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the web of fear

story 41 : season 5 : serial QQ : 6 episodes

Producer: Peter Bryant
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Mervyn Haisman
Writer: Henry Lincoln
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin
Designer: David Myerscough-Jones

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield); Jack Watling (Professor Travers); Nicholas Courtney (Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart); Tina Packer (Anne Travers); Frederick Schrecker (Julius Silverstein); Rod Beacham (Corporal Lane); Richardson Morgan (Corporal Blake); Ralph Watson (Captain Knight); Jon Rollason (Harold Chorley); Jack Woolgar (Staff Sgt. Arnold); Stephen Whittaker (Craftsman Weams); Bernard G High (Soldier); John Levene (Yeti); John Lord (Yeti); Gordon Stothard (Yeti); Colin Warman (Yeti); Jeremy King (Yeti); Roger Jacombs (Yeti); Joseph O'Connell (Soldier); Derek Pollitt (Driver Evans);

crew information

Roselyn Parker (Assistant Floor Manager); Martin Baugh (Costumes); Derek Ware (Fight Arranger); Alan Jonas (Film Cameraman); Jimmy Court (Film Cameraman); Philip Barnikel (Film Editor); Colin Hobson (Film Editor); Geoff Shaw (Technical Coordinator); Sylvia James (Make-Up); Gareth Gwenlan (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Clive Leighton (Studio Lighting); Ray Angel (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Ron Oates (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode 1 3 February 1968 at 17:25 24'53" 7.2mil 16mm telerecording
2 Episode 2 10 February 1968 at 17:15 24'38" 6.8mil does not exist
3 Episode 3 17 February 1968 at 17:25 24'34" 7.0mil does not exist
4 Episode 4 24 February 1968 at 17:25 24'50" 8.4mil does not exist
5 Episode 5 2 March 1968 at 17:25 24'19" 8.0mil does not exist
6 Episode 6 9 March 1968 at 17:25 24'41" 8.3mil does not exist
  1. Episode 1
    » Recovered from Ents c.1978
  2. Episode 2
  3. Episode 3
  4. Episode 4
  5. Episode 5
  6. Episode 6

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Web of Fear
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 072 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1976 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 855 23073 8
19 August 1976 Published by Wyndham Publications, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11084 6
1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 491 02184 4
17 August 1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 11084 6
1983 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 11084 6
2 December 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 11084 6

plot synopsis

Attacked by a mysterious web-like substance in space, the TARDIS has to materialise on Earth to escape and lands in a London underground station. The Doctor and his two companions meet up with Professor Travers, who explains that the web has caused London to be evacuated, after it started killing people on the Underground system, where Yetis have been sighted. The 'Great Intelligence' is once again on the planet, and the Doctor is assisted in defeating it by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, without either of them realising how much they would come to rely on each other in the future

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