029 - Doctor Who and the Green Death

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The Green Death begins slowly. In a small Welsh mining

village a man emerges from the disused colliery covered in a

green fungus. Minutes later he is dead.

UNIT, Jo Grant and DOCTOR WHO in tow, arrive on the

scene to investigate, but strangely reluctant to assist their

enquiries is Dr Stevens, director of the local refinery

Panorama Chemicals.

Are they in time to destroy the mysterious power which

threatens them all before the whole village, and even the

world, is wiped out by a deadly swarm of green maggots?

ISBN 0 426 11543 0

DOCTOR WHO

AND THE

GREEN DEATH

Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who and the Green Death

by Robert Sloman by arrangement with the British Broadcasting

Corporation

MALCOLM HULKE

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Target Book

Published in 1975

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

Broadcasting Corporation

Made and printed in Great Britain by

The Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Essex

ISBN 0 426 11543 0

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way

of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise

circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of

binding or cover other than that in which it is published and

without a similar condition including this condition being

imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

CONTENTS

1 ‘Wealth in Our Time!’

2 The Doctor Plans a Holiday

3 Land of My Fathers

4 Into the Mine

5 Escape!

6 The Sluice Pipe

7 The Egg

8 The Maggots

9 The Swarm

10 The Green Death

11 Chrysalis

12 One World, One People, One BOSS!

‘Wealth in Our Time!’

In his forty years as a coal miner Ted Hughes had never seen

anything like it. He stood in one of the deserted mine’s main

galleries, not believing his eyes...

Llanfairfach Colliery, in a mountainous part of Wales, had

been closed for some time. No one in the village saw the sense of

this—particularly the miners who had spent their lives hewing

coal from the pit. There was still ample coal down there, enough

for another hundred years of mining. But government

economists in London had ‘proved’ it was better business to buy

oil overseas than to mine coal here in Britain. So, Llanfairfaeh’s

coal mine had been closed and its miners put out of work. But

just in case it should ever be needed again, a handful of older

miners were kept on to make monthly inspections. Today it had

been Ted Hughes’s turn to put on the traditional helmet with its

miner’s lamp, and to descend alone the 500 yards into the

mine...

The inspection followed a set pattern. He walked along one

gallery after another, checking the props that held up the roof,

checking water levels where water seeped in, pausing from time

to time to listen. Sometimes he would hear a faint creaking

sound—the mine talking, as he and his mates called it. If the

sound was soft and gentle, like a woman murmuring in sleep,

the mine was safe. But if the sound was ever harsh and sharp, it

warned of danger, and the possibility of a gallery roof collapsing.

In his forty years as a miner, Ted had known four major roof

collapses; men had been crushed to death or left trapped to die

of suffocation. And the minor accidents—chunks of rock falling

from the roof, breaking an arm or leg, injuries which left a man

crippled for life—were too numerous to remember.

After two hours of walking the galleries and checking the

props, Ted sat down for a ten-minute break. He had a thermos

flask of tea and some cheese sandwiches that his wife had made

for him. As he pourecl himself some tea the old sadness came

over him. He looked up and down the section of gallery where

he was sitting, thinking back on the old times when the mine had

been worked and was full of his friends. There was no one to

talk to now. Economists in London had made a calculation, and

the friendly world of Ted Hughes had been brought to an end.

He finished his sandwiches and was just about to start on the

next part of the inspection when he noticed the green

phosphorescent glow. It was coming from the far end of the

gallery.

There is no natural light in a mine. The only light is

artificial, and comes either from bulbs along the galleries or the

lamps on the helmets of the miners. Ted’s first reaction,

therefore, was that he was no longer alone.

‘Hello,’ he called, ‘who’s down there?’

Pleased at the prospect of human company, he walked down

the gallery towards the green glow. Then it struck him as odd

that anyone should bring a green light into a coal mine.

‘Hello?’ he called again, pausing this time. ‘Who’s down

there?’

Again no answer, but this time a faint bubbling sound. Ted

hurried forward. He still could not see the source of the light. It

was apparently round a corner of the gallery, and he was eager

to know what caused it. If anyone had been given permission to

come down into the mine, Ted should have been told. But he

couldn’t think of a reason why anyone would want to.

Finally Ted reached the corner of the gallery, and then he

saw it. Green glowing sludge was pouring in from a crack in the

roof, cascading down a wall and forming a pool on the floor.

The pool of sludge was already two or three inches thick in some

places, and it bubbled as though alive.

Ted moved forward cautiously. Instinctively he wanted to

touch it, but common sense told him to keep his distance. He

backed away. Then, as he turned to go, a crack appeared in the

ceiling above him. He looked up in time to see green sludge start

to pour through from above. Before he had time to jump out of

the way, a droplet of sludge landed on his left trouser leg.

Without thinking, he tried to brush it off. The sludge stuck to his

fingers and he could feel it bite into the skin. He rubbed them

against the rocky wall of the mine. The surplus sludge went from

his fingers on to the wall. But the parts of his fingers that had

touched the sludge now glowed green.

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