Doctor Who (1963)
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.
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 |
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...?
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...?
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...?
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...?
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...?
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...?