Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death Special Edition

By the late 21st century, mankind has become totally dependent on T-Mat to transport people, food and medicines around the world. When the system breaks down, Earth is soon crippled by global shortages. Traveling to the relay station on the moon, the Doctor and his companions discover the horrific truth: the Ice Warriors have hijacked T-Mat, and intend to claim the planet for themselves.
Can the Doctor defeat the Martians before Earth is smothered in deadly fungus, and the human race is condemned to extinction?

The TARDIS brings the time travellers to Earth in the 21st Century, where they learn that human society is now reliant on T-Mat - a matter transmitting device that beams people and freight instantly to destinations all around the globe. The system, overseen by a Commander Radnor and his assistant Gia Kelly, is currently malfunctioning and the travellers agree to pilot an obsolete rocket, designed by an old-timer, Professor Daniel Eldred, to the Moon relay station to investigate.
They find the place overrun by Ice Warriors, who are preparing for an invasion attempt. To weaken Earth's resistance, the Warriors are using the T-Mat to send Martian seed pods to selected points on the planet's surface. These emit a fungus that draws oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere, making it lethal to humans but ideal for the Martians themselves.
The travellers manage to use the T-Mat to get back to Earth, where the Doctor discovers that the only thing effective in destroying the pods is water. At the local weather control bureau, having disposed of a Warrior left on guard there, he adjusts the instruments so as to cause a downpour, thus ending the threat of the pods.
He then returns to the Moon where, by a ruse, he is able to misdirect the Martian invasion fleet into orbit around the Sun, where it will be destroyed. The remaining Warriors are all killed.

Directed by Michael Ferguson
Written by Brian Hayles, Terrance Dicks
Produced by Peter Bryant
Original Music by Dudley Simpson < br> Film Editing by Martyn Day
Costume Design by Bobi Bartlett

First Transmitted
1 - 25/01/1969 17:15
2 - 01/02/1969 17:15
3 - 08/02/1969 17:15
4 - 15/02/1969 17:15
5 - 22/02/1969 17:15
6 - 01/03/1969 17:15

Model sequences of the Earth and the Moon are used as a backdrop to the story title, writer and episode number captions at the start of each episode.
A prop previously seen as the TARDIS astral map, as introduced in season two's The Web Planet, appears as one of the exhibits in Eldred's museum of space flight.

Patrick Troughton makes no appearance in Episode Four as he was on holiday during the week when it was recorded. Tommy Laird doubled for him in shots where the Doctor's unconscious form is seen.
Zoe's leather outfit was primrose yellow in colour. Actress Wendy Padbury was allowed to keep it as an addition to her own wardrobe after recording of the story was completed.