though as the Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep are 2 of my all time favourite stories. I watched them on repeat when I had them on VHS and was so happy when they were released on DVD. The remastering is excellent (although the Sea Devils would have been better as a 2-disc as the story is long and therefore compressed more meaning that there are a few artefacts in some scenes, hopefully this will be rectified if re-released in the future).
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  • mapie73
    5.0 out of 5 stars Génial
    Reviewed in France on 20 March 2021
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  • Antti Koponen
    5.0 out of 5 stars ¡Bien!
    Reviewed in Spain on 4 October 2020
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    ¡Bueno calidad precio!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great, on time
    Reviewed in Canada on 8 April 2017
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    Great, on time, as stated. Heads up, as is stated, is meant for Europe, so you need an all-region player to watch it in North America (Amazon sells them).2 of 3 DVDs are Pertwee (Dr #3), who is best Dr IMHO. One is Davidson (#5), who is good but middle of the pack.
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  • Rodney Charles Marsden
    4.0 out of 5 stars Doctor Who at its Best
    Reviewed in Australia on 3 September 2022
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    There is a lot of great story telling here. Present day Doctor Who, despite more money thrown at directors, cannot compete. These are stories that touch one without hitting one over the head with lessons to be learnt. Man can be inhumane and this is brought out. Well worth having.
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  • Crazy Fox
    5.0 out of 5 stars "These creatures aren't just animals, they're an alien life form, as intelligent as we are."
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 June 2008
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    Doctor Who can be a pretty deep show sometimes. And that goes for the three stories in this aptly named box-set both in the usual figurative sense and quite literally as well. That is, the unifying element in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (1970), "The Sea Devils" (1972), and "Warriors of the Deep" (1984) is one of the most creatively imaginative set of antagonists the show has seen in its long history, and they antagonize from the depths of the earth and sea. The eponymous Silurians, that is, along with their equally eponymous semi-aquatic branch, the Sea Devils--a highly advanced and civilized race of reptilians that evolved on Earth long before we did, went into suspended animation underground and undersea to weather what they predicted to be a global catastrophe, and then overslept a bit until the technological advances of the mammalian hominids who evolved in their absence awoke them again. All three times they seek to retake the planet that once was theirs, each time the Doctor tries to broker a peaceful compromise between the two feuding sets of Earthlings, and each time mutual suspicion, xenophobia, and itchy trigger fingers prevail over the Doctor's voice of reason and compromise. Each story too invokes this complicated moral dilemma with cold war allegorical overtones within the confines of a thoroughly enjoyable science fiction thriller.

    Each also has its own particularities too, of course. "Doctor Who and the Silurians" gets the whole concept going and is the strongest of the three storywise. Only the second story of the third Doctor's tenure (as expertly played by Jon Pertwee), it also starts establishing several key motifs of that era, including the Earthbound Doctor's characteristically eccentric vintage car. "The Sea Devils" takes the concept two years later and jazzes it up with more action and greater scale while complicating matters with the presence of the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis, the Master, who seeks to foment strife and discord quite as much as the Doctor seeks to defuse it. All of this has the slight drawback of simplifying the story to a slight degree, but the overall result is a delightfully quintessential sample of the Pertwee era. "Warriors of the Deep" attempts more than a decade later to update the concept and develop it further--a valiant attempt that due to a few errors of judgment as well as circumstances beyond anyone's control ends up falling far short. This is definitely the weakest link of the three, but it has some redeeming qualities (the model work and set design for the Silurian submarine and Sea Devil hibernation chamber are superb, for instance) and in any case it's one of those the fans love to hate, which is a distinction of sorts anyway.

    Extras are never the deal-breaker with me (I consider them indeed extra), but the ones on these discs deserve special mention. The "Silurians" includes "What Lies Beneath", a highly informative and interesting look at the social history underlying the story as well as an examination of the manner in which it met the expectations of its time and addressed issues of immediate concern, considerably deepening the contemporary viewer's appreciation of this classic in the process. There is also an intriguing behind-the-scenes take on the extremely experimental music featured in the two Pertwee stories--Doctor Who was pioneering the real future sound of London, playing with bizarre soundscapes and electronic harmonies way ahead of its time. For its part, "Warriors" includes "The Depths" wherein everybody from the writer and the key actors onwards has a good time ripping on this poor beleaguered tale--most extras include nothing but hype and hyperbole, only the Doctor Who crew has the guts to reflect at length on their own fumbles and have a good laugh doing so.

    In any case, this is overall a fine DVD set of classic Doctor Who storylines scattered in time but highlighting one of the show's more inventive concepts together with its later permutations. And for the obsessive-compulsive fans such as myself, each of the three stories is in a separate, self-contained case so that they can be taken out of the box and placed in chronological order with one's other Doctor Who DVDs if one so chooses. Getting them together as a set is still the more convenient and frugal option, of course, unless one has a particular interest in only one of the three. In that case, they can be purchased singly as well:
    1. Doctor Who and the Silurians (Episode 52)
    2. Doctor Who - The Sea Devils (Episode 62)
    3. Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep (Story # 131)
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