The Seeds of Doom
Story: The Seeds of Doom – Season 13, Story 85
Year: 1976
Written by: Robert Banks Stewart
Directed by: Douglas Camfield
Synopsis: Giant plants attack! Sarah and the Doctor sort it out.
Sarah Moments:
• Sarah persuades Moberly to operate on Winlett
• She discovers Moberly’s corpse
• She and the Doctor go to visit Amelia Ducat
• They sneak into Harrison Chase’s grounds
• She sneaks into the cottage and finds Keeler, infected by the Krynoid
• Sarah manages to talk to Amelia Ducat and get her to get a message to Colin Thackeray
• She attacks the Krynoid with an axe!
• She shouts at Scorby
• Sarah stays in the house to keep the Doctor updated while he escapes to fetch UNIT
• She works out that the Krynoid is controlling the plants
Capture, Rescue and Mortal Peril:
• Sarah and the Doctor are held at gunpoint, tied up and menaced by Scorby
• Scorby makes Sarah take him to the power plant so that he can set a time bomb there
• Sarah is tied up and trapped in the power plant! The Doctor rescues her just in time, and they escape after a brief encounter with the Krynoid
• They just barely escape the explosion, and are rescued by a medical team – Sarah finds the Doctor
• Their driver tries to kill them! But they run away and then the Doctor punches his lights out
• They get shot at by Chase’s security guards, and taken prisoner by Scorby again
• They’re forced to listen to Chase’s weird plant music!
• Sarah wrestles the gun from Scorby so that the Doctor can beat him up, hooray!
• Sarah goes to telephone for help, but gets caught again before she can
• Chase is going to use Sarah to test what happens when the Krynoid touches human flesh – the Doctor jumps through the skylight to save her!
• Sarah saves the Doctor from being composted!
• They run into the giant Krynoid! Then they run away from the giant Krynoid
• Evil plants trap Sarah and try to choke her to death! The Doctor rescues her
• Looking for Sergeant Henderson, Sarah is captured by Chase again
• Chase is going to compost Sarah! The Doctor gets there just in time to save her
• She and the Doctor fight their way out through the killer plants
CLUE:
Quotes:
• ‘Well, who sold you that, an Eskimo?’ - Sarah, on the freezer inside the Antarctic research station
• ‘I can’t operate on Winlett, it’s absurd!’ ‘At least you could try! You’ve studied physiology, you know how to handle a scalpel!’ ‘To dissect dead specimens, yes, but Charles is a human being.’ ‘Well, he won’t be much longer if you don’t operate!’ - Moberley and Sarah
• ‘Have you met Miss Smith? She’s my best friend.’ ‘Is she? And still beautifully intact, I see.’ ‘I try my best, under the circumstances.’ - The Doctor, Harrison Chase and Sarah
• ‘I’ve heard of flower power, but that is ridiculous.’ - Sarah, on Chase's plants
• ‘What a very uncooperative young lady.’ Chase, on Sarah
• ‘You can’t tackle them singlehanded!’ ‘Why not? I’ve got a pistol.’ ‘But you’d never use it!’ ‘True. But they don’t know that, do they?’ - Sarah and the Doctor
• ‘Scorby! All the guards have left! I think they’ve made a run for it!’ ‘Typical! Just like a bunch of women!’ ‘And I heard screams from the West Garden, but I didn’t go out.’ ‘Let’s take a look.’ ‘Look, we’d better stay put.’ ‘He just said he heard a scream – obviously someone is in trouble!’ ‘Well, what can we do with that thing roaming about out there?’ ‘What was that you just said about women?’ - Hargreaves and Scorby, and Sarah
• ‘I feel as though I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards!’ - Sarah, after narrowly escaping death by potted plant
• ‘This isn’t Cassiopeia…’ ‘No… it’s Antarctica!’ ‘We’re back where we started!’ ‘Yes.’ ‘We won’t get a suntan here!’ - Sarah and the Doctor
Wardrobe Appreciation
Another busy time for the wardrobe department, as Sarah zips between the Antarctic and sunny England.
She starts off with this big coat, suitable for sub-zero temperatures:
Underneath, for indoors, there's this charming outfit...
And because you can never be too warm in the Antarctic, she has snow boots and a hat and scarf, too:
Soon we're back where temperatures are sensible, and Sarah changes into this:
First with a coat on, and then without:
Boots!
The final outfit we see very briefly, as the Doctor tries to take Sarah on a well-earned holiday:
The Panel Said...
Style Watch:
Sarah_JaneSmith: i like the snow outfit, her big coat is adorable, plus mittens on a string! the second outfit is ok, i like the coat, but i only like the bottom hlaf of the brown outfit, she should wear shorts more often, the top half just doesnt do it for me. I'd have loved to have seen more of the little red thing at the end though. 7/10
Llin: I love the yellow dungarees, and the strange skirt outfit is fab! 8/10
paranoidangel: I like the brown outfit and her big, thick coat, but the yellow dungarees look fake and plastic to me for some reason. 7/10
Sarah Watch:
Sarah_JaneSmith: She's quite brave in this one, and she attacks the krynoid with a little axe, cool! 7/10
Llin: She's pretty chilled in the face of peril. 7/10
paranoidangel: She does end up needing to be rescued a lot but then that's because she's into everything. 6/10
Story Watch:
Sarah_JaneSmith: i'm not wild about this episode, i think it should have been a 4 parter, but it's quite creepy and Sarah's cute. 6/10
Llin: I completely love this one! Evil plants, crazy weird geniuses, the Antarctic... yay! 9/10
paranoidangel: It's not bad but The Avengers did it better. 6/10
Bonus Pictures
Sarah in the snow
The Doctor's feeling grumpy...
Sarah, being stealthy
They got captured a lot in this one...
Woah...
Smiley Sarah!
And now, cute pictures of Sarah and the Doctor:
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