The Green Death: Episode Six

Now, he was mentioned in Dawn of the Gods for Doctor Who.

He was in Inferno, The Green Death, The Time Warrior, Genesis of the Daleks, The Mask of Mandragora, The Sunmakers, Frontios, and also in Twin Dilemma.

Mary Everly, who is the girl serving the food that they're leering at.

Yes.

But without it being absolutely jackhammered down your throat.

The Green Death.

Yes.

Now, the caveat from The Green Death is obviously global warming.

This is 1973.

Yes.

He escaped without punishment, but this was sort of the end of an era because these kind of comics faded away.

You will know them, of course, because Hinks in the novelization of The Green Death, these are the comics that he reads, and they're the comics that Malcolm Hulk and lots of people in the British Communist Party thought were both obscene and dangerous, but mainly because they were American, I think, was the reason why they didn't like them.

So after this case, really Stuart sort of went on the attack even more.

He had a bit of an obsession with the gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

But Doctor Who's quite a big one for you.

Are there any particular stories or episodes you remember like watching growing up, whether it be, I don't know, the mummies of Pyramids of Mars or the giant maggots of the Green Death?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, like everybody, I remember the Green Death.

I remember the John Pertwee walking away from the house where Katie Manning has become happy with a hippie and sharing his feelings.

Like, for God's sake, woman, you're throwing yourself away on this lentil-eating eco-tosser when you could be travelling the galaxy with, you know, the Jason King of time travel.

Nancy died in the car.

From the Green Death.

We all remember Nancy.

I like her.

For the character of Jo, for how she left, for where she is now, I think.

Yeah, I think idealism is endearing in Doctor Who.

When she's originally, like, In The Green Death, her character is like her vigor for, and I think this is true across this and Sabotage as well.

It's sort of a nice legacy that

Is that your favorite classic episode?

No, The Green Death is my favorite classic.

Oh, okay.

All kinds of reasons, but I'm very, you know.

... it's a, it's a good Dalek story.

And then The Green Death, which is just peerless, so-

Yeah

... you know.

Dang.

Okay, to talk about my thing that I zeroed in on is the Meteblis III crystal, and that was actually used in Classic Who in both "The Green Death" and "Planet of the Spiders."

Oh.

And it was, yeah, Meteblis was a famous blue planet in the Actian galaxy.