Episode
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom (1)
Overview
The Antarctic, the near future. A strange seed-pod is unearthed from 20-thousand-year-old ice. The Doctor and Sarah go to investigate, but are too late to prevent the pod infecting a scientist and unleashing a threat to all animal life on Earth...
Details
- Series
- Doctor Who
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1976-01-31
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Seeds of Doom (1) is Episode 21 in Season 13 of Doctor Who. It aired on 1976-01-31. The runtime is 25 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 20: The Brain of Morbius (4)
Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.
Episode 22: The Seeds of Doom (2)
Two employees of the millionaire Harrison Chase arrive at the Antarctic base, and they will stop at nothing to get hold of the second seed-pod.
More episodes from this season
Episode 19: The Brain of Morbius (3)
While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.
Episode 23: The Seeds of Doom (3)
The Doctor and Sarah Jane return to England after their Antarctic ordeal and Chase tries to eliminate them, but they escape and track him down at his estate, where he is preparing to open the Krynoid pod.
Episode 18: The Brain of Morbius (2)
The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.
Episode 24: The Seeds of Doom (4)
The Doctor is captured by Chase, who plans to breed the stolen Krynoid pod. He is placed in an automated compost hopper and only Sarah Jane can save him... but will she make it before the Krynoid grows to fruition ?
Episode 17: The Brain of Morbius (1)
The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...
Episode 25: The Seeds of Doom (5)
The Krynoid grows to a monstrous size and traps the Doctor and the others in a cottage. The creature demands they turn over the Doctor, while Chase seeks to make an alliance with the alien vegetation.
Episode 16: The Android Invasion (4)
The Doctor and Sarah reach Earth and try to warn the research centre about the Kraal invasion before Styggron unleashes his virus.
Episode 26: The Seeds of Doom (6)
The Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Scorby are trapped in the manor as a possessed Chase stalks them from within, while the gigantic Krynoid prepares to crush them from without. Worse, the alien plant is ready to germinate, spreading its seeds across England.
Episode 15: The Android Invasion (3)
The Doctor is captured by Styggron and left to die in the destruction of the fake village but Sarah escapes from the disorientation chamber to try and rescue him.
Episode 14: The Android Invasion (2)
The Doctor suspects Crayford brought something to Earth in his rocket, as he and Sarah find themselves hunted by UNIT.