Doctor Who (season 5)

This article is about the 1967/68 season. For the 2010 series, see Doctor Who (series 5).
Doctor Who (season 5)
Starring
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of episodes 40 (18 missing)
7 stories
Release
Original network BBC One
Original release 2 September 1967 (1967-09-02) – 1 June 1968 (1968-06-01)

The fifth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 2 September 1967 with the first story of season 5 The Tomb of the Cybermen and ended on 1 June 1968 with The Wheel in Space.

Casting

Main cast

Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling appear as The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield respectively. Deborah Watling departs in the penultimate story Fury from the Deep. Wendy Padbury makes her debut as Zoe Heriot in the season finale, The Wheel in Space.

Guest stars

Jack Watling makes his first and last appearances in the series as Professor Edward Travers in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of fear. Watling would go on to reprise his role of Travers thirty years on in the spin-off TV film Downtime.

Michael Kilgarriff makes his first appearance as the Cyber-Controller in Tomb of the Cybermen. Kilgarriff would reprise the role eighteen years later in Attack of the Cybermen (1985).

The Web of Fear introduced Nicholas Courtney as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. He appeared next in the next season's The Invasion, and became a regular supporting character in season 7 - season 13. He made subsequent appearances in season 20 and season 26.

Serials

Victor Pemberton was script editor for The Tomb of the Cybermen, with Peter Bryant as producer. After this Bryant resumed his role as script editor with Innes Lloyd as producer until The Web of Fear where Bryant took over as producer. Derrick Sherwin replaced Bryant as script editor, The Enemy of the World was the last serial seen under Head of Drama and creator Sydney Newman, who left the BBC after his contract had expired in 1967.

Two serials, The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Enemy of the World, are complete in the BBC's archives; these are also the only complete serials from the first two seasons of Patrick Troughton's tenure as the Doctor. The two missing episodes from The Ice Warriors have been recreated in animated form for the DVD release of that story, in a similar fashion to Season 6's The Invasion, while The Web of Fear was released on DVD in 2014 with a Telesnap reconstruction of its single missing episode. Of the remainder, Fury from the Deep is the most recent serial that is completely missing, with no episodes in the archives, while the other two have three existing episodes between them.

The Enemy of the World saw Patrick Troughton playing both the Doctor and the villainous Salamander; this was the first time that the lead actor had played both his regular part and the part of the villain since Season 3's The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.

Story Serial Title Directed by Written by Original air date Prod.
code		 UK viewers
(millions) [1]		 AI [1]
371The Tomb of the CybermenMorris BarryKit Pedler and Gerry Davis2 September 1967
9 September 1967
16 September 1967
23 September 1967		MM6.0
6.4
7.2
7.4		53
52
49
50
On taking Victoria on her first trip away, the TARDIS crew arrives on Telos where they find an expedition excavating the tomb of the Cybermen. Inside the tomb, they find small metal creatures, traps and dozens frozen Cybermen who are soon to awake.
382The Abominable Snowmen
(Episodes 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6 missing)		Gerald BlakeMervyn Haisman
and Henry Lincoln		30 September 1967
7 October 1967
14 October 1967
21 October 1967
28 October 1967
4 November 1967		NN6.3
6.0
7.1
7.1
7.2
7.4		50
52
51
50
51
52
The TARDIS crew arrive on a cold and windy hillside within the Himalayas. After exploring, the Doctor—wearing an extremely furry coat—is mistaken for what they think could be a Yeti. It turns out that the Yeti already roaming the mountains are robots created in hope for The Great Intelligence to reach material form.
393The Ice Warriors
(Episodes 2 & 3 missing)		Derek MartinusBrian Hayles11 November 1967
18 November 1967
25 November 1967
2 December 1967
9 December 1967
16 December 1967		OO6.7
7.1
7.4
7.3
8.0
7.5		52
52
51
51
50
51
In the distant future, the crew at Brittanicus Base struggle to control an ioniser, which they are using to slow the progress of glaciers rolling over Britain. A creature found in the Ice is taken back to the base, once thawed it kidnaps Victoria and takes her to awaken his men from the glacier, they identify themselves as Ice Warriors from the planet Mars.
404The Enemy of the WorldBarry LettsDavid Whitaker23 December 1967
30 December 1967
6 January 1968
13 January 1968
20 January 1968
27 January 1968		PP6.8
7.6
7.1
7.8
6.9
8.3		50
49
48
49
49
52
Arriving in Australia in 2018, The Doctor finds out he has an evil doppelgänger named Salamander, a Scientist and Politician, who plans to rule the world with volcanoes. Despite those who follow his ultimate reign, the Doctor impersonates him to gain full access to his research station and reveal him for who he really is.
415The Web of Fear
(Episode 3 missing)		Douglas CamfieldMervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln3 February 1968
10 February 1968
17 February 1968
24 February 1968
2 March 1968
9 March 1968		QQ7.2
6.8
7.0
8.4
8.0
8.3		54
53
51
53
55
55
Avoiding a web-like substance from space the Tardis lands in the London Underground. But when they find that the Yeit are suddenly now running the system, it's cause chaos for everyone, even the military. The Doctor, with the help of the military, tries to stop them invading the London Underground.
426Fury from the Deep
(All episodes missing)		Hugh DavidVictor Pemberton16 March 1968
23 March 1968
30 March 1968
6 April 1968
13 April 1968
20 April 1968		RR8.2
7.9
7.7
6.6
5.9
6.9		55
55
56
56
56
57
The TARDIS lands in the North Sea off the eastern coast of England. The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach where there's something nasty in the pipes. A refinery base takes them prisoner and it's soon to reveal that a parasite had been sucked up from seaweed and is taking mind control of those who come in contact.
437The Wheel in Space
(Episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5 missing)		Tristan DeVere ColeDavid Whitaker and Kit Pedler27 April 1968
4 May 1968
11 May 1968
18 May 1968
25 May 1968
1 June 1968		SS7.2
6.9
7.5
8.6
6.8
6.5		57
60
55
56
57
62
The Doctor and Jamie find themselves on a deserted spaceship carrying Cybermen heading for a nearby space station, The Wheel.

