“Sea Devil!”
“Land Parasite!”
Well, to be fair, Legend of the Sea Devils is at least a worthy sequel to Warriors of the Deep.
The Sea Devil you know.
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To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the longest-running science-fiction show in the world, I’ll be taking weekly looks at some of my own personal favourite stories and arcs, from the old and new series, with a view to encapsulating the sublime, the clever and the fiendishly odd of the BBC’s Doctor Who.
Warriors of the Deep originally aired in 1984.
“Release the Myrka.”
– three words to create dread in even the toughest Doctor Who fan
I’ve always been somewhat less fond of Johnny Byrne’s Doctor Who than most fans. I can never, for example, understand the high esteem generally reserved for The Keeper of Traken (although it is a better story than Logopolis), and I really disliked Arc of Infinity. So I suspect some of the problems with Warriors of the Deepwere quite fundamental. However, there’s also a sense that those flaws were only exaggerated by a combination of other factors, including a low budget, a tight schedule and a script editor who believed an adventure’s pathos could be measured by its bodycount.
Everybody's dead, Davison...
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