Doctor Who: The Green Death (1973)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 19 May 1973 - 23 June 1973
Number of Episodes: 6
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Barry Lets

SCRIPT
Script: Robert Sloman, Barry Letts (uncredited)
Story Editor: Terrance Dicks

DIRECTION
Director: Michael Briant

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Mike Jefferies
Film Camera: Bill Matthews, Ken Lowe

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Alistair Mackay

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

SOUND
Studio Sound: Richard Chubb
Special Sounds: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Ann Rayment
Costumes: Barbara Kidd

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Ron Oates, Colin Mapson, Richard Conway

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: John Burrowes

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: John Harris, Michael McDermott
Assistant Floor Manager: Karilyn Collier

LOCATIONS
Locations: Wales

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Terry Walsh

CAST
Jon Pertwee (The Doctor)
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier)
Jerome Willis (Stevens)
Stewart Bevan (Clifford Jones)
Tony Adams (Elgin)
Ben Howard (Hinks)
Mitzi McKenzie (Nancy)
Ray Handy (milkman)
Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans)
Talfryn Thomas (Dave)
Roy Evans (Bert Pritchard)
John Scott Martin (Ted Hughes)
John Dearth (BOSS's voice)
John Rolfe (Ralph Fell)
Richard Beale (Minister of Ecology)
Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates)
John Levene (Sgt Benson)
Jean Burgess (cleaner (Doris Griffiths))
Brian Justice (Yates' guard)
Roy Skelton (Mr James)
Terry Walsh (guard on main gate - uncredited)
Billie Horrigan, Alan Chuntz, Leslie Bates, Pat Gorman, Steve Ismay, Dennis Plenty (security guards - uncredited)
Frank Seton, David Waterman (miners - uncredited)
Reg Cranfield, Sonny Willis (villagers - uncredited)
John Dearth (Global Chemicals tannoy voice / UNIT radio voices - uncredited)
Evan Ross (cabinet minister - uncredited)
Brychan Powell (Prime Minister (Sir Jeremy) - uncredited)
Robert Birmingham (hippy boy - uncredited)
Jean Channon (lotus position girl (Elda) - uncredited)
Alison Daumler (hippy girl - uncredited)
Ken Hanniwell (sculptor - uncredited)
Keith Norrish (long haired boy - uncredited)
Lyn Melly (girl - uncredited)
Jessica Stanley-Clarke (flautist (Jessie) - uncredited)
Leslie Bates, David Billa (UNIT men - uncredited)
Extras: Jill Alexandra,Laurie Boyton, David Braddick, Gordon Cecil, Michael Cunningham, Frank Darroch, Vincent Gardener, John Jeffries, Geoffrey Morgan, Rendle Morris, Roger Mundy, Tricia Selby, Wayne Warlow, Mansel Wilks

PLOT SUMMARY

In a Welsh village a miner is discovered dead with his skin mutated. An environmental research group, the Nut Hutch, campaign against the large chemical company using the mines. Inside the mines the Doctor discovers giant mutated maggots.

An ahead of its time ecological theme, redolent of BBC's adult SF Doomwatch. Katy Manning's last story (she became engaged to head of the Nut Hutch Stewart Evans in real life) was repeated later in the year with even higher viewing figures and is one of the most fondly remembered Third Doctor stories.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1973
May
19: UK - Episode One first television broadcast (on BBC1)
26: UK - Episode Two first television broadcast (on BBC1)

June
2: UK - Episode Three first television broadcast (on BBC1)
9: UK - Episode Four first television broadcast (on BBC1)
16: UK - Episode Five first television broadcast (on BBC1)
23: UK - Episode Six first television broadcast (on BBC1)

December
27: UK - edited compilation television broadcast (on BBC1)

1994
January
2: UK - Episode One television broadcast (on BBC2)
9: UK - Episode Two television broadcast (on BBC2)
16: UK - Episode Three television broadcast (on BBC2)
23: UK - Episode Four television broadcast (on BBC2)
30: UK - Episode Five television broadcast (on BBC2)

February
6: UK - Episode Six television broadcast (on BBC2)

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.246-250
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008