Jon Pertwee - (The Doctor)

Katy Manning - (Jo Grant)

Nicholas Courtney - (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)

Richard Franklin - (Captain Yates)

John Levene - (Sergeant Benton)

Jerome Willis - (Stevens)

Stewart Bevan - (Clifford Jones)

Tony Adams - (Elgin)

Ben Howard - (Hinks)

Mostyn Evans - (Dai Evans)

Talfryn Thomas - (Dave)

Roy Evans - (Bert)

Mitzi McKenzie - (Nancy)

Ray Handy - (Milkman)

John Scott Martin - (Hughes)

John Rolfe - (Fell)

John Dearth - (Boss's Voice)

Richard Beale - (Minister of Ecology)

Jean Burgess - (Cleaner)

Brian Justice - (Yate's Guard)

Terry Walsh - (Guard)

Roy Skelton - (James)

Earth, South Wales. The suspicious death of a miner at the inactive local pit owned by the mysterious Global Chemicals brings UNIT to sleepy Llanfairfach. There, a local green group - the Wholeweal Community under the leadership of the brilliant Professor Jones - are not convinced of Global's innocence in the affair. Could the waste products from their revolutionary new oil refining process be at fault?

Jones is convinced but the Doctor is not so sure and a dangerous expedition down the mine confirms his fears. For there, thousands of giant maggots lie gestating - a dangerously unknown terror waiting to be unleashed upon the world. But by whom? Just who is the power behind Global Chemicals? Who or what is the Boss? And what are his/its plans for the Earth?

The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier must move quickly to find the answers, for the death toll is already rising and the gestation period of the maggots down the mine is coming to an end...

Working Title:

N/A

Things to look for:

• Some of the maggots were made from inflated condoms.
• The Doctor gets to visit Metebelis III, later to be the setting of the third Doctors final story: Planet of the Spiders. 

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 6 episodes exist.

Bloopers:

• Coming Soon

- The Green Death, episodic format, Released October 7th 1996; PAL (BBC Video cat.#5816).

- The Green Death, episodic format, Released 10th May 2004; PAL (BBCDVD cat.#1142).

Not yet released on Audio.

- The Green Death by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1975 - [Target no.29]

- The Green Death by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1976 - [Target no.29]

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