The Underwater Menace

032 – The Underwater Menace
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byJulia Smith
Written byGeoffrey Orme
Script editorGerry Davis
Produced byInnes Lloyd
Music byDudley Simpson
Production codeGG
SeriesSeason 4
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing2 episodes (1 and 4)
First broadcast14 January 1967 (1967-01-14)
Last broadcast4 February 1967 (1967-02-04)
Chronology
← Preceded by
The Highlanders
Followed by →
The Moonbase
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Underwater Menace is the half-missing fifth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 14 January to 4 February 1967.

In this serial, the Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Ben and Polly (Michael Craze and Anneke Wills), and their new friend Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) arrive in the underwater city of Atlantis, where an eccentric scientist called Zaroff (Joseph Fürst) plots to destroy the Earth by draining its ocean supply. This story constitutes Jamie's first journey with the Doctor as a travelling companion.

Only two of the four episodes are held in the BBC archives; two remain missing. Episode 2 is the earliest surviving episode to feature both Troughton as the Second Doctor and Hines as Jamie.

An animated reconstruction of the serial was released in November 2023 as part of the program's 60th Anniversary.[1]

  1. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Lost Doctor Who episodes brought back using cartoons to mark 60th anniversary". Mirror. 2 January 2023.