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)

PLOT SUMMARY

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: 1 January, 2009