The Seeds of Death

048 – The Seeds of Death
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byMichael Ferguson
Written byBrian Hayles
Terrance Dicks (episodes 3–6, uncredited)
Script editorTerrance Dicks
Produced byPeter Bryant
Executive producer(s)None
Music byDudley Simpson
Production codeXX
SeriesSeason 6
Running time6 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast25 January 1969 (1969-01-25)
Last broadcast1 March 1969 (1969-03-01)
Chronology
← Preceded by
The Krotons
Followed by →
The Space Pirates
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Seeds of Death is the fifth serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by Brian Hayles and an uncredited Terrance Dicks and directed by Michael Ferguson, it originally aired in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 25 January to 1 March 1969. It sees the return of the Ice Warriors, previously introduced by Hayles in the 1967 serial The Ice Warriors.

The serial is set in London and on the Moon in the late 21st century. In the serial, the time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury), along with the technicians Gia Kelly (Louise Pajo) and Phipps (Christopher Coll), try to prevent the Ice Warriors' plot to make the Earth's atmosphere inhospitable to humans but viable for the Ice Warriors to invade.