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Another adventure for everyone's favourite
Time Lord. UNIT is called to a sleepy mining town in South Wales to
investigate the mysterious death of a miner in an inactive pit. The
Wholeweal environmental community believe that a local chemical
company has something to do with the death, and when the Doctor
heads a mission down the mines he discovers thousands of maggots
surrounded by poisonous slime. Further investigation at the chemical
works reveals the owner to be under the malign influence of a
sentient computer, BOSS.
Editorial Review:
Featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor--Jon Pertwee's
patriarchal renaissance man--The Green Death is a solid addition to
the Doctor Who canon. Originally broadcast in May 1973, it may now
have dated a little, with its vegetarian hippies and "boyo"
Welshmen, but it has all the elements of classic Who, the Doctor
encountering green-glowing dead bodies, a shadowy mastermind, a
global conspiracy, brainwashing, a megalomaniacal supercomputer and,
of course, giant maggots.
This story, the final sequence of Pertwee's penultimate season,
reached the TV ratings Top 10, and fittingly, met high production
standards. The environmental message, while facilitating Who's
ongoing individual-freedom motif, also proved prophetic in its
warnings of globalisation and pollution. The special effects, though
admittedly dated now, were good for their time and budget--the
stop-motion photography of the maggots and the front-axial
projection used for the pulsating green skin are particularly
effective. The well-crafted script manages to combine monsters,
punch-ups and cliffhanger endings with cerebral concepts, human
drama and erudite references to Beethoven and Oscar Wilde--the
single tear of the reformed villain as he destroys his paymaster is
just one of the subtle touches distinguishing this work. The Green
Death's six filler-free episodes belong to the Golden Age of Doctor
Who, and their denouement is one of the most poignant in the series'
long history --Paul Eisinger
Episodes |
1 |
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19/05/1973 17:50 |
2 |
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26/05/1973 17:50 |
3 |
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02/06/1973
17:50 |
4 |
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09/06/1973
17:50 |
5 |
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16/06/1973
17:50 |
6 |
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23/06/1973
17:50 |
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Cast List:
Jon Pertwee - The Third Doctor (51-74)
Katy Manning - Jo Grant (eps. 55-69)
Nicholas Courtney -
Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
(eps. 41-156)
John Levene - Sergeant Benton (eps. 46-83)
Richard Franklin - Captain Mike Yates (eps. 55-74)
Stewart Bevan - Cliff Jones
Bert - Roy Evans
Boss's Voice - John Dearth
Cleaner - Jean Burgess
Dai Evans - Mostyn Evans
Dave - Talfryn Thomas
Elgin - Tony Adams
Fell - John Rolfe
Guard - Terry Walsh |
Hinks - Ben Howard
Hughes - John Scott Martin
James - Roy Skelton
Milkman - Ray Handy
Minister of Ecology - Richard Beale
Nancy - Mitzi McKenzie
Stevens - Jerome Willis
Yate's Guard - Brian Justice |
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Encoding:
Region 2 PAL
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Directors: Michael E. Briant
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Writers: Robert Sloman
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Producers: Barry Letts
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Format: PAL
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Language: English
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Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
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Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe.
Read more about DVD formats below.)
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Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
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Number of discs: 2
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Classification: PG
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Studio: 2entertain
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DVD Release Date: 5 Aug. 2013
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Run Time: 153 minutes
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