Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace (1967)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 14 January 1967 - 4 February 1967
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: Geoffrey Orme
Story Editor: Gerry Davis

DIRECTION
Director: Julia Smith

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: George Summers
Film Camera: Alan Jonas

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Eddie Wallstab

MUSIC
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
Title Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: Bryan Forgham
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Gillian James
Costumes: Sandra Reid, Juanita Waterson

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Jack Robinson

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Norman Stewart
Assistant Floor Manager: Gareth Gwenlan

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Derek Ware

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Catherine Howe (Ara)
Tom Watson (Ramo)
Peter Stephens (Lolem)
Colin Jeavons (Damon)
Joseph Furst (Professor Zaroff)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Catherine Howe (Ara)
Tom Watson (Ramo)
Colin Jeavons (Damon)
Joseph Furst (Professor Zaroff)
Gerald Taylor (Damon's assistant)
Graham Ashley (overseer)
Tony Handy (Zaroff's guard)
Paul Anil (Jacko)
P.G. Stephens (Sean)
Noel Johnson (Thous)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Catherine Howe (Ara)
Tom Watson (Ramo)
Peter Stephens (Lolem)
Colin Jeavons (Damon)
Joseph Furst (Professor Zaroff)
Tony Handy (Zaroff's guard)
Paul Anil (Jacko)
P.G. Stephens (Sean)
Noel Johnson (Thous)
Roma Woodnutt (Nola)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Catherine Howe (Ara)
Colin Jeavons (Damon)
Joseph Furst (Professor Zaroff)
Graham Ashley (overseer)
Tony Handy (Zaroff's guard)
Paul Anil (Jacko)
P.G. Stephens (Sean)
Noel Johnson (Thous)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Alex Donald, Tony Douglas (Zaroff's guards)
John Adams, Reg Cranfield, Peter Stockbridge, Mary Wheeler, Marguerite Young (people in market)
Bill Burridge, Jimmy Mack (priests)
Ralph Watson (Overseer at generating station)
Cathy Ash, Derek calder, Nigel Clayton, Alex Donald, Perin Lewis, Mary McMillan, Judy Nicholls, Tony Starr (fish people)
Robin Scott, Alan Vicars (laboratory assistants)
Leonard Kingston, Denis Redwood, David Waterman (medical orderlies)
Keith Ashley, Michael Earl, Ronald Gough, Dean Hardy, Derek Hunt, Sonny Willis (Atlantean guards)
John Adams, Laurence Archer, Reg Cranfield, Fred David, Alex Donald, Tony Douglas, Royston Farrell, Stanley Jacomb, Leonard Kingston, Gordon Lang, Bob Raymond, Denis Redwood, Darroll Richards, Peter Stockbridge, Hein Viljoen, David Waterman (Atlantean priests)
Samuel Burleigh, Anthony Kemp, Edmund O'Dwyer, Gary O'Brien, Shane Younger (child priests)
Keith Ashley, Royston Farrell, Dean Hardy, Philip Joste, Gordon Lang, Denis Redwood, Robin Scott, Alan Vicars, Hein Viljoen, David Waterman (miners)

PLOT SUMMARY

After landing on an extinct volcanic island, the crew of the TARDIS are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth to the lost city of Atlantis. There they enconted the Fish People, genetically engineered humans who can live underwater, and the mad scientist Professor Zaroff who claims to be able to raise the city back to the surface. But in truth, he secretly plans to drain the sea into the Earth's core and destroy the planet...

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1966
December
12: UK - location filming takes place
13: UK - location filming takes place
14: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
15: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
16: UK - studio filming takes place at Ealing Stage 3 A/B

1967
January
7: UK - studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
14: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast; studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
21: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast; studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London
28: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast; studio recording takes place at Riverside Studio 1, Hammersmith, London

February
4: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast

Atlanta
Doctor Who and the Fish People
Doctor Who Under the Sea

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.52-60
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.114-116
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens, atlantis, fish people, lost cities, mad scientists, shipwrecks, time travel, underwater

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009