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The Seeds of Doom

The Seeds of Doom is the sixth and final serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 6 March 1976.

Not to be confused with the 1969 Second Doctor serial The Seeds of Death.

085 – The Seeds of Doom

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4L

6 episodes, 25 minutes each

31 January 1976 (1976-01-31)

6 March 1976 (1976-03-06)

In the serial, the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) agrees to go on one final mission in his role as UNIT's scientific advisor to investigate a mysterious pod found in the Antarctic. However, the crazed millionaire and plant collector Harrison Chase (Tony Beckley) is also interested, and has sent his violent henchman Scorby (John Challis) and the botanist Arnold Keeler (Mark Jones) to acquire the malignant alien plant for his personal collection.

Author

55

17 February 1977

24 January 2000

Soundtrack

78:25

BBC Music

at BBC Online

The Seeds of Doom

BBC Assistant Floor Manager Susan Shearman talks about working on The Seeds of Doom (archive from 5 November 2010, accessed 12 March 2017)