Season 5 (Doctor Who 1963)

Season 5 — 1967-68
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companions:	Jamie, Victoria, Zoe
Key crew
Producer(s):	Innes Lloyd
Script editors:	Peter Bryant Derrick Sherwin
Series details
Start date:	2 September 1967
End date:	1 June 1968
Premiere network:	BBC1
Typical episode length:	25'
More info
Main DWM coverage in issues:	116, 143, 466
Main DWMSE coverage in issues:	4, 12, 36
Key reference books about the season:	The Discontinuity Guide, The Second Doctor Handbook, The Sixties, Wiped!, About Time 2
Key documentaries about the season:	Doctor Who Stories - Frazer Hines
Relevant Myth Makers interviews:	Wendy Padbury, Deborah Watling, Victor Pemberton, Frazer Hines, Derrick Sherwin, Patrick Troughton, Innes Lloyd and Peter Bryant production teams
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The fifth season of Doctor Who ran between 2 September 1967 and 1 June 1968. It consisted of seven serials and forty episodes, many of which are lost. No complete stories from the season were known to have survived until the early-1990s, when archivists recovered a complete version of The Tomb of the Cybermen. A second complete story, The Enemy of the World was recovered in 2013, along with a nearly complete recovery of the story that followed it, The Web of Fear. Individual episodes have survived for a few of the other stories, and audio recordings exist for all. It was the first season not to have any episodes featuring Daleks.

Television stories

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	The Tomb of the Cybermen	Kit Pedler Gerry Davis	4	Introduction of Telos, the Cyber-Controller and the Cybermats. First completely preserved Troughton story.
2	The Abominable Snowmen	Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln	6	First appearance of the Yeti and the Great Intelligence.
3	The Ice Warriors	Brian Hayles	6	First appearance of the Ice Warriors.
4	The Enemy of the World	David Whitaker	6	Patrick Troughton appears in dual roles as the Doctor and Ramon Salamander.
5	The Web of Fear	Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln	6	First appearance of Lethbridge-Stewart, then a Colonel, who would later be promoted to Brigadier. Second and last appearance of the Yeties. Second and last appearance of the Great Intelligence until The Snowmen.
6	Fury from the Deep	Victor Pemberton	6	Final appearance of Victoria Waterfield, first appearance of the sonic screwdriver.
7	The Wheel in Space	David Whitaker	6	First appearance of Zoe Heriot.

Cast

Recurring

• The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton
• Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
• Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling
• Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury
• Edward Travers - Jack Watling
• Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney

Guest

• Eric Klieg - George Pastell
• Kaftan - Shirley Cooklin
• Toberman - Roy Stewart
• Parry - Aubrey Richards
• Padmasambhava - Wolfe Morris
• Salamander - Patrick Troughton
• Anne Travers - Tina Packer
• Robson - Victor Maddern

Stories set during this season

• PROSE: The Age of Ambition (After The Tomb of the Cybermen)
• Second Doctor sequences of PROSE: Heart of TARDIS (between The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Abominable Snowmen)
• PROSE: Dreams of Empire (between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World)
• PROSE: Combat Rock (between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World)
• PROSE: Twilight of the Gods (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)
• PROSE: The Dark Path (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)
• AUDIO: The Great Space Elevator (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)
• AUDIO: The Emperor of Eternity (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)
• AUDIO: The Black Hole (after The Tomb of the Cybermen and before Fury from the Deep)

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

• The Tomb of the Cybermen (1992)
• The Troughton Years (1991) (The Abominable Snowmen episode 2 and The Enemy of the World episode 3)
• Cybermen: The Early Years (1992) (The Wheel in Space episodes 3 and 6)
• The Ice Warriors Collection (1998) (The Ice Warriors 1, 4, 5 and 6 with short reconstructions of episodes 2 and 3)
• The Reign of Terror (2003) (The Web of Fear episode 1)

Loose Cannon VHS releases

• The Abominable Snowman (2006) (Episodes 1, 3-6 only)
• The Ice Warriors (2004) (Episodes 2 and 3 only)
• The Enemy of the World (2001) (Episodes 1-2, 4-6 only)
• Fury from the Deep (2005)

DVD

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 Part of the Revisitations 3 box set	4 × 25 min.	13 February 2012	1 March 2012	13 March 2012
Lost in Time: Patrick Troughton 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) Fury from the Deep (reconstruction)	5 × 25 min.	1 November 2004	2 December 2004 (Original release) 1 July 2010 (Re-release)	2 November 2004
The Enemy of the World	6 × 25 min.	25 November 2013	TBA	TBA
The Web of Fear (with telesnap reconstruction of episode 3)	6 × 25 min.	24 February 2014	TBA	TBA

Download/streaming availability

Serial name	Amazon Video	BBC Store	Google Play	iTunes
The Tomb of the Cybermen (4 episodes)	✓	✓	✓	✓
The Abominable Snowmen
The Ice Warriors (6 episodes, with animated reconstructions of episodes 2 & 3)	✓	✓		✓
The Enemy of the World (6 episodes)	✓	✓	✓	✓
The Web of Fear (6 episodes, with telesnap reconstruction of episode 3)	✓		✓	✓
Fury from the Deep
The Wheel in Space

Until early 2016, The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear were available for streaming on Hulu Plus.

Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen
• Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
• Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors
• Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World
• Doctor Who and the Web of Fear
• Fury from the Deep
• The Wheel in Space

Audiobooks

to be added

External links

BBC Website Guide to Season 5