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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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By Huntsmæñus
Format:VHS Tape
After "The Deadly Assassin", there always seemed to be a story or two in a season that helped fill new Gallifrey/Time Lord continuity. "Underworld" is one of them. Giving us the explanation of the Time Lords' noninvervention with other peoples and planets. That's the interesting bit. The rest is a mix of sloppy extras acting, repeated scenes of guards walking and running up and down and some bad CSO that hadn't been seen since the Pertwee era. There's a neat premise with the Minyons looking for their long lost race bank so their culture and people won't disappear. Their race bank is hidden in the middle of the newly born planet protected by the insane computer, the Oracle. Sounds decent, but it just moves at a snail pace. And besides the interior of the Minyons spaceship, it has a REAL cheap feel to the production. Still, there is some humor to help, and the leads, Baker and Jameson are consistent.
By Scot
Format:DVD
Doctor Who can be many things, but it should never be dull. First time director Norman Stewart was so busy sorting out his CSO challenges that it's doubtful he had any attention left for other aspects of the story. How are actors supposed to offer honest reactions when they're worried about hitting complicated marks (to allow for the complicated sync of the process). Bob Baker and Dave Martin's script has some interesting ideas, and while I appreciate the cleverness of the Greek myth analogy, it feels like yet another barrier to creating living breathing characters. In the accompanying DVD featurette it's revealed that there was no budget for sets. Producer Graham Williams was determined to get in his full slate of stories for his first season as producer and was reluctant to scrap the story in favour of moving the resources to the next story. While I applaud the risk taking and resourcefulness of the production team, the effort will never be much more than dull.
By Jacob
Format:VHS Tape
The Doctor and his latest traveling compaion Leela find themselves on a ship built by the Minyans a race visted upon by the Time Lords long ago. The Minyans proclaimed them gods and were given such advancements that they destoyed one another. Save for two ships the P7e which held the race banks of the minyan people to start over again and the second sent to find the lost P7E. The Doctor and Leela help those searhing for the ship only to find themselves at the very edge of the universe where planets are made. A strange dicovery that the P7E has become the core of a new found planet and inside the ship's computer has placed itself as a god. Now the Doctor with the minyans has to stop the evil computer calling itself the Oracle from keeping the desendants of the P7E in ignorance and a grip of evil.
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