Target: The Seeds of Doom

An unusual Philip Hinchcliffe effort - ultimately a rather disappointing one, with some of the best bits omitted.

The Doctor and Sarah are made to seem strange, mysterious and very competent, a bit like an Avengers pairing perhaps. I wonder if this was a response to the odd way the story has them hanging round on Earth at the start of the action, as if it was an old Pertwee script that fell down the back of Robert Holmes' submissions box?

The first visit by Dunbar to Harrison Chase that we see is his first one ever - he has only just decided to sell out, whereas on screen I got the idea that he'd been leaking information for some time.

There's no argy-bargy about Moberley not being qualified to amputate an arm - he's 'had some medical experience' so he agrees to the idea straight away.

When Stevenson (Bob Fleming) sees Scorby's gun, he doesn't waste any time telling him to drop it, he just tries to shoot him immediately. Botanists are tougher than we've been led to believe!

The Floriana Requiem and the 'green cathedral' remark are absent.

The Molotov cocktail idea is entirely the Doctor's. Scorby does not make the quotation about being of the same opinion as Mr Chase. Later, he doesn't do the speech about being a mercenary either.

Hargreaves doesn't appear to say anything in the scenes with Keeler, which is a shame because on screen his unruffled manner contributes a sense of surreal normality to the proceedings. We don't see his second visit to the cottage. There's no Chase/Mr Chase stuff with Scorby either.

The lead fighter pilot talks about turning the Krynoid into 'chop suey'.

It's Sarah who invites Sir Colin to come to Cassiopeia. After declining, he looks out of his window and sees the TARDIS dematerialising from the WEB car park. So the Doctor and Sarah got to the Bureau by TARDIS? That at least makes more sense than the nonsensical ending seen on screen.