Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death [1969]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 25 January 1969 - 1 March 1969
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Peter Bryant

SCRIPT
Script: Brian Hayles, Terrance Dicks [uncredited]
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

DIRECTION
Director: Michael Ferguson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard King [Fred Wright was incorrectly credited on Episode Six]
Film Camera: Peter Hall

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Martyn Day

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson

SOUND
Studio Sound: Bryan Forgham
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Bobi Bartlett

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Bill King, Trading Post

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Paul Allen

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Fiona Cumming
Assistant Floor Manager: Trina Cornwell
Technical Coordinator: Fred Wright

CAST
Patrick Troughton [Dr Who]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Herriet]
Louise Pajo [Gia Kelly]
Ronald Leigh-Hunt [Commander Julian Radnor]
Philip Ray [Professor Daniel Eldred]
John Witty [computer voice]
Alan Bennion [Slaar]
Sonny Caldinez, Tony Harwood, Steve Peters [Ice Warriors]
Terry Scully [Fewsham]
Christopher Coll [Phipps]
Ric Felgate [Brent]
Martin Cort [Locke]
Harry Towb [Harry Osgood]
Graham Leaman [Grand Marshall]
Hugh Morton [Sir James Gregson]
Peter Whitaker [weather station operator - uncredited]
Tommy Laird [double for the Doctor - uncredited]
Monique Bryant, Derek Chafer, Alan Cuntz, Ernie Claydon, Edward Cogdell, Ron Conrad, Royston Farrell, Pat Gorman, Jimmy Haswell, Eric Kent, Crawford Lyle [technicians - uncredited]
John Crease, Fred Clemson, Keith Goodman, Tony Hutchins, Phil Lundgren, Douglas Roe, Peter Roy, Derrick Slater [guards - uncredited]

The Doctor and his companions land on Earth in the future where all matter can be transmitted instantly anywhere in the world via T-Mat. The T-Mat is malfunctioning and The Doctor pilots a rocket to the moon to investigate. He encounters the Ice Warriors who are using T-Mat to send Martian pods to Earth to poison the atmosphere.

Not a patch on the first Ice Warriors adventure .Too reliant on the Ice Warriors being menacing rather than any other good supporting characters and a strong story, and the Martian turtles don't measure up to the Cybermen or the Yeti.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1969
January
25: UK - Part One television broadcast [on BBC1]

February
1: UK - Part Two television broadcast [on BBC1]
8: UK - Part Three television broadcast [on BBC1]
15: UK - Part Four television broadcast [on BBC1]
22: UK - Part Five television broadcast [on BBC1]

March
1: UK - Part Six television broadcast [on BBC1]

The Lords of the Red Planet - working title

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.165-168
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker]

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 21 April, 2008