(''DOCTOR WHO'' THEME)
Don't you understand? I've got to go.
Professor Jones is fighting for everything that's important,
everything that you've fought for.
In a funny way, he reminds me of a sort of...younger you.
I think the idea behind Professor Jones was that he was a young version of the Doctor,
and that Katy being half in love with the Doctor,
and the Doctor being half in love with Jo Grant.
Katy and I had been together for a little while, and we met and fell in love.
''The Green Death'' was the next story that they were going to do.
They were having trouble. They couldn't find anybody suitable.
We didn't like to press the issue, but Katy said, ''Why don't you interview Stewart
''and see what happens?''
So I went along for the interview, and having read the script,
as far as I was concerned, this was a Welsh guy.
Shut the blasted door! Of all the silly young goats!
- What did I do? - Probably ruined a month's work.
It said on the door to watch it. Half a degree drop and...
No, no! Not there. Not there either. You'll contaminate my spores.
So I read it in Welsh - with a Welsh accent.
Not in Welsh, but in English with a Welsh accent.
And nobody had ever done this before. And they said, ''Of course. He's Welsh, isn't he?''
Let's face it, who does like the petrol-stinking plastic life we live?
If we're going to succeed at Wholeweal, we've got to help the entire world.
So we're a biotechnic research unit as well a Nuthutch.
Robert Sloman was a genuine soothsayer. He was a seer.
He looked into the future and saw where it was going.
Combine that with the way that people were feeling about the world in those days,
that gave it a dramatic edge, which was very important.
He means fatter profits for Global Chemicals at the expense of your land,
the air you breathe and the health of your kids.
It's all right for you. You live the way you want to.
- We need the jobs. - We can't live on nuts!
- You're being exploited! - Shut up!
Many things discussed in ''The Green Death'' now exist.
The protein-rich fungus turned out to be Quorn.
There is an alternative energy centre now in Wales.
All the issues that were raised in ''The Green Death'' - pollution,
globalisation - all the things that were happening then were in embryonic stage.
It was personal freedom that was at stake, politically, at that time.
The idea that globalisation and pollution
were going to play a part in the politics of the world didn't come about until later,
when you had the oil crisis in '74.
At that time, people were beginning to realise, ''Well, it's about resources.''
It was the conflict between human rights and who's going to have the resources.
The idea of an alternative energy was very much on the agenda
because it was free for everybody.
If you could create your own energy,
then you didn't have to rely on sources of oil from anywhere else.
If you could create a food that would feed people, that could be grown easily,
this could do nothing but good.
- You are quite warm. - The ambient temperature suits me fine.
Heat from the river. The heat pump works on electricity generated by a windmill.
Alternative technology, see?
- And no waste. No pollution! - Exactly!
If you could create a lifestyle in microcosm that was sustainable and worked,
then perhaps lots of microcosms might make a macrocosm.
The outside filming done on location down in Britton Ferry,
it was very wet, and it was slag heap upon slag heap,
and mud and more mud,
and ''There's another maggot!'' and ''Look out! An explosion!''
I was supposed to collapse onto the ground,
but I got a bit carried away, and the method acting got to me,
and I thought, ''If I'm being exploded, I'll leap a bit.''
I did a double somersault and landed in the right spot.
Everybody was amazed, including me.
But it worked. I was rather proud of that. I thought, ''That's pretty good stunt work.''
'''The Green Death'' is extremely memorable for one particular reason.
Once you've seen those maggots, you cannot get them out of your brain.
As a child, if you watch it, it stuck with you.
People have that image for the rest of their lives.
There were lots of shots, too, of real maggots,
so there were a lot of those on the set, which I don't think Katy liked.
I didn't, either. We were concerned that the maggots weren't being ill-treated.
(DELIRIOUS WAILING)
It was particularly beautifully done, I thought.
The locations were fantastic. It was beautifully shot.
It was nicely put together.
And a lot of care and attention. The director, Michael Briant,
was particularly right as a director to make the programme.
He was as enthusiastic as we were.
Mind? He might even be able to turn you into a scientist.
Don't go too far away. If you do, come back and see us sometimes.
I will.
We didn't really rehearse it a great deal
because the emotional intensity, we thought, might disappear if we rehearsed it too much,
so we just allowed it to happen.
There were tears all round in the studio, which was very moving
and did give it an emotional intensity that I think comes across.
When I watch it now from time to time
and I see Jon Pertwee go off into the sunset, I have a tear in my eye too.
For me, it was a terrific experience.
It was one of the best parts that I'll ever have.
I don't think I've ever had one like that and perhaps I never will.
And it enabled me as an actor to say things that I would never be allowed to say
under any other circumstances.
It was one of the best experiences of my life.