It's is now the 21st Century and, in this feature-length adventure, Earth is completely dependent on "T-Mat," a revolutionary form of instant travel.  When the system breaks down, Doctor Who (Patrick Troughton) leads a dangerous expedition to the T-Mat relay station on the moon.  There he finds that the relay station has fallen into the hands of the Ice Warriors who are planning an invasion of Earth!  The Ice Warriors use T-mat to transport seed pods to Earth.  When the pods burst, they disgorge a deadly Martian fungus which spreads rapidly, extracting vital oxygen from the atmosphere.  The only hope for a dying world is for the Doctor somehow to outwit the Ice Warriors and destroy the fungus before it’s too late.

• "The Seeds of Death" marks the second of four appearances of the popular villain, the Ice Warriors, during the history of the series (the other stories being Patrick Troughton's story from the previous season, "The Ice Warriors" as well as Jon Pertwee's "The Curse of Peladon" and "The Monster of Peladon.

• Watch for a rather humorous "blooper" near the end of episode 5.  Troughton is trying to escape the advancing deadly foam when he slips and falls face first into the suds.  He re-emerges several seconds later totally covered.  This goof was left in as it worked so well in the context of the story.

• **Omnibus Format**  Unfortunately, this story was originally released in an edited "movie" (or Omnibus) format.  This means that individual episodes have been cut and pasted together into one viewing.  The BBC released Doctor Who videos like this until the early 90's.  Since then they have gone back and issued "re-releases" of virtually all of their omnibus versions.   Unfortunately, the U.S. (i.e. CBS/Fox at first, and then later Warner Home Video) hasn't been eager to follow suite, as they have only done two re-releases "The Brain of Morbius" back in 1997 and  "Terror of the Zygons" in 2000.  Additionally, many stories first released in the late 80's and early 90's are seeing re-release on DVD.  Unedited titles such as "Spearhead from Space," "The Ark in Space" and "Robots of Death" are all available now in their unedited formats.

• In the U.K. there was never any re-release in an unedited episodic format as had been done for many of the other omnibus versions.  However, an unedited DVD version has recently been released in the U.K. and will likely see a release early in 2004 here in North America.  Besides being in episodic format it has undergone extensive restoration and is crammed full of extras as well.