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the seeds of doom

story 85 : season 13 : serial 4L : 6 episodes

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Jeremy Bear
Designer: Roger Murray-Leach

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Tony Beckley (Harrison Chase); John Challis (Scorby); Mark Jones (Arnold Keeler); Hubert Rees (John Stevenson); John Gleeson (Charles Winlett); Michael McStay (Derek Moberley); Kenneth Gilbert (Richard Dunbar); Michael Barrington (Sir Colin Thackeray); Seymour Green (Hargreaves); Sylvia Coleridge (Amelia Ducat); David Masterman (Guard Leader); Ian Fairbairn (Doctor Chester); Alan Chuntz (Chauffeur); Harry Fielder (Guard); John Acheson (Major Beresford); Ray Barron (Sergeant Henderson); Mark Jones (The Krynoid's voice);

crew information

Sue Shearman (Assistant Floor Manager); Barbara Lane (Costumes); Terry Walsh (Fight Arranger); Keith Hopper (Film Cameraman); M A C Adams (Film Editor); Geoffrey Burgon (Incidental Music); Ann Briggs (Make-Up); Graeme Harper (Production Assistant); George Gallacio (Production Unit Manager); Janet Radenkovic (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); John Dixon (Studio Lighting); John Holmes (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Richard Conway (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 31 January 1976 at 18:00 24'10" 11.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 7 February 1976 at 17:30 24'09" 11.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 14 February 1976 at 17:55 24'51" 10.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 21 February 1976 at 17:45 24'26" 11.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
5 Part Five 28 February 1976 at 17:45 25'06" 9.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
6 Part Six 6 March 1976 at 17:45 21'51" 11.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  2. Part Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Part Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Part Four
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  5. Part Five
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  6. Part Six
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom
Written by: Phillip Hinchcliffe
Number 055 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1977 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
17 February 1977 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11658 5
15 August 1979 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11658 5
March 1980 Published by Pinnacle Books, USA in paperback
With cover artwork by: David Mann

plot synopsis

Sent to the Antarctic by the World Ecology Bureau, the Doctor and Sarah find that a Krynoid pod has been excavated from the ice. Once unleashed, its spores infect flesh and take over, mutating into sentient vegetable life. With the potential disaster averted there, the Doctor traces a second pod to Harrison Chase, a multi-millionaire in England, who is obsessed by all forms of plant life. He lets the pod infect another man, who mutates until he becomes a full Krynoid and starts to manipulate vegetation, using it to kill humans. The Doctor has to destroy the creature before its infection spreads world-wide

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