skip to content

varos

episode guide

previous story | next story

the green death

story 69 : season 10 : serial TTT : 6 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Michael Briant
Writer: Robert Sloman
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: John Burrowes

cast information

Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who); Katy Manning (Jo Grant); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); John Levene (Benton); Richard Franklin (Mike Yates); Stewart Bevan (Clifford Jones); Jerome Willis (Stevens); Tony Adams (Elgin); Ben Howard (Hinks); Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans); Talfryn Thomas (Dave); Roy Evans (Bert); Mitzi McKenzie (Nancy); Ray Handy (Milkman); John Scott Martin (Hughes); John Rolfe (Fell); John Dearth (Voice of BOSS); Richard Beale (Minister of Ecology); Jean Burgess (Cleaner); Brian Justice (Yates Guard); Terry Walsh (Guard); Roy Skelton (James);

crew information

Karilyn Collier (Assistant Floor Manager); Barbara Kidd (Costumes); Terry Walsh (Fight Arranger); Bill Matthews (Film Cameraman); Ken Lowe (Film Cameraman); Alastair Mackay (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Ann Rayment (Make-Up); John Harris (Production Assistant); Michael McDermott (Production Assistant); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Mike Jefferies (Studio Lighting); Richard Chubb (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Ron Oates (Visual Effects); Colin Mapson (Visual Effects); Richard Conway (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 19 May 1973 at 17:50 25'55" 9.2mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Episode Two 26 May 1973 at 17:50 25'55" 7.2mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Episode Three 2 June 1973 at 17:50 25'12" 7.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Episode Four 9 June 1973 at 17:50 25'47" 6.8mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
5 Episode Five 16 June 1973 at 17:50 25'20" 8.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
6 Episode Six 23 June 1973 at 17:50 26'06" 7.0mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Episode One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  2. Episode Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Episode Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Episode Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  5. Episode Five
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
    » A 71-edit exists also
  6. Episode Six
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Green Death
Written by: Malcolm Hulke
Number 029 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1975 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
21 August 1975 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
ISBN: 0 426 10647 4
April 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Peter Brookes
ISBN: 0 426 11543 0
29 March 1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alun Hood
ISBN: 0 426 11543 0
1981 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Alun Hood

plot synopsis

In Wales, a community of miners becomes suspicious when one of their number dies from an infection that turns his skin bright green. They blame Global Chemicals for dumping waste in the mines, and Jo joins the group protesting against their continual pollution, led by Professor Jones. The Doctor and the Brigadier discover that the waste is causing mutations, with giant maggots and flies slowly starting to infest the mines. Captain Yates is sent undercover into the company, but is hypnotised by the computer running it, BOSS. The Doctor manages to overcome it, after defeating Yates' attempts to kill him on BOSS's orders. Everything returns to normal with all of the maggots now destroyed. Jo decides that she and the Professor are going to get married, and that it's time to leave UNIT and the Doctor

links to other sites