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the abominable snowmen

story 38 : season 5 : serial NN : 6 episodes

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Mervyn Haisman
Writer: Henry Lincoln
Script Editor: Peter Bryant
Designer: Malcolm Middleton

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield); Jack Watling (Travers); Wolfe Morris (Padmasambhava); Norman Jones (Khrisong); David Spenser (Thonmi); David Grey (Rinchen); Raymond Llewellyn (Sapan); Reg Whitehead (Yeti); Tony Harwood (Yeti); Richard Kerley (Yeti); John Hogan (Yeti); Charles Morgan (Songsten); David Baron (Ralpachan);

crew information

Roselyn Parker (Assistant Floor Manager); Martin Baugh (Costumes); Peter Bartlett (Film Cameraman); Ken Westbury (Film Cameraman); Philip Barnikel (Film Editor); Sylvia James (Make-Up); Marjorie Yorke (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Howard King (Studio Lighting); Norman Bennett (Studio Sound); Alan Edmonds (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Ron Oates (Visual Effects); Ulrich Grosser (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 30 September 1967 at 17:25 22'57" 6.3mil does not exist
2 Episode Two 7 October 1967 at 17:25 23'15" 6.0mil 16mm telerecording
3 Episode Three 14 October 1967 at 17:25 23'55" 7.1mil does not exist
4 Episode Four 21 October 1967 at 17:25 24'15" 7.1mil does not exist
5 Episode Five 28 October 1967 at 17:25 23'51" 7.2mil does not exist
6 Episode Six 4 November 1967 at 17:25 23'31" 7.4mil does not exist
  1. Episode One
  2. Episode Two
    » Returned by a private collector in February 1982
    » A new print was tranfered to D3 combining the telerecording and original film inserts
    » Video release is edited
    » A seperate film spool exists of location footage
  3. Episode Three
  4. Episode Four
    » Clips exists as part of Late Night Line-Up
  5. Episode Five
  6. Episode Six

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 001 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1974 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
21 November 1974 Published by Universal-Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10583 4
April 1975 Published by Remzi Kitabevi, Turkey in paperback
Translated into Turkish by Reha Pinar
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
March 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11455 8
30 March 1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11455 8
1983 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 10583 4
1983 Published by Editorial Presença, Portugal in paperback
Translated into Portugese by Eduardo Nogueira & Conceição Jardim
With cover artwork by: Rui Ligeiro
1985 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 491 03660 4
August 1987 Published by Éditions Garancière, France in paperback
Translated into French by Corine Derblum
With cover artwork by: Penichoux
ISBN: 2 734 00226 4

plot synopsis

The Doctor and his companions arrive in Tibet in the mid-1930s, where he plans to return a holy relic to the Det-Sen monastery, having been asked to look after it by Phadmasambhava decades previously. Travers, one of the members of an expedition attacked by Yetis, accuses the Doctor of murdering his partner. The Doctor is shocked to learn that Phadmasambhava is still alive; he is p05sessed by the 'Great Intelligence', who has used him to construct the robot Yetis roaming the wilderness and plans to take over the Earth. The Doctor must outwit the 'Intelligence' and tree his old friend from his torment...

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