Doctor Who - The Green Death (Episode 69)
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Actor: John Levene, Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney, Richard FranklinBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 153 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
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Movie Review: The one with the giant maggots
Summary: 5 Stars
If you were to ask Who fans to name the quintessential Jon Pertwee story, many would answer The Green Death. It has all the characteristics of a Pertwee classic: a contemporary earthbound setting (contemporary for the early 70s that is), a threat to the environment, and ultimately the entire world, overgrown monsters, and UNIT, UNIT and more UNIT! A story like The Green Death is what makes the UNIT era arguably the best in Doctor Who history. This is the story in which Mike Yates finally gets a chance to shine, acting as a UNIT spy inside Global Chemicals, a far cry from the misguided Captain Yates of a couple stories later. This is a story in which we get to see the Doctor in drag, masquerading as the cleaning lady to access information inside Global. For the last time we see the UNIT family working together to dispose of a threat, as sadly, this also includes the departure of one of the most beloved companions in Doctor Who history, the bubbly Jo Grant, who leaves the Doctor to follow a hippie to the Amazon. This is the point that we start seeing UNIT phased out, for better or worse, depending on your point of view (unfortunate as far as I'm concerned). Speaking of the departure of Miss Grant, Green Death features perhaps the most poignant conclusion of any Doctor Who story. As the rest of the characters celebrate the impending marriage of Miss Grant and Professor Hippie, the Doctor sneaks out the door, obviously despondent at losing a close friend, and rides off in Bessie with the setting sun in the background. Like the old western motif, the hero rides off into the sunset. Classic indeed.
Summary of Doctor Who - The Green Death (Episode 69)
The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) joins the Brigadier and Jo Grant in South Wales to investigate the death of a miner whose fatal disease has left his skin bright green.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 794051215628Featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor--Jon Pertwee's patriarchal renaissance man--The Green Death is a solid addition to the Doctor Who canon. Originally broadcast in May 1973, it may now have dated a little, with its vegetarian hippies and "boyo" Welshmen, but it has all the elements of classic Who, the Doctor encountering green-glowing dead bodies, a shadowy mastermind, a global conspiracy, brainwashing, a megalomaniacal supercomputer and, of course, giant maggots.
This story, the final sequence of Pertwee's penultimate season, reached the TV ratings Top 10 and, fittingly, met high production standards. The environmental message, while facilitating Who's ongoing individual-freedom motif, also proved prophetic in its warnings of globalization and pollution. The special effects, though admittedly dated now, were good for their time and budget--the stop-motion photography of the maggots and the front-axial projection used for the pulsating green skin are particularly effective. The well-crafted script manages to combine monsters, punch-ups, and cliffhanger endings with cerebral concepts, human drama, and erudite references to Beethoven and Oscar Wilde--the single tear of the reformed villain as he destroys his paymaster is just one of the subtle touches distinguishing this work. The Green Death's six filler-free episodes belong to the Golden Age of Doctor Who, and their denouement is one of the most poignant in the series' long history. --Paul Eisinger
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