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Doctor Who:
The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Dates of Original Broadcast:
31 January 1976 - 6 March 1976
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Production: Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Unit Manager: George Gallaccio
SCRIPT
Script: Robert Banks Stewart
Story Editors: Robert Holmes
DIRECTION
Director: Douglas Camfield
PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: John Dixon
Film Camera: Keith Hopper
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: M.A.C. Adams
MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Geoffrey Burgon
SOUND
Studio Sound: John Holmes
Special Sound: Dick Mills
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Ann Briggs
Costumes: Barbara Lane
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Richard Conway
Title Sequence: Bernard Lodge
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Jeremy Bear, Roger Murray-Leach
OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Graeme Harper
Assistant Floor Manager: Sue Shearman
STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Terry Walsh
CAST
Tom Baker (The Doctor)
Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith)
Tony Beckley
(Harrison Chase)
John Challis (Scorby)
Michael Barrington (Sir Colin Thackeray)
Mark Jones (Arnold Keeler)
Seymour Green (Hargreaves)
Kenneth Gilbert (Richard Dunbar)
Hubert Rees (John Stevenson)
John Gleeson (Charles Winlett)
Michael McStay (Derek Moberley)
Sylvia Coleridge (Amelia Ducat)
David Masterman (guard leader)
Ian Fairbairn (Dr Chester)
Alan Chuntz (chauffeur)
Harry Fielder (guard)
Mark Jones (Krynoid voice)
John Acheson (Major Beresford)
Ray Barron (Sergeant Henderson)
Ian Elliott, Pat Gorman, Brian Nolan (guards - uncredited)
Ronald Gough, Patrick Milner (marines - uncredited)
Terry Walsh (double for the Doctor - uncredited)
Keith Ashley, Ronald Gough (Krynoid - uncredited)
Keith Ashley (secretary - uncredited)
Peter Bailey, Rowland Geall, Patrcik Ginter, Tony Snell, Barry Summerford,
Derek Wayland (UNIT soldiers - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Alien seed pods are uncovered in the Antarctic
and The Doctor discovers they are plant life that take over and transform
all life around it. Plant collector Harrison Chase recieves a pod
at his mansion in England.
CAPSULE REVIEW
How to do a six parter - one two part story,
then a four part story. The first segement is borrowed from The
Thing (1950), the second another helping of The Quatermass
Experiment. Tony Beckley playing what Tom Baker described
as an "aristocratic cockney" is superb in the line of human
villains. Some of the violence caused a stir at the time. And Boysey
from Only Fools and Horses (1981 - 2003) is one of
the henchmen.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
TIMELINE
1976
January
31: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
February
7: UK - Part Two television broadcast (on BBC1)
14: UK - Part Three television broadcast (on BBC1)
21: UK - Part Four television broadcast (on BBC1)
28: UK - Part Five television broadcast (on BBC1)
March
6: UK - Part Six television broadcast (on BBC1)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Doctor
Who: The Television Companion pp.301-304
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker) KEYWORDS aliens, time travel
Last Updated:
6 February, 2010
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