Missing episodes

DVD releases

Serial name Number and duration
of episodes		 R2 release date R4 release date R1 release date
The Tomb of the Cybermen 4 × 25 min. 14 January 2002 4 April 2002 6 August 2002
The Tomb of the Cybermen – Special Edition
Only available as part of the Revisitations 3 box set in Regions 2 and 4.
Only available individually in Region 1. 		4 × 25 min. 13 February 2012[2] 1 March 2012[3] 13 March 2012[4]
The Ice Warriors 6 × 25 min. 26 August 2013 28 August 2013[5] 17 September 2013[6]
The Enemy of the World 6 × 25 min. 25 November 2013[7] 27 November 2013[8] 10 December 2013[9] (Canada)
20 May 2014[10] (USA)
The Web of Fear 5 × 25 min.
1 x 25 min reconstruction. 		24 February 2014[11] 26 February 2014[12] 22 April 2014[13]

Lost in Time
Lost in Time was released in two formats in Region 1, with individual releases for volumes one and two (which cover First Doctor and Second Doctor episodes respectively), as well as an edition combining both volumes. In Regions 2 and 4, Lost in Time is available only as the combined single volume.

Includes episodes from Number and duration
of episodes		 R2 release date R4 release date R1 release date
The Abominable Snowmen (episode 2 of 6)
The Enemy of the World (episode 3 of 6)
The Web of Fear (episode 1 of 6)
The Wheel in Space (episodes 3 & 6 of 6)
(Also includes surviving clips from Fury from the Deep)		 5 × 25 min.
 1 November 2004 2 December 2004
(Original release)
1 July 2010
(Re-release)		 2 November 2004

In print

Serial name Novelisation title Author First published
The Tomb of the Cybermen Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen Gerry Davis 1978
The Abominable Snowmen Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen Terrance Dicks 1974
The Ice Warriors Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors Brian Hayles 1976
The Enemy of the World Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World Ian Marter 1981
The Web of Fear Doctor Who and the Web of Fear Terrance Dicks 1976
Fury from the Deep Fury from the Deep Victor Pemberton 1986
The Wheel in Space The Wheel in Space Terrance Dicks 1988

References

  1. 1 2 "Ratings Guide". Doctor Who News. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Amazon.co.uk Revisitations 3
  3. ↑ Filmink listings
  4. ↑ "Doctor Who - 4 Classic DVDs in March Include 3 Special Editions and Leela's Introduction!". tvshowsondvd. 30 November 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  5. ↑ "Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors". EzyDVD.com.au. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors (Story 39) (2013)". Amazon.com. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Doctor Who - The Enemy of the World [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Buy Doctor Who: Enemy of the World, The on DVD-Video from". EzyDVD.com.au. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  9. ↑ "Doctor Who DVD news: Canadian Retailer Exclusives out Tomorrow, Moonbase Update". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  10. ↑ "Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Barry Letts, Innes Lloyd, David Whitaker: Movies & TV". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  11. ↑ "Doctor Who - The Web of Fear [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Buy Doctor Who: The Web of Fear on DVD-Video from". EzyDVD.com.au. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  13. ↑ Lambert, David (23 January 2014). "Doctor Who - A New Box Art Shot and Other Updates for 'The Web of Fear'". TVShowsOnDVD. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
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