Doctor Who (1963) 6.05 Extras (Part 3)

Monsters Who Came Back for More! (2010)

16 min

Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Daleks; Executive Producer, Big Finish) and Peter Ware (Assistant Editor, Doctor Who Magazine) talk about recurring monsters from Doctor Who. The talk begins with the Daleks but quickly branches out to include Cybermen, Sontarans, Ice Warriors, Weeping Angels, and more. They also talk about some monsters that they really like who only appeared once.

This feature is divided into the following chapters

• Shadow of the Daleks
• Why Do Monsters Come Back?
• Do the Best Monsters Come Back the Most Times?
• Everyone Has a Favourite Monster
• If I Was in Charge of the TV Show

Doctor Who (1963) 6.05 Extras (Part 2)

Sssowing the Ssseedsss (2003)

Musings on being an Ice Warrior

Three actors and the makeup supervisor talk about what it was like being an Ice Warrior and what it was like to help make them come to life. 

The people in this documentary feature are 

Alan Bennion - Slaar

Sonny Caldinez - Ice Warrior

Bernard Breslaw - Ice Warrior

Sylvia James - makeup supervisor

They talk about

• What it was like playing ice Warriors.
• The making of the Ice Warrior costumes.
• The makeup for the Ice Warriors
• Inability to see through the mask
• What it was like wearing the costume

Doctor Who (1963) 6.05 Extras (Part 1)

Lords of the Red Planet (2011)

28 minutes 

This documentary is about the making of The Seeds of Death.

There were several people interviewed for this documentary, all but one of whom worked on it.

• Terrance Dicks - script editor
• Michael Ferguson - director
• Bobi Bartlett - costumer designer
• Wendy Padbury - Zoe
• Frazier Hines - Jamie
• Richard Bignell - TV historian

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The Seeds of Death - Episode Six

The Doctor bangs on the locked door to the weather station. Jamie and Zoe want to help him but they also have to avoid the Ice Warrior. Jamie distracts the Ice Warrior and Zoe unlocks the door for the Doctor

Some guards show up to deal with the Ice Warrior but their guns are ineffective against it. They wind up running away. The Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe rig together a weapon to deal with the Ice Warrior. The Doctor uses it to kill the Ice Warrior.

Miss Kelly puts together a satellite that send out a signal to pull the incoming invasion fleet off course. They launch it into orbit. The Doctor uses T-Mat to return to the moon. He kills another Ice Warrior. He turns down the volume on the Ice Warriors signaling device but then he is captured by the last two Ice Warriors.

Jamie uses T-Mat to travel to the moon and helps the Doctor deal with the last two Ice Warriors. The Ice Warrior invasion fleet gets drawn off course and into an orbit that will pull them close to the sun.

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The Seeds of Death - Episode Five

The Ice Warrior is about to kill Zoe when Fewsham attacks it. He is unable to overpower the alien but he distracts it long enough. The rising temperature gets to the Ice Warrior and it collapses.

The Ice Warrior that was looking for the others also gets struck down by the rising temperatures. The Doctor wakes up. They all go to the main control room. Fewsham helps, the Doctor, James, Zoe, and Miss Kelly return to Earth via T-Mat. He says he will follow them but he doesn't.

The Ice Warrior that is on Earth goes to the weather control station. It kills the technician on duty and then turns his gun on the weather control device, rendering it useless.

The Doctor works with Professor Eldred to learn about the fungus that is is spreading on Earth. The discover that what they need is a massive amount of rain. The Doctor asks Zoe and Jamie to contact the weather station. They head to the station when they can't reach anyone on the phone.

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The Seeds of Death - Episode Four

The Ice Warriors, with the help of Fewsham, use the T-Mat to deliver exploding seed pods to stations in the Northern Hemisphere. Radnor and Professor Eldred just barely avoid death in the London station. They use the ventillation system to flush the dust that is emitted from the seed pods outside.

Jamie and Phipps rescue the Doctor, who is still unconscious. Ms. Kelly tries to fix the gadget that Phipps built and used against the Ice Warriors. Phipps wants to turn the heat in the Moon Base back up but it is guarded by an Ice Warrior. Phipps can't fit through the narrow access portal to get to it. Zoe volunteers to do it since she is smaller.

The dust from the seed pods that is flushed outside starts to bloom and creates a substance that looks like snow. One of the Ice Warriors arrives in the London Station. He kills the security guards and heads outside.

Zoe gets to the heating control with some help from Fewsham who distracts the guard. She turns the temperature way up but then the Ice Warrior sees her and starts shooting at her.

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The Seeds of Death - Episode Three

It looks hopeless for the Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie but then they are contacted by Phipps. He tells them about what is going on and helps to guide them in and land on the Moon. The Doctor leaves Zoe and Jamie behind to look after the Rocket while he goes looking for Phipps.

Miss Kelly fixes T-Mat. The Ice Warriors reveal themselves. Miss Kelly's two assistants  try to run from the Ice Warriors and are killed. Miss Kelly agrees to do as they say.

The Doctor and Phipps go looking for the control room. They spot Miss Kelly being escorted by an Ice Warrior. The Ice Warrior comes after them. Miss Kelly escapes from it but the Doctor is captured and taken to the control room.

Zoe and Jamie get tired of waiting and go looking for the Doctor. They find Phipps and Miss Kelly. An Ice Warrior finds them in the Solar Storeroom. Phipps uses the device he used in the last episode and vaporizes the alien.

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The Seeds of Death - Episode Two

Phipps, one of the other technicians at Moonbase, runs off when he sees his companion killed. He hides in the solar energy store room. One of the aliens comes looking for him but overlooks him. Once Phipps is alone again he starts to use the equipment in the store room to build a couple devices.

Radnor and Kelly do their best to talk Professor Eldred into helping them resolve the situation at Moonbase. He is very resistant. It isn't until the Doctor agrees to help out that Professor Eldred finally comes around and agrees to help. The Doctor proposes that he, Zoe, and Jamie will pilot the rocket to the moon. Kelly wants to go but Radnor rules that out.

Fewsham, one of the other technicians, is forced by the aliens to repair the emergency T-Mat. He repairs it just in time for Kelly and a couple of technicians to use it to get to the Moon. They ask Fewsham what happened. He is too scared to tell them the truth so he lies to them. Kelly and her assistants are too focused on fixing the problems with T-Mat to notice that they are being watched by aliens.

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The Seeds of Death - Episode 1

Earth's T-Mat operations get interrupted when aliens arrive on the moonbase. One of the men on duty sabotages the T-Mat on the Moon. He is killed by the aliens and then the others are ordered to repair it.

The Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe arrive on Earth in the TARDIS which materializes in a museum. Professor Daniel Eldred, the museum's owner, doesn't take kindly to the Doctor and his companions whom he considers to be trespassers and spies. The Doctor manages to convince Professor Eldred that he is very interested in the rockets in the museum.

Rockets have been abandoned in favor of T-Mat, which allows for instantaneous travel. Professor Eldred is a big advocate and expert in the subject of rocket science. The Doctor and the professor are in the middle of comparing notes when Radnor and Gia Kelly come to see him. They need his help.

Radnor and Kelly know that he has built a rocket. They want him to fly to the Moon and figure out what is going on up there. Just as they are explaining to him that they aren't sure what the problem is they get an emergency message from the Moon. One of the technicians on the Moon has fixed the video link and is attempting to warn them about the aliens. He gets cut off and killed, mid-sentence, by one of the aliens.