Three bishops are being sent to perform the ceremony and will be staying in the parochial house, and Ted realises he needs to have both Dougal and Jack on their "best behaviour". While Ted is trying to fix the plumbing in the Craggy Island parochial house, he receives news that the nearby Holy Stone of Clonrichert is being upgraded to a " class two relic" by the Vatican. " Tentacles of Doom" is the third episode of the second series of Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted and the ninth episode overall. Malcolm Douglas and Mark O'Regan as 2 Vatican Priests.Now if I can just get Harrison Chase to fund my plant collecting trip to Antarctica MUAHAHAHA…. The serial was novelised in 1977 by Philip Hinchcliffe for Target Books and remains one of my favourite Doctor Who novels to date. I had no idea that watching this particular Doctor Who serial and the imagination explosion it created in my mind would be a pivotal life moment, guiding me gently towards a career of working with plants and plant conservation. Way back in 1976 I didn’t realise the Doctor was giving the young me my first look into the world of plant collecting, plant collections and what we now call invasive plants. Most impressively they are able to cover the entire biosphere of planets and change worlds. They are able to merge with and form hive minds with existing vegetation. Adult Krynoids are an amorphous mass of mobile vegetable growth with giant tentacles and never stop growing. Upon opening, pods infect their prey, consuming a body from the inside and turning it into a walking mass of vegetable matter which becomes a juvenile Krynoid. In this one story I learned (fictitiously of course) that Krynoids launch their pods into space via vast explosions. Unfortunately for Chase, he forgets that the Krynoid is not of Mother Earth and all botanical hell breaks loose (spoilers)!Īs a six-year-old my mind was absolutely captured by Krynoid biology. His large English estate is filled with diverse plant collections and upon learning of the Krynoid will do anything within his considerable power to acquire the specimen for his collection. Chase is an obsessive and compulsive plant collector who considers his life’s work to protect the plant life of Mother Earth. Enter the villain, millionaire monomaniac Harrison Chase. The Doctor confirms the pod is of extra-terrestrial origin and identifies the life form as a Krynoid, a species of sentient plant life able to spread itself through star systems and considered to be a dangerous pest. Back in London The Ecology Bureau calls in the fourth Doctor for help. Scientific marvel turns to panic when the pod breaks open producing a tendril of death in search of human flesh. The story begins in the blizzards of Antarctica where a scientific survey team discover a plant-like pod deep in ice. It is a botanical and gothic horror masterpiece which is not something you get to say every day! I was only six years old when it was broadcast in 1976 and it changed my life. Corporate Functions, Meetings & Conferencesīy Alex Henderson, Curator of Collections, Royal Botanical Gardensĭoctor who and the seeds of Doom, written by Robert Banks Stewart, was the final story of season 13 of the original classic series.to 5 p.m., last admission 4 p.m.Ĭhristmas Eve: 10 a.m.
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