Unit, Jo Grant and Doctor Who in tow, arrive on the scene to investigate, but strangely reluctant to assist their enquiries is Dr Stevens, director of the local refinery Panorama Chemicals.

Are they in time to destroy the mysterious power which threatens them all before the whole village, and even the world, is wiped out by a deadly swarm of green maggots?
 

EARTH, SOUTH WALES. The suspicious death of a miner at the inactive local pit owned by the mysterious Global Chemicals bring UNIT to sleepy Llanfairfach. There, a local green group - the Wholeweal Community under the leadership of the brillian Professor Jones - are not convinced that Global's innocence in the affair. Could the waste products from their revolutionary new oil refining process be at fault? Jones is convinced but the Doctor is not so sure and a dangerous expedition down the mine confirms his fears. For there, thousands of giant maggots lie gestating - a dangerously unknown terror waiting to be unleashed upon the world. But by whom? Just who is the power beind Global Chemicals? Who or what is the Boss? And what are his/its plans for the Earth?

The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier must move quickly to find the answers, for the death toll is already rising and the gestation period of the maggots down the mine is coming to an end . . .

Originally transmitted 19 May - 23 June 1973 , this six part adventure starring Jon Pertwee marks the departure of Jo Grant from the programme. Fondly remembered by fans of the series, The Green Death is presented as a tribute to Jon Pertwee who died suddenly in May 1996 aged 76.

Running time: 154 mins approx.

Produced by Barry Letts
Directed by Michael Briant
Cover iIllustration: Colin Howard 
 

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