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# Doctor Who: Underworld (Story 96)

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Product Description          Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Time Lords of Gallifrey began exploring space and time with their new TARDIS technology. The first alien race they encountered were the Minyans, who treated the Time Lords as gods. In return, the Time Lords gave medical and scientific aid. As the Minyans became more advanced, they renounced their former gods. The war that followed destroyed the planet Minyos and set the Time Lords on the path of non-interference with the affairs of the universe. Before Minyos was totally destroyed, a single ship - the P7E - escaped. It carried the future of the Minyan species, locked into its onboard race banks. But the P7E disappeared into deep space centuries ago. Now the last of theMinyans have embarked on a quest to recover their lost race banks. Their quest is destined to bring the Minyans once again into contact with the Time Lords - one Time Lord in particular.             .com          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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## Customer Reviews

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    The quest is the quest
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2003*

I hadn't seen this episode since the mid-80s, so I was pretty eager to lay my hands on it when I discovered the BBC was finally going to put it out on VHS after a slight delay of, oh, 28 years. The few fan reviews I had read were pretty harsh, and my own memories of the episode were very few, but I kept an open mind when I popped the tape in.My first impression was that this episode had been done a great wrong. It was witty and seemed to have a mysterious and inventive premise. By the time I was finished watching, though, my main feeling was that this was a classic case of a "what might have been" story. Had it been directed by someone who knew how to use close-ups, had the cliffhangers been properly done instead of just happening with the abruptness of a guillotine, had the producers not elected to save a few quid by using horribly fake blue screen backgrounds of the caves instead of going on location as they did for "Revenge of the Cybermen," and had they actually done a second draft on the story, this could have been a real classic. Instead, we have an entertaining but cliche-ridden mess, that takes way too long to move the storyline, stumbles around the plot holes, and then wraps up so fast you have a feeling they forgot to shoot 20 or so minutes of the episode. Call it "enjoyable mediocrity."The plot has some nice window dressings that conceal a familiar story. Basically, the doctor must battle a demented computer which thinks it is a god, free a bunch of slaves from servitude, re-unite two branches of a race which diverged 100,000 years ago, and try to make amends for being indirectly responsible for the whole mess to begin with. This story was told previously, and much better, in "Face of Evil", and would be told again in "State of Decay." There are other self-plagarisms as well, and to get around these, the writers decided that it would be a good idea to simply not explain a lot of what happens. This works for David Lynch fans, but not for me: they should have added an extra episode, done a re-write and fleshed out what needed to be fleshed, instead of just cobbling this thing together. I'd tell the boys how I felt, but oh yeah, this was shot in 1975. I forgot time machines aren't real. What a nerd!So now you are thinking I hated it. No, I just had to vent. It is fun, particularly the first two episodes. The villain costumes are creepy, those shield-guns are cool, and the idea of planets forming around stranded ships, the computers becoming the gods of the crews, and the crews eventually turning into slaves of the computers is a fun concept, however many times it has been tried before (and again!). Overall, it is not an episode I would recommend to buy unless you are a hard-core fan, but if you aren't a hard-core fan, why the hell are you reading this?

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    Underworld is an Underated Classic.
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2010*

I must admit, I'm a little biased over this one, because it was the first Doctor Who story I ever saw. Over the years alot of people have complained about the production values(it was shot almost entirely using CSO), and they also gripe about the plot being too close to "Face of Evil." So I watched it expecting it not to hold up, and you know what? It's still pretty damn good! Tom Baker is in his prime here, and so is Louise Jameson as Leela. The supporting players are very good here too. The story is loosely based on "Jason and the Argonauts." I very much agree with the Doctor Who writter's that Greek mythology is very rich source of inspiration. It is also a bit more fast paced than most 70's Who. There is a great documentary about how they made this story under impossible odds. There are all the elements here of any classic Doctor Who story, so give this one a second look. 
  
Doctor Who: Underworld (Story 96)

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    Doctor Who Under world
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2010*

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.

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