Doctor Who (season 5)
| Doctor Who (season 5) | |
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| Starring | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of stories | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (18 missing) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Original release | 2 September 1967 – 1 June 1968 |
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. Only 22 out of 40 episodes are held in the BBC archives; 18 remain missing. As result only 2 serials exist entirely.
Casting
Main cast
- Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor
- Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon
- Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield
- Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot
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] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 1 | The Tomb of the Cybermen | Morris Barry | Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis | 2 September 1967 9 September 1967 16 September 1967 23 September 1967 | MM | 6.0 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. | ||||||||
| 38 | 2 | The Abominable Snowmen (Episodes 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6 missing) | Gerald Blake | Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln | 30 September 1967 7 October 1967 14 October 1967 21 October 1967 28 October 1967 4 November 1967 | NN | 6.3 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. | ||||||||
| 39 | 3 | The Ice Warriors (Episodes 2 & 3 missing) | Derek Martinus | Brian Hayles | 11 November 1967 18 November 1967 25 November 1967 2 December 1967 9 December 1967 16 December 1967 | OO | 6.7 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. | ||||||||
| 40 | 4 | The Enemy of the World | Barry Letts | David Whitaker | 23 December 1967 30 December 1967 6 January 1968 13 January 1968 20 January 1968 27 January 1968 | PP | 6.8 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. | ||||||||
| 41 | 5 | The Web of Fear (Episode 3 missing) | Douglas Camfield | Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln | 3 February 1968 10 February 1968 17 February 1968 24 February 1968 2 March 1968 9 March 1968 | 7.2 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. | ||||||||
| 42 | 6 | Fury from the Deep (All episodes missing) | Hugh David | Victor Pemberton | 16 March 1968 23 March 1968 30 March 1968 6 April 1968 13 April 1968 20 April 1968 | RR | 8.2 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. | ||||||||
| 43 | 7 | The Wheel in Space (Episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5 missing) | Tristan DeVere Cole | David Whitaker and Kit Pedler | 27 April 1968 4 May 1968 11 May 1968 18 May 1968 25 May 1968 1 June 1968 | SS | 7.2 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
- The Abominable Snowmen - Episodes 1, 3 - 6 (of 6 total)
- The Ice Warriors - Episodes 2 & 3 (of 6 total)
- The Web of Fear - Episode 3 (of 6 total)
- Fury from the Deep - All 6 Episodes
- The Wheel in Space - Episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5 (of 6 total)
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 2 "Ratings Guide". Doctor Who News. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Amazon.co.uk Revisitations 3
- ↑ Filmink listings
- ↑ "Doctor Who - 4 Classic DVDs in March Include 3 Special Editions and Leela's Introduction!". tvshowsondvd. 30 November 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ↑ "Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors". EzyDVD.com.au. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
- ↑ "Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors (Story 39) (2013)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
- ↑ "Doctor Who - The Enemy of the World [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
- ↑ "Buy Doctor Who: Enemy of the World, The on DVD-Video from". EzyDVD.com.au. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ↑ "Doctor Who DVD news: Canadian Retailer Exclusives out Tomorrow, Moonbase Update". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Doctor Who - The Web of Fear [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
- ↑ "Buy Doctor Who: The Web of Fear on DVD-Video from". EzyDVD.com.au. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ↑ 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.