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Format:
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TV
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Starring:
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Jon Pertwee
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Doctor
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Written
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Robert Sloman
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Directed
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Michael E. Briant
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Duration:
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154 mins
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Original
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19/5/1973
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Reviewed
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Andrew Swan
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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...
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Submitted By:
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Andrew Swan
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Review Submitted:
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19/1/2006
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 One of the best stories, not only of the Pertwee years but of the entire series and one that succeeds in spite of it's limited special effects.
Mr Sloman does a fantastic job in weaving several storylines together, all culminating in a moving final episode, happy and sad, bitter and sweet, but that's Dr Who.
The ultimate destruction of the BOSS and it's minion Stevens is truely horiffic, while giant magotts creep around the good ideals of the Wholeweal Community just as Global Chemicals crept and lied it's way into the larger community with false promises and hopes.
The final scene of the story, in which Jo Grant bids farewell to the Doctor, is beautifully done and legend has it that the tears on screen were matched by those off screen once filming had completed.
The regulars are all good, Jon Pertwee as glam as ever and the incidental music, which i think is often overlooked, offers a very eerie background to a rare and well produced story."The Green Death" is laced with the menace that makes Dr Who such a special programme, while writer Robert Sloman touches some raw nerves about the devestating things we are doing to our planet and the effect that not questioning/thinking can have.
» Review by Andrew Swan, Copyright 2006.
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