Two alien seed pods are found buried in the Antarctic permafrost and the Doctor realises that they are from a Krynoid, a form of plant life that infects and transforms all animal life on planets upon which it becomes established. One of the pods infects a scientist at an Antarctic base but the developing Krynoid is destoyed by a bomb set by two men, Scorby and Keeler, who have made off with the other pod for their boss, eccentric plant collector Harrison Chase. At his mansion in England Chase arranges for the pod to be opened under controlled conditions while a human host - Sarah - is held nearby.
The Doctor rescues Sarah, but Keeler is infected. Keeler's transformation into a Krynoid is accelerated by Chase, who has him fed with raw meat. The creature escapes and goes on the rampage, rapidly growing to giant proportions. Chase decides to turn the Doctor into compost by feeding him into a pulverising machine. The Time Lord escapes, but Chase falls into the machine and is killed. UNIT have meanwhilw been called in, and they arrange for the Krynoid to be bombed before it can spread its pods across the Earth.
CAST:
The Doctor (Tom Baker),
Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), Harrison Chase (Tony Beckley), Scorby (John Challis), Arnold Keeler (Mark Jones), John Stevenson (Hubert Rees), Charles Winlett (John Gleeson), Derek Moberley (Michael McStay), Richard Dunbar (Kenneth Gilbert), Sir Colin Thackeray (Michael Barrington), Hargreaves (Seymour Green), Amelia Ducat (Sylvia Coleridge), Guard Leader (David Masterman), Doctor Chester (Ian Fairbairn), Chauffeur (Alan Chuntz), Guard (Harry Fielder), Major Beresford (John Acheson), Sergeant Henderson (Ray Barron), The Krynoid's voice (Mark Jones).
FACTS:
The costume for the humanoid Krynoid was created by taking one of the surviving Axon costumes from 'The Claws of Axos' and spraying it green.
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