The Seeds of Death
1969 Doctor Who serial / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Seeds of Death is the fifth serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by Brian Hayles and an uncredited Terrance Dicks and directed by Michael Ferguson, it originally aired in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 25 January to 1 March 1969. It sees the return of the Ice Warriors, previously introduced by Hayles in the 1967 serial The Ice Warriors.
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Directed by | Michael Ferguson | ||
Written by | Brian Hayles Terrance Dicks (episodes 3–6, uncredited) | ||
Script editor | Terrance Dicks | ||
Produced by | Peter Bryant | ||
Executive producer(s) | None | ||
Music by | Dudley Simpson | ||
Production code | XX | ||
Series | Season 6 | ||
Running time | 6 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
First broadcast | 25 January 1969 (1969-01-25) | ||
Last broadcast | 1 March 1969 (1969-03-01) | ||
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List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989) |
The serial is set in London and on the Moon in the late 21st century. In the serial, the time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury), along with the technicians Gia Kelly (Louise Pajo) and Phipps (Christopher Coll), try to prevent the Ice Warriors' plot to make the Earth's atmosphere inhospitable to humans but viable for the Ice Warriors to invade.