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 actor who played Stevens in the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who story "The Green Death" has died at the age of 85. Willis also had parts in Z Cars, The Avengers and Space Precinct and starred in The Sandbaggers. he was also in the movie Lifeforce
