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Doctor Who - The Savages

William Hartnell (Actor), Peter Purves (Actor) Rated: To Be Announced Format: DVD
4.6 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
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First broadcast in four weekly parts from 28 May to 18 June 1966. In this early story, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane), arrive on an unnamed planet where they encounter two distinct people - the Elders and the Savages.

They soon discover the Elders are the evil ones, draining the primitive Savages for their life source to remain young and powerful forever. This story marks the final appearance of Purves as Steven.

This will be a three-disc release including all four animated episodes in colour and black and white plus brand-new bonus features:
Episode reconstructions of all four episodes
Cast/crew audio commentaries
Remembering/Forgetting The Savages Documentary
Innes Lloyd Documentary
Surviving footage compilation
1968 BBC Training Film
Photo Gallery
Animation Gallery

Product details

  • Rated ‏ : ‎ To Be Announced
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.2 x 13.6 x 1.7 cm; 160 g
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD-Video, PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 3 hours and 20 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 24 Mar. 2025
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ BBC
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DQ5GKFVK
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Poland
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
  • Customer reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 119 ratings

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Customers find the DVD's animation and story quality excellent, with one noting it's a fun animated missing story. Moreover, the production receives positive feedback for its high quality, with one customer highlighting its illuminating exploration of the making process. Additionally, customers appreciate the value for money, and one mentions there are plenty of extras to watch.

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14 customers mention ‘Animation quality’14 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the animation quality of the DVD, with one mentioning that the cartoon version is well worth having.

"This is brilliant. The story is excellent, the animation is splendid and the extras interesting. Definitely worth purchasing...." Read more

"Excellent 2D animation in both Colour and B&W and a good reconstruction using the original soundtrack, 'telesnaps' and other surviving material...." Read more

"...watched the black and white version and I enjoyed the story and the animation. Very good likeness of the actors...." Read more

"...This time round there's no such problem, this is a pretty good animation of a pretty good, highly under-rated story...." Read more

11 customers mention ‘Story quality’11 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the story of this Doctor Who episode, with one customer describing it as a fun animated missing story.

"This is brilliant. The story is excellent, the animation is splendid and the extras interesting. Definitely worth purchasing...." Read more

"...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..." Read more

"...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...." Read more

"...But I watched the black and white version and I enjoyed the story and the animation. Very good likeness of the actors...." Read more

7 customers mention ‘Quality’7 positive0 negative

Customers praise the DVD's high production values, with one customer noting its wonderful creation and another highlighting its illuminating exploration of the making process.

"This is brilliant. The story is excellent, the animation is splendid and the extras interesting. Definitely worth purchasing...." Read more

"...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" Read more

"...in ‘Remembering Forgetting The Savages’, which is an illuminating exploration of the making of...." Read more

"...The 'Making of' and Innes Lloyd documentaries are also very high quality and full of new information...." Read more

7 customers mention ‘Value for money’7 positive0 negative

Customers find the DVD to be worth buying.

"...Definitely worth purchasing. Here is to more animated missing episodes." Read more

"Another 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..." Read more

"...The celestial toymaker was the only one I've not enjoyed. This one is excellent and plenty of extras to watch as well...." Read more

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5 customers mention ‘Extras’5 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the DVD's extras, with one mentioning they are full of new information and another noting there are plenty to watch.

"...The story is excellent, the animation is splendid and the extras interesting. Definitely worth purchasing. Here is to more animated missing episodes." Read more

"...and Innes Lloyd documentaries are also very high quality and full of new information...." Read more

"...The Extras were good as well." Read more

"...This one is excellent and plenty of extras to watch as well. Hurry up and get the others done please im 62!" Read more

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  • alchemilla18
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent Dr Who
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2025
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    This is brilliant. The story is excellent, the animation is splendid and the extras interesting. Definitely worth purchasing. Here is to more animated missing episodes.
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  • paul
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Animation
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2025
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    Another 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
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  • DJ Salinger
    4.0 out of 5 stars At last! An animated quarry!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2025
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    Some ‘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.
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  • TheDrD
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great 2D Animation And High Quality Extras
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2025
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    Excellent 2D animation in both Colour and B&W and a good reconstruction using the original soundtrack, 'telesnaps' and other surviving material. The 'Making of' and Innes Lloyd documentaries are also very high quality and full of new information.

    It would have been great to have had the full interview from Jackie Lane's 'Myth Makers' video (rather than snippets for the Making Of documentary) given her lack of convention appearances. Maybe on another release.
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  • Ian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Is it worth buying. Yes it is.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2025
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    I was at first unsure whether to buy it. But I watched the black and white version and I enjoyed the story and the animation. Very good likeness of the actors. I've yet to see the colour version and check out the extras. I generally like all animations. I recommend this one.
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  • Alasdair Swanson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good all round, excellent package
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2025
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    Last 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.
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  • Mandeep Basarke
    5.0 out of 5 stars I now have all the animated Doctor Who's.
    Reviewed in Canada on 5 May 2025
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    It's great to see one of the missing serials that I've never seen.
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