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the seeds of death

story 48 : season 6 : serial XX : 6 episodes

Producer: Peter Bryant
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Brian Hayles
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Paul Allen

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot); Alan Bennion (Slaar); Louise Pajo (Gia Kelly); John Witty (Computer Voice); Ric Felgate (Brent); Harry Towb (Osgood); Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Radnor); Terry Scully (Fewsham); Christopher Coll (Phipps); Martin Cort (Locke); Philip Ray (Eldred); Steve Peters (Ice Warrior); Tony Harwood (Ice Warrior); Sonny Caldinez (Ice Warrior); Derrick Slater (Security Guard); Hugh Morton (Sir James Gregson); Graham Leaman (Grand Marshall);

crew information

Trina Cornwell (Assistant Floor Manager); Bobi Bartlett (Costumes); Peter Hall (Film Cameraman); Martyn Day (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Fred Wright (Technical Coordinator); Sylvia James (Make-Up); Fiona Cumming (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); Bryan Forgham (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Bill King (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 25 January 1969 at 17:15 23'11" 6.6mil 16mm telerecording
2 Episode Two 1 February 1969 at 17:15 24'21" 6.8mil 16mm telerecording
3 Episode Three 8 February 1969 at 17:15 24'46" 7.5mil 16mm telerecording
4 Episode Four 15 February 1969 at 17:15 24'57" 7.1mil 16mm telerecording
5 Episode Five 22 February 1969 at 17:15 24'50" 7.6mil 35mm telerecording
16mm telerecording
6 Episode Six 1 March 1969 at 17:15 24'32" 7.7mil 16mm telerecording
  1. Episode One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  2. Episode Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  3. Episode Three
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  4. Episode Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  5. Episode Five
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978
  6. Episode Six
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » Negative film print recovered from Ents c.1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Seeds of Death
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 112 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1986 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Tony Masero
ISBN: 0 491 3662 0
4 December 1986 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Tony Masero
ISBN: 0 426 20252 X

plot synopsis

A T-Mat station on the moon seems to have broken down, when in reality it's been invaded by Ice Warriors, under the command of their Ice Lord, Slaar. The T-Mat system transports anything to any point in an instant, and the breakdown has stopped food supplies being moved around worldwide. The Ice Warriors use the system to send deadly seedpods to various points around the globe, with the resulting fungus quickly sucking all the oxygen Out of the atmosphere. The TARDIS lands in a museum, and the Doctor has to pilot one of its old rockets to the moon to be able to defeat the Martians...

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