Doctor Who Rewind - The Sea Devils
Doctor Who Rewind - The Sea Devils
With the Master incarcerated in an inescapable prison, and ocean ships mysteriously going missing, the Doctor and Joe are called in to investigate. Could the two events be connected? Do birds fly?
The Master is being held in an island prison after being captured at the end of The Daemons. Joe and the Doctor visit him and are convinced all is well but the Master has matters well in hand and is plotting, gaining the confidence and help from governor Colonel Trenchard who tells the Doctor about some weird disappearances of ships out near and old fort.
The Doctor and Joe decide to go visit the base. While there they are attacked by an under water Silurian. This man-sized bipedal lizard is called a 'Sea Devil' by a crewmember who's been driven half mad.
They both escape to a nearby Navy base, HMS Seapite run by Captain John Hart, who agrees to help the Doctor.
Meanwhile the Doctor discovers The Master is accruing electrical equipment with Trenchard's help (who believes he is aiding his country against evil foe), in order to build a device to control the underwater devils and summon them to help him control the planet.
In a battle to overtake the prison, Trenchard is killed and the Doctor and Joe escape to the Navy base where they find out a submarine has gone missing.
The Doctor vintners to go down in a small submersible craft to investigate and is captured by the Silurians.
The Doctor tries to persuade the leader that a peaceful resolution must be found but during the talks the base is attacked by the Navy under the command of politician Robert Walker, a greedy power crazed man who sees now alternative than kill all the sea devils with nuclear missiles.
The Doctor escapes and tries to make Walker see sense, he is given one last attempt to make peace, during which the Master uses his equipment to control the sea devils to make an attack on the navy base and capture it. They have been inspired to such actions by the Master, who still wishes to instigate a war. The Master then forces the Doctor to help build a machine to revive Sea Devil colonies all over the world. Returning to the Sea Devil base the Master activates the device, whereupon the Sea Devils imprison both Time Lords, as they are now both equally useless to them. However, The Doctor has sabotaged the machine and he and the Master escape the base using escape equipment from the captured submarine.
As they are rescued, massive power feedback from the sabotaged machine destroys the Sea Devil colony before the military attack can begin. As he has done before, the Master is able to escape capture (this time by faking a heart attack and hijacking a rescue hovercraft) and flees the scene.
This six parter definitely benefits from some great locations around Portsmouth, HM Naval Base Portsmouth, No Man's Land Fort, the Isle of Wight and HMS Reclaim.
The Master is ingenious as ever and Delgado as the renegade time lord delivers some great lines of dialogue.
Despite six episodes this flowed much better than the Curse Of Peladon for me. Again, lots of action as well makes the whole thing dynamic and exciting.
Next up on the Rewind, with venture to the world of The Mutants.
With the Master incarcerated in an inescapable prison, and ocean ships mysteriously going missing, the Doctor and Joe are called in to investigate. Could the two events be connected? Do birds fly?
The Master is being held in an island prison after being captured at the end of The Daemons. Joe and the Doctor visit him and are convinced all is well but the Master has matters well in hand and is plotting, gaining the confidence and help from governor Colonel Trenchard who tells the Doctor about some weird disappearances of ships out near and old fort.
The Doctor and Joe decide to go visit the base. While there they are attacked by an under water Silurian. This man-sized bipedal lizard is called a 'Sea Devil' by a crewmember who's been driven half mad.
They both escape to a nearby Navy base, HMS Seapite run by Captain John Hart, who agrees to help the Doctor.
Meanwhile the Doctor discovers The Master is accruing electrical equipment with Trenchard's help (who believes he is aiding his country against evil foe), in order to build a device to control the underwater devils and summon them to help him control the planet.
In a battle to overtake the prison, Trenchard is killed and the Doctor and Joe escape to the Navy base where they find out a submarine has gone missing.
The Doctor vintners to go down in a small submersible craft to investigate and is captured by the Silurians.
The Doctor tries to persuade the leader that a peaceful resolution must be found but during the talks the base is attacked by the Navy under the command of politician Robert Walker, a greedy power crazed man who sees now alternative than kill all the sea devils with nuclear missiles.
The Doctor escapes and tries to make Walker see sense, he is given one last attempt to make peace, during which the Master uses his equipment to control the sea devils to make an attack on the navy base and capture it. They have been inspired to such actions by the Master, who still wishes to instigate a war. The Master then forces the Doctor to help build a machine to revive Sea Devil colonies all over the world. Returning to the Sea Devil base the Master activates the device, whereupon the Sea Devils imprison both Time Lords, as they are now both equally useless to them. However, The Doctor has sabotaged the machine and he and the Master escape the base using escape equipment from the captured submarine.
As they are rescued, massive power feedback from the sabotaged machine destroys the Sea Devil colony before the military attack can begin. As he has done before, the Master is able to escape capture (this time by faking a heart attack and hijacking a rescue hovercraft) and flees the scene.
This six parter definitely benefits from some great locations around Portsmouth, HM Naval Base Portsmouth, No Man's Land Fort, the Isle of Wight and HMS Reclaim.
The Master is ingenious as ever and Delgado as the renegade time lord delivers some great lines of dialogue.
Despite six episodes this flowed much better than the Curse Of Peladon for me. Again, lots of action as well makes the whole thing dynamic and exciting.
Next up on the Rewind, with venture to the world of The Mutants.
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