The Green Death

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*During the recording of the footage of the maggots around the quarrysite, several of the maggot props were in fact inflated condoms (some inflated with air, others with water).
*The script required the Doctor to state that the maggots have "thick chitinous skin". Pertwee asked Producer Barry Letts how to pronounce the word, and Letts, unaware of the term, told him to pronounce the first syllable "chit", rather than the more correct "kite". Two days after Episode 4 was broadcast, Letts received a letter consisting simply of the words, "The reason I'm writin'/Is how to say kitin." [cite book|title=Doctor Who: A Celebration|author=Haining, Peter|year=1983|publisher=W.H. Allen|pages=p. 145]
*This story marks the final appearance of the howlaround title sequence introduced in 1970. It also is the last appearance of the logo introduced in "Spearhead from Space" until the 1996 television movie. The 1996 version of this logo has been used for marketing purposes by the BBC since that time, and is still used for the "classic series".
*Curiously, the closing title graphics are run upside down and backwards on Episodes 2, 5, and 6. The reasons for this are unclear and range from saving time rewinding the film to trying something new with the titles as they would not be used again.

Outside references

*The Doctor temporarily stumps BOSS by asking it "If I were to tell you that the next thing I say would be true, but the last thing I said was a lie, would you believe me?" This is a variation on a line from the "Star Trek" episode "I, Mudd". The question is an example of the liar paradox, which dates back to at least the fourth century BC. In a twist on the concept though, BOSS initially dismisses the question as nonsense before being goaded into trying to answer it by the Doctor.

In print

Doctorwhobook
title=Doctor Who and the Green Death
series=Target novelisations
number=29
featuring=


writer=Malcolm Hulke
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=Peter Brookes
isbn=ISBN 0 426 10647 4
set_between=
pages=
date=21 August 1975
preceding=Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons
following=Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders|A novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, was published by Target Books in August 1975. An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actor Katy Manning was released on CD in September 2008 by BBC Audiobooks.

Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases

*The serial was shown on BBC Two in 1994, and as part of "1973 Week" on BBC Four in 2006.
*"The Green Death" came out on VHS in October 1996 as a two-tape set. On the back of the VHS box, BBC Video presented this serial's release as a tribute to Jon Pertwee, who died a few months earlier in May 1996, aged 76. The United Kingdom release, rushed in memory of the death of Pertwee, featured a unique logo/titling scheme on the cover that was not used again for any subsequent Doctor Who videotape releases afterward.
*This story was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2004.It contains a commentary with Actress Katy Manning, Producer Barry Letts and Script editor Terrance Dicks

Notes

External links

*BBCCDW | id=greendeath | title=The Green Death
*Brief |id=ttt | title=The Green Death
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_3t | title=The Green Death

Reviews

*OG review | id=3t | title=The Green Death
*DWRG | id=gree | title=The Green Death

Target novelisation

*DWRG | id=greenov | title=The Green Death
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1975/green/75green.htm On Target — "Doctor Who and the Green Death"]