Hello everyone! 🙂

Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

Today, I’m sharing my updated review on the ‘Doctor Who’ story ‘The Underwater Menace’. This updated review is based on the latest in a line of mostly missing black-and-white ‘Doctor Who’ TV stories from the 1960s that have been animated on DVD and Blu-ray for today. The story stars Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Anneke Wills as Polly Wright, Michael Craze as Ben Jackson and Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon. This story also features Joseph Fürst as the titular ‘underwater menace’ – Professor Zaroff.

Originally, I reviewed ‘The Underwater Menace’ in 2017 where it was a hybrid of two telesnap reconstructions for ‘Episodes 1 and 4’ and the two surviving ‘Episodes 2 and 3’ on the 2015 DVD release. I’ve now seen the story, which is available in the 2023 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray sets, via its black-and-white animation recreations for ‘Episodes 1 and 4’ and the two surviving ‘Episodes 2 and 3’. It’s been nice to revisit this ‘Doctor Who’ story with a hybrid of animation and live-action episodes, and I’ve especially enjoyed revisiting the ‘A Fishy Tale’ behind-the-scenes making-of documentary, narrated by Peter Davison (who plays the Fifth Doctor in the TV series and the Big Finish audios).

Please feel free to check out, read and comment on my updated review for ‘The Underwater Menace’ by clicking on the link for it. You can purchase the DVD and/or Blu-ray sets of ‘The Underwater Menace’ either from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.

Enjoy!

Bye for now!

Tim. 🙂