The Seeds of Death

“T-Mat for Two and Two for T-Mat”, “Doctor Who and the Latest Invasion of Moonbase”, “No Place Like Foam”

“The One with the Lumbering Martian-American” (USA), “The Short-sighted Serial” ("Rockets" magazine)

Doctor Who helps some old humans (and a girl who they let boss them around) after they put all their eggs in one basket

*** - Everyone will tell you what a fantastic job the RT did on the DVD restoration. They don't tend to mention the story as often

Zoe: “Doctor - there's white stuff everywhere”
Doctor: "Jamie, I've told you before that you're not to watch television when we visit the future" 

Slaar: 'But they were receiving my pants.'
Doctor: 'Not yours - ours.'

Wendy "Paddles" Padbury left acting shortly after Doctor Who and became an agent. No one is quite sure for which side, though the end of the Cold War means she's now got time to do DVD commentaries.

The idea of huge bubbles growing and then bursting with horrific consequences was later reused for Matthew Waterhouse's acne.

It is far fetched to imagine a world where highly taxed modes of transport have been replaced. Unless the T in T-Mat stands for Taxation.

The Buxton Spring said this story was "Oh my god!!" while the Snetterton Flap was more modest when its reviewer said it was "likable bordering on the lickable"

Part two of this story originally had a musical interlude as part of the BBC's first National Musical week. Kenny Ball and his Jazz Men performed "Chattanooga Choo Choo" while the Tardis crew were struggling to pilot their rocket.

The BBC also, unwisely with hindsight, included a tape of this story in the Blue Peter Martian time capsule which was left under the surface of the Red Planet during the BP team's 1970 summer expedition.

Si Hunt

"I attend many fan organised gatherings in my capacity as the unofficial official expert on "Doctor Who" and at one such event I was part of a seminar chaired by several members of the "Restoration Team". Story XX had recently been released and much praise was being lavished upon the technical "boffins" as the proles were now able to watch almost as good a copy of the serial as we special people. Then, Mr Finklestone was asked about his revolutionary new technique. "vidFIRE is..." he began before I felt duty bound to interrupt him. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I quipped, "Why have you given this fascinating technical process such a childish name? What on earth is wrong with calling it the "Motion estimation intra-frame calculation, rendering and interlacing, temporal resolution restoration process"?" He flimmed and flammed something about trademarks and "internet" registrations and television executives having the attention span of five year old children but I could see I had outwitted him. Of course we later discovered he was a pervert and everything became much clearer."

It's the weather control conspiracy theory

Transporting pods - the American way