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Serial: XX  Episode Nos. 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, and 237.  Title: The Seeds of Death

Earth in the 21st century has abandoned rocket travel in favor of the T-Mat, an instantaneous matter transmitter operated by relay from the Moon to everywhere on the Earth.  Earth's total dependence on this system makes the Moon a ripe target for takeover by the Ice Warriors who hope to use it and lethal seed pods of their own making to invade the Earth and transform it into a world like their own.

starring Patrick Troughton as Dr. Who, Frazer Hines as Jamie, and Wendy Padbury as Zoe. Written by Brian Hayles, Produced by Peter Bryant, Directed by Michael Ferguson.

Originally transmitted from 25 January 1969 to 1 March 1969 on BBC1.

DVD features:

2 disc set: 

On Disc 1:

- All 6 episodes of the story, amazingly restored and given the VidFIRE video-look restoration treatment.

- Graphical menus, episode selection features, and scene selection features.

- Commentary track by Frazer Hines (Jamie), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), director Michael Ferguson, and script editor Terrance Dicks.  The commentators are

mixed-and-matched on this one, that is to say some are only on certain episodes then leave, then come back later, in different combinations. 

- Production Notes Subtitles.

- Original 4:3 aspect ratio.

 

On Disc 2:

- New Zealand Censor Clips.   This selection plays 1:10 of portions scenes from currently missing episodes that were discovered in 2002 in the vaults of the

   New Zealand TV censors.  They had been cut from the episodes prior to broadcast in New Zealand for being too violent for the time slot allocated to the

   show.  The clips come from the Patrick Troughton stories The Web of Fear and The Wheel in Space. 

- 40th Anniversary Celebration. – a 3 minute “music video” of clips from the entire series set to a reedited version of the theme music as recorded by dance club

   music group Orbital.

- “The Last Dalek” – a 9:33 featurette of behind-the-scenes home movie footage that was shot on the sets and the model stage of the climactic 7th episode of

   the Troughton story The Evil of the Daleks, showing how the Dalek civil war in the story was visualised.  The actual TV episode is currently missing.  This is

   presented with running commentary from the story’s visual effects designers Peter Day and Michaeljohn Harris. 

- TARDIS Cam No. 6 – a specially-shot new model sequence showing the TARDIS in an alien winter landscape.  1 minute long.

- “Sssowing the Ssseedsss” – a 25-minute new documentary about how the Ice Warriors were created and performed, featuring interviews with Alan Bennion

   (Slaar), Sonny Caldinez (a generic Ice Warrior in Seeds), make-up designer Sylvia James, and a little archival audio from Bernard Bresslaw (Varga, the

    original Ice Warrior from The Ice Warriors).

- “Who’s Who” actors biographies.

- Photo Gallery – a presentation of still photos from the production lasting 5 minutes.

- Subtitle option, to allow all featurettes to be played with caption subtitles. 

- 1 Easter Egg hidden feature – highlight here to see how to get to it and what it is):

            On disc 2, arrow down to the selection for “The Last Dalek,” then press the left arrow on your remote.  A Doctor Who  logo will appear highlighted.

            Selecting this will play a 1 minute video showing the full commentary crew as they watched scenes from the start of episode 6.