Doctor Who: The Sea Devils (1972)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 26 February 1972 - 1 April 1972
Number of Episodes: 6
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Letts

SCRIPT
Script: Malcolm Hulke
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks

DIRECTION
Director: Michael Bryant

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Mike Jefferies
Film Camera: Peter Sargent

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Martyn Day

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Malcolm Clarke

SOUND
Studio Sound: Tony Millier, Colin Dixon
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Maggie Fletcher

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Peter Day

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Tony Snoaden

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Colin Dudley
Assistant Floor Manager: John Bradburn

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The BBC wish to acknowledge the help given to them by the Royal Navy in the making of this programme

STUNTS
Action: HAVOC
Fight Arranger: Derek Ware
Stunts: Marc Boyle, Peter Brace, Alan Chuntz, Jack Cooper, Stuart Fell, Billy Horrigan, Mike Horsborough, Mike Stephens, Terry Walsh, Derek Ware

CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Roger Delgado (The Master)
Edwin Richfield (Captain John Hart)
June Murphy (Third Officer Jane Blythe)
Clive Morton (Colonel George Trenchard)
Pat Gorman (Sea Devil)
Alec Wallis (Leading Telegraphist Bowman)
Terry Walsh (Castle Guard Barclay)
Declan Mulholland (Alan Clark)
Neil Siler (radio operator)
Hugh Futcher (Edwin Hickman)
Royston Tickner (Robbins)
Brian Justice (Castle Guard Wilson)
Eric Mason (CPO Smedley)
David Griffin (Lt Commander Tony Mitchell)
Donald Sumpter (Commander Ridgeway)
Christopher Wray (Leading Seaman Lovell)
Stanley Mcgeagh (Castle Guard Drew)
Colin Bell (CPO Summers)
Brian Vaughn (Lt Commander Watts)
Peter Forbes-Robertson (chief Sea Devil)
Martin Boddey (Walker)
Rex Rowland (A/B Girton)
Norman Atkyns (Rear Admiral)
John Caeser (CPO Myers)
Michael Briant (voice Of DJ - uncredited)
Steven Ismay, Brian Nolan, Frank Seton, Jeff Witherick (Sea Devils - uncredited)
Stewart Barry, Bob Blaine, Les Clark, Jim Dowdall, Brian Gilmar, Phillip Weston (chateau guards - uncredited)
Jim Dowdall, Nick Llewellyn, Roy Pearce, Dennis Plenty, Ron Tingley (ratings - uncredited)
Jim Dowdall, Brian Gilmar, Nick Llewellyn, Roy Pearce, Dennis Plenty, Ron Tingley, Phillip Weston (naval base sailors - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The Master is held in a maximum security prison. Nearby ships are disappearing and The Doctor enters an abandoned sea fort where reside the Sea Devils amphibious relatives of the Silurians. The Master from his prison has evil intentions for them.

Repeated twice in those pre-video days, The Sea Devils loomed large in the memory of an entire generation. Now it views as simply a chase from one place to another and then back again, and then back again, again. The Sea Devils look great, fully justifying their classic monster status, but their battles now seem weak. The score, once deemed so cutting edge, now sounds like an electronic vomit.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1972
February
26: UK - Episode One television broadcast (on BBC1)

March
4: UK - Episode Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
11: UK - Episode Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
18: UK - Episode Four television broadcast (on BBC1)
25: UK - Episode Five television broadcast (on BBC1)

April
1: UK - Episode Six television broadcast (on BBC1)

December
27: UK - edited compilation edition television broadcast (on BBC1)

1974
May
27: UK - edited compilation television broadcast (on BBC1)

1992
March
6: UK - Episode One television broadcast (on BBC2)
13: UK - Episode Two television broadcast (on BBC2)
20: UK - Episode Three television broadcast (on BBC2)
27: UK - Episode Four television broadcast (on BBC2)

April
3: UK - Episode Five television broadcast (on BBC2)
10: UK - Episode Six television broadcast (on BBC2)

SEE ALSO
Clangers (1969 - 1974)
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep (1984)

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.223-226
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009