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Doctor Who: The Savages (BD) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Science Fiction |
Format | NTSC, Blu-ray |
Contributor | Various |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 40 minutes |
Colour | Unknown |
Manufacturer | warner home video, inc. |
UPC | 883929837267 |
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Meet the Doctors
Explore the Whoniverse
The First Doctor
The First Doctor appears to be a frail old man. But don't be fooled. Sometimes doting, sometimes difficult, the First Doctor was both a loving father figure and a fierce opponent.
The Second Doctor
The Second Doctor was very different to his predecessor. A more playful, whimsical air disguised dark undercurrents and a sharp mind.
The Third Doctor
The Third Doctor was confident, bold and brash, but with a soft paternal side, reserved for those he cared about.
The Fourth Doctor
From witnessing the genesis of the Daleks to preventing the death of the universe at Logopolis, the Fourth Doctor was an adventurer on an epic scale.
The Fifth Doctor
Clever, considered and kind, the Fifth Doctor's world was one of fascination and science.
The Sixth Doctor
Never understated, the Sixth Doctor was an explosion of colors, words and emotions. Passionate, sometimes quick to anger, this was a Doctor you did not want to make enemies with.
The Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor was both a spoon-playing clown and a master of deep dark secrets.
The Eighth Doctor
After a great many adventures away from the screen, the Eighth Doctor was last seen trying to avoid fighting in the Time War.
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Product details
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 1.22 x 16.89 x 14.58 cm; 100 g
- Director : Various
- Media Format : NTSC, Blu-ray
- Run time : 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Release date : May 20 2025
- Actors : Various
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : warner home video, inc.
- ASIN : B0DVZSVNRW
- Country of origin : Canada
- 鶹 Rank: #83 in Movies & TV Shows (See Top 100 in Movies & TV Shows)
- #17 in Science Fiction (Movies & TV Shows)
- #60 in Blu-ray
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- Reviewed in Canada on May 5, 2025Verified PurchaseIt's great to see one of the missing serials that I've never seen.
Top reviews from other countries
- U.N. OwenReviewed in the United States on May 26, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Savagely Good!
Verified PurchaseReally well done. Good story, good writing, and the color animation really cements the action. Lovely bonus content including the overview of Innes Lloyd's career and overall contributions to the show. Definitely one of my new rediscovered classics.
- paulReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Animation
Verified PurchaseAnother great edition to the animation series of Dr who none of the episodes exists it is another good story three Disc set with nice design on the front back of steelbook cover very happy with my purchase
- DJ SalingerReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2025
4.0 out of 5 stars At last! An animated quarry!!
Verified PurchaseSome ‘lost’ Doctor Who stories are more lost than others. ‘The Savages’ has long been a slightly vague and intangible proposition for generations of fans who weren’t there when it aired in 1966. With no monsters or iconic villain as a hook, and all four episode missing presumed wiped, this story has been largely passed over. Unless you were prepared to sit through the audio or telesnaps.
Now, at last, we can get to know it better with this animated recon.
Well? Yes, ‘The Savages’ has things to enjoy; it has a solid story with something to say, and it’ll undoubtedly improve with further viewings. I’ve found on the whole that past animated ‘lost’ stories have been a pleasant surprise, often much better than expected – ‘Galaxy 4’ springs to mind. But while there are far better (and yes, far worse) stories in the Who canon, my first impression here is of a workmanlike Season 3 effort, a mid-tier entry from a period of great flux in the show’s history.
The extras add value, as usual. Here they take advantage of the extra space on the Blu-ray set, and we have not one but two feature-length documentaries, clocking in at over three hours running time between them. The celebration of producer Innes Lloyd’s life and career is a nice reminder of just how prolific and successful he was as an enabler of quality TV; he comes across as a real gent, fondly remembered by the likes of Alan Bennett. Interesting to learn Innes hated sci-fi and was loathe to take on ‘Who’, but he grew to love it, and he understood the show’s limitless potential for ideas.
Meanwhile Toby Hadoke relishes a chance to stretch out and indulge in ‘Remembering Forgetting The Savages’, which is an illuminating exploration of the making of. Interviews with surviving cast and BTS team confirm this was a challenging period for the show, with ever-tighter deadlines, and a lot of churn with personnel on and off-screen. Two more companions were about to get the chop, and even the show’s leading man would be given his P45 before much longer.
Director Christopher Barry is in the interview mix once again, and as usual comes across as slightly irritated that people are STILL asking him bloody questions about something he doesn’t have much regard for. It’s also very clear from his less-than-fond recollections that Peter Purves was not a happy man when abruptly shown the door; while his character Steven Taylor may have had his hands full rebuilding an entire society after the credits rolled on ‘The Savages’, Purvis was about to enter the abyss of 18 months’ unemployment. It effectively spelt the end of his acting career. Jackie Lane’s Dodo makes it to the end of this story, but only to be written-out in the most ignoble, minimum-effort way in ‘The War Machines’.
So, another missing stories gap is plugged, and that’s to be applauded, whether you’re a fan of the animations or not. Let’s face it: the chances of the original episodes being found seem increasingly remote at this point almost 60 years on from broadcast. Fans should be happy too with the recent news that the animations series is set to continue after all (although we’ll probably get ‘The Smugglers’ next, while everyone still keeps hoping for ‘The Dalek Masterplan’, which at this point is the Whovian Holy Grail...).
And yes. I’ve got to the end of this review without once mentioning the Doctor’s Reacting Vibrator. No wonder he looks so worn-out by episode 4. Teatime propriety would later judge the sonic screwdriver to be far more appropriate gadget for itinerant Time Lords.
- Alasdair SwansonReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good all round, excellent package
Verified PurchaseLast time I reviewed one of these Who Steelbooks it was the execrable "Daleks In Colour" -- an actively poor package that left me conned and bitter. This time round there's no such problem, this is a pretty good animation of a pretty good, highly under-rated story.
Let's start with that animation -- like Galaxy Four before it, the style is not too outlandish or wild -- scenery's been improved and sets extended but otherwise the b/w version on disc one feels relatively faithful to the soundtrack and telesnaps (they're also on disc one) without being too distracting. I maintain my common cry that if money was no object then b/w should be as close to presented as possible while colour can go as mad as they like. The colour version is pleasant enough as well with the backgrounds showing up especially well in that version. Character models are OK though Hartnell is a bit too smily grandpa and Steven fares poorly in many angles.
The story feels rather rushed, especially the closing half of the last episode, but the basics of the cultured civilisation of artists surviving on the extracted life force of their "savage" neighbours is well done. Steven's departure is well managed but you know he's walking into a hellish job. Dodo fares well and gets plenty to do, I could get to like her, I wonder what she'll do in her next... oh.
This set comes with three discs and the extras package actually justifies them -- as well as a 90-minute (!) making-of, a commentary that rather mysteriously is over the telesnap reconstructions rather than the animated episodes and some animation and photo galleries, there's a BBC Training film based around the work of this serial's director Christopher Barry, here directing an episode of Z Cars, that's excellent and a 90-minute feature on the life of producer Innes Lloyd that's similarly a joy. The Doctor Who team have made a speciality of these kinds of features: recent releases have included brilliant pieces on Caroline John, Malcolm Hulke, Dursley McLinden and many others, all of which both celebrate the subject and place them into context, their Who work usually being just a small piece of a fascinating life.
If this had just been a vanilla release, the story would have got a solid 4 bu the extras package gives this release some real depth so a 5-star release it is.
Warning as always -- unless you got yourself stuck on the steelbook treadmill (ahem!) then save yourself a tenner and buy the standard version.