The Seeds of Death

048 – *The Seeds of Death*
048 – The Seeds of Death
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Patrick Troughton – Second Doctor;
	Companions Frazer Hines – Jamie McCrimmon; Wendy Padbury – Zoe Heriot;
	Others Ronald Leigh-Hunt – Commander Radnor; Louise Pajo – Gia Kelly; Philip Ray – Professor Eldred; Terry Scully – Fewsham; Ric Felgate – Brent; Harry Towb – Osgood; Christopher Coll – Phipps; Martin Cort – Locke; Hugh Morton – Sir James Gregson; Derrick Slater – Security Guard; John Witty – Computer Voice; Alan Bennion – Slaar; Graham Leaman – Grand Marshall; Steve Peters, Tony Harwood, Sonny Caldinez – Ice Warriors;
Production
Directed by	Michael Ferguson
Written by	Brian Hayles; Terrance Dicks (episodes 3–6, uncredited)
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Peter Bryant
Executive producer(s)	None
Music by	Dudley Simpson
Production code	XX
Series	Season 6
Running time	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	25 January 1969
Last broadcast	1 March 1969
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.