Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Warriors of the Deep

Doctor Who: 

Warriors of the Deep 

By Johnny Bryne

“There should have been another way.”

The TARDIS materializes in an underwater base after escaping being shot at it in orbit by a defense satellite Sentinel Six.  It appears to be the year 2084 and the super powers appear to be on the brink of war.  This event makes it a perfect time for a group of Silurians with their elite group of Sea Devil warriors to attack the sea base. 

The Silurians plan on launching the missiles from the sea base and start a world war that would kill all the humans on the surface.  The thing about the missiles  is that they destroy all life but leave all the buildings which would make it ideal for the Silurians and Sea Devils to reoccupy the Earth.  The dilemma for The Doctor is that he wants to save both groups but the Silurians are making it really difficult with their actions for The Doctor to help them.  What makes matters worse is that an enemy faction is in the sea base also sabotaging it so it can’t fire its missiles making The Doctors job all that more difficult.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Sea Devils By @Paul_Bowler

Doctor Who:

The Sea Devils

By Malcome Hulke

Reviewed By Paul Bowler 

"Yes, but the catastrophe that you predicted never happened. And the apes that you left behind on the surface to die became man."

The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Jo (Katy Manning) decide to visit their old enemy, the Master (Roger Delgado), who has been imprisoned on an island prison off the south coast of England. After learning from the governor, Colonel Trenchard (Clive Morton), that ships have gone missing in the area, the Doctor decides to investigate and visit’s Captain Hart (Edwin Richfield) at the Naval base, where he discovers that all the ships have all disappeared in the vicinity of an old abandoned Sea Fort. The Doctor and Jo take a boat out to the fort and are attacked by a Sea Devil, an amphibious species, who once ruled the Earth in prehistoric time alongside their Silurian cousins.

Realizing that the Master is behind the theft of equipment at the Naval base, and was assisted by Trenchard, the Doctor tries to stop the renegade Time Lord from escaping, but he is too late to stop him from reviving the Sea Devils from hibernation. After narrowly escaping a Sea Devil on the beach, the Doctor and Jo escape through a mine field. Returning to the Naval base to warn Captain Hart, they lean that a submarine has gone missing. Determined not to make the same mistakes as he did with the Silurians, the Doctor uses a diving bell to reach the Sea Devils underwater base, but his attempts to find a peaceful solution are dashed when the Navy are ordered to attack the base with depth charges.

The Doctor helps the crew of the submarine escape and they return to the surface, but he is captured again when the Sea Devils attack the Naval Base. Back at the Sea Devils base the Doctor sabotages the Master’s machinery, the Sea Devils turn on them both, but they manage to escape before the underwater base is destroyed by a huge explosion. When they return to the surface the Master uses a disguise to distract everyone so he can escape in a hovercraft.