Just like The Ice Warriors, this is over long and fairly boring. Two stories now with these villains and neither are good imo. Troughton is still fantastic though when on screen.
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Overview
6 Episodes
Episode One
Synopsis
21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.
Episode Two
Synopsis
Eldred agrees to supply a rocket for travel to the moon and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe volunteer to crew it.
Episode Three
Synopsis
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe make it to the moon and join forces with Phipps but the Ice Warriors have gained control of T-mat.
Episode Four
Synopsis
The Ice Warriors' seed pods beginning materialising all over the globe while Slaar decides to kill the Doctor by T-matting him into space.
Episode Five
Synopsis
The Doctor and his allies manage to return to Earth via T-mat only to find the Ice Warrior has attacked the weather control station.
Episode Six
Synopsis
The Doctor manages to create a rain storm to destroy the Martian fungus before trying to find a way to stop the Ice Warriors' invasion fleet.
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
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Quotes
DOCTOR: No, of course not. We haven't come to take anything. We genuinely are interested in space travel. Why, especially a thing like this. This is superb.
ELDRED: Yes, magnificent. It was to have been the vehicle to take man beyond the moon. T-Mat put an end to all that.
DOCTOR: You mean this model's been abandoned? But it's speed and stability concept alone, it's a tremendous advance in rocket design.
ELDRED: Exactly! Exactly! Here, let me show it to you. Let me show it to you.
(Eldred puts down his gun and helps the Doctor with the ion jet rocket model.)
DOCTOR: I'll give you an hand, here we are. Oh yes, this is superb. My word.
ELDRED: And the secret, the real breakthrough, was a compact generator of enormous power.
DOCTOR: I see. And these must be the secondary electrode accelerators.
ELDRED: Yes. You see it beat the problem of the neutral caesium ions. And incidentally, it magnified the g-thrust to fantastic proportions!
DOCTOR: That was awkward. What did you do about that?
ELDRED: Well, I'll show you. Come with me, I'll show you. Look.
(Eldred and the Doctor go to the back of the room.)
DOCTOR: What have we go here? Ah, blueprints!
JAMIE: Look at them, like a couple of kids.
ZOE: Yes. You can tell he's almost in love with that rocket.
JAMIE: Shush!
ELDRED: That's not surprising. I designed it. I've been in rocketry all my life. My father engineered the first lunar passenger module, and I travelled on the last trip back to Earth. Before it all finished.
ZOE: Before all what finished?
ELDRED: Space travel.
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Episode One
[T Mat Earth Control]
COMPUTER: Bombay Tokyo shipment activated. Bombay sending now. Tokyo receiving now. Dispatch completed. New York to Moscow delayed. Moonbase clearance awaited. Stockholm Washington personnel transportation. Stockholm sending now. Washington receiving now. Dispatch completed. Non-arrival shipment of synthetic protein New York to Moscow. Moonbase clearance awaited.
KELLY: Brent?
BRENT: Yes, Miss Kelly?
KELLY: Why is there a delay at Moon Control?
BRENT: There's some mix up with the Moscow shipment. It seems to have landed up in Canberra.
KELLY: Fewsham again, I suppose? Take Moscow out of phase while they sort it out.
BRENT: Moscow pending. Moonbase clear.
COMPUTER: Toronto Calcutta shipment activated. Toronto sending now. Calcutta receiving now. Dispatch completed.
BRENT: Moscow ready now, Miss Kelly.
KELLY: Report Canberra Moscow situation, please.
COMPUTER: Canberra Moscow clear.
KELLY: Brent, tell them to activate.
BRENT: Canberra Moscow, go ahead please.
COMPUTER: Canberra sending now. Moscow receiving now. Dispatch completed.
(A man beams into a teleport cubicle and there is a chime. He strides across the floor swinging his briefcase.)
OSGOOD: Good morning, Gia.
KELLY: Morning. Just as well you've arrived.
OSGOOD: Why, what's up?
KELLY: The sooner you take over from Fewsham on Moon Control, the better.
OSGOOD: Oh, not again!
KELLY: All T-Mat consignments are five minutes behind schedule.
OSGOOD: What?
KELLY: Fewsham routed a large Moscow consignment through to Canberra.
OSGOOD: Oh, he's a lunatic.
KELLY: You should never have recommended him for an Assistant Controller's job in the first place.
OSGOOD: Yes, I know now, but I thought he deserved a break.
KELLY: Sentimental. He'll do something really disastrous one day and you'll have to answer for it.
OSGOOD: So, I'll go and work in a synthetics factory.
KELLY: It's your career.
OSGOOD: So it is. Hey, have you got a T-Mat cubicle ready for me?
KELLY: Yes. Number six.
OSGOOD: See you later.
