Doctor Who:
The Green Death
By Robert Sloman
“Stevens, listen to me.
You've seen where this efficiency of yours leads. Wholesale pollution of the
countryside. Devilish creatures spawned by the filthy by-products of your
technology. Men walking around like brainless vegetables. Death. Disease.
Destruction.”
A miner has died in the
coal mine town of Llanfairfach which is in South Wales. The problem with the miner who has dies is
that he is now glowing green. UNIT has
been called in to investigate and The Doctor believes that it could be
pollutants from Global Chemical. Global
Chemical seems to be run by a giant computer called the Boss. The Doctor finds out that Boss runs the
company and the man he uses as a figure head Stevens and is also responsible
for pumping chemicals into the mine shaft. One of the ramifications of the
chemicals being dumped into the mine is that it is infecting the maggots and
making them humongous mutant killers.
Jo ends up meeting a Cliff
Jones at his Nuthutch and seems to have fallen for the hippy professor and his
group of earth friendly scientist. They
mainly are looking for a new peaceful ways to help the Earth and have been
protesting Global Chemical. They also
like to eat mushrooms and which as it turns out the fungus in them becomes vital
later on as it is poisonous the maggots.
So it’s up to The Doctor and a certain crystal to help defeat the
computer Boss and the giant maggots.
The Green Death is not one
of my favorite stories. In fact I really dislike this story. I find it extremely boring. Boring isn’t the
word but it is the nicest word for it as The Green Death is one of those Doctor
Who stories that makes me fall asleep. If I ever have trouble sleeping I just put The
Green Death into the DVD player and press play. In a matter of moments it does
the trick and I am in dreamland.
The story is also pretty
comical also. I mean giant maggots terrorizing the Welsh countryside is quite
humorous in itself. The fact that they
use maggots is a head scratcher and wonder if they could have found a scarier
insect. Flies and beetles come to
mind. But they went with maggots and
maggots that metamorph into flies and dives bomb UNIT making them run for cover
is actually pretty funny to watch also and just is so dumb when you think about
it.
With all that said The
Green Death does have one of the sadder scenes in the classic series. The Green Death is Katy Manning’s swan song
in Doctor Who as Jo Grant decides to stay behind and marry Cliff Jones. The look on The Doctor’s face when Jo decides
to leave him is really sad and you can see how hurt he was. You knew it affected him deeply as he slipped
out the back door got into Bessie and drove off into the sunset. That is a classic scene and the only thing
good about The Green Death.
Grade F
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