The Sea Devils

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*Working titles for this story included "The Sea Silurians".
*Because of the story's location filming requirements it was allocated the second slot in the production run for "Doctor Who"'s ninth season so as to allow filming in October. However to alternate the stories between those set on Earth and those set on other worlds it was transmitted third in the season. This was the first time stories were produced out of transmission order.
*The serial was mainly filmed around Portsmouth, Portsmouth HM Naval Base, No Mans Land Fort, the Isle of Wight and HMS Reclaim.
*The Royal Navy waived royalty fees on the use of stock footage and clips showing ships in action, happy with on-screen credits and the positive publicity generated by the show. Many sailors volunteered to help with the filming, so that most of the extras during the sequence at the Naval Base were actual sailors, except in some of the stunts.
*In the first episode, the script called for Jo Grant and the Doctor to climb up a ladder to get into a sea fortress. The ladder proved too slippery for Katy Manning, so stuntman Stuart Fell did the shot dressed as Grant.
*A model of a submarine was created by purchasing a Woolworth's submarine model kit and then altering the propeller. However, by chance, the alterations to the model strongly resembled an actual proto-type submarine developed by the Ministry of Defense. After footage of the model was broadcast as part of the story, producer Barry Letts received a visit from two Ministry of Defense officials, who were concerned that the footage was of the proto-type.

Music

The incidental music for this story, by Malcolm Clarke, is highly experimental, utilizing random notes and high pitched frequency modulation via Moog synthesizers. A suite of it appeared on the 1983 LP "Doctor Who - The Music", and later, in 2000, the full score was released on the compilation album "".Parts of the incidental music, as well as a line of dialogue, were sampled by Orbital on their track "Doctor Look Out".

Outside references

* When the Doctor bribes the ferryman, he tries to make a phony excuse about having injured his leg in Crimea. When it's apparent that this is anachronistic, he tries Gallipoli and then El Alamein before conceding that the excuse didn't really matter anyway.
* The Doctor claims to have been a close personal friend of Admiral Lord Nelson in this story.
* The Master watches (and enjoys) "The Clangers", much as he would watch and enjoy The Teletubbies in the 2007 episode "The Sound of Drums".

In print

Doctorwhobook
title=Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils
series=Target novelisations
number=54
featuring=


writer=Malcolm Hulke
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=Chris Achilleos
isbn=ISBN 0 426 11308 X
set_between=
pages=
date=17 October 1974
preceding=Doctor Who and the Dæmons
following=Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen|A novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, was published by Target Books in October 1974. A Portuguese translation was published in 1983.

Broadcast, VHS and DVD release

*The story was repeated on December 27 1972 as a ninety minute compilation.This was shown three days before the broadcast of Episode 1 of The Three Doctors
*On Bank holiday Monday May 27 1974 the compilation had an unscheduled repeat in place of a cancelled cricket match. This was shown two days after episode 4 of "Planet of the Spiders" was first broadcast.
*When the wiping for episodes ended in 1978 it was discovered that the first three episodes had only survived as black and white telerecordings for overseas sales.
*In the early 1980s NTSC transfers of all six episodes were returned from broadcasters in Canada. These were converted back to the original PAL format.
*The story was repeated in full on BBC2 in 1992, representing the Pertwee years as part of a series of repeats of stories from all seven Doctors. The NTSC copy of Episode Five was used as the PAL copy had a nasty scratch on it.
*The story was released on VHS in September 1995. The copy of Episode Five used was the NTSC version, despite the fact work had been done a year or so previously to remove the scratch from the PAL version.
*The story's original soundtrack was released on CD as part of the 'Monsters on Earth' tin set along with "Doctor Who and the Silurians" and "Warriors of the Deep" in October 2006 and linking narration was provided by Katy Mannning. [http://www.timelash.com/tardis/display.asp?1462] The CD was re-issued individually in January 2008.
*This story was released on DVD as part of a boxed set called "Beneath the Surface" with "Doctor Who and the Silurians" and "Warriors of the Deep" on January 14 2008. [cite web|url=http://www.navynews.co.uk/articles/2007/0705/0007052401.asp|title=Navy News "Who can help who Buffs?"|accessdate=2008-05-01]
*The DVD commentary is provided by director Michael Briant, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, and moderator Andrew Cartmel.

References

External links

*BBCCDW|id=seadevils|title=The Sea Devils
*Brief |id=lll | title=The Sea Devils
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_3l | title=The Sea Devils

Reviews

*OG review | id=3l | title=The Sea Devils
*DWRG | id=sead | title=The Sea Devils

Target novelisation

*DWRG | id=seadnov | title=Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1974/seadevil/74seadev.htm On Target — "Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils"]