Doctor Who: The Sea Devils: Episode Five starts as the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) is taken to see the Sea Devils leader (Peter Forbes-Robertson) who says that his people are being revived from a deep hibernation & intend to take control of the Earth & rule it. The Doctor insists that both the Sea Devils & human beings can live together in peace & harmony while the Master (Roger Delgado) tries to convince the Sea Devils they have no choice but to destroy the human race...
Episode 13 from season 9 this Doctor Who adventure originally aired here in the UK during March 1972, so far I have rated every episode of The Sea Devils a solid seven stars out of ten since I have really enjoyed this one so far. However there is more evidence of lazy scripting, for instance why did the Sea Devil leader tell his men to take the Doctor away & kill him? Why not just kill him there & then? Then there's the resolution to the cliffhanger at the end of Episode Four, how did the Sea Devils get the Doctor from the diving bell into that 'thing'? Why wasn't the diving bell flooded when it was brought back up? It was considerate of the Sea Devils to shut the hatch & lock it after they took the Doctor out wasn't it? Still this is Doctor Who & a few plot holes & script goofs is par for the course. Writer Malcolm Hulke does his Greenpeace thing here like in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) from season seven with the Doctor volunteering to negotiate with us humans so the Sea Devils can co-exist with us in peace. The whole make love not war message is very much in evidence here. In fact a lot of this episode is a word for word rehash with the whole faulty mechanism on the Sea Devils hibernation equipment the reason behind them suddenly waking up, the notion that they predicted some sort of disaster which never happened, the idea that human beings were merely apes when they went into hibernation & their intent to wipe us out so they can reclaim the Earth for themselves. This part of the plot & script is exactly the same as the plot seen in Doctor Who and the Silurians.
There's a fair amount of stock footage in this episode, from Naval fleets to submarines to torpedo's being fired to missiles being loaded & all sorts of military personal doing their jobs. This episode also sees the first appearance of the Sea Devil leader who looks exactly the same as any other Sea Devil but can speak English. What I don't get is why none of the other Sea Devils speak English, I mean who does he talk to when there aren't any humans about? Why would he have to speak English when his people don't? He also has a very erratic moving mouth, sometimes when he speaks it moves & at other times it doesn't! The Sea Devils looks fine but there has been a few too many lingering close-ups on them which sort of destroys the illusion.
The Sea Devils: Episode Five is another great action adventure orientated episode that I liked, I like the Sea Devils themselves & I like the story apart from one or two plot holes.
Episode 13 from season 9 this Doctor Who adventure originally aired here in the UK during March 1972, so far I have rated every episode of The Sea Devils a solid seven stars out of ten since I have really enjoyed this one so far. However there is more evidence of lazy scripting, for instance why did the Sea Devil leader tell his men to take the Doctor away & kill him? Why not just kill him there & then? Then there's the resolution to the cliffhanger at the end of Episode Four, how did the Sea Devils get the Doctor from the diving bell into that 'thing'? Why wasn't the diving bell flooded when it was brought back up? It was considerate of the Sea Devils to shut the hatch & lock it after they took the Doctor out wasn't it? Still this is Doctor Who & a few plot holes & script goofs is par for the course. Writer Malcolm Hulke does his Greenpeace thing here like in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) from season seven with the Doctor volunteering to negotiate with us humans so the Sea Devils can co-exist with us in peace. The whole make love not war message is very much in evidence here. In fact a lot of this episode is a word for word rehash with the whole faulty mechanism on the Sea Devils hibernation equipment the reason behind them suddenly waking up, the notion that they predicted some sort of disaster which never happened, the idea that human beings were merely apes when they went into hibernation & their intent to wipe us out so they can reclaim the Earth for themselves. This part of the plot & script is exactly the same as the plot seen in Doctor Who and the Silurians.
There's a fair amount of stock footage in this episode, from Naval fleets to submarines to torpedo's being fired to missiles being loaded & all sorts of military personal doing their jobs. This episode also sees the first appearance of the Sea Devil leader who looks exactly the same as any other Sea Devil but can speak English. What I don't get is why none of the other Sea Devils speak English, I mean who does he talk to when there aren't any humans about? Why would he have to speak English when his people don't? He also has a very erratic moving mouth, sometimes when he speaks it moves & at other times it doesn't! The Sea Devils looks fine but there has been a few too many lingering close-ups on them which sort of destroys the illusion.
The Sea Devils: Episode Five is another great action adventure orientated episode that I liked, I like the Sea Devils themselves & I like the story apart from one or two plot holes.