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Doctor Who: The Green Death

Doctor Who (1963)

Doctor Who: The Green Death

BBC Home Video (May 19, 1973)
TV Series | Adventure | Fantasy | Science Fiction
UK | English | Color | 02:33
Digital
1 disc
Region 1

UNIT is called in after a miner from the Welsh village of Llanfairfach is found dead, his skin glowing bright green. Jo joins forces with a local environmental group, led by Professor Clifford Jones, while the Doctor investigates the nearby plant of a company called Global Chemicals.

They discover that the mine workings are full of giant maggots and green slime - both lethal to touch - that have been produced by chemical waste pumped from the Global plant.
Stevens, the director of Global, has been taken over by the BOSS - Bimorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor - a computer with a will of its own.

The BOSS plans to seize power by linking itself to every other major computer in the world, but the Doctor uses a blue crystal - a souvenir from a brief visit to the planet Metebelis 3 - to break its hold over Stevens, who then programs it to self-destruct.

The maggots, on the point of pupating into giant insects, are destroyed with a type of fungus. Jo falls in love with Professor Jones and decides to leave UNIT in order to accompany him on an expedition up the Amazon - and to marry him. The Doctor gives her the blue crystal as an early wedding present.


Cast View all

Tom Baker Doctor Who
William Hartnell Dr. Who
Jon Pertwee Doctor Who
Patrick Troughton Dr. Who
Frazer Hines Jamie
Nicholas Courtney Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart
Pat Gorman Guard
Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith
Jacqueline Hill Barbara Wright
William Russell Ian Chesterton
Katy Manning Jo Grant
John Scott Martin Dalek
John Levene Sergeant Benton
Peter Davison The Doctor
Janet Fielding Tegan
John Leeson K9
Terry Walsh Primitive
Gerald Taylor Dalek
Robert Jewell Dalek
Carole Ann Ford Susan Foreman
Peter Hawkins Dalek Voices
Cy Town Dalek Operator
Roy Skelton Daleks
Wendy Padbury Zoe
Sarah Sutton Nyssa

Episodes View details

21 The Green Death (1) 25 min | May 19, 1973

Wales, the near future. While the Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three, Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of strange deaths near Global Chemicals' plant. What effect has the company's toxic waste had on the local wildlife...?

Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: Barry Letts, Robert Sloman
Guest stars: Ray Handy, Talfryn Thomas, Mostyn Evans, Ben Howard, Tony Adams
22 The Green Death (2) 25 min | May 26, 1973

Wales, the near future. While the Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three, Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of strange deaths near Global Chemicals' plant. What effect has the company's toxic waste had on the local wildlife...?

Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: Barry Letts, Robert Sloman
Guest stars: Talfryn Thomas, Mostyn Evans, Ben Howard, Tony Adams
23 The Green Death (3) 25 min | Jun 02, 1973

Wales, the near future. While the Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three, Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of strange deaths near Global Chemicals' plant. What effect has the company's toxic waste had on the local wildlife...?

Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: Barry Letts, Robert Sloman
Guest stars: Talfryn Thomas, Ben Howard, Tony Adams
24 The Green Death (4) 25 min | Jun 09, 1973

Wales, the near future. While the Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three, Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of strange deaths near Global Chemicals' plant. What effect has the company's toxic waste had on the local wildlife...?

Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: Barry Letts, Robert Sloman
Guest stars: Ben Howard, Brian Justice, Jean Burgess, Ray Handy, Tony Adams
25 The Green Death (5) 25 min | Jun 16, 1973

Wales, the near future. While the Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three, Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of strange deaths near Global Chemicals' plant. What effect has the company's toxic waste had on the local wildlife...?

Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: Barry Letts, Robert Sloman
26 The Green Death (6) 25 min | Jun 23, 1973

Wales, the near future. While the Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three, Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of strange deaths near Global Chemicals' plant. What effect has the company's toxic waste had on the local wildlife...?

Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: Barry Letts, Robert Sloman