QQ. Doctor Who - The Web Of Fear (Season Five)

Story Editor: Derrick Sherwin; Writers: Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln; Produced by: Peter Bryant; Director: Douglas Camfield; Designer: David Myerscough-Jones; Incidental Music: Stock; Fight Arranger: Derek Ware (Uncredited);

Programme Description

The TARDIS is attacked in space by a mysterious web-like substance, and is forced to land, whereby it materialises at a London Underground station. The rail tunnels have also been overrun by the web substance, and also by robotic Yeti.

Professor Travers, whom the Doctor and Victoria first met in the Himalayas, has accidentally caused one of the Yeti to become activated, paving the way for another invasion attempt by the Great Intelligence.

The Doctor works with the military, led initially by Captain Knight, and later Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. However, Staff Sergeant Arnold's mind has come under the control of the Great Intelligence, and this hampers Lethbridge-Stewart's investigations.

The Great Intelligence has created a device that will allow it to steal the mind of the Doctor. The Doctor manages to reverse the polarity and can use the device to feed off the Great Intelligence. He almost succeeds, until he is rescued, and the Great Intelligence is repelled into space.


Regular Cast

Jamie McCrimmon: Frazer Hines; Victoria Waterfield: Deborah Watling;

Cast

Professor Edward Travers: Jack Watling; Anne Travers: Tina Packer; Staff Sergeant Arnold: Jack Woolgar; Captain Knight: Ralph Watson (1-4); Corporal Lane: Rod Beacham; Corporal Blake: Richardson Morgan (1-4); Harold Chorley: Jon Rollason (1-2,6); Craftsman Weams: Stephen Whittaker; Yeti: Roger Jacombs (6), Jeremy King (3), John Levene (1-2,4-6), John Lord (1-2,4,6), Gordon Stothard (1-2,4), Colin Warman (1); Julius Silverstein: Frederick Shecker (1); Soldiers: Bernard G High (1), Joseph O'Connell (2); Driver Evans: Derek Pollitt (2-6); Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart: Nicholas Courtney;
Uncredited:
Dead Newpaper Seller:
Bert Sims (1); Soldiers: Peter Adams, Maurice Brooks, Tim Condren, David Hacquet, James Jordan, Philip Ryan; Extras: Douglas Kirk, Derek Martin, Terry Walsh;

Transmissions

Ep.TitleDateViewersPosition
192.Episode 1 (BBC 1) Sat 03/02/1968 17:25 - 17:50 7.2M82nd
193.Episode 2 (BBC 1) Sat 10/02/1968 17:15 - 17:40 6.8M80th
194.Episode 3 (BBC 1) Sat 17/02/1968 17:25 - 17:50 7.0M71st
195.Episode 4 (BBC 1) Sat 24/02/1968 17:25 - 17:50 8.4M52nd
196.Episode 5 (BBC 1) Sat 02/03/1968 17:25 - 17:50 8.0M48th
197.Episode 6 (BBC 1) Sat 09/03/1968 17:25 - 17:50 8.3M36th

Repeat Transmissions

TitleDateViewersPosition
Episode 1 (BBC 4) Sat 26/06/2004 20:50 - 21:15
Episode 1 (BBC 4) Sun 18/03/2007 20:35 - 21:00

Bloopers

The Yeti changes shape in the museum scene.
When talking about 'underground trains', the Doctor says that this is 'a little after your time, I think, Victoria'. The underground line between Farringdon Street and Edgeware Road opened in 1863 but Victoria comes from 1866.

Locations

Greenwich Footway Tunnel, London; Old Covent Garden, London;

Studios

Ealing Television Film Studios; Lime Grove Studio D;

Notes / Trivia

The end credits are scrolled over footage of multiplying cells.

Working Titles

This programme has no working titles

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