Doctor Who: Underworld (Story 96) |  | Director: Norman Stewart
Actors: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson
Studio: BBC Video / Warner Bros.
Category: DVD
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Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 883929097821
UPC: 883929097821
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Release Date: July 6, 2010
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/06/2010 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Nr
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The Doctor Who adventure "Underworld" finds Tom Baker's incarnation of the Doctor, accompanied by Leela (Louise Jameson) and faithful robot dog K9, materializing on a Minyan spaceship, one of two surviving vessels from a world destroyed 100,000 years before. The crew is on a quest to find the lost gene banks of their race, which were placed on a second ship around which a young planet has since formed. In a similar scenario to the previous season's "The Face of Evil," the descendants of the crew of this second ship have degenerated into superstitious primitivism ruled by a malfunctioning computer and, as in so many Doctor Who adventures, including the immediately proceeding "The Sun Makers" (1977), they are dominated by a brutal, self-serving elite. The story is one of revolution in a series of underground tunnels, which are achieved with less than convincing "blue screen" process work, while the costumes and action clearly influenced by both Logan's Run (1976) and Star Wars (1977). The latter was in the theaters as "Underworld" aired and its influence resulted in the introduction of post-production SFX work to produce the quite impressive ray-gun effects seen here. A fairly standard late-1970s addition to the show, "Underworld" is nevertheless an exciting and fast-moving action melodrama. --Gary S. Dalkin
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 The Doctor travels to the end of the Universe January 30, 2004
Jacob (Virgina, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Doctor and his latest traveling compaion Leela find themselves on a ship built by the Minyans a race visted upon by the Time Lords long ago. The Minyans proclaimed them gods and were given such advancements that they destoyed one another. Save for two ships the P7e which held the race banks of the minyan people to start over again and the second sent to find the lost P7E. The Doctor and Leela help those searhing for the ship only to find themselves at the very edge of the universe where planets are made. A strange dicovery that the P7E has become the core of a new found planet and inside the ship's computer has placed itself as a god. Now the Doctor with the minyans has to stop the evil computer calling itself the Oracle from keeping the desendants of the P7E in ignorance and a grip of evil.
Doctor Who Under world July 11, 2010
Paul Jutras (Florida, USA)
I hadn't seen this since PBS had dropped the original Doctor Who series. It is one of my favorite episodes. At a time were the BBC was getting budget cuts the special effects are fantastic for a television series of the 1970s. Great space ship control centers sets and costumes for the aliens. Doctor Who Tom Baker art work is interrupted by a cosmic event and the Tardis is remateralized inside a space ship being buried inside a newly formed planet. The doctor and Leela find the planet is also inhabited and helping the Minyan race find their lost race banks left behind by the crew of the P7E. Those living on the planet has a secret of their own and only by helping one another out can the planet's slaves and the Minyan crew possibly succeed in their mission.
Exras include a fantastic audio commentary, making of Underworld documentary, photo gallery, radio time listings and more.
you, the oracle? you're nothing but a box! August 9, 2010
tom fienche
Any1 fluent with Greek history and language will recognize the comparisons in
"Dr. Who: Underworld" and the Oracle of Delphi and the collapse of the Spartans.
BLUE-screen technology is recognizable thru-out the repetitious cave sequences of the episode.
No CGI is necessary for the visual effects.
Whoever did the SOUND effects for this episode knew what they were doing; it holds up even to "Star Wars: A New Hope"; that film also came out the same year (1977).
The story stands the test of time.
Loved it! August 21, 2010
Robert S. Arnold Jtr (Spring, Texs)
Excellent! I've been a fan of Doctor Who for many years and especially like Tom Baker since he was Doctor Who when I started watching this!
Much like the other stories from this season... April 19, 2010
August F. Hutchins (Mt. View, Ca USA)
Much like the other stories from this season, "Underworld" is serious, dangerous, and overall a great concept. However, the story does drag a little in episodes 3 and 4, which is typical in many Whos. I recommend this to the die hard fan and the now not so casual viewer, who has seen Doctor Who, know what it is and wants to see more.
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