The Seeds of Doom

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*Location shooting at Chase's estate took place at Athelhampton House in Athelhampton, Dorset.
*A few weeks before the serial was due to begin its original transmission, the master tape for the first episode was found missing. A brief panic ensued and producer Philip Hinchcliffe began planning a re-edit of the second episode allowing the story to begin at this point, but fortunately the tape of the opening episode was eventually located, having been misplaced in the tape storage system (apparently due to having been wrongly numbered).

Outside references

This story has parallels with "The Quatermass Experiment" (alien invader from another planet transforming a human; the giant form of the monster swamps a building and is attacked by the military); "The Thing from Another World" (Antarctic research base terrorized by a plant-humanoid); "The Day of the Triffids" (more killer plants);and "The Avengers" (rich eccentric English killer; male and female investigators of the paranormal; particular similarities to the 1965 episode "Man-Eater of Surrey Green" which featured an extraterrestrial killer plant).

The Doctor's dialogue with Amelia Ducat about the car boot and model homages Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest".

In print

Doctorwhobook
title=Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom
series=Target novelisations
number=55
featuring=


writer=Philip Hinchcliffe
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=Chris Achilleos
isbn=85523 161 0
set_between=
pages=
date=17 February 1977
preceding=Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters
following=Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth|A novelisation of this serial, written by Philip Hinchcliffe, was published by Target Books in February 1977. A slightly "Americanized" version of Hinchcliffe's novel was released as #10 in the Pinnacle Book series in March 1980 with a foreword by Harlan Ellison and a cover illustration by David Mann.

Broadcast and Commercial release

*This serial was released on VHS in August 1994.
*Music from this serial was released on the CD ""

References

External links

*BBCCDW|id=seedsofdoom|title=The Seeds of Doom
*Brief |id=4l | title=The Seeds of Doom
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_4l | title=The Seeds of Doom
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/08/10/13650.shtml BBC Assistant Floor Manager Susan Shearman talks about working on "The Seeds of Doom"]

Reviews

*OG review | id=4l | title=The Seeds of Doom
*DWRG | id=seeddo | title=The Seeds of Doom

Target novelisation

*DWRG | id=seeddonov | title=Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1977/seeds/77seeds.htm On Target — "Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom"]