No episodes
of this serial are known to survive. If any should resurface and be released
at a later date, please purchase such an official BBC video release to
complement our reconstruction.
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Bonus
Material
As
well as the reconstruction we are able to bring you the following goodies…
Celebrity
Introduction
Peter Purves returns to Loose Cannon Productions to introduce the reconstruction of The Savages, which was last story in which he featured as popular companion Steven Taylor. Learn more about Peter's work
in our Hall of Fame...
Production
Featurette
Also included
on the tape is a short 'mini-documentary' describing events surrounding
the production of the story, Narrated by Peter Purves.
As a bonus
feature we managed to grab a chat with former make up artist Sonia Markham
backstage at the Flight Through Eternity Convention who recounts her memories
of make up, William Hartnell and ping pong balls!
Special
Note:
No episodes
of this serial are known to survive. If any should resurface and be released
at a later date, please purchase the official BBC video release to complement
our reconstruction.
As part of
our ongoing programme to spruce up the older recons, "The Savages" was
the next candidate for a facelift. A story memorable for the departure
of Peter Purves as companion Steven Taylor and Fredrick Jaeger's wonderful
imitations of The Doctor.
The new version
has better quality telesnaps, improved quality clips, Specially Created
material and occasional composites as well as an introduction by Peter
Purves. Our revised version og The Savages looks a much more polished
production!
Synopsis:
Materialising
on an idyllic world, the Doctor, Steven and Dodo are welcomed by the apparently
highly civilised Elders and taken to their capital city. However, on a
tour of the city Dodo discovers that the Elders have a terrible secret.
The Elders'
advanced society is maintained by draining the life force and energy from
a group of primitive Savages who share the planet. While the Doctor decides
he must try to prevent the exploitation of the Savages, the leader, Jano,
has other plans.
Reviews:
Review
by Chris Longhurst
These Loose Cannon recons just get better and better. The telesnaps are
a lot clearer than the original LC Savages (LC6) and are very nicely blended
in with the few sections of clips that are available. It's great how these
'HD' recons make you re-evaluate the story. My memory of the original
transmission is a bit hazy by now, but I recall it as being a pretty fast
paced (for a Hartnell) and that the 'light guns' were a great idea. Watching
the original recons I had concluded that memory cheats at it was a fairly
second rate story. This new recon really illustrates The Savages as a
top notch Hartnell story with a lot of great ideas going on throughout
the 4 episodes.
Excellent
extras compliment the release - Peter Purves gives great 'value for money'
with good recall and (as would be expected from his current job) a very
professional manner.
Review
by Nigel Cantwell
Yet
another great job by the LC team in bringing to life one of the less memorable
stories from William Hartnell's era.
To be honest this was a story that never left much impression on me at
all when first shown, true it was over 40 years ago when I watched it
but I still have good recall on stories much older than this one. I suspect
that as a ten year old kid I was waiting for this serial's "monster"
to show up and was left dissapointed at its ultimate non-apperance. As
an adult I now find this to be an interesting and thought prevoking story
and now regret not paying it more attention back in 1966.
At least now thanks to the team I have a second chance to 'see' this story,
I did have the previous LC version but always found it hard to get into
due to less then ideal sound and picture quality. I am please to report
that there were no such problems this time around and in fact I watched
in one sitting even though I only ment to look at the first two episodes
to start with.
This tape features a nice selection of bonus features also, alway good
to hear more from Peter Purvis, a very nice guy whom I have had the pleasure
of meeting a number of times (even bumped into him on the tube once !)
and found him always ready to chat even the time soon after he had had
a house fire he STILL manage to be pleasent to people. It's a shame he
never pursuded his acting career after Blue Peter, I'd love to see him
show up in the new series, maybe they could bring him back as Morton Dill
!!! Interesting to hear from Sonia Markham also, like the interview on
Abomnible Snowman these 'behind the scenes' people often give a new slant
to what goes on during the production of this programs and are well worth
seeking out just as much as the 'star' names.
