1969: the year of space travel. But in Doctor Who they are marking the end of the space age, with rockets being replaced by "T-Mat", a teleportation technology. To mark this contrast, The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie land in a space travel museum at the start of this story (The Doctor's comfort zone). When the T-Mat route to the moon breaks down, Commander Radnor and his assistant Gia Kelly (who are responsible for the T-Mat system) turn to Professor Eldred who runs the museum and is an expert in antiquated technology. It of course turns out that a menacing force behind this breakdown.

The Seeds of Death is quintessential Patrick Troughton, no other Doctor has stories quite like this. Like many Second Doctor stories the ominous foam makes another appearance (how many times is that now?!).

The Ice Warriors are back. Whilst there is nothing quite as satisfying as the excellent reveal in their debut story, there are some intriguing elements. The monsters are trying to change the atmosphere of Earth through transporting these inventive (and brilliant) exploding seedpods around the planet as well as intercepting weather control centres.

Whilst I loved the seedpods and the satisfying set up, it really annoyed me that these were able to be destroyed by water - this was a weak and easy get out. On watching the extras of this DVD I learnt that the ending has a re-write; which makes sense.

There are plenty of good elements to this though. Fewsham's story arc is satisfying; the coward who ends up almost destroying the Earth to save his skin, but who then redeems himself through actions of selflessness. Whilst this story can be a little pedestrian in places, it is bright concepts like these that make it a hell of a lot better than The Krotons